
Is there any audiobook manager similar to Calibre? My collection of audiobooks are increasingly growing, and I would like to find a manager similar to calibre. Any recommendations?
Nowadays, more and more people like listening to audiobooks. what follows is a desperate need for an audiobook manager to manage the audiobook library. If you are also looking for such an audiobook management software, you have come to the right place. Here we've found the best 5 audiobook managers for Windows/Mac platforms.
See Also: Best 5 eBook Manager.
1. Epubor Audible Converter--The Best for Managing & Converting Audible Audiobooks
Epubor Audible Converter, strictly speaking, is not a traditional audiobook manager. But it's a powerful tool you must have a try if you own lots of Audible audiobooks. You know the Audiobooks from Audible are all DRM-protected and in their special formats AAX which are not supported by any other non-Audible devices. If you want to play your Audible books freely with any audio player, or manage your Audible audiobook with any audiobook manager without authorization, it's highly recommended to use Epubor Audible Converter to help you manage Audible library.
Price: $22.99 (Free trial before purchase)
Available for: Windows 7/8/10, Mac OS X 10.8 and later, including 10.15 Catalina
Supported Audio Formats: AAX, AA
Distinguished Features:
- 1. Remove Audible DRM and convert Audible AAX & AA to MP3/M4B with 100% original quality preserved.
- 2. Easily split Audible audiobooks into chapters.
- 3. Easily edit audible audiobooks' metadata including title, album, artist, copyright, year, genre, comments and cover.
- 4. Much clean and easy-to-use interface.
- 5. The cheapest Audible DRM Removal & Audible Converter in the market with the fastest conversion speed.
2. iTunes
iTunes is a media player available for most operating systems. With iTunes, you are able to purchase, download, and manager all your audiobooks in one program. It enables you to purchase, download and manage your media in one app. Like other Apple products, the interface of iTunes is very neat and intuitive.
Pro Tip How to Add Audiobooks to iTunes
Price: Free
Available for: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, macOS 10.14 Mojave and earlier.
Supported Audio Formats: aax, aa, m4a, m4b, mp3
Distinguished Features:
- 1. Play Audiobook smoothly.
- 2. Manage Audiobook library easily.
- 3. Edit Audiobook metadata.
- 4. Create audiobook playlists to organize audiobooks better.
- 5. Built-in iTunes store allows you to purchase audiobooks.
- 6. It enables you to sync media to iOS devices and even transfer Audible Books to Apple Books of iOS devices.
- 7. You can use an external drive to store your audiobooks, which won't fill up your internal drive.
3. Audible Manager
Audible Manager is Audible's media player for users to manage the purchased Audible audiobooks, similar to iTunes or Windows Media Player. Once you have downloaded your Audible audiobooks to your computer, you are able to listen to them through Audible Manager without an internet connection. If you are using Windows computer, and want to manage Audible audiobooks only, you can consider Audible Manager.
Price: Free
Available for: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10
Supported Audio Formats: Audible aax, aa
Distinguished Features:
- 1. Play Audible AAX/AA files without internet connection.
- 2. It can help transfer Audible audiobooks to Audible compatible MP3 Players.
- 3. It allows users to burn Audible audiobooks to CDs.
- 4. Bookmark Audible audiobooks.
From the above information, you can see there's nothing functionally wrong with Audible Manager, but it certainly doesn't offer any unique features that a great audiobook manager should have.
4. Apple Books
A lot of people are not happy with that iTunes is replaced by Apple Books for managing audiobooks in macOS 10.15 Catalina. Before Catalina, some people collected hundreds of audiobooks stored in iTunes. But once they upgraded to Catalina, the iTunes app was gone and instead the Books app took over the audiobooks. Along with that, some features of iTunes have gone too, like editing audiobook metadata, using external drive to store audiobooks, and transferring media to iOS devices.
Price: Free
Available for: macOS 10.15 Catalina and later.
Supported Audio Formats: aax, aa, m4b, aac, mp3.
Distinguished Features:
- 1. Play audiobooks offline without internet collection.
- 1. Manage both audiobooks and ebooks in one app.
- 2. Built-in Apple Books store allows you to purchase audiobooks.
- 4. Create your own collections.
5. Alfa eBooks Manager
Alfa Ebooks Manager is a powerful tool for creating electronic audiobook library. With the tool, you can play, sort, browse, and organize your audiobooks in multiple ways. Better still, you can manage audiobooks and ebooks in a single program.
Price: $9.99 (7-days free trial before purchase)
Available for: Windows 7/8/10
Supported Audio Formats: M4B, MP3, AAX
Distinguished Features:
- 1. Play M4B and MP3 audiobooks. The built-in audio player even supports adjusting playback speed and remembering the place where you ended listening each book.
- 2. Manage audiobooks and ebooks in one application.
- 3. Edit metadata from M4B, MP3, AAX audiobooks.
- 4. Quickly import your audiobook collection by scanning your computer folders.
- 5. It allows to back up audiobooks to CD/DVD disks.
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Michelle loves technology & reading very much. She seeks the methods to enjoy eBooks and audiobooks more freely and wants to share everything new she has got with you.
Um, Michelle, it is massively apparent that you have either not updated the review in almost a year or you have not actually used the software in that long. iTunes doesn't do audiobooks anymore...not unless you change them into songs. And Apple Books doesn't allow you to manage anything. I mean...sure, you can add a book to the library. But you can't change any metadata.
For macOS Catalina 10.15, Apple Books replaced iTunes for managing audiobooks. Along with that, some features of iTunes have gone too, like editing audiobook metadata. (This information has also been stated in the article)