Alternatives to Audiobookshelf
A self-hosted server for audiobooks and podcasts that keeps your place in a book across every device. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Audiobookshelf
A self-hosted server for audiobooks and podcasts that keeps your place in a book across every device.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Audiobookshelf.
Jellyfin
A free media server for your own films, shows and music, with no premium tier and no account.
Jellyfin is a free GPL-2.0 media server that holds books alongside films, shows, music and photos, but it is not built around audiobook progress sync or podcast downloads.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Navidrome
A tiny music server for your own collection that works with dozens of existing phone apps.
Plex Media Server
A polished media server for your own library, free on the home network, with a paid pass for remote streaming.
Kavita
A self-hosted reading server for ebooks, comics and manga, with readers built for each format and OPDS for everything else.
Emby Server
A personal media server for video, music, photos and live TV, with the good parts behind a subscription.
