CLAUDIO vs AudioSilo

CLAUDIO is an audio player for your own audiobooks, podcasts and music that takes data protection seriously. It plays from the sources you already use: local files, iCloud Drive, NAS/SMB, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Subsonic and Navidrome, DLNA, WebDAV and SFTP. AUDIOBOOKS • Chapters from M4B and tagged MP3 • Sleep timer to the end of the chapter or book, with Knock to Resume if it stopped too soon • Playback speed with pitch correction and silence trimming • Resumes a few seconds earlier after a pause, so you don't land mid-sentence • Read along with downloaded audiobooks and podcasts: on-device transcription in supported languages, with the text following the audio • Ten background sounds such as rain, sea or fireplace PODCASTS • Subscribe and stream by URL or Apple Podcasts search • Episode downloads, intro and outro skipping • OPML import and export, chapters and sleep timer MUSIC • Album Wall and LP Mode • 10-band EQ with matching curves for more than 6,000 headphones from AutoEq measurement data • ReplayGain, gapless playback, crossfade, stereo widening and volume normalization • Animated visualizers and synced lyrics • Scrobbling to ListenBrainz and Last.fm YOUR LIBRARY, ANYWHERE • Offline cache and pinning for titles from your server • CarPlay for downloaded and local titles • Cast local and downloaded titles to Google Cast, DLNA/UPnP and Sonos • Favorites that sync with Navidrome, Jellyfin and Audiobookshelf • Smart Lists, Smart Shuffle and listening statistics • Widgets for Home Screen and Lock Screen, controls for Control Center PRIVACY No CLAUDIO account, no ads, no analytics SDKs, no telemetry. Your library, history and subscriptions stay on your device, and in your private iCloud if you use iCloud Sync. Apart from the sources you choose, CLAUDIO only contacts LRCLIB for lyrics and Apple for podcast search and app recommendations. WHAT'S FREE Local files, iCloud Drive, 2 podcast subscriptions, Smart Lists, Smart Shuffle and all themes are free. Server sources, offline cache, CarPlay, casting and statistics need CLAUDIO Ultra, a monthly or yearly subscription that includes Pro. All other features need CLAUDIO Pro, a one-time purchase. CLAUDIO Pro+ unlocks both permanently with a single purchase and can be shared through Family Sharing. The yearly Ultra plan starts with a 14-day free trial for new subscribers, then the yearly price applies. Ultra renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Cancel anytime in App Store Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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.