One was £20 which is just short of £2 a month. Although a couple that we found did ask for a yearly membership fee. There are libraries that allow you to register via their overdrive website. If you aren’t a member of your local library, you can go to their website and locate your nearest one using the map and search bar.

OverDrive is one of the free audiobook apps that incorporates your library membership, enabling you to borrow free audiobooks and ebooks. This is a good way to repay them and the other volunteers for offering this many audiobooks for free. If you are willing, you can register to become a narrator and possibly have it listed in their free audiobook library. That being said the service is completely free and the more popular audiobooks are generally at a decent recording standard. As well as that some titles don’t have one narrator, you may find yourself listening to an audiobook with multiple people reading it. There are of course some cons to their free service, the main one being that some recordings aren’t of the highest quality. All of these free audiobooks on LibriVox can be downloaded for offline listening. To start using LibriVox’s free audiobook app hit download in your app store and then locate which audiobook you want to listen to. It is very straightforward to use, you don’t even have to sign-up for an account. They currently offer over 12,000 free audiobooks on their website and app. This is done by using volunteers to narrate the titles. LibriVox was founded in 2005 by Hugh McGuire to offer free listening to books in the public domain.

Free audiobook apps