If you love to read, but can't find the time, this collection of apps is for you. The apps on this list provide you with thousands of titles to listen to. From the classics to specific genres these audiobook collections will keep you listening for hours on end.
Highest scored apps in the category
For those interested in a huge selection of free and premium audiobooks along with radio shows.
Free Audiobooks HQ offers premium audiobooks as well as old time radio dramas. You can enjoy a huge selection, simple search feature, book previews, recommendations, and easy controls.
FEATURED ON CNET—this is *the* app for busy people who have a graveyard of eBooks (you know who you are, you well-meaning intellectual, you
Catch up on your classic literature with Audiobooks HQ.
Apps with average score
Audiobooks provides thousands of free options, background and offline playback, and a customizable sleep timer. Check out popular titles, look for your favorite author, and discover interesting podcasts. The app includes Apple Watch support so you can quickly see how far you are in the current chapter. For a great...
Monologue is an audiobooks player built with an attention to details. It provides a huge and diverse assortment of free and downloadable books to your taste and is full of carefully designed features aiming to focus on the content and make your listen enjoyable.
- 7000+ free audiobooks provided by Librivox.
-...
Oodles has 50000 free ebooks and audiobooks
Enjoy 50000 classic books and audiobooks on iPhone and iPad.
Join over 3 million users!
With Oodles, you can
+ Read world's best authors for free
+ Browse books in over 100 categories
+ Take your library anywhere with you
+ Read books offline
+ Listen to audiobooks offline
+...
Could be good for special cases
This application has thousands of free audiobooks, best sellers, new releases and classic books in every genre. Download and listen thousands classic audiobooks. All of them are totally free of charge with this application.
Download audio books to your smartphone or tablet, and you can start listening a great story instantly, anywhere. This application is perfect for relaxing at home, your transits, or while at the gym or sports practice.
This application provides a repository with an index of free audio books. This index only contain the titles and the thumbnails. If you want to listen an audio book you will will have to download the different chapters that an audio book is composed of.
Features:
* Repository with links to the AudioBooks MP3 files .
* Search over a global repository.
* Download audiobooks to a local depot.
* MP3 Player to listen downloaded AudioBooks.
AudioBooks uses the LibriVox repository. LibriVox is a group of world-wide volunteers who read and record public domain texts creating free public domain audiobooks for download from their website and other digital library hosting sites on the internet.
Note that because of copyright restrictions, LibriVox produces recordings of only a limited number of contemporary books. The LibriVox catalogue is varied. It contains a lot of classic fiction, but also includes less predictable texts. The collection also features poetry, plays, religious texts and non-fiction of various kinds.
The subscription inside the app consists on the following:
- The length of the subscription is 1 month
- The price of the subscription is $0.99
- The subscription will be auto-renewed every month so that you can continue enjoying the app without ads.
- Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
- Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period
- The privacy policy and terms of use of our apps are in http://www.blackhawksystems.eu/website/policy_en.html
Are you the kind of person who wants to immerse themselves in a great story by reading a book, but can't find enough free time in your busy day? Or maybe you want to enjoy a good book while folding laundry or jogging in the morning? Whisper is the perfect app to do exactly that.
Whisper has an extensive library of audiobooks narrated by people from all around the world, from best sellers to classics, including Romance, Fantasy, Thriller, Children’s audiobooks and more. The library is updated daily with tons of new releases in every genre and it's all free.
Others would have you pay a small fortune every month just to get 1 or 2 audiobooks, but this app is the first of its kind. Pay once and enjoy the entire library. No account, no paid subscription, no in-app purchases, no hidden fees. You can stream an audiobook to your iOS device and start listening to a great story instantly.
Whisper also supports Background Audio and Background Streaming so if you’re listening to an audiobook and want to switch to another app or just lock your device, you can.
Quality recordings of classic Sci Fi audiobooks from science fiction's Golden Age. Works by Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Harry Harrison, Poul Anderson, Andre Norton, Robert Silverberg, Fritz Leiber, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and many others.
Great for the commute, for relaxing on the beach, working out at the gym, and walking the dog.
Full list of authors:
• Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Harry Harrison
• Poul Anderson, Andre Norton, Robert Silverberg
• Fritz Leiber, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov
• Robert Sheckley, G.L. Vandenburg
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, Clifford D. Simak
• Ben Bova, Samuel R. Delany, E. E. 'Doc' Smith
• Phillip Jose Farmer, Frederik Pohl
• H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, John W. Campbell
• Edmond Hamilton, Robert E. Howard, H. G. Wells
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, Charles A Stearns
• Hugh B Cave, Albert R. Teichner, James Blish
• Dean Charles Ing, Frank Herbert
• Edgar Pangborn, Stanley G Weinbaum
• Alan Edward Nourse, Ron Cocking
• Robert H. Wilson, Randall Garrett
• C. C. MacApp, Ambrose Bierce, Fredric Brown
• Rosel George Brown,, Gorden R. Dickson
• Damon Francis Knight, Algis Budrys
• Ray Bradbury, Lyn Venable, Damon Knight
• Lyle Monroe, J E Kelleam, Hank Kuttner
• J. H. Haggard, Ron Reynolds, Hannes V. Bok
Series include:
• John Carter of Mars (Barsoom) by E. R. Burroughs
• Conan by Robert E. Howard
• Time Traders by Andre Norton
• Skylark by E. E. 'Doc' Smith
• Deathworld by Harry Harrison
