Mantooq: Thousands of Audiobooks and Podcasts in One App

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Overview

Mantooq (منطوق) is a free Android and iOS app that gathers thousands of useful audiobooks and podcasts into one place — a non-profit project by the Basira Foundation built to deliver beneficial knowledge through listening. The app is completely free and free of ads, with a 4.9-star average rating and more than half a million downloads. Its mission, in the team's own words, is to take beneficial knowledge to people's hearts through their ears.

What makes Mantooq stand out is quality control of a different kind: every title in the library is carefully selected from trusted sources, with content that is organised by category, author, reader, and book series. This matters in a space crowded with low-quality or questionable content — Mantooq curates its library rather than scraping the internet. And because it is a non-profit, there are no paywalls on the content itself: the optional Premium subscription exists to support the project and unlock advanced features, not to lock the books.

Key Features

• Trusted, Organised Library: Thousands of useful audiobooks from reliable sources, classified by category, author, reader, and book series — so you always know where to find your next listen.
• Podcasts Your Way: Follow your favourite shows and convert any podcast into a "book" with downloadable chapters that new episodes join automatically.
• Offline Listening: Download books and episodes at multiple qualities to match your data plan, and listen anywhere without an internet connection.
• Smart Player: Playback speed control, a sleep timer, silence skipping, a "play next" queue, and automatic resume from where you stopped in every book.
• Routines & Consistency: Build a daily listening routine with reminders by day and time, and track your streak and progress day after day.
• Cloud Sync: Favourites, progress, playlists, and routines are saved to your account and follow you seamlessly across your devices.
• Progress You Can Feel: Every minute of listening counts. Climb eight experience levels, unlock achievements, and earn temporary Premium perks as rewards at milestones.
• Optional Premium: Silence skipping, natural ambient sounds, bookmarks and tags, custom playlists, unlimited routines, highest audio quality, and CarPlay / Android Auto — with alternative payment methods (Vodafone Cash and InstaPay) in Egypt.

Why Choose Mantooq?

Mantooq is built on a values-first model that is rare in the app economy. It is genuinely free: all books and podcasts are available for listening and downloading at no cost, with no ads at all — the app earns by choice, not by surveillance or interruption. Premium is an optional donation in disguise, funding development, hosting, and marketing so the app stays free for everyone, and there is a sponsorship system where you can sponsor a specific book and share the reward of producing new beneficial content.

For Arabic-speaking listeners in particular, Mantooq fills a real gap: a large, curated Arabic audiobook library with proper metadata, offline listening tuned for modest data plans, and smart features like routines, streaks, and achievements that turn idle waiting time into a consistent learning habit. The 4.9 rating across more than 680 reviews on Google Play reflects that — listeners frequently describe it as their most-used app — and the team continues to expand the library with sponsored new titles and continued series.

Get Started

Download it from the official stores: Google Play | App Store — or visit mantooq.com