AbCS - Audiobook Collector Scanner

The desktop app for collecting, searching, and managing audiobooks.
Designed with a focus on accessibility.

Features

  • Audiobook management with full metadata.

  • ID3 Tag Import from most audio format files.

  • Import book lists from CSV, Excel, and ODS spreadsheets.

  • Search the web and fetch metadata

  • Advanced search and filtering.

  • Collections, reading history, and library statistics.

  • Complete keyboard navigation.

  • Screen reader support.

  • Scalable UI (50%-200%+).

  • High contrast themes.

Screenshot AbCS main window showing row of author, titles etc.

A cross-platform audiobook collection manager with full accessibility support.

AbCS is a free Python desktop app, written to show that Python GUI software can work well with screen readers. In our experience, most Python GUI apps are not built or tested that way. The UI patterns are published for other developers. pyside6-accessible-ui-reference on GitHub.


Colourful splash logo for AbCS

Download AbCS free. Current release: v2.14. Windows and Linux installers. No cost.

Note for Windows Users: As this is a new, free and source-available project, Windows SmartScreen may display a warning during installation. To bypass this, click 'More info' on the blue popup window, and then click 'Run anyway.' This is a standard security check for independent software.

Windows: zip containing AbCS-Setup.exe

Linux: zip containing the AbCS folder and install_abcs.sh