Cynapps AudioBook Player vs AudioSilo

Cynapps AudioBook Player is a private, local-first audiobook player for the books you actually own. Drop in your own m4b, mp3, m4a, aa, or aax files — no accounts, no subscriptions, no library to "log in" to. Everything stays on your device. GETTING BOOKS IN • Local web server: turn on a built-in mini-site on your phone, open the URL on any laptop on the same Wi-Fi, and drag files in from a browser. No cables, no cloud round-trip. • LocalSend: receive audiobooks from another phone, the LocalSend desktop app, or any LocalSend-compatible client. Audio-only files are accepted; everything else is silently dropped. • Files app: registers as a handler for audio types, so Open In… from Mail, Safari, Files, or AirDrop just works. PLAYBACK • Full chapter navigation for m4b files — tap the chapter row for the table of contents and jump anywhere. • Folder-of-mp3 books group automatically by album metadata. 17 chapter MP3s become one book. • Speed control 0.5× to 2.5×, preserving voice quality (time-domain audio stretching, not pitch-shifted chipmunk). • Sleep timer with a smooth 10-second fade-out instead of an abrupt cut. End-of-chapter sleep available too. • ±30s skip, scrubbable progress bar with chapter-relative or whole-book modes. • Per-book playback memory — pick up exactly where you left off, even across track boundaries in multi-file books. • Bookmarks: tag any moment with an optional note, jump back to it later. • Lock screen and Control Center support — title, cover art, scrub bar, transport buttons. PODCASTS • Subscribe to a podcast feed by URL. • Auto-downloads the most recent 20 episodes for offline listening, up to 4 at a time, with progress per file. • Continuous play: when one episode finishes, the next starts automatically. ⏮/⏭ jumps between episodes. PRIVACY • No accounts. No analytics. No tracking. No ads. • All audio files and listening progress stay on your device. • The only network traffic is local Wi-Fi (when you enable the web server or LocalSend) and direct downloads from podcast feeds you explicitly subscribe to. Built for people who buy their audiobooks, rip their own, or follow podcasts they care about — and want a player that respects that.

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.