Booken vs Audiofin
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
Audiofin
This app allows you to listen to audiobooks from your personal Jellyfin media server. Enjoy background playback, offline listening, and customizable playback speeds. It offers a polished experience with no ads or subscriptions.
- Connect to Jellyfin media server
- Background playback
- Offline listening
- Adjustable playback speed
- Sleep timer
- CarPlay support
- Dark mode
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Audiofin is a fast, focused audiobook player built specifically for audiobook lovers. Connect it to your own Jellyfin media server, and your audiobook library — organized by author, book, and series — is ready to browse and listen. LISTEN ANYWHERE • Background playback with full lock-screen and Control Center controls • CarPlay support: continue listening, browse your library, or access downloads from your car • Download chapters or entire books for offline listening BROWSE YOUR LIBRARY • Browse by author, book or series with cover art • Search your entire audiobook collection • Continue listening shelf keeps your current books one tap away FINE-TUNED PLAYBACK • Resume exactly where you left off, synced with all your Jellyfin clients • Play/pause, configurable skip controls, chapter navigation, and auto-advance • Adjustable playback speed from 0.5× to 3×, globally or per book • Sleep timer with countdown, end-of-chapter, or daily schedule options • Up-next queue with reordering and multi-select • Supports chaptered single-file audiobooks such as .m4b with embedded chapters • Plays mp3, m4a/m4b, aac, flac, wav, aiff, caf, ogg vorbis, opus and more natively — unsupported formats can be transcoded automatically by your server SECURE BY DESIGN • Connect using your own Jellyfin account and server address • Your session token is stored securely in the iOS Keychain on your device • Your password is never saved • Audiofin only communicates with the server you configure — nothing is sent to the developer POLISHED EXPERIENCE • Four themes, including Dark mode, following your system appearance or your preference • Progress rings show how much of each chapter you have completed • Universal app for iPhone and iPad • No ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases, and no tracking — every feature is included Audiofin requires your own Jellyfin server (jellyfin.org), a free, open-source, self-hosted media server. Audiofin is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Jellyfin project.
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Verdict
Booken and Audiofin both sit at 4.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Audiofin's written reviews are positive against 80% of Booken's. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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 — 4.0 for Booken against 4.0 for Audiofin. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Booken's written reviews are positive against 100% of Audiofin's.
Booken ships an update every 2 months, Audiofin every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Booken | Audiofin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Riley Brookins | Nathaniel Tadesse |
Customer experience
Booken
Audiofin
In-app purchases
Booken
No in-app purchases
Audiofin
No in-app purchases
