Your audiobooks, your way.
A self-hosted audiobook and ebook library that runs on your own hardware. Word-level audio-text sync, AI question-answering over your books, and cross-device playback — without sending your content to anyone else's cloud.
What it does
Word-level karaoke
See each word highlighted as it's narrated. Tap to seek.
Ask your books
Q&A over your library with the LLM provider you choose. Bring your own key.
Audio↔text alignment
Match an audiobook to its ebook and read along, switch modes mid-chapter.
Self-hosted
Runs in Docker on your home server or NAS. Your content never leaves your network unless you choose.
Cross-device sync
Web, iPhone, Android. Pick up where you left off on any device.
Generate or import
Open-source TTS for ebook-to-audio. Whisper for audio-to-text. Or just import what you already own.
Open source
The server is open source under AGPL-3.0. You can read the code, audit it, fork it, run it on your own hardware. Source at github.com/abookify/abookify-server.
We also publish the .abook file format as an open spec at github.com/abookify/abook-format — a ZIP container that bundles an audiobook with its ebook and word-level sync. Any tool can read or write it. Other implementations welcome.
Self-hosting a product means trusting the software that runs on your hardware. We think you should be able to verify what it does.
Status
Abookify is in active development. The mobile app is in field testing ahead of TestFlight. The server, web interface, and CLI tools are functional today.
Get in touch
Questions, feedback, or partnership inquiries: [email protected]