Top 10 Audiobook Player for 2026: Expert Picks

Customer Review: This worked great until it didn’t. Don’t know why but the screen remains blank no matter what restart techniques I try. Interestingly the hard drive is visible when I connect the USB C cable to my PC.Update 3/14/2026: The company kindly sent me a new unit. There’s a one-year warranty. All better!

Customer Review: I have had a previous model which worked very well. My cheap ear buds worked perfectly with it for over a year, then suddenly one day, would not connect. I thought it was the ear buds, but when I tried them with a totally different device, they still work perfectly. My old model had been dropped numerous times, and the battery life, which wasn’t great to start with had really gone way down. So I decided to buy another innioasis.My mistake! The ear buds I own would NEVEr CONNECT WITH THE NEW MODEL, EITHER. i HAE USING THE WIRED BUDS. The battery life in the new unit is worse than the current life of the old unit. Plus, both units are now doing the same glitchy things, which never occurred before.I can no longer easily access podcasts at all. the listening tab at bottom just disappears at will and even turning the unit off and on numerous times may not bring it back. Plus it is virtually impossible to look at podcast episodes any longer. It just wont’ show/change episodes. It’s even hard to open a book already downloaded on the unit, no listening tab, and the same chapter will just keep on repeating. with the listener tab gone, I cannot access the chapters to change them or even back it up thirty seconds to catch what I just missed while someone is talking.I believe the programming was changed to make things different, I can’t see why they would both change operating ways I am VERY familiar with, at the very same time. So I think these things happened in a product update I was unaware of.NOT HAPPY!!Plus I went to hospital for a long unexpected stay and missed the return window or I would have returned th new unit.

Customer Review: A very nice MP3 player. A well packaged unit including an informative instruction manual. Set up was easy and the copying of my iTunes music library went without a problem. The sound quality was as good as my old IPod which was impressive.

Customer Review: MP3 player is trash, I was 30ft away from it, and everytime a dumbbell got in-between the mp3 player and my earbuds, they would cut out.

Customer Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️The Gueray Portable CD Player is excellent! Compact, easy to use, and works perfectly with Bluetooth for streaming as well. The timer feature is a great bonus, and the sound quality is clear and reliable. Ideal for home use or small spaces — very convenient and versatile! 🎵✨

Customer Review: Compact, well made and delivered as described. Works well, but it has a push to open case, so we’ll see how that wears with use. So far, just fine.

Customer Review: This MP3 player is great! I love the safety and parental controls for it. It is just enough storage for our 6-year-old to play and listen to music. It did take me time to set up but that was user error. I recommend having some sort of account set up before getting this MP3 player up and running. Trying to create an account on the MP3 player does not work well. I love that it recognizes and reconnects to the Bluetooth headphones we have for our son.

Customer Review: The media could not be loaded. bought this MP3 player and I really like it! It’s lightweight and easy to carry everywhere, but still has a lot of functions packed into it — like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, video and audio playback, FM radio, voice recorder, and tons of storage. I love that I can stream music like Spotify and Amazon Music right from it, which makes it feel way more versatile than a typical player. The screen is bright and responsive, and the sound quality is surprisingly good for such a compact device. Overall great!

Customer Review: This is a basic program for playing audio books, perfect for mp3 format that I’ve ripped from my personal CDs and Humble Bundle books. Once you set a media directory, it gives a very basic overview of the books. You can select and play, with options to skip back or ahead by ten seconds or a full minute. I’ve not played with the chapter functions though. Just the perfect program for basic audiobook playing.

Customer Review: If you’re someone who already has an extensive audiobook collection and want to slap that content on your Kindle’s built-in storage or microSD card, this is a great alternative to the apps that came preinstalled. I’d been using VLC to play my video files and my audio. While that app played both types of media just fine, I found its interface better-suited for videos, hence the reason I started looking for apps that were designed with audiobook listeners in mind and specifically users who wanted a simple and intuitive app designed to handle mp3 audiobook content already owned. Audiobook Player does just that, and it does it well. I like that this app gives me the choice of automatically searching for content on my device or allows me to specify a folder. The latter option is especially useful if one wants to designate a folder specifically for audiobooks. I didn’t give the app five stars because there are a couple areas where I think there’s room for improvement. I’d like to see more of the album’s cover art on the playback control screen. It’s fine in the album browser screen, but the screen with the main playback control buttons truncates the artwork for no apparent reason, leaving a bunch of unoccupied empty space below it. The other issue I have is that my Kindle utilizes an on screen navigation button overlay. These overlay buttons cover the bottom of the screen and obstruct parts of the app’s interface. Some of the apps installed on my Kindle automatically hide these buttons. I wish this app would too.EDIT: I hate to do knock off a star, but I discovered this app has a huge caveat regarding how it handles audio content imported from iTunes. Most of my iTunes audiobooks are audio CDs that I own which I’ve imported into iTunes, which I then in turn copy to a folder on my desktop and from there onto my Kindle’s micro-SD card. My iTunes audiobook imports are sorted by disc number. The problem is iTunes lists discs as disc 1, disc 2, disc 3 etc… whereas the Audiobook Player puts an eleven disc import in the following order 1, 10, 11, 2, 3… The Audiobook Player app works great for audiobooks that have a total duration of nine CDs or fewer. If the developers could make it so that it puts disc number metadata in proper sequential order, I would be more than happy to bump up my review back to the 4 stars I originally gave it. For the time being, I can create multiple playlists for books that were imported from ten or more CDs (i.e Part 1 = CDs 1 -9, Part 2 = CDs 10-19, Part 3 = CDs 20-29) etc…, but this is not an ideal solution. While some may argue that knocking off a star because of how Audiobook Player handles iTunes is unfair, I’ll point out that the reason I downloaded it in the first place is because it’s being marketed as an app for people who already own audiobook content, so in that respect think it’s fair to be critical of how it mishandles content imported from an app as widely used as iTunes.

Customer Review: Quality materials, nice weight. Does not look or feel cheap (at least to me, compared to the $35 one I had that only lasted 6 months before battery wouldn’t take a charge). Arrived 100% charged, took about 2 minutes to upload all my MP3 audio teachings, sign in to Wi-Fi, and get paired to my portable wireless Wi-Fi speaker. Began to play without having to get an app. The player screen gives me relevant information, home screen is uncluttered. Easy, fast and amazing functionality. Has decent local storage shared with the unit, and the extra micro SD card capability.

Customer Review: So far, this is a wonderful MP3 player. You can’t add apps to it, but it has all the most popular music apps already on it. It is user friendly and pairs with my other Bluetooth devices without any problems.

Customer Review: Great little MP3 player. Sound is good, controls are easy to use and understand. Love the simple on/off switch and lock/unlock control. Other players I own have multi-function buttons that are confusing and fussy. I’ve used it for a couple of weeks with earbuds when out for a morning walk, and the battery still shows full charge so that seems to be another good capability. Also like the USB-C port for charging and computer connection.

Customer Review: This is a great inexpensive MP3 player! I was looking for a wireless MP3 player to use with Bluetooth earbuds at the gym to replace my ancient iPod nano and wired headphones. I also own a non-Bluetooth version A02S. This player is labeled A02XT on the back, and appears to be a newer version of the model as it had several additional side buttons which do not show in the pictures on the Amazon webpage nor on AGPTEK’s website. There are now Volume Up and Volume down buttons on one side, and a Back button on the other side in addition to the 5 buttons shown on the front. These make changing volume and going back one screen so much easier and intuitive than with the prior A02 player on which you needed to manipulate several buttons on the front to go Back one screen or change volume. Bluetooth setup was very easy and haven’t had any random disconnects. Sound quality is excellent. Be aware that the volume maxes out when using Bluetooth at a medium loud level, not super loud.You can copy songs from an iTunes playlist to this player, and have it play in the same order by doing a copy and paste (not drag & drop) of songs in the iTunes playlist into one of the Playlists in the folder on the MP3 player which can be seen in the Finder. If you select that Playlist to play songs on the MP3 player, the songs will play in exactly the same order as in your iTunes playlist with no change in sequence. It does take some time to transfer songs from your computer to the MP3 player especially you try to fill all 32GBs with songs.I did cause the player to freeze up when I erroneously pressed the Back and Vol down buttons together. To unfreeze, hold Play/Pause button about 10 seconds, screen goes off, then powers on, and all is good, no loss of files.I haven’t tried any of the other capabilities (voice recordings, photos, etc) but I only purchased the player to play songs, and it does this perfectly.

Customer Review: This worked great until it didn’t. Don’t know why but the screen remains blank no matter what restart techniques I try. Interestingly the hard drive is visible when I connect the USB C cable to my PC.Update 3/14/2026: The company kindly sent me a new unit. There’s a one-year warranty. All better!

Customer Review: I have had a previous model which worked very well. My cheap ear buds worked perfectly with it for over a year, then suddenly one day, would not connect. I thought it was the ear buds, but when I tried them with a totally different device, they still work perfectly. My old model had been dropped numerous times, and the battery life, which wasn’t great to start with had really gone way down. So I decided to buy another innioasis.My mistake! The ear buds I own would NEVEr CONNECT WITH THE NEW MODEL, EITHER. i HAE USING THE WIRED BUDS. The battery life in the new unit is worse than the current life of the old unit. Plus, both units are now doing the same glitchy things, which never occurred before.I can no longer easily access podcasts at all. the listening tab at bottom just disappears at will and even turning the unit off and on numerous times may not bring it back. Plus it is virtually impossible to look at podcast episodes any longer. It just wont’ show/change episodes. It’s even hard to open a book already downloaded on the unit, no listening tab, and the same chapter will just keep on repeating. with the listener tab gone, I cannot access the chapters to change them or even back it up thirty seconds to catch what I just missed while someone is talking.I believe the programming was changed to make things different, I can’t see why they would both change operating ways I am VERY familiar with, at the very same time. So I think these things happened in a product update I was unaware of.NOT HAPPY!!Plus I went to hospital for a long unexpected stay and missed the return window or I would have returned th new unit.

Customer Review: this is a pretty nice little mp3 player for 20 dollars, it was easy to add songs the enterface took a few days to get use to, the interface hasoptions when playing a file press menu for repeat, an equalizer, variable speed playback, replay mode, pressing menu a couple of times, you can go to folder of your music ,but pressing right or left to skip songs you can skip to the next album, it does have setting you can set up time and date if you want, lcd set, language, power off, memory info, format device, firmware version info and update,it does have an FM radio it seams to function good, you can store pictures or videos but I’m sure most of us will only use the mp3, I like and dislike the head phones that came with it, but to turn up the volume u press the vol button then right or left button, and the volume gets pretty loud and sound quality is pretty good but I have not tried any other head phones yet, but all and all I say it’s worth it for 20, I like it. I got the green and I like it but I feel I should have went with blue,

Customer Review: I teach an average of 5 Dance and Fitness classes per day and ran all the way down 2 iPods to the point that they don’t even turn on anymore. So I was looking for a replacement MP3 Player that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. This one it’s okay for the price. It does the work. It’s not the most user friendly MP3 player I ever had, but I can’t justify spending over $100 on a refurbished iPod to break 6 months later.Pros: It holds a lot of songs; it’s cheap; it’s small and lightweight and it works with my Windows Laptop.Cons: You can’t add playlist through Windows Media Player; It’s not very user friendly; the volume button doesn’t work.Update on 3/13/2020: After using the MP3 Player for over a week I figured out the volume button works, but you have to push it and when comes up on the screen you use the right and left arrow to turn up and down. The product is well built and the best thing about it is their Customer Service, they are excellent in work with you to get you 100% satisfied! I totally recommend.

Customer Review: Very cool product – super pleased so far with this. This was a Christmas gift for our 9 year old and it’s been a HUGE hit. She listens to it with headphones plugged into the Mighty and also sometimes with a small JBL speaker via bluetooth. We have loved her being able to jam out and listen to what she wants without being tied to a screen.Set up took a little bit of time but was relatively easy to figure out. The app is not the most user friendly but I was able to figure things out without to much trouble. My one complaint is that the music you want to upload has to be in a Playlist you created yourself in Spotify. I haven’t been able to upload albums or other people’s playlists, I have to make them into my own and then it can be uploaded to the Mighty.Uploading music and connecting monthly for the required Spotify update only takes a few moments. We’re not uploading massive amounts of music but the uploads/synching have gone very quickly.My daughter has had no issues figuring out the controls and uses it without any hiccups. The music quality seems perfect, no issues. No issues with the functioning of the device itself either, it’s worked perfectly. Battery life is great.

Customer Review: Great Concept, Not So Great Technology. For me, the value of this product would have been having access to my spotify playlist while working out without the my phone, which can be a major distraction.However, this product simply has too many bugs which DIRECTLY frustrate its intended use. If you have ADHD like me and are having issues with focusing at the gym, i’d highly recommend just getting a focus app instead to temporarily block social media and internet browsing platforms (while keeping spotify and other non-distracting apps active)Now, what specifically are the issues with the product:For one, the set up is not intuitive and easy; in fact, it very trial and error dependent. I had to reboot my several times for the Mighty to properly pair with your phone. I also had to reboot my headphones as well for it to pair with the MIGHTY. The MIGHTY also must be connected to Wifi independently in the set up phase (it doesn’t just pair with your phone like a Bluetooth device). So, if you happen to be at a place where you don’t have WIFI, you won’t be able to pair this device during that moment.Secondly, it stopped working properly LITERALLY after the second use….I’m not being hyperbolic when I say this thing stopped pairing properly with my bluetooth headphones on the second use. I was unable to fix this problem in spite of several reboots of the device, my phone AND my headphones. Moreover, it also interfered with my ability to pair my headphones WITH MY ACTUAL PHONE after I tried disconnecting my headphones from the MIGHTY and back to my phone so that I can just listen to my spotify playlist directly from my phone.Just get Opal or some other focus app for your regular phone. MIGHTY is great in concept, but this product seems to have been rushed and rolled out far too early; it needs to be developed further and PERFECTED FOR ITS INTENDED USE!