AudioSilo vs Morrow Audiobook Player

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.

Morrow is a beautiful, ad-free audiobook player for BookOrbit, Audiobookshelf and Grimmory (plus Booklore), and for audiobook files you already have. Morrow doesn't include or host any books itself. Connect to a server you have access to, or bring your own files, and your books are just there. Stream them, download them for offline, and pick up exactly where you left off on any device. ON EVERY SCREEN YOU USE iPhone, iPad, CarPlay, Apple TV and Apple Watch. Start a book in the car, keep going on the TV, finish it on a walk with your phone left at home. YOUR OWN FILES, TOO Import or link m4b, mp3 and other audio from Files, iCloud Drive or Google Drive. Multi-part books come together as one, and you can fix their details or look them up in online catalogs. FREE FOREVER Full playback with chapters, adjustable speed, sleep timer and auto-rewind. CarPlay. A Home Screen widget. An Up Next queue that advances on its own. Home shelves you arrange yourself. Read statuses, collections and playlists exactly as your server supports them, added with a long press. Your own audio files on this device. One library source, and up to 3 downloaded books. MORROW UNLOCK One purchase, no subscription: - Unlimited downloads - Auto-download the next book in your queue - Accent colors throughout the app - Connect multiple servers SIGN IN HOWEVER YOUR SERVER WORKS Username and password, Audiobookshelf API keys, or a BookOrbit magic link for shared accounts. Grimmory (Booklore) servers work the same way. Servers behind Cloudflare Access work too. Type your server's address and Morrow recognizes it. Plain http works too, including over a VPN. IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN Morrow follows your device's language. YOUR BOOKS STAY YOURS Morrow connects only to servers you have access to, collects no analytics, and shows no ads. Every story has a Morrow. Morrow™ is a trademark of Liftbridge Labs LLC.