My Shelf Player vs EchoReadPro
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.
EchoReadPro
Transform text into audio for hands-free listening on various devices. Enjoy customizable playback speeds, voice options, and seamless progress saving. Ideal for language learners and anyone who wants to free their eyes from screens.
- Text and local file reading
- Adjustable language, speed, and volume
- Voice sync text highlighting
- Playback paragraph switching
- Save playback history and settings
- Screen-off playback
- Image text recognition
- Unlimited listening duration
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Listen freely with Scroll Books, free your eyes (Watch · Phone · Tablet · Computer) - Supports text input and importing local text files for audio reading, easy for daily audiobook listening - Freely adjust language, speech rate and volume; play/pause available to control playback at will - Synchronized text highlighting with voice, great for reading-along practice and efficient language learning - Freely switch playback paragraphs to listen to specific content accurately - Save playback history, remember playback progress and settings, resume listening without repositioning - Smart anti-screen-lock function; playback continues with screen off, enjoy listening hands-free - Built-in shortcut tool entry for convenient access to Image to Text (CopyImageText), batch text replacement (SearchReplacePro2), web page audiobook (Bookmarkers Pro/Bookmarkers for Safari), LAN file transfer, image preview, file reading and clipboard sync (FileSentPro). # Pro Paid Exclusive Benefits - Remove reading time limit, unlimited long-time listening - Auto shutoff timer for bedtime, safer night listening - Export read content as audio files for offline playback anytime, listen during commute - Use high-quality built-in system voices with pitch adjustment for a comfortable listening experience # Notes - Go to More > Settings to adjust speech paragraph length. If playback issues occur on your device, reduce the value. - If voice playback fails, try switching to another voice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: My Shelf Player at Free against EchoReadPro's $0.29. EchoReadPro's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks) and device support (5 vs 3). On rating, ratings volume, 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
My Shelf Player is free to download; EchoReadPro costs $0.29 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for My Shelf Player against 5.0 for EchoReadPro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
My Shelf Player ships an update every 4 weeks, EchoReadPro weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Shelf Player | EchoReadPro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.29 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Kozhokaru | 杨军 朱 |
Customer experience
My Shelf Player
EchoReadPro
In-app purchases
My Shelf Player
No in-app purchases
EchoReadPro
No in-app purchases
