Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with multi-user playback sync, metadata management, downloads, and web/mobile clients.
14.1k stars1.1k forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
4 self-hosted Audible alternatives
Amazon-owned Audible provides subscription and storefront services for audiobooks, spoken-word titles and podcasts. Users can stream or download purchases and subscription content, manage a library, and play offline on web, mobile and smart devices.
Alternatives to Audible
Unified web UI to search, aggregate, and download books and audiobooks from multiple sources, with queue management, metadata providers, and client integrations.
3.8k stars226 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
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Web-based podcast manager and downloader with RSS support and GPodder compatibility. Rust backend with React/TypeScript frontend and Docker images for deployment.
500 stars35 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
Fork of Calibre-Web providing a Bootstrap-based web UI to browse, read, convert and serve eBooks, comics and PDFs from a Calibre database with Docker support.
235 stars6 forksGPL-3.0last commit Slowing down
What replacing Audible actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 3 of 4 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: GPL-3.0, MIT, Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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