Buying audiobooks usually means a monthly subscription and a stack of credits to manage. Chirp offers another way: an à la carte store where listeners buy only the titles they want, at limited-time deals and everyday prices, and keep every book they buy.^1
You create a free account, name the kinds of books you enjoy, and receive handpicked limited-time deals in your inbox, drawn from a catalog of hundreds of thousands of audiobooks.^1 Purchases stay in your Chirp library to stream or download in the free iOS or Android app, stream on the web, or play on Alexa-enabled devices, with offline listening, CarPlay, Android Auto, a sleep timer, bookmarks, and adjustable listening speed.^2^4 Chirp is available in the United States and Canada, and if a book is a poor fit, Chirp says it will refund the purchase and help you find a better one.^1
Chirp is not a Christian-only store. Beside its general catalog it keeps dedicated Christian Fiction, Christian Nonfiction, Christian Living, and Religious & Inspirational shelves, plus an editors' list of the best Christian audiobooks that is still being updated.^5^7^9
Chirp is owned and operated by the same people who started BookBub, the book discovery service. BookBub and its parent company Pubmark Inc. have been based in Cambridge, Massachusetts since 2012.^2 BookBub announced Chirp in March 2019 as its move into audiobooks, saying many of its members already listened to audiobooks and wanted an affordable way to find new ones. The deals are supplied by authors and publishers and curated by the same team of editors behind BookBub's ebook Featured Deals.^10
"The Chirp app has been a great discovery. The opportunity to purchase affordable audio books has transformed my morning commute." - Marian^1
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