--- layout: post date: 2025-08-25 link: https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/08/apple-makes-it-hard-to-load-audiobooks-purchased-elsewhere/ title: Sideloading audiobooks to an iPhone cited: Six Colors --- > You know where else you find sideloading? In podcast apps. Because not all podcasts or audio files you want to listen to in a podcast app can be retrieved via an RSS feed, many apps allow you to import episodes and audiobooks. That's often a premium feature. > > In [Overcast](https://overcast.fm/podcasts), for instance, you need a subscription ($10/year, removes ads and offers 48-hour undelete among other features) and gain access to 10 GB of file upload space, 1 GB maximum per file. [Castro](https://castro.fm/)'s Castro Plus subscription ($24.99/year, [many extra features](