How to Download Audible Books to Mac Computer

Part 1. How to Download Audible Books to Mac from Audible Website

As there is no Audible app for Mac, you can choose and purchase millions of audiobooks from Audible.com. Once purchased, you can download them to your Mac for offline listening. Here is a detailed tutorial on how to buy and download audiobooks from Audible to Mac.

1.1 How to Buy Audible Books

Step 1. Open any web browser on your Mac and go to Audible.com.

Step 2. Sign in with your email and password. If you haven't had an account, you can create a new one or get Audible's free trial.

Step 3. Click on the 'Browse' option and then choose the book you want to download.

Step 4. Click on the title of the book and then click 'Add to cart', 'Buy for $X.XX' or 'Buy with 1 credit'.

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Step 5. Go to your shopping cart and you can find the book you added. Click 'Proceed to Checkout'.

Step 6. Choose your payment method and then click 'Complete purchase'.

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1.2 How to Download Purchased Audible Books to Mac

Step 1. Navigate to Audible.com and then click the 'Library' option at the top.

Step 2. In the 'Titles' tab, you can find your purchased Audible books.

Step 3. Find and click on the title of the book. Click the 'Download' button to download audiobooks from Audible.

Step 4. You can choose a folder to store the downloaded AAX Audible books.

Note: If you use a MacOS 10.14 Mojave or older, you can use iTunes to open the downloaded AAX Audible files and you can find them in the Audiobooks section of iTunes.

Step 1. After downloading Audible books, you can open iTunes and click 'Account' > 'Authorizations' > 'Authorize This Computer'.

Step 2. Click on the 'Yes' button in the pop-up message. Then authorize your computer.

Step 3. Enter your Audible account and click 'Active in iTunes'.

Step 4. Click 'Audiobooks' to find and listen to your downloaded audiobooks.

Or, if you use a MacOS 10.15 Catalina or above, you can add the downloaded Audible audiobooks to Apple Books and find them in the Audiobooks section.

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Step 1. Open the Apple Books app from your Mac computer.

Step 2. Tap 'File' > 'Add to Library...' on the top menu bar.

Step 3. Go to the 'Downloads' folder on your Mac computer and locate the downloaded Audible books.

Step 4. Highlight the books you want to import and hit 'Add'.

Step 5. Then the books will be added into Apple Books and you will see them in the 'Downloads' or 'Audiobooks' section.

Part 2. How to Download Audible Books to MP3 on Mac

It's convenient to purchase and download Audible books to Mac via Audible website. However, the downloaded audiobooks are encrypted in AAX format. This prevents users to listen to these audiobooks on other unauthorized audio players. So, it's impossible to listen to your favorite Audible books on any MP3 player or other devices.

But don't worry, you can use AudFree Audible Converter on Mac computer. It's a professional tool to download and convert Audible AA/AAX to MP3, FLAC, AAC, and more popular formats. This AudFree Audible Converter will keep the original sound quality and work at a 30X speed. You can use it to get lossless Audible books and play them on any device you want.

How to Convert Audible Audiobooks to Plain Audio Formats on Mac

Now, download AudFree Audible Converter for Mac on your computer by clicking on the 'Download' button above. Then install and open the program.

Step 1Import AA/AAX Audible audiobooks

To import the AA/AAX audiobooks to AudFree Audible Converter, you can click on the 'Add' button to import downloaded Audible books from iTunes.

Step 2Customize output format for Audible on Mac

Click on the 'format' tab to open and customize the output parameters. You can choose the output format for Audible to MP3 because it's the most popular format. You can also proceed to personalize other parameters like codec, sample rate and more.

Step 3Convert and download Audible books to Mac

Click the 'Convert' button and AudFree Audible Converter will start to convert Audible AAX to MP3. Once converted, you can locate the converted audiobooks from the 'History' folder. You can transfer them from your Mac computer to any device for playback without restrictions.

Part 3. How to Download Audible Books on Mac for Free

In this section, we will show you an alternative way to download Audible books to Mac for free. OpenAudible is another Audible converter and downloader that enables you to convert Audible books to MP3s. It's free to use but it can't keep the original audio quality. Below is how you can use OpenAudible to download Audible on Mac.

Step 1. Download and install the OpenAudible software on your Mac computer.

Step 2. Open this converter and click 'Controls' / 'Actions' > 'Connect to Audible' to log in to your Audible account.

Step 3. Then you can choose the Audible books that you want to download.

Step 4. Choose the output audio format and then click 'OK'.

Step 5. After the conversion, you can check and listen to Audible offline on your Mac.

Part 4. Final Thoughts

You are now learning how to download Audible books to Mac via three ways. The best part is that you can use AudFree Audible Converter to convert Audible books to MP3 and other audio formats. In this way, you can save and listen to Audible on Mac forever or move and enjoy audiobooks offline anywhere. Moreover, this tool supports other audio parameters like bit rate, etc. and it can automatically split large audiobook files to small parts.