Your library. Your server. Every device.
ListenTo.It turns the audiobook folders on your computer or NAS into a beautiful library you can play on your iPhone and in any browser, and it remembers exactly where you stopped.
Early access. Your books never leave your hardware.
Built for people who own their audiobooks
Ripped CDs, DRM-free purchases, library downloads, public-domain recordings: if it is an audio file, ListenTo.It can organise it and play it.
Runs on your hardware
A small server for a Mac, PC, Linux box or Synology NAS. It reads your folders where they are and never modifies them.
Native iPhone app and web player
A fast SwiftUI app with downloads for offline listening, and a full player in Safari, Chrome, Edge and Firefox.
Your place, everywhere
Pause in the browser, pick up on your iPhone at the same second. Offline listening syncs when you are back online.
Made for long books and short evenings
- Chapters from M4B files, cue sheets and multi-file books, shown as one continuous timeline
- Speeds from 0.5× to 3×, skip intervals you choose, and a short rewind when you resume
- Sleep timer by minutes or at the end of the chapter, with a gentle fade out
- Bookmarks, lock-screen and media-key controls, keyboard shortcuts in the browser
- Playback keeps going while you browse the library
Start on one device, finish on another
iPhone, offline
Listen to a downloaded book on the subway. Your progress is saved on the phone.
Web player
Open listento.it/app. The phone has synced, so the book is waiting at the same sentence.
Back on iPhone
Pick up where the browser left off, with a 30-minute sleep timer that fades out.
Everything a family library needs
Automatic metadata
Titles, authors, narrators, series and covers from your files and tags, filled in from Audible data (Audnexus), Open Library, Apple Books and Google Books when you want.
Profiles for everyone
Invite family and friends by email, pick which libraries each person sees, and keep their progress separate.
Kids and teens profiles
Age ratings for books, series and authors, so younger listeners only see what suits them.
Ratings, reviews and recommendations
Rate what you finish and get suggestions from your own library, each with the reason it was picked.
Remote access without router settings
Turn on Remote access and your server gets its own secure address, encrypted end to end.
Private by design
No ads, no tracking, no uploads. Your listening history lives on your server.
Questions
What is ListenTo.It?
An audiobook app for the books you already own. You run ListenTo.It Server on a computer or NAS at home; it reads your audiobook folders and streams them to the iPhone app and to the web player at listento.it/app. Your place in each book is kept in sync between them.
Where are my audiobooks stored?
On your own hardware, in your own folders. ListenTo.It reads them where they are and never changes or deletes them. Nothing is uploaded to Hankinsoft. The only files it ever writes are new book folders added by a Library Source you set up.
Which audio formats work?
M4B and M4A (with embedded chapters), MP3, AAC, FLAC and Ogg, as single files or as a folder of parts. Formats a browser cannot play are converted on the fly by the server.
Can I listen when I am away from home?
Yes. Turn on Remote access on your server and it becomes reachable at its own secure address, with no port forwarding or router settings. The connection is encrypted end to end between your device and your server.
Does my place sync between my iPhone and my browser?
Yes. Pause on one device and the others pick up from the same spot. Listening offline on the iPhone is saved and sent when you are back online. If two devices disagree, ListenTo.It keeps the most recent listening and offers to jump to the other position rather than silently moving you.
Already have a ListenTo.It server?
Sign in with your ListenTo.It account and listen in your browser.