Booksonic - Audiobook Streamer

The original selfhosted audiobook streaming service

App info

Version :

2410

Category :

Music & audio

Update :

October 31, 2024

Installs :

22,666

Developer :

Popeen

Price :

$3.169502 $3.148283

Requires Android :

Android 4.1+

Content Rating :

Everyone

App description

Android App Analysis and Review: Booksonic - Audiobook Streamer, Developed by Popeen. Listed in Music & audio Category. Current Version Is 2410, Updated On 31/10/2024 . According to users reviews on Google Play: Booksonic - Audiobook Streamer. Achieved Over 23 thousand Installs. Booksonic - Audiobook Streamer Currently Has 324 Reviews, Average Rating 4.4 Stars

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

What's New

* Updated dependencies

Rate and review on Google Play store

4.4

324 total

5 73.4

4 14.1

3 4.2

2 4.2

1 4.2

Total number of installs (*estimated)

Estimation of total number of installs on Google Play, Approximated from number of ratings and install bounds achieved on Google Play.

Recent Comments

Mark Patel

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!

Robert Campbell

The server software works great, however the android client not so much. It especially seems to have issues with large files, it often won't remember positions within a book, it fails to download properly, I can't even scrobble to a location in the book because it'll just not do anything. It's essentially unusable unless your book library is split into much smaller mp3's. Could you at least add a download progress so we know if anything is happening?

A Google user

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.

A Google user

This app works great for books with separate files for chapters but fails hard for books where the entire book is one file. It seems like once you pause or bookmark a book it stops downloading or something. I had a 16 hour book cut off at 6 hours yesterday and now I can't even get it to refresh back to the correct duration. This is the second time this has happened. It's extremely frustrating.

Jacob Keyes

I used this app for some years over 3 phones because I wanted a Server component that I could host myself. However I recently switched to Syncthing + Smart Audiobook Reader because booksonic is just too unstable to be comfortable. Specifically with large files or single-file audiobooks the interface regulary hangs or freezes. Its a pain It works well with small files but even so it doesnt have as much features as similar apps.

Brendan Berg

I haven't even really used this to listen to anything yet, but it is always the top battery user despite rarely being used. Almost need to uninstall when I'm not using. Edit: thanks to the developer for pointing me to the setting that saved me from killing my battery. Now my only issue is that the media notification keeps popping up every day regardless of not using it.

David Wullimann

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.

Jon Verplaetse

Great effort and its close to being good, but this is kind of the only game in town outside plex, so thank you to the developer for your effort. Server was kind of a pain to install, got tomcat failures until I gave up and used the docker version. Not the end of the world. However, the M4B file support is not there at all. First, the server was trying to transcode it to mp3 and failing miserably, making invalid files that wouldn't open. OK, so I disabled the transcoding, redownloaded the file, still doesn't play with the android app. However, there is nothing wrong with the file as I can take the downloaded book and play it with any other audiobook app. So this is purely a player problem in the android app. So now what, do I spend a ton of time converting from a lossless format to mp3 so this app works? Do I use this app soley as a download management app and play books with another app? Edit: I did go through the work and converted everything to chapterized MP3 and its been flawless with that so far. App has issues with M4B files and some large single MP3 files. If you split them, fix the metadata, seems like it works just fine.