Libre Librivox listener

An unofficial libre application to listen to public domain audiobooks.

New in version 3.2.0

Added a way to change playback speed

An unofficial libre application to listen to LibriVox audiobooks.

Some features it brings are:

Finding books of different genres and languages

Searching audiobooks by title, author or language with archive.org's API

Downloading audiobooks to play offline

Remembering position in audiobook and resume when played again

Playing with the application in the background and with the screen turned off

User interface in multiple languages (translations welcome!)

The application has no ads and is also fully open source under the GPL3 license, so if anything is not to your liking, feel free to contribute!

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This app depends entirely on a certain instance of a network service

Depends on archive.org

Author: José Pardo Madera
License: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Version 3.2.0 (3203) suggested Added on Oct 30, 2025

arm64-v8a

This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.

It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
- run foreground service
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
- run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
- have full network access
  
  Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
- prevent phone from sleeping
  
  Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
- io.gitlab.libre_librivox_listener.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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Version 3.2.0 (3202) - Added on Oct 30, 2025

armeabi-v7a

This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.

It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
- run foreground service
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
- run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
- have full network access
  
  Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
- prevent phone from sleeping
  
  Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
- io.gitlab.libre_librivox_listener.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Download APK 17 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log
Version 3.2.0 (3201) - Added on Oct 30, 2025

x86_64

This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.

It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
- run foreground service
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
- run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
- have full network access
  
  Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
- prevent phone from sleeping
  
  Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
- io.gitlab.libre_librivox_listener.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Download APK 20 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

New in version 3.1.0

Network and speed improvements thanks to JaredTweed:
* Halved the amount of network requests
* Now also uses Librivox's API falling back on archive.org's when it can't
* Added UserAgent on requests
* Different sources for book thumbnails are checked
* Unseen books in library screen are prefetched to speedup scrolling
* Added a limit to parallel network requests
* Requests are retried a number of attempts if they fail
* Many more!

Version 3.1.0 (3103) - Added on Sep 09, 2025

arm64-v8a

This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.

It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
- run foreground service
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
- run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
- have full network access
  
  Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
- prevent phone from sleeping
  
  Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
- io.gitlab.libre_librivox_listener.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Download APK 19 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log
Version 3.1.0 (3102) - Added on Sep 09, 2025

armeabi-v7a

This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.

It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
- run foreground service
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
- run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
- have full network access
  
  Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
- prevent phone from sleeping
  
  Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
- io.gitlab.libre_librivox_listener.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Download APK 17 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log
Version 3.1.0 (3101) - Added on Sep 09, 2025

x86_64

This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.

It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
- run foreground service
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
- run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
- have full network access
  
  Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
- prevent phone from sleeping
  
  Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
- io.gitlab.libre_librivox_listener.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Download APK 20 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log
Version 3.0.0 (303) - Added on Aug 29, 2025

arm64-v8a

This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.

It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
- run foreground service
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
- run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
- have full network access
  
  Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
- prevent phone from sleeping
  
  Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
- io.gitlab.libre_librivox_listener.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Download APK 19 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log
Version 3.0.0 (302) - Added on Aug 29, 2025

armeabi-v7a

This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.

It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
- run foreground service
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
- run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
- have full network access
  
  Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
- prevent phone from sleeping
  
  Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
- io.gitlab.libre_librivox_listener.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Download APK 17 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

New in version 3.0.0

* Added buttons to skip forwards and backwards 10 seconds
* Added a sleep timer
* The book language chosen in the library screen is persisted
* Made loading bars clearer
* Compressed cache

Version 3.0.0 (301) - Added on Aug 29, 2025

x86_64

This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.

It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
- run foreground service
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
- run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
  
  Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
- have full network access
  
  Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
- prevent phone from sleeping
  
  Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
- io.gitlab.libre_librivox_listener.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Download APK 20 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

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