Tonspur vs Morrow Audiobook Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tonspur
Listen to your personal audiobook collection with this companion app. Enjoy features like adjustable playback speed, a sleep timer, and easy chapter navigation. Download books for offline listening and sync your progress across devices.
- Variable playback speed
- Sleep timer
- Offline listening
- Chapter navigation
- Progress syncing
- CarPlay support
- Multi-library support
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Listen to your personal audiobook collection with Tonspur, the companion app for Audiobookshelf. Tonspur makes it easy to enjoy the audiobooks you own. Adjust playback speed to match your preference, set a sleep timer for bedtime listening, and jump between chapters with a simple tap. Download books to listen offline, and sync your progress across all your devices including iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and CarPlay. Connect to multiple libraries and switch between them effortlessly. Whether you're at home, in the car with CarPlay, or on the go, your audiobooks are always ready when you are. FEATURES: * Support for podcasts and eBooks * Variable playback speed and automatic sleep timer * Download books for offline listening * Easy chapter navigation * Multi-User Support * Easily switch between libraries * CarPlay support * Automatic progress syncing * Statistics * Widgets * Pinned Genres and Playlists * Integrated Equalizer
Morrow Audiobook Player
This ad-free audiobook player connects to your self-hosted library servers like BookOrbit or Audiobookshelf. Stream or download books for offline listening, and sync your progress across devices. Enjoy features like chapter support, speed control, and a sleep timer.
- Ad-free playback
- Connects to BookOrbit/Audiobookshelf
- Stream and download books
- Cross-device progress sync
- Chapter support
- Playback speed control
- Sleep timer
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Morrow is a beautiful, ad-free audiobook player for BookOrbit, Audiobookshelf and Grimmory (plus Booklore), and for audiobook files you already have. Morrow doesn't include or host any books itself. Connect to a server you have access to, or bring your own files, and your books are just there. Stream them, download them for offline, and pick up exactly where you left off on any device. ON EVERY SCREEN YOU USE iPhone, iPad, CarPlay, Apple TV and Apple Watch. Start a book in the car, keep going on the TV, finish it on a walk with your phone left at home. YOUR OWN FILES, TOO Import or link m4b, mp3 and other audio from Files, iCloud Drive or Google Drive. Multi-part books come together as one, and you can fix their details or look them up in online catalogs. FREE FOREVER Full playback with chapters, adjustable speed, sleep timer and auto-rewind. CarPlay. A Home Screen widget. An Up Next queue that advances on its own. Home shelves you arrange yourself. Read statuses, collections and playlists exactly as your server supports them, added with a long press. Your own audio files on this device. One library source, and up to 3 downloaded books. MORROW UNLOCK One purchase, no subscription: - Unlimited downloads - Auto-download the next book in your queue - Accent colors throughout the app - Connect multiple servers SIGN IN HOWEVER YOUR SERVER WORKS Username and password, Audiobookshelf API keys, or a BookOrbit magic link for shared accounts. Grimmory (Booklore) servers work the same way. Servers behind Cloudflare Access work too. IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN Morrow follows your device's language. YOUR BOOKS STAY YOURS Morrow connects only to servers you have access to, collects no analytics, and shows no ads. Every story has a Morrow. Morrow™ is a trademark of Liftbridge Labs LLC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Morrow Audiobook Player at none against Tonspur's 1. Morrow Audiobook Player also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Tonspur's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, ads, monetization model 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. Tonspur sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Morrow Audiobook Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
Morrow Audiobook Player holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Tonspur's written reviews are positive against 100% of Morrow Audiobook Player's.
Tonspur ships an update every 3 weeks, Morrow Audiobook Player every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tonspur | Morrow Audiobook Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tim Olbrich | Liftbridge Labs LLC |
Customer experience
Tonspur
Morrow Audiobook Player
In-app purchases
Tonspur
- Downloads$8.99
Morrow Audiobook Player
No in-app purchases
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