My Shelf Player vs Listen This
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Listen This
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A simple, focused audiobook player for your M4B files. Listen on iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch — your progress syncs automatically via iCloud. FEATURES • Import M4B audiobooks from Files or iCloud Drive • Chapter navigation with skip controls • Adjustable playback speed (0.5x - 2.5x) • Sleep timer with shake-to-extend • Background playback with Now Playing controls • Home Screen widget showing current book APPLE WATCH Listen without your iPhone. Transfer audiobooks to your Watch for offline playback during workouts, walks, or whenever you leave your phone behind. Large files transfer in the background while you use your phone. AUDIOBOOKSHELF Connect to your self-hosted Audiobookshelf server to browse and download your library. SYNC Your library and playback position sync automatically across all your devices via iCloud. Start listening on your iPhone, continue on your iPad, finish on your Watch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: My Shelf Player at 17.0 against Listen This's 26.2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
My Shelf Player ships an update every 4 weeks, Listen This every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | My Shelf Player | Listen This |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Kozhokaru | Eetu Sutinen |
In-app purchases
My Shelf Player
No in-app purchases
Listen This
No in-app purchases
