What is the best audio story app for iPhone?

Pocket FM: Audio Dramas, S tier, ranked #1 of 13, rated 4.7 by 272,404 people.

Which audio story apps are free?

13 of 13 are free to download: Pocket FM: Audio Dramas (S), Audible: Audiobooks & Podcasts (S), Quinn - Audio Stories (S), Audiobooks.com: Get audiobooks (S) and more. 9 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.

Which audio story app has the best App Store rating?

Audible: Audiobooks & Podcasts at 4.9 from 5,611,140 ratings.

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Best Audio Story Apps for iPhone (2026)

13 apps ranked S through F · Updated 2026-10-19 · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

Pocket FM: Audio Dramas is the top-ranked of 13 audio story apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.7/5 from 272,404 ratings.

1
Pocket FM: Audio DramasS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 272,404 ratings · score 96
2
Audible: Audiobooks & PodcastsS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 5,611,140 ratings · score 96
3
Quinn - Audio StoriesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 12,433 ratings · score 94
4
Audiobooks.com: Get audiobooksS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 66,219 ratings · score 93
5
Storytel - Audiobooks LibraryS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 11,219 ratings · score 93

What belongs in this list

Listen to stories that are narrated or performed in audio form.

Not here: an audiobook player for your own files alone; a text-only story reader alone; an interactive or chat story app alone; an audio tour guide alone; a text-to-speech chatbot alone

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

None at B yet

None at D yet

None at F yet

Compare every app

1
Pocket FM: Audio DramasS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 272,404 ratings · score 96 · best in class
2
Audible: Audiobooks & PodcastsS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 5,611,140 ratings · score 96 · best in class
3
Quinn - Audio StoriesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 12,433 ratings · score 94 · best in class
4
Audiobooks.com: Get audiobooksS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 66,219 ratings · score 93 · best in class
5
Storytel - Audiobooks LibraryS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 11,219 ratings · score 93 · best in class
6
Dipsea: Audio StoriesS
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 7,782 ratings · score 91 · best in class
7
Yoto: Music, Stories, SleepA
Free · ★ 4.8 · 30,003 ratings · score 89 · excellent
8
Wehear - Audiobooks & StoriesA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 39,641 ratings · score 89 · excellent
9
GraphicAudio Access AudiobooksA
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 6,763 ratings · score 85 · excellent
10
Yuno: Daily Micro LearningC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 14,428 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional
11
Big Finish Audiobook PlayerC
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 2,638 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional
12
Himalaya:Audiobooks & PodcastsC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 15,226 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional
13
BeBlessedMeC
Free + IAP · ★ 3.8 · 2,902 ratings · score 66 · situational

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Questions people ask

What is the best audio story app for iPhone?: Pocket FM: Audio Dramas, S tier, ranked #1 of 13, rated 4.7 by 272,404 people.
Which audio story apps are free?: 13 of 13 are free to download: Pocket FM: Audio Dramas (S), Audible: Audiobooks & Podcasts (S), Quinn - Audio Stories (S), Audiobooks.com: Get audiobooks (S) and more. 9 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
Which audio story app has the best App Store rating?: Audible: Audiobooks & Podcasts at 4.9 from 5,611,140 ratings.
How many audio story apps reach S or A tier?: 9 of 13. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.