Booken vs AudioAmber
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Booken
This app provides a simple and efficient way to listen to your audiobook files. It offers features for importing, managing, and tracking your listening progress, with playback controls accessible from your phone and Apple Watch.
- Import own audiobook files
- Track listening progress
- Mark books as finished
- Lock screen playback controls
- Apple Watch companion app
- Variable scrubbing speed
- Adjustable playback speed
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A lightweight and easy to use player for your audiobook files. Manage your files - Import your own files straight into the app - Manage and see the progress of the books you've listened to - Mark books as finished Listening features - Control playback directly from the lock screen/control center or from the Apple Watch companion app - Easily navigate books with variable scrubbing speed and chapter selection - Change playback speed Listen from your watch - Easily download your favorite books to your watch when you need to listen without your phone - Navigate local files on your watch with chapter selection and custom skip duration - Keep your progress synced between your phone and watch with both automatic and manual syncing options
AudioAmber
Access thousands of classic audiobooks from LibriVox, read by volunteers. Enjoy a distraction-free listening experience with a modern player, background playback, and adjustable speed. Browse by genre or curated lists to discover timeless literature.
- Thousands of classic audiobooks
- Distraction-free player
- Background playback
- Adjustable playback speed
- Sleep timer
- Bookmarks and progress tracking
- Browse by genre
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AudioAmber brings you thousands of classic audiobooks from LibriVox — read aloud by volunteers around the world. Listen to Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Sherlock Holmes and many more timeless works, beautifully delivered in a clean, modern player designed for uninterrupted listening. KEY FEATURES • Thousands of classic audiobooks from LibriVox.org • Beautiful, distraction-free player built for audio • Background playback with lock-screen controls • Sleep timer and adjustable playback speed • Bookmarks and listening progress across chapters • Browse by genre: literature, history, philosophy, poetry, drama • Curated discovery: Popular Classics, Recently Added, For You • Personal library and favorites • Dark mode by default ABOUT LIBRIVOX All content is sourced from LibriVox.org, a non-profit volunteer-driven project recording public-domain audiobooks since 2005. All recordings are in the public domain and freely redistributable. AudioAmber is an independent reader app and is not affiliated with LibriVox.org.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Booken at 80% against AudioAmber's 0%. Booken also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). AudioAmber's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Booken holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Booken's written reviews are positive against 0% of AudioAmber's.
Booken ships an update every 2 months, AudioAmber daily. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Booken | AudioAmber |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Riley Brookins | Mindaugas Ramanauskis |
Customer experience
Booken
AudioAmber
In-app purchases
Booken
No in-app purchases
AudioAmber
No in-app purchases
