Compendium
Read along with 1,100+ classic audiobooks
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Follow every sentence of the great books. Compendium has 1,100+ classic audiobooks, from Plato and Marcus Aurelius to Austen and Dostoevsky, with the text on screen and the sentence being read highlighted. The first chapter of every book is free with no account, and a free account keeps one full book. iPhone, iPad, Android and the web.
PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: audiobook players and apps · 13 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Education
- Books
- Audio
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More like this: all 13 launches in audiobook players and apps →
Could you build this?
Partial The synced-text reader and free-chapter account system are easy to vibe-code, but 1,100+ narrated audiobooks require either public-domain recordings gathered and processed at scale or licensed narration, which is the hard part.
What it would actually take: Build a web/mobile reader with a word- or sentence-level timestamp player (forced alignment tools such as Aeneas or WhisperX can generate the sync data), plus accounts and paywall logic. The hard part is the content: sourcing 1,100+ narrations, either by aggregating LibriVox-style public-domain recordings with clean alignment or by licensing audio and text from publishers. That requires audio-production and rights-management resources.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 353 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #173 of 354 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 370 days after the earliest competitor.
- LibriWave: Classic Audiobooks · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Inklings Book Club · ph · 2026-10-19 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- HushBook · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- AI Storyteller · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Readnara · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Babooks · ph · 2026-11-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- All to Audiobook · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Readii · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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