⚡ Audiobooks in the United Kingdom

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.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our statistics, audiobook services are detected on 0.04% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 183K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top audiobook services in the United Kingdom in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Apple Books with a substantial share of 56.1%, followed by Audible with 30.3% and Kobo with 24.2%.

Apple Books 56.1%
Audible 30.3%
Kobo 24.2%
Google Play Books 19.7%
Libro.fm 7.6%
Storytel 1.5%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top services that are more popular in the United Kingdom than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

3. Kobo ^(-2)
6. Storytel ^(-2)

✨ Best Audiobook Services

Below is a more detailed list of 6 audiobook services used on sites from the United Kingdom, 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$$$	56.1%
2	Audible Seattle, Washington, United States An Amazon-owned online service for audiobooks, podcasts, and original spoken-word content. $7.95+/month	30.3%
3	Kobo Tokyo, Japan A subsidiary of Rakuten that operates a digital bookstore, a subscription service, and a line of E Ink e-reader devices. $7.99+/month	24.2%
4	Google Play Books Mountain View, California, United States A digital storefront and app from Google that offers a large library of ebooks, comics, manga, and audiobooks for purchase. Free$$$	19.7%
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	7.6%
6	Storytel Stockholm, Sweden A Swedish subscription service offering streaming of audiobooks and ebooks in more than 25 markets worldwide. €6.49+/month	1.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Audiobooks in other countries

🗃️ 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 183,840 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 9 audiobook services across the web.
Of these, 6 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.