BORK Audiobooks vs My Shelf Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BORK Audiobooks
Access over 20,000 free public domain audiobooks, including classics, poetry, and history. Enjoy uninterrupted listening with the ability to skip introductory announcements and download content for offline playback. Sync your progress and favorites across all your Apple devices.
- 20,000+ free public domain audiobooks
- Skip LibriVox chapter announcements
- Download for offline listening
- Continue listening progress sync
- iCloud sync for stars and settings
- Search by title, author, genre
- Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch
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BORK Audiobooks plays more than 20,000 free public domain audiobooks, read by LibriVox volunteers and streamed from the Internet Archive. Classic novels, poetry, plays, history, philosophy and children's stories, from Austen and Dickens to Shakespeare and Twain. SKIP THE ANNOUNCEMENTS Every LibriVox chapter opens and closes with a short spoken notice. BORK can skip it, so the story starts right away. Choose None, Some or Max. If a cut ever falls in the wrong place, you can still play the whole chapter. LISTEN YOUR WAY • Download chapters to listen without a connection • Pick up where you left off with Continue Listening • Skip back or forward 15 seconds • Lock Screen and Control Center controls • Star the books and chapters you love; stars, your place and your settings sync through iCloud FIND SOMETHING TO HEAR • Newly Added, Popular and genre shelves • Search by title or author • Pages for every author and every reader ON ALL YOUR APPLE DEVICES BORK runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, and the Apple Watch. FREE AND PRIVATE The books are in the public domain and free for everyone.
My Shelf Player
This app connects to your self-hosted Audiobookshelf server to provide a clean, native audiobook listening experience. Enjoy features like playback speed adjustment, sleep timers, bookmarks, and offline listening, all without ads or tracking.
- Connect to Audiobookshelf server
- Browse library by various categories
- Stream and download audiobooks
- Resume playback progress
- Create and manage bookmarks
- Adjust playback speed and skip controls
- Set sleep timers
- Apple Watch control
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My Shelf Player is a native audiobook player for your self-hosted Audiobookshelf library. Connect to your own Audiobookshelf server, browse your books, and listen with a clean player built for long-form audio. Pick up where you left off, adjust playback speed, set a sleep timer, create bookmarks, and keep your library organized across books, series, authors, narrators, playlists, history, and downloads. Features: • Connect to your Audiobookshelf server • Browse books, series, authors, narrators, collections, playlists, history, and bookmarks • Stream audiobooks from your server • Download books for offline listening • Resume from saved playback progress • Create and manage bookmarks • Use configurable skip controls and playback speeds • Set sleep timers for bedtime listening • Control playback from Apple Watch • Keep listening without ads or third-party tracking My Shelf Player is designed for people who own and manage their own audiobook library. Your server, your books, your listening experience. Requires access to an Audiobookshelf server.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: My Shelf Player at every 4 weeks against BORK Audiobooks's every 56 months. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BORK Audiobooks against 5.0 for My Shelf Player. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
BORK Audiobooks ships an update every 56 months, My Shelf Player every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BORK Audiobooks | My Shelf Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 56 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Modular Dreams Inc | Andrew Kozhokaru |
Customer experience
BORK Audiobooks
My Shelf Player
In-app purchases
BORK Audiobooks
No in-app purchases
My Shelf Player
No in-app purchases
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