Comparison

Audiobooks vs Libratory

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Audiobooks

Access a vast library of over 150,000 classic audiobooks and podcasts. Listen anywhere, download for offline playback, and engage with a community through comments and votes. Turn downtime into listening time with this extensive collection.

Highlights
  • 150,000+ classic audiobooks
  • Podcast listening
  • Offline downloads
  • Search and category browsing
  • Community comments and votes
  • High-quality audio
Features
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***** “Best audio book player I found love it” ***** “I love this app, it is great to have so many classic literatures in audio versions...” ***** “I listen to audiobooks while I'm at work, it makes the time go by a lot of faster. All the readers bring something different to the book story” Not enough time for reading all classic books you like? With our Audio Books app, it is not your problem anymore. Whether you are stuck in traffic, waiting for someone, or just relaxing on your sofa, you are able to listen to beloved audio books at the touch of your finger. FEATURES: • Enjoying High-quality Audio Books Over 150.000 classic audio books and even more. We are also offering the superior categories methods and search functions to find your books as quick as possible. • Listening to audio books anywhere Just select a book, put in your earbuds, and you will instantly brighten your busy day. You'll look forward to that commute, workout, or even doing the dishes, knowing a good story awaits you. • Free downloading your favorite books for offline listening Absolutely NO fee to own the audio books and even NO network consuming to enjoy a book, cool? • Sharing your feelings with comments and votes Are you interested in one book? Or how do you feel about one characteristic? Feel free to show your thinking with another. Your feedback feeds our motivation, so feel free to raise your voice by sending email at support@quang-le.com. We'll get back to you shortly.

About

Libratory

Features
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Libratory plays an audiobook over the real pages of the book, lighting up the sentence and the word being spoken as it reads. Double-tap a sentence to hear it again. Books are made on your Mac with the free Libratory desktop tool, which pairs a book with its narration and saves both as one synced EPUB. Send that file to your iPhone or iPad with AirDrop or the Files app, tap + on the shelf, and press play. Nothing is streamed, no account is needed, and everything works offline. The app comes with a short three-chapter guide already on the shelf. It is itself a synced book, so reading it is the fastest way to see what the app does. READ AND LISTEN • The voice plays over the printed page, with the sentence and the word highlighted as they are spoken • Double-tap a sentence to hear it from there • Three views of a synced book: Page shows the whole sheet with its pictures and tables, Column crops to the printed words, Text reflows the words at a size you choose • Playback continues with the screen locked, with the chapter, cover and controls on the lock screen • Change the speed and the highlight keeps up READ IN TWO LANGUAGES • A book exported with a translation opens with the original and the translation together, each with its own voice • Tap a word to hear the book from there, or to see what it means in the other language • Alternate sentences reads each sentence in one language and then the other • The original can stay on its printed page beside the translation JUST READ, OR JUST LISTEN • Open an EPUB ebook you already own and read it in Text view • Open an M4B audiobook, pick a chapter, and listen with the screen off PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF • The app remembers your place in every book and shows which parts you have heard • Hold a word to save it, put it in a group, and add a note; find it again in Marks • Search the book and your saved words, then jump back to read or listen KEEP YOUR LIBRARY IN ORDER • Folders and tags for your books, and a search across the whole library • Each book says which chapters light up word by word and which sentence by sentence PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no analytics, no network calls. Your books stay on your device. Works on iPhone and iPad with iOS 15.6 or later. On iOS 15 and 16, a simpler reader includes Pages and Text, playback, highlighting, chapters, saved progress, and two-language books in two panes. Bookmarks, search, folders and tags require iOS 17 or later. Synced books are made with the Libratory desktop app for Mac, free at libratory.dev. Plain EPUB ebooks and M4B audiobooks open as they are.

Screenshots

Audiobooks4 screens
Libratory4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Libratory at none against Audiobooks's 1. Libratory also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Audiobooks's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Audiobooks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Libratory asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Audiobooks ships an update every 3 weeks, Libratory weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Audiobooks versus Libratory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAudiobooksLibratory
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (2.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.2K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLe Thanh QuangPetar Sabev

Bugs and requests

Audiobooks

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Cannot open or play any books
  • Keeps forcing user to write a review before allowing further use

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add stop button and bookmark button
  • Add ability to speed up narration
  • Add more modern and popular book titles
  • Add more children's books suitable for 9-year-olds
  • Add sleep timer
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  • Add ability to save progress and resume from where you left off

Libratory

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Audiobooks

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
None

Libratory

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Audiobooks free?
Audiobooks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Libratory free?
Libratory is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Audiobooks or Libratory have ads?
Audiobooks shows ads; Libratory does not.
Which is updated more often, Audiobooks or Libratory?
Audiobooks ships an update every 3 weeks, and Libratory weekly. Most recently, Audiobooks was updated on October 8, 2026 and Libratory on October 7, 2026.

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