Instead of Audible
Audiobooks with an app, progress sync and a store.
Worth the work
Audiobookshelf is the best self-hosted app most people have not heard of: phone apps, progress sync, podcasts and ebooks in one place. The store is the part you replace with files.
You lose: The shop, and the Whispersync that joins a Kindle book to its audio.
Start here
Audiobookshelf
Apps for both phones, progress sync and a decent web player. Your library has to come from somewhere.
github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelfaudiobookshelf.org
A compose file, a domain and a reverse proxy.
Also worth a look
- Jellyfin
Will play an audiobook, badly. It is a video server with an audio tab.
What the desk has written
Facts checked 8 November 2026. Licences, activity and archive status come from each project's own repository; the verdict and the cost lines are the desk's.