Booksonic - Audiobook Streamer
4.1star
315 reviews
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PEGI 3
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About this app
Booksonic is a platform for accessing and streaming the audiobooks you own wherever you are. Perfect for those boring bus rides!
Some notable features are:
* Supports multiple servers
* Offline support
* Variable playback speed
* Sleep timer with shake to reset functionality
* Support for almost all audio formats
* Book descriptions, either you add your own to the server or the app will look it up online, with the option to use Artificial Intelligence to generate descriptions.
* Chromecast and DLNA
and much much more
The app contains a demo server that gives you access to old classics but if you set up you own server you can stream all of your books as well.
Information for setting up your own server is available at https://booksonic.org
You can visit the demo server at https://demo.booksonic.org
If you want to know more about the app before purchase you can check out the subreddit on https://reddit.com/r/booksonic
Booksonic was awarded the “App of The Day” by MyAppFree in September 2020 and then again in May 2021
Some notable features are:
* Supports multiple servers
* Offline support
* Variable playback speed
* Sleep timer with shake to reset functionality
* Support for almost all audio formats
* Book descriptions, either you add your own to the server or the app will look it up online, with the option to use Artificial Intelligence to generate descriptions.
* Chromecast and DLNA
and much much more
The app contains a demo server that gives you access to old classics but if you set up you own server you can stream all of your books as well.
Information for setting up your own server is available at https://booksonic.org
You can visit the demo server at https://demo.booksonic.org
If you want to know more about the app before purchase you can check out the subreddit on https://reddit.com/r/booksonic
Booksonic was awarded the “App of The Day” by MyAppFree in September 2020 and then again in May 2021
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Ratings and reviews
4.1
303 reviews
David Wullimann
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March 4, 2024
It's just an objectively worse version of audiobookshelf (which is free) both in terms of the app and the backend. Edit: Since the dev actually reads it and responds, I think it's only fair to elaborate to make the feedback more constructive. The two main issues I've encountered were a) reliability (playback just stopping and not working anymore, sometimes the app losing where I was in the book and starting over from the beginning) and b) the fact that it did not sync the playback web and phone.
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Popeen
March 4, 2024
Sorry to hear you don't like it. Audiobookshelf is indeed a great alternative and may very well be the best option for some but I don't agree that it is objectively better, it very much depends on the usecase which is best suited.
A Google user
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March 9, 2020
When it works, it works flawlessly. When it doesn't work, there's really nothing you can do. It scans my libraries, updates without a hitch. But it can't search/skip to timestamps in some audiobooks. Play/Pause works, but that's it. It seems like it's the massive mp3's that gives it problems.
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Popeen
May 28, 2020
Happy you like it overall. I'll try and reproduce the problem you are having and try and get a fix for it in a coming version of the app
Mark Patel
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May 8, 2023
I use this app daily and have done for a number of years. I love how it works with its own server, the simple design and automatic bookmarking features. Configuring it can be a little tricky, but mostly due to the technical nature of local/global IP addresses and port forwarding. If you listen to audiobooks and want something other than audible, this is fantastic!
What's new
* Fixed a crash that sometimes happened when pressing media buttons
* Probably fixes a crash that sometimes happens on Android Auto
* Probably fixes a crash that sometimes happens on Android Auto