Free · Open source · No ads

Stories that calm the heart.

Put the phone down and let a voice take you somewhere quiet. Lamplore streams 22,000 free audiobooks and podcasts, and tells illustrated bedtime stories with rain, fire and night sounds drifting underneath.

Android 8.0+ · about 118 MB · no account, no tracking

Lamplore home screen with Continue listening
Lamplore player showing a picture book with live subtitles
22,000free audiobooks
10mixable sounds
100%on-device voices
0ads or accounts

Everything you need to wind down

Built like a good podcast app, tuned like a lullaby.

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22,000 audiobooks

All of LibriVox and old-time radio, streamed live from the Internet Archive. Nothing is re-hosted, nothing is paywalled.

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Podcasts

Browse the charts, search, follow shows and get new episodes in an Updates feed that checks in the background.

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Illustrated sleep stories

Fables and wisdom tales with picture-book plates that turn as the story moves, and the sentence being read underneath.

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Story Director

Reads a story and decides who speaks, how fast, and which sound sits underneath. Narrator, young and deep character voices, all on the phone.

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Real field recordings

Rain, storm, ocean, forest, fire, desert and more, with instrumental beds that shift as the scene changes. Animated to match.

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Offline, properly

Download whole books or chosen chapters, in parallel, with resume, Wi-Fi only and delete-after-listening.

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Sleep timer and resume

Fade out when you drift off. Every title remembers its place. Lock screen controls and 0.8x to 2x speed.

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Bookmarks and history

Save moments with notes, see how far you got, and keep a quiet record of your listening with a 17-week heatmap.

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Sound mixer

Blend rain, ocean, fire and quiet music with a slider for each, a sleep timer that fades out, and mixes you can save. Works offline with the screen off.

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Stories made for one

Four gentle tales with a child's name and an animal friend written in, offline. Or describe an idea and an AI model writes it: your own API key, or a small model on the phone.

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Bedtime read by people

A shelf of human-narrated fairy tales, lullabies and poems from LibriVox, and sleep podcasts, ready for tonight.

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Private by design

Incognito mode, optional biometric lock, local backup and restore. Your data stays on your phone.

Take a look

A floating tab pill, a lantern-at-night palette and paper-cut covers. Real screenshots from a real phone.

Home
Home
Audiobooks
Audiobooks
Podcasts
Podcasts
Player
Picture-book player
Sound mixer
Sound mixer
Create a story with a name in it
Stories made for one
You
You

Install in a minute

Lamplore lives on GitHub, not an app store.

Download the APK

Tap Download above, or grab lamplore.apk from the latest release.

Allow the install

Open the file. When Android asks, allow your browser or file manager to install unknown apps.

Press play

Optional: add better offline voices in Settings. Everything else works straight away.

Questions


Is it really free?

Yes. No ads, no subscription, no sign-up. Audiobooks and podcasts come from LibriVox, the Internet Archive and podcast feeds that are free to stream.

Is it safe to install outside the Play Store?

The full source is in this repository and every release is built from it. You can read it, build it yourself, or skip it.

Does it work offline?

Yes for anything you download, and for the built-in stories with on-device voices. Streaming needs a connection.

Is it religious?

No. Lamplore is secular: fables, wisdom tales from many cultures, classics and sleep stories.

iPhone?

Not planned. Android only for now.

How do I update?

Download the newest APK and install it over the old one. Your history and downloads stay.

Tonight, try a quieter hour.

Free, open source, and yours.

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