Comparison

BORK Audiobooks vs My Shelf Player

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

BORK Audiobooks4 screens
My Shelf Player4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
BORK Audiobooks versus My Shelf Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBORK AudiobooksMy Shelf Player
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 56 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB11 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperModular Dreams IncAndrew Kozhokaru

Customer experience

BORK Audiobooks

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

My Shelf Player

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BORK Audiobooks

No in-app purchases

None

My Shelf Player

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BORK Audiobooks free?
BORK Audiobooks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Shelf Player free?
My Shelf Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BORK Audiobooks or My Shelf Player?
BORK Audiobooks and My Shelf Player are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do BORK Audiobooks or My Shelf Player have ads?
Neither BORK Audiobooks nor My Shelf Player shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BORK Audiobooks or My Shelf Player?
BORK Audiobooks ships an update every 56 months, and My Shelf Player every 4 weeks. Most recently, BORK Audiobooks was updated on November 3, 2026 and My Shelf Player on October 31, 2026.

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