Sine vs AudioSilo

Sine is an audiobook player for iOS — built for readers who listen. Import your own MP3, M4B, M4A, FLAC, and AAC files via Files, AirDrop, WiFi upload, URL download, or share extension. Then listen with the controls audiobook readers actually want: • Variable speed (0.5×–4.0×) with per-book memory • Chapter navigation and bookmarks with notes • Sleep timer with gradual fade and shake-to-resume • Smart rewind on resume • Folders, search, and custom drag-and-drop ordering for books and folders • 10-band equalizer with presets and a custom slot • Volume boost and normalization • Gesture mode (tap zones on artwork to control playback) • Dynamic player colors (tints from the book's artwork) • Lifetime listening stats with daily, weekly, and monthly charts • CarPlay and Apple Watch remote (both in beta) • Lock screen, AirPlay, and headset buttons • Interactive playback widgets, Siri Shortcuts, Spotlight search • Full VoiceOver accessibility SKIP SILENCE (BETA) Most audiobooks contain hours of silent gaps and trailing pauses — skip them automatically and save real time over the course of a book. Tune the sensitivity to your taste, see your lifetime savings, and listen faster without missing a word. Skip Silence is in beta: turn it on and it starts automatically when you play a book. PRIVACY-FIRST No Sine account required. No ads. Your library is stored locally. Optional usage analytics help improve the app: feature events, listening-time ranges, a random installation identifier, and app and OS versions. These analytics do not include book titles, file names, or audiobook content. You can turn off usage sharing in Settings. Built from scratch with SwiftUI, AVAudioEngine, and SwiftData. Zero third-party dependencies.

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.