Spire

A lightweight, open-source audiobook and podcast player for Windows.

Features

• Local audiobook library with cover art, chapters, and resume
• M4B chapter navigation
• Variable playback speed (0.5×–3.5×) remembered per book
• Podcast RSS feed support
• Direct URL and yt-dlp downloads (archive.org, YouTube, SoundCloud, 1000+ sites)
• Progress tracking and bookmarks
• Lightweight — no cloud, no account, all local

Roadmap

Track what's coming and vote on features: github.com/users/TitaniumKnight1/projects/2

Download

Windows installer builds are published on GitHub Releases.

Torrent downloads

Spire does not include a built-in torrent client. For downloading audiobook torrents, we recommend qBittorrent. Set qBittorrent’s download directory to your Spire library folder (Settings → Library Location) and files will be imported automatically when downloads complete.

Building from source

Prerequisites: Node.js 18 or newer, npm

git clone https://github.com/USERNAME/spire.git
cd spire
npm install

Place mpv.exe in the binaries/ folder at the project root (alongside any other bundled tools your build expects), then start the app:

npm run dev

License

MIT