Audioborb
Player for Audiobookshelf
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Your audiobooks, on your server, on your iPhone and iPad. A calm player for Audiobookshelf, with a shelf of just the books you're listening to and offline downloads.
Audioborb is a calm, fast audiobook player for your own Audiobookshelf server.
Your server might hold thousands of books. Audioborb's home is just the ones you're listening to: a personal Shelf, saved on your server as a private playlist, so it follows you to the web player and your other devices.
YOUR SHELF
• Listening and Up Next at a glance, with the book you're in one tap away
• Drag to reorder what's next
• Your whole shelf as a grid or a list, with series gathered into stacks and progress on every cover
• Filter by in progress, not started, finished or downloaded
PICKS UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF
• Your last book is loaded and ready the moment the app opens, even before it reaches your server
• Pausing for a while? Audioborb replays a few seconds when you come back, so you don't lose the thread
• Listened on another device? Audioborb asks before jumping to the newer position
MADE FOR LISTENING
• Chapter or whole-book scrubbing, with time left at your current speed
• Playback speed per book, or as your default
• Sleep timer with set durations or end of chapter, a gentle fade-out, and shake to extend
• Bookmarks with notes, synced to your server
• Lock screen, Control Center and headphone controls, with chapter time when you want it
• Swipe the mini player up to open the player, or down to tuck it away
• CarPlay: Listening, Up Next and your downloads on the car's screen, with your own skip intervals
FIND YOUR NEXT BOOK
• Browse picks from your library: next in your series, recently added, quick listens, series worth starting and more
• Genres, and every title with filters and sorting
• Search books, series, authors and narrators
WORKS OFFLINE
• Download books for flights and commutes
• Progress, bookmarks and shelf changes made offline wait in a queue and sync when you're back
• Add a home-network address alongside your public one, and Audioborb uses whichever answers
LISTENING STATS
• Today, this week and your streak, a 16-week heatmap, and a year in review you can share
FOR SERVER OWNERS
• Fix a book's details, series, cover and chapters right from its page
• See who's listening, manage accounts and back up your server from Settings
These tools appear for accounts that are allowed to edit the library or run the server.
ON IPHONE AND IPAD
• On iPad, a side bar for your shelf, browse and stats, and the player beside your book in landscape
• Light and dark themes, both included
PRIVACY
Audioborb has no ads, analytics or accounts of its own, and sends nothing to the developer. Your sign-in stays in the iOS Keychain.
REQUIREMENTS
You need an Audiobookshelf server (version 2.26 or newer) and an account on it. Audioborb doesn't sell or stream books. It plays the ones on your server.
Audioborb is an independent app and isn't affiliated with the Audiobookshelf project.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
• Audioborb now runs on iPad, with a layout made for the bigger screen: a side bar, wider pages, and the player beside your book in landscape.
The developer, Caleb Hiebert, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Caleb Hiebert
- Size
- 31.9 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Caleb Hiebert