Your shelf
Search, sort, and filter by progress, genre or tag. Books you’re in the middle of sit at the top.
Audiobooks from your own server.
OperaLibre streams your audiobook folder to the web, iPhone, iPad, Android and Mac. It keeps each reader’s place, plays offline, and can show the ebook beside the narration.
Self-hosted and source-available. Runs on macOS, Linux and Windows.
One library, your devices.
Web browser
iPhone and iPad
Android
macOS
An app for the long listen.
The iPhone and Android apps connect to your server, pick up where your other devices left off, and keep playing when you’re out of reach.
Offline downloads
Save a book to your phone and it plays with no connection. The next chapter doesn’t need a signal.
Speed and volume
Set the pace in 0.05× steps. Lift one quietly mastered book by up to 24 dB without touching the rest.
Sleep timer
Pick a preset or type your own length. It only counts down while the book is playing.
Synced progress
Your position is saved on the server as you listen. Stop on the laptop and the phone opens at the same place.
Reader accounts
Everyone in the house gets their own progress, listening stats and reading log, even in the same book.
How accounts workYour files, your folder
Point it at a folder of MP3, M4B, FLAC, Opus and other audio. It reads tags, chapters and cover art, and leaves the files where they are.
Library layout
Read the ebook while you listen.
Put an EPUB, PDF or text file in the book’s folder and it opens beside the audio. EPUBs stay on the chapter you’re hearing.
With the optional follow-along add-on, the reader highlights each sentence as it’s spoken and turns the page for you. Tap a sentence to play from there. Sentence following is experimental and alignment quality varies by book.
How read along worksTry it in your browser.
The demo is the OperaLibre web app itself, running without a server. It plays a two-minute excerpt of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, read by Kristen McQuillin for LibriVox, with the matching Project Gutenberg ebook.
Uploads, accounts and imports need a real server, so they’re switched off. Sentence following is experimental. Your progress stays in this browser.
Open the demoThings to try
- Open the book and press play
- Change the speed or set a sleep timer
- Choose Read along, then Follow
- Close the tab and come back to your place
Install the server.
The server and web app come in one package. Install it on a computer that stays on, then connect your other devices to it.
Run the installer
On macOS or Linux, one command downloads the newest release, checks its SHA-256 digest and starts the server.
Choose your books
Pick your audiobook folder and create the owner account in the web app.
Connect your devices
Sign in from a phone or another computer, and add accounts for other readers.
macOS and LinuxPaste into Terminal to run the guided installer.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DonovanMontoya/OperaLibre/main/script/install.sh | sh
Desktop and server
Windows x64, Linux x64 and ARM64, and Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, as server with web app or server only.
Download a releaseiPhone and iPad
The native app is in beta through TestFlight and connects to an OperaLibre or Jellyfin server. Availability is managed by Apple.
Join the TestFlight betaAndroid
Release APKs are unsigned, or build the app yourself from the repository. The web app also works in any phone browser.
Android build guideWorks with what you already use.
- Audible. Optional Libation integration downloads your purchases into the library.
- Libro.fm. Connect your account and import the books you choose.
- Jellyfin. The apps can sign in to a Jellyfin server instead.
- Other players. An Audiobookshelf-compatible API for apps such as BookPlayer, and an OPDS catalog.
Still being built.
OperaLibre is in active development. Try it with your own books and tell us what works and what gets in the way.
Report an issue on GitHubSource-available for personal and noncommercial use. Commercial use requires a separate license.