Audiory vs AudioSilo

Audiory is a beautiful, native audiobook player that puts you in control. Stream directly from your home server, download for offline listening, or import local files — all in one elegant app. Stream From Your NAS Connect to SMB (Windows/NAS shares) or SFTP servers and stream audiobooks directly without taking up storage on your device. Download individual books for offline listening when you're on the go. Smart Playback Features • Smart Rewind — Automatically rewinds a few seconds when you resume, so you never lose your place • Sleep Timer — Set timers from 5 to 90 minutes and drift off without losing your spot • Variable Speed — Listen at 0.5x to 3x speed to match your preference • Bookmarks — Mark important moments with optional notes • Chapter Navigation — Jump between chapters with ease Organise Your Library • Sort by title, author, recent activity, or duration • Filter by download status or listening progress • Search your entire collection instantly • Track progress across all your books Fix Messy Metadata Audiory can fetch accurate metadata, cover art, and chapter names from Apple Books and Audible — perfect for cleaning up poorly-tagged files. Formats Supported M4B, M4A, MP3, and AAC — including multi-file audiobooks where each chapter is a separate file. Designed for Audiobooks • Lock screen and Control Center integration • AirPlay support for streaming to speakers • Beautiful blurred cover art backgrounds • 9 accent colours to personalise your experience No subscriptions. No cloud accounts. Just your audiobooks, your servers, your way.

AudioSilo is a beautiful audiobook player for the library you host yourself. Run the free AudioSilo server on your own hardware, point it at your audiobooks, and listen on your phone, tablet and in the browser. Your books, your data, no subscription. NOTE: AudioSilo plays from an AudioSilo server that you (or whoever runs your server) set up. You need a server to sign in. Want to try it first? A live demo with public-domain audiobooks is at demo.audiosilo.app. A PLAYER MADE FOR LISTENING • Chapter scrubber and a full-book timeline with your bookmarks and notes pinned to it • Variable speed, configurable skips and a sleep timer that fades out, extends with a shake, and can start itself every night • Resume exactly where you left off, on any device, with an undo if a place ever jumps • Background playback with lock-screen and headphone controls YOUR SERIES, ON THE SHELF • Every series stands on a shelf in reading order • Books you don't own yet show up as ghost spines, so you can see what's missing • An Up next queue that plays the next book automatically when you want it to NEVER LOSE THE THREAD • Who's who: characters from the community, revealed only as you reach them • Story so far: recaps that stop exactly where you are, with no spoilers • Bookmarks with labels, notes, and a journal of everything you've listened to, with export YOUR LISTENING, IN NUMBERS • Streaks, a yearly goal and a calendar of every day you listened • Your listening clock, top authors, narrators and series • Your year in listening as a story, with cards you can share YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY • Browse by author, series, narrator, collection or folder • Fast search across titles, people, series and characters • Collections, favourites, ratings and listening history • Download books for offline listening • Use more than one server, and let the app switch between your home and away addresses • Light and dark themes, in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Italian PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account with us, no ads, no tracking, no analytics • Everything lives on your server and your device • The app only talks to the servers you choose The AudioSilo server is free and open source (AGPLv3). Get it, read the docs and learn more at audiosilo.app.