Comparison

AnyListen vs Chapters

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

AnyListen

This app plays audio files stored on your phone, including audiobooks, learning materials, and meditation tracks. Enjoy your personal audio collection offline with features like chapter support, speed adjustment, and a sleep timer. It's designed for seamless playback in various scenarios, including in the car via CarPlay.

Highlights
  • Offline playback
  • Supports MP3, M4B, AAC
  • Audiobook chapter support
  • Playback speed adjustment
  • Sleep timer
  • CarPlay integration
  • Progress memory
Features
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"AnyListen" — Your Professional Local Audio Player. We focus on one thing: perfectly playing the audio files (such as MP3, M4B, AAC, etc.) already stored on your phone. Whether you're catching up on audiobooks during your commute, playing English listening materials you've collected for your children, or listening to a guided meditation before sleep, you can enjoy it anytime, without the internet. 【Core Positioning Note】 • Important Note: This app is a local audio file player and does not provide download or sales services for audiobooks or music content. • Your Files, Your Way: Play all your personal audio collections that you can conveniently obtain from open-source websites or other legal channels and import into your phone. 【Scenarios & Features】 • Audiobook Lovers: Perfect support for M4B chapter playback, speed adjustment, and progress memory. Immerse yourself in listening during commutes, workouts, or housework. • Children & Learning Audio: Easily manage your child's English listening, Chinese classics recitation, and picture book story audio. Organize by album to build a dedicated learning audio library. With CarPlay, start playing as soon as you get in the car—the journey becomes a classroom. • Bedtime Relaxation: Built-in sleep timer allows you to set a countdown to automatically stop playback, so you can fall asleep peacefully without worrying about data usage. • Seamless In-Car Listening: Deep support for CarPlay, allowing easy control via the car's large screen while driving—switch albums, control playback. 【Professional Playback Features】 • Offline Playback: No internet required; play local audio on your phone anytime, anywhere. • Full Format Support: Compatible with mainstream audio formats such as MP3, M4B, AAC. • Audiobook Experience Optimization: Speed adjustment, timer, chapter skip, automatic progress memory. • Personal Audio Library: Intelligently manage and categorize your local files by album or folder. • Scenario Adaptation: Supports CarPlay and headphone remote control. 【Who is it for?】 Audiobook lovers with personal audio collections, parents organizing learning resources for their children, podcast listeners who need a focused playback tool, and all users seeking a pure, professional local playback experience. Get "AnyListen" now and let your audio collection be enjoyed more freely in different scenarios.

About

Chapters

Features
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Chapters is an iOS audiobook player, specially designed for a superior spoken-word listening experience. Sync your library from the cloud and enjoy your favorite stories anywhere with audiobook features like the smart sleep timer that always ends at a natural stopping point and advanced bookmarks and note-taking capabilities. An interface crafted specifically for audiobooks. Easily navigate chapters, drop bookmarks, automatically track listening sessions, adjust playback speed and avoid accidentally skipping forwards. Optional features allow you to hide the progress bar so you can't see how long is left in the story. Enjoy a clean, distraction-free player. Store and sync your audiobooks from any cloud location. Intergrate with Dropbox, Google or iCloud out of the box, or manage your own list to download files from any internet location. Chapters makes it easy to download for offline listening and manage your device storage efficiently. Our intelligent sleep timer finds natural pauses in the narration, so you always end at the completion of a sentence or paragraph. Plus the listening log automatically tracks all your listening sessions, so you can always find where you are up to, even if you skip ahead or switch books halfway through. Never lose your place again Heard something interesting? Drop a bookmark to save the moment. Chapters auto-transcribes the surrounding text and lets you search through your bookmarks. Then add notes and organize snippets into folders. Easily track key comments for research or capturing favourite moments.

Screenshots

AnyListen4 screens
Chapters4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chapters at none against AnyListen's 1. AnyListen's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. AnyListen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chapters asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AnyListen ships an update every 4 days, Chapters every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 4 level
AnyListen versus Chapters: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnyListenChapters
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer上海深维探索科技有限公司Mobile Appster

In-app purchases

1 purchases

AnyListen

One-time1
  • Unlock all features with your trial$1.99
None

Chapters

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AnyListen free?
AnyListen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chapters free?
Chapters is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AnyListen or Chapters have ads?
Neither AnyListen nor Chapters shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AnyListen or Chapters?
AnyListen ships an update every 4 days, and Chapters every 4 weeks. Most recently, AnyListen was updated on October 31, 2026 and Chapters on October 25, 2026.

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