Audbin vs Talefall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Audbin
This app offers a private audiobook listening experience, allowing you to import your own collection or discover thousands of free public domain titles. Enjoy advanced playback controls, bookmarking, and optional premium features for unlimited access and enhanced audio customization.
- Import personal audiobooks
- Discover free public domain titles
- Variable playback speed
- Sleep timer
- Chapter navigation
- Rich bookmarking with notes
- 10-band equalizer (Pro)
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A beautiful, private audiobook player for your personal library — plus thousands of free public domain audiobooks to discover. DISCOVER FREE AUDIOBOOKS Browse and download from LibriVox and Internet Archive. Thousands of classic titles, completely free. No account needed. SUPPORTED FORMATS MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, AIFF, WAV Import your audiobooks or discover free ones and start listening. Free to use with up to 3 books. Upgrade for unlimited books and premium features. FREE - Import up to 3 books - Discover free audiobooks from LibriVox & Internet Archive - Play/pause, seek, skip - Variable speed (0.5x - 2x) - Sleep timer (15/30/45/60 min) - Lock Screen & AirPods controls - AirPlay streaming - Smart auto-rewind on resume - Light/Dark theme AUDBIN (one-time purchase) Everything free, plus: - Unlimited books - Chapter navigation (M4B) - Rich bookmarks with titles and notes - Book offloading (free storage, keep your data) - Re-download offloaded catalog books with one tap - Export & share bookmarks and notes - Share what you're listening to with cover art - Online cover art fetching - Companion documents (PDF, EPUB) - Custom sleep timer (5 min - 3 hours) - Manual library reordering - All sort modes - Book notes & mark as finished AUDBIN PRO (subscription) Everything in Audbin, plus: - 10-band equalizer with presets (Voice Boost, Spoken Word, Bass, and more) - Listening statistics & streaks - Share stats as a branded card - Branding-free sharing - Speed up to 3x - End-of-chapter sleep timer - Sleep timer fade-out - "Still Listening?" detection - Siri Shortcuts FEATURES Discover & Import - Browse free public domain audiobooks - Download directly from LibriVox and Internet Archive - Import from Files app - Automatic metadata extraction - Search and sort your library - Manual reordering - Companion documents - Offload books to save storage - Re-download catalog books after offloading Bookmarks & Notes - Add bookmarks while listening with a single tap - Open any bookmark to add rich notes - Play from any bookmark position - Export all bookmarks and notes as text Playback - Chapter navigation for M4B audiobooks - Auto-advance to next track - Variable speed saved per book - Customizable skip intervals - Multiple sleep timer modes - Background playback - AirPlay to speakers and TVs - Return to position after jumping to bookmarks - Tap anywhere on a track to play Equalizer (Pro) - 10-band graphic EQ - Voice Boost, Spoken Word, Bass Boost, Treble Boost, Loudness presets - Custom band adjustments - Settings persist across sessions Sharing - Share books with cover art - Export bookmarks and notes - Share individual notes with context - Share listening stats as image cards Controls - AirPods: tap to play/pause, double-tap skip - Lock Screen and Control Center - Siri voice commands - Mini player stays visible while browsing - Tap book header to resume playback Privacy - All data stays on your device - No accounts required - No analytics or tracking - Works completely offline (imported books) Privacy Policy: https://audbin.app/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Talefall
Listen to your existing audiobooks and public domain classics, or create your own with AI. Read along with highlighted text and import various file formats. Offers background playback, speed control, and bookmarking.
- Import audiobooks from Files/iCloud
- AI-created audiobooks
- Read along with highlighted text
- Adjustable playback speed
- Sleep timer and bookmarks
- Background playback and AirPlay
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Talefall — a player for the audiobooks you already have, and a studio for the ones you imagine. Listen to your audiobooks and public-domain classics and read along with highlighted text — no purchase needed. The subscription covers AI-created books and the Talefall voice on our service. MY BOOKS • Import files from Files or iCloud with the Import button; create AI books on the Create tab • Classics to Start (US storefront): public-domain classics read by LibriVox volunteers; remove any title or the whole shelf and bring it back • Open MP3, M4B and ZIP audiobooks from other apps with “Open in Talefall” A PLAYER BUILT FOR AUDIOBOOKS • Resumes to the exact second — every book remembers its place • Speed from 0.5× to 3×, ±15 s skips, chapters, sleep timer with a gentle fade • Bookmarks, highlights, notes and in-book search • Background play, lock screen and AirPlay • Import MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, FLAC and more — files, folders or ZIP, from the Files app or over Wi-Fi from your computer • Catalogs: LibriVox audiobooks (also via Internet Archive) and Project Gutenberg texts READ AND LISTEN, TOGETHER Import an EPUB, PDF, FB2 or TXT, or paste text. Narrate it with an Apple voice right on your iPhone (works offline, no subscription) or in the Talefall voice on our service (subscription, uses hours), with native English, Spanish and Russian narrators. Turn an audiobook into text with on-device speech recognition; the audio never leaves your iPhone. Then read and listen together: the sentence being read is highlighted. CREATE AN AUDIOBOOK FROM AN IDEA (SUBSCRIPTION) • Describe a story, an explainer or a how-to in a few sentences • Choose the language (English, Russian or Spanish) and the length, from 15 minutes to 5 hours • An AI model writes the text, and Talefall narrates it chapter by chapter • Finished chapters download in the background (depends on notification permission and iOS), and the book shows how many have arrived. If you allow notifications, Talefall tells you when a book is ready • Books are saved on your iPhone, with a copy in your iCloud when it is available; our server copy is deleted after delivery One AI sample story is included. Other books shown (LibriVox classics and a sample EPUB) are not included; classics download when you choose them. PRIVACY No ads, no account, no tracking. Before your first AI order, Talefall asks your permission to send your ideas, settings and text directly to OpenAI (OpenAI OpCo, LLC), under our contract and data processing agreement with OpenAI. No model training, no sale, no advertising. OpenAI may keep requests up to 30 days for service delivery and abuse prevention, longer if required by law or to protect against harm; no single maximum applies. Fiction only: do not include real personal or health information about anyone, including yourself. AI-written explainers and how-tos can contain mistakes. Anonymous usage counters are sent only if you allow them. AVAILABILITY Creating books and narration on our service are for adults (18+) in supported countries. They are not available in the EEA, the UK, Switzerland and some other countries. Supported countries: https://ownplace.net/talefall/ai-studio-territories SUBSCRIPTION • Talefall Subscription (monthly, auto-renewing): books from your ideas and narration in the Talefall voice — up to 5 hours of new AI audio each billing period. Unused hours do not carry over. Listening never uses hours • Everything that runs on your iPhone needs no purchase • Earlier player purchases remain yours. Previously purchased extra hours do not expire; using them requires an active subscription Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://ownplace.net/talefall/terms Privacy Policy: https://ownplace.net/talefall/privacy Questions? contact@ownplace.net
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Audbin at 5.0 against Talefall's 4.2. Audbin also leads on iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). Talefall's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Audbin sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Talefall sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Audbin holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Talefall has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Audbin ships an update every 11 days, Talefall weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Audbin | Talefall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Stefan Samne | OWN PLACE LLC |
In-app purchases
Audbin
- All Pro features, billed monthly.$1.991 Month
- All Pro features. Save over 35%.$14.991 Year
- Audbin$4.99
Talefall
- Talefall Subscription$9.991 Month
- Talefall Player$7.99
- 5 Extra Hours$7.99








