⚡ Audiobooks

Audiobook platforms are digital services that let users access and listen to narrated long-form audio recordings such as books, essays, lectures, and other spoken-word content through individual purchases, credit-based models, or unlimited listening subscriptions.

They usually provide cross-device syncing, offline downloads, variable playback speed, sleep timers, and bookmarks.

According to our statistics, audiobook services are detected on 0.05% of all websites.
80.6% of these sites use only one audiobook service, 12.1% use two, and 7.2% use three or more at the same time.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading audiobook services in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Apple Books with an impressive share of 39.5%, followed by Audible with 27.5% and Google Play Books with 17.8%.

Apple Books 39.5%
Audible 27.5%
Google Play Books 17.8%
Kobo 14.7%
Libro.fm 12.8%
Litres 9.1%
Libby 6.6%
Audiobooks.com 1.1%
Storytel 0.8%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of services that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Audible is #1 in Germany ^(-1)
Google Play Books is #1 in Brazil ^(-2)
Libro.fm is #1 in Ireland ^(-4)
Litres is #1 in Russia ^(-5)
Libby is #1 in New Zealand ^(-6)
Storytel is #1 in Finland ^(-8)
Kobo is #2 in Canada ^(-2)
Audiobooks.com is #7 in the United States ^(-1)

✨ Best Audiobook Services

Below is a more detailed list of 9 audiobook services we track, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Apple Books Cupertino, California, United States Apple's integrated ebook and audiobook app and digital storefront where users can find, buy, and download ebooks and audiobooks. Free	39.5%
2	Audible Seattle, Washington, United States An Amazon-owned online service for audiobooks, podcasts, and original spoken-word content. $7.95+/month	27.5%
3	Google Play Books Mountain View, California, United States A digital storefront and app from Google that offers a large library of ebooks, comics, manga, and audiobooks for purchase. Free	17.8%
4	Kobo Tokyo, Japan A subsidiary of Rakuten that operates a digital bookstore, a subscription service, and a line of E Ink e-reader devices. $7.99+/month	14.7%
5	Libro.fm Seattle, Washington, United States An audiobook platform that offers over 600,000 titles and supports local bookstores across the United States. $14.99/month	12.8%
6	Litres Moscow, Russia A Russian digital content retailer and subscription service for ebooks and audiobooks. $$$	9.1%
7	Libby Cleveland, Ohio, United States A mobile app and online platform that lets public library cardholders borrow ebooks, digital audiobooks, and magazines for free. Free	6.6%
8	Audiobooks.com Stockholm, Sweden A subscription-based service and store for digital audiobooks and podcasts. $14.95/month	1.1%
9	Storytel Stockholm, Sweden A Swedish subscription service offering streaming of audiobooks and ebooks in more than 25 markets worldwide. €6.49+/month	0.8%

👉 See Also

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 3,604,716 websites.
We currently track the presence of 9 audiobook services across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.