Loyal Books
Loyal Books offers free public-domain audiobooks and eBooks through web, Android, and iOS access.
What Loyal Books is
Loyal Books offers free public-domain audiobooks and eBooks through web, Android, and iOS access. Its app page lists more than 7,000 audiobooks and 35,000 eBooks, including children's books, fiction, and mysteries, with books available in 25+ languages. Audiobooks can be streamed or downloaded for offline listening, and playback speed is adjustable. Readers can explore featured titles, top charts, reviews, ratings, and other discovery features. Loyal Books says volunteers digitize and record public-domain books, most sourced from Gutenberg.org and Librivox.org; it states that all audiobooks on its site are in the public domain. It also offers best sellers. The site describes its browsing as primarily visual and screen reader friendly for people with vision disabilities. Its privacy policy says it collects reviews, device preference cookies, and standard server logs, and says the information is not shared outside the company. It also notes that Google and its partners use tracking and third-party cookies to serve ads, and that the site uses Google Analytics Advertising Features.
Good
- Lists 7,000+ audiobooks and 35,000+ eBooks.
- Audiobooks can be downloaded for offline listening.
- Playback speed is adjustable.
- Books are available in 25+ languages.
- Available on web, Android, and iOS.
Watch out
- All site audiobooks are public domain.
- Google and its partners use tracking and third-party ad cookies.
- Browsing is described as primarily visual.
Who it suits
Loyal Books suits listeners and readers looking for free public-domain titles, including people who want offline audiobook listening or adjustable playback speed. It also describes its browsing as screen reader friendly for people with vision disabilities.
Verdict
Loyal Books offers a broad public-domain catalog with offline audiobook playback and adjustable speed at no cost. Readers should note its public-domain audiobook scope and the tracking cookies described in its privacy policy.
Plans and prices
From Loyal Books's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free public-domain audiobooks and eBooks | Free | public-domain catalog · ads |
The facts
Each one read from Loyal Books's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Accessibility
- The official about page describes the website as screen-reader friendly and primarily visual for browsing.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Advertising
- The privacy policy says Google and its partners use tracking and third-party cookies to serve ads, and that the site uses Google Analytics Advertising Features.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The catalog includes children's books, fiction, mysteries, and more.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Book sources
- The catalog draws from Project Gutenberg, LibriVox, user submissions and other sources.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Catalog
- The app page lists 7,000+ audiobooks and 35,000+ eBooks.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Catalog scale
- The Android listing states that the service offers more than 7,000 audiobooks and 35,000 eBooks.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Catalog sourcing
- Loyal Books says public-domain books are digitized and recorded by volunteers, with most sourced from Gutenberg.org and Librivox.org.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Content license
- The submission license gives Twist Idea LLC a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive and irrevocable right to reproduce, adapt, distribute and commercially use submitted material.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Copyright status
- The About page says all audiobooks on LoyalBooks.com are in the public domain.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Discovery
- The app offers featured books, top charts, reviews, ratings, and discovery features.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Discovery tools
- The app provides featured books, top charts, genre browsing and user reviews or ratings.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Formats and access
- Users can stream titles or download them for offline listening and reading.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Former name
- The service changed its name from Books Should Be Free to Loyal Books.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Genres
- Official navigation includes fiction, fantasy, mystery, history, philosophy, poetry, romance, science fiction, children’s books and other categories.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Google Play availability
- The Android listing shows 100K+ downloads, contains ads and in-app purchases, and has a Mature 17+ rating.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Google Play data safety
- Google’s listing says the developer declares no third-party data sharing, no data collection and encryption in transit.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Google Play update
- The Android app listing reports an update on October 8, 2025, described as bug fixes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent feature study
- A 2024 comparative study scored Loyal Books at 130 of 261 checklist features (49.8%) and rated it below average among five talking-book apps.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The Android listing says books are available in more than 25 languages.checked 15 Oct 2026
- License term
- The submission license is perpetual unless Twist Idea expressly terminates it.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company legal name
- The official submission license identifies the operator as Twist Idea LLC, doing business as Loyal Books.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Google Play lists Twist Idea LLC at 7547 Kimberly Ln, Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55346, United States.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- iOS technical details
- AppBrain lists version 1.5, a 13.46 MB download, a December 5, 2019 last update and no current ranking.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Legacy Android limitation
- AppBrain says the CD8x Android app was removed from Google Play on April 1, 2024 and required Android 4.0 or newer.checked 15 Oct 2026
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