Fable Frog vs HushBook

The best way to enjoy your audiobooks. Fable Frog is a native iOS client for Audiobookshelf — built from the ground up for a premium listening experience. Connect to your self-hosted server and enjoy your library with a beautiful, feature-packed player designed for how you actually listen. PLAYBACK THAT JUST WORKS • Variable speed (0.5x – 3x) and volume boost up to 200% • Sleep timer with presets, custom duration, or end of chapter • Shake to extend your timer without opening your phone • Chapter navigation with durations at a glance • Bookmarks with notes up to 5,000 characters • Per-book playback settings that remember how you like each title • AirPlay streaming to your favorite speakers YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY • Browse by books, authors, series, narrators, or genres • Filter by progress and genre, sort by title, author, date added, duration, or last listened • Instant search across your entire library • Follow series and track upcoming releases automatically • Create custom playlists, rate and review books • Alphabetical index for jumping through large collections DEALS Fable Frog watches Audible prices for the books you want and tells you when one goes on sale. Deals is part of Fable Frog Premium. • Import your whole Audible wishlist with the Fable Frog extension in Safari, member prices included • Choose what counts as a deal: a percent off, a price limit, or cheaper than a credit OFFLINE DOWNLOADS Download books and listen anywhere — no connection needed. Smart Downloads automatically grab your next listen and clean up finished titles. Wi-Fi only mode keeps your data plan safe. LISTENING STATISTICS Understand your listening life with daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly charts. See genre breakdowns, top series rankings, speed savings, finished book trophies, and fun facts about your habits. CARPLAY A dedicated driving interface built for safe, distraction-free listening in the car. Large touch targets, simplified controls, and quick access to recent and library books. WIDGETS Lock screen widget with a circular progress gauge for your current listen. iOS 18 Control Center widgets for quick play/pause without leaving what you're doing. MAKE IT YOURS • 20 themes including 3 accessibility-optimized options • Custom app icons (Neon, Sunset, Forest) • 6 text size levels from XS to XXL • Customizable lock screen widget icons • Configurable skip durations and player controls BUILT FOR EVERYONE • Full VoiceOver support with comprehensive labels and adjustable controls • Voice Control compatible — navigate by voice • Dynamic Type support — text scales to 200%+ with in-app size slider • Accessibility themes: High Contrast (AAA), Blue-Orange (CVD), Pink-Teal (CVD) • Differentiate Without Color support — shapes and icons supplement color • All themes validated for WCAG AA contrast standards • Respects Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency system settings • Car mode with extra-large touch targets • Siri integration for hands-free playback control PRIVACY FIRST No analytics. No telemetry. No tracking. No ads. Your data stays between your device and your server — nothing else. Credentials are stored exclusively in the iOS Keychain. CONNECTS TO YOUR SETUP • Username/password and OIDC authentication (Keycloak, Authelia, Authentik, and more) • Custom HTTP headers for reverse proxies (Caddy, Nginx, Traefik) • Multi-library support on the same server • Several accounts and servers, with a quick switcher on Home • Automatic token refresh and session management Available in 15+ languages with full RTL support. Requires a self-hosted Audiobookshelf server (v2.x). Fable Frog is an independent third-party client and is not affiliated with the Audiobookshelf project. Terms of Service: https://fablefrog.app/terms Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stddla/ Privacy Policy: https://fablefrog.app/privacy

Your mind wanders, and the narrator keeps going. HushBook turns audiobooks and ebooks into word-by-word karaoke. Read while listening, and never lose your place. Add an audiobook you own and HushBook transcribes it on your iPhone or iPad. That part is free, for every book. Have the ebook too? Add it, and the page follows the narrator. Your audio never goes to a cloud service, and there's no account to make. READ ALONG, WORD BY WORD • Each word lights up as it's spoken, at any speed from 0.5x to 3x • Press and hold any line to play from there • A calm cover view for listening, and a full reading page when you want the text • Hold your iPad sideways for a two-page spread, like an open book • Text a beat off from the voice? Nudge it one word at a time with Align narration • Not in English? The Universal engine transcribes books in many other languages AUDIOBOOK AND EBOOK, IN SYNC • Read the real ebook text, lit word by word as the narrator reads • EPUB, PDF, MOBI and TXT. Sync works with English ebooks • Search inside the ebook • Your first ebook is free. More ebooks need HushBook Pro HIGHLIGHTS, NOTES AND QUOTES • Highlight a line or save a quote while the book keeps playing • Add a note to anything you mark • Quotes & notes keeps them by book. Tap one to go back to that exact moment • Share a quote as an image card YOUR BOOKS, YOUR FILES • Import from Files: MP3, M4B, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV, OGG, Opus and more • Connect your Audiobookshelf server and download your books • Search by title, author or narrator, and swipe to mark a book finished • Home shows the book you're on, your streak and the words you read today FREE CLASSICS Thousands of public-domain audiobooks from LibriVox and the Internet Archive, free to download and play offline. Browse themed rows and genres, or filter by language and length. Hear a 30-second sample before you download. BUILT FOR HOW YOU READ Pick a reading profile and HushBook sets the app up around it. • Dyslexia & ADHD: OpenDyslexic, a colored reading overlay and adjustable text size • Low Vision: Atkinson Hyperlegible, extra-large captions, stronger contrast and bold text • Focused Reader: a calm serif reading page and a quick focus check-in after you listen Eight reading fonts in all, including Lexend, Andika and Comic Neue. A LITTLE COMPANY • Pick a hand-drawn companion from 14 animals. It greets you on Home and lives in your Profile's reading nook • Map who's who: hand-drawn faces for the characters, and the ties between them THE SMALL THINGS • Rest days: earn one for every 7 days in a row, so a missed day doesn't break your streak • Smart Rewind backs up 3 to 20 seconds when you press play, depending on how long you were away • Sleep timer by minutes or at the end of a chapter. In its last minute the screen warms and dims • ±30 s skips from the Lock Screen, Control Center and AirPods • Home Screen quick actions, and Light, Dark or Auto appearance FREE AND PRO Free: transcription and read-along for every book, highlights, notes and quotes, Discover, Audiobookshelf downloads, the character map, companions, streaks with rest days, milestone badges and your first ebook. HushBook Pro (subscription or one-time purchase) adds: • Analytics across This week, Habits and Books: a reading engagement score, finish-by forecasts, personal records, goals, a listening calendar, and month and year in review • Per-book Insights: your pace, sessions and check-in journal • Unlimited ebooks • Audiobookshelf progress sync • An English dictionary for the words you don't know • Extra cover designs and four alternate app icons • HushBook Desktop: transcribe on your computer, and move a book with its transcript and ebook as a .hushbook file Terms of Use (EULA): https://hushbook.app/terms-conditions Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hushbook.app/privacy-policy