Storyteller

Shane Friedman

About this app

Storyteller is a self-hosted platform for creating and reading ebooks with synced narration. It's made of of three components: the API server, the web interface, and the mobile apps. Together, these components allow you to take audiobooks and ebooks that you already own and automatically synchronize them, as well as read or listen to (or both!) the resulting synced books.

Storyteller provides two relatively unique use cases:

- Providing a better experience for readers that wish to be able to switch between listening to a book in audiobook format and reading it as a digital, visual book
- Providing a guided narration experience for users that would like to listen to a book's narration while reading it.

Storyteller is also self-hosted software. This means that instead of running on servers owned by a company or other organization, it runs on your servers. You own your content and your data, and it will always be available to you!

Ratings and reviews

I self host this on a small and quite old mini PC. It runs incredibly well and have never had any performance issues with it aside from it occasionally not syncing between my devices but that is of very little consequence especially if you make sure to close the app on the previous device first. My only other feedback is on the menu. The main page is excellent but on the web-page you can access multiple tabs including the whole library and series which you can't directly access on mobile clients

Absolutely amazing in principle. Sadly I have some issues with the new version: 1. You cannot add readaloud files from the phone memory anymore - why would you take that away? 2. When reading ahead the audio doesn't jump to where you are at anymore. I had to sideload version 1.13.3. That version does it all. Even so, this Program absolutely changed the way I read books for ever. So even if you have to jump through a few hoops, its absolutely worth it.

Best app for reading self-hosted books on mobile. No ads, no distractions, just an excellent reading experience. It has a clean, minimal interface that is easy to tweak to your preferences and start reading. Love this app!

What’s new

- Full Android Auto support! Browse your library in Android Auto
- Some UI cleanup
- Adds back the in-app button to import local ebook files
- Adds full list views for built in shelves
- Fixes "next up"