Stitch Reader vs My Shelf Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stitch Reader
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Read deeply. Connect everything. Stitch transforms your books into a living knowledge system. Capture ideas, quotes, and questions as you read — then connect them into a personal knowledge graph that grows with you. Spaced repetition resurfaces your best insights at the right moment, turning passive reading into deep, lasting understanding. Premium members can expand any thought with AI — instantly generating deeper context, connections, and ideas from what you’re reading, plus record and play back voice notes for a more immersive experience. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
My Shelf Player
This app connects to your self-hosted Audiobookshelf server to provide a clean, native audiobook listening experience. Enjoy features like playback speed adjustment, sleep timers, bookmarks, and offline listening, all without ads or tracking.
- Connect to Audiobookshelf server
- Browse library by various categories
- Stream and download audiobooks
- Resume playback progress
- Create and manage bookmarks
- Adjust playback speed and skip controls
- Set sleep timers
- Apple Watch control
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My Shelf Player is a native audiobook player for your self-hosted Audiobookshelf library. Connect to your own Audiobookshelf server, browse your books, and listen with a clean player built for long-form audio. Pick up where you left off, adjust playback speed, set a sleep timer, create bookmarks, and keep your library organized across books, series, authors, narrators, playlists, history, and downloads. Features: • Connect to your Audiobookshelf server • Browse books, series, authors, narrators, collections, playlists, history, and bookmarks • Stream audiobooks from your server • Download books for offline listening • Resume from saved playback progress • Create and manage bookmarks • Use configurable skip controls and playback speeds • Set sleep timers for bedtime listening • Control playback from Apple Watch • Keep listening without ads or third-party tracking My Shelf Player is designed for people who own and manage their own audiobook library. Your server, your books, your listening experience. Requires access to an Audiobookshelf server.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: My Shelf Player at none against Stitch Reader's 2. Stitch Reader's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Stitch Reader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. My Shelf Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
Stitch Reader ships an update every 9 days, My Shelf Player every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and August 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stitch Reader | My Shelf Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ramazan GUNINDI | Andrew Kozhokaru |
In-app purchases
Stitch Reader
- Stitch Reader Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- Stitch Reader Premium Annual$24.991 Year
My Shelf Player
No in-app purchases





