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Storyteller

Shane Friedman Books & Reference

A self-hosted platform for creating and reading ebooks with synced narration

Rating
4.6
78 ratings
Downloads
6K+
on Google Play
Price
Free
No in-app purchases
Updated
Aug 8
2026 · v2.11.4
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About Storyteller

Storyteller is a self-hosted platform for creating and reading ebooks with synced narration. It's made of of three components: the API server, the web interface, and the mobile apps. Together, these components allow you to take audiobooks and ebooks that you already own and automatically synchronize them, as well as read or listen to (or both!) the resulting synced books.

Storyteller provides two relatively unique use cases:

- Providing a better experience for readers that wish to be able to switch between listening to a book in audiobook format and reading it as a digital, visual book
- Providing a guided narration experience for users that would like to listen to a book's narration while reading it.

Storyteller is also self-hosted software. This means that instead of running on servers owned by a company or other organization, it runs on your servers. You own your content and your data, and it will always be available to you!

What’s new

Version 2.11.4 · Updated August 8, 2026

- Correctly set playback speed when starting from Android Auto

User reviews

Robin Heaver
Robin Heaver
fantastic app paired with the selfhosted server.
Richard Staringer
Richard Staringer
Absolutely amazing in principle. Sadly I have some issues with the new version: 1. You cannot add readaloud files from the phone memory anymore - why would you take that away? 2. When reading ahead the audio doesn't jump to where you are at anymore. I had to sideload version 1.13.3. That version does it all. Even so...
Will Nguyen
Will Nguyen
best kindle whispersync feature available
Mark Balmer
Mark Balmer
This app (and Storyteller) is incredible! Thank you for this wonderful accompaniment to the brilliant Storyteller self hosted server.
اصغر لبی
اصغر لبی
idk what's causing this but when downloading readaloud from the server it keeps restarting the progress in a way that its impossible to download a larger file. I ended up transferring the file from my pc into my phone and using a third party app which isn't as good. also this didn't happene when downloading audio an...
Jasmin K
Jasmin K
Best app for reading self-hosted books on mobile. No ads, no distractions, just an excellent reading experience. It has a clean, minimal interface that is easy to tweak to your preferences and start reading. Love this app!

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