Nextory

What Nextory does

Nextory is a Swedish-headquartered digital content streaming platform that provides consumers access to over 1.4 million audiobooks, e-books, and magazines through iOS and Android mobile applications. The service is offered across 11 European countries — France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Finland, Austria, and Spain — with localized websites, pricing, content catalogs, and free-trial mechanics per market. The technology layer supports offline reading and listening, multi-profile family accounts with parental controls, and personalized recommendations, delivered as a mobile-first, self-serve product-led growth experience.

The company operates a pure subscription-based revenue model with tiered plans differentiated by monthly consumption hours and simultaneous profile access. Nordic markets (Sweden, Finland) carry four tiers (Mini, Standard, Plus, Unlimited), Austria carries three tiers (Basic, Premium, Unlimited), and Spain carries three tiers (Mini, Standard, Unlimited). Monthly prices range from €5.99 (Spain Mini) to €26.99 (Finland Unlimited), with a 42-day free trial in Nordic markets and Austria and a 14-day trial in Spain. Customer acquisition is product-led via app store distribution, organic social (Instagram, Facebook), SEO/content marketing on localized websites, and the free-trial offer. Dedicated product surfaces include Nextory for Kids (age-bracketed content for ages 0-12) and a Sleep Stories category positioned around wellness and self-care use cases.

Nextory AB is the registered legal entity, a private limited company domiciled in Sweden with headquarters in Stockholm. There is no publicly disclosed ownership structure, funding history, leadership roster, M&A activity, or financial performance in the available data, limiting insight into capitalization, governance, and unit economics. The company maintains no public API, SDK, patent portfolio, or disclosed AI/ML capability, and its primary intangible assets are brand reputation (4.3/5 Trustpilot across markets) and breadth of localized European distribution.

Name

Nextory

Legal name

Nextory AB

Website

https://nextory.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Nextory is a Swedish digital streaming platform offering audiobooks, e-books, and magazines via mobile apps to consumers across 11 European markets through tiered subscription plans.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Audiobook and E-book Subscription Streaming

NAICS

Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (51621), Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (516210)

akta.pro primary industry

E-book Subscription & Bundling Services (MPAJAMAB)

Keywords

• Audiobook streaming service
• Ebook subscription platform
• Digital magazine access
• Family reading app
• Offline book listening

Headquarters

HQ city

Stockholm

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription Streaming - Mini Tier: Entry-level subscription tier offering limited monthly hours of consumption (10 hours/month in Sweden, 10 hours in Finland), with access to the full content library and 4 family profiles
2. Subscription Streaming - Standard Tier: Mid-tier subscription with 30 hours of monthly consumption, providing access to the full content library without simultaneous streaming limitations on profile usage
3. Subscription Streaming - Plus Tier: Higher-tier subscription offering 60 hours of monthly consumption for heavier users
4. Subscription Streaming - Unlimited Tier: Premium tier with unlimited reading and listening hours, allowing 1-4 simultaneous profiles to access content at the same time

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Nextory is a subscription-based digital content platform that streams audiobooks, e-books, and magazines through dedicated iOS and Android mobile applications. The service provides access to a library of over 1.4 million titles across 11 European markets, offered through tiered monthly subscription plans (Mini, Standard, Plus, Unlimited) that scale with monthly consumption hours. The platform supports family profiles with parental controls, offline reading and listening, and market-specific content curation including localized publisher catalogs such as Spain's Planeta.

Product overview

Nextory is a digital reading and listening platform that streams e-books, audiobooks, and magazines. The service operates as a unified platform with tiered subscription models (Mini, Standard, Plus, and Unlimited) differentiated by monthly content hours and simultaneous profile access. Content is accessed via dedicated iOS and Android mobile applications, with offline functionality enabling use during travel. A dedicated children-focused module (Nextory for Kids) provides age-appropriate content across three age brackets (0-6, 6-9, and 9-12 years). The platform offers over 1.4 million titles and supports up to 4 family profiles per account with personalized recommendations. Market-specific offerings include variations in pricing, free trial duration, and local content such as a full Planeta catalogue for the Spanish market.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Nextory Streaming Subscription

Quantifiable outcome

• 52,000+ positive reviews on Trustpilot
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Storytel: Swedish-founded audiobook and e-book subscription service operating across multiple European and emerging markets. Storytel is the closest direct competitor to Nextory, with overlapping subscription tiers, similar content library scope, and parallel geographic expansion into European countries.
• BookBeat: Bonnier-owned audiobook and e-book streaming service with strong Nordic market presence. BookBeat competes head-to-head with Nextory in the Nordics on subscription pricing, catalog breadth, and family-friendly features.
• Scribd: US-based subscription platform offering unlimited access to audiobooks, e-books, and documents. Operates the Everand consumer brand globally and competes directly with Nextory's multi-format, unlimited-tier subscription model.

Broad incumbents

• Audible: Amazon-owned audiobook subscription and à la carte service dominating the global audiobook market. While primarily audio-focused and not a full e-book/magazine bundle, it is the dominant incumbent Nextory competes with in every European market.
• Kindle Unlimited: Amazon's e-book subscription service bundled into the broader Kindle ecosystem. Overlaps with Nextory's e-book offering through its flat-rate reading model and benefits from Amazon's distribution and pricing power.
• Kobo Plus: Rakuten-owned e-book and audiobook subscription offering access to a large catalog globally. Competitively positioned in the same flat-rate subscription category as Nextory, with strong European presence and integrated hardware.
• Spotify: Global audio streaming leader that has expanded into audiobooks in numerous markets. Spotify's scale, recommendation engine, and bundled subscription model make it a growing structural threat to Nextory's audiobook value proposition.

Emerging players

• Bookmate: Subscription e-book and audiobook platform with strong presence in Eastern Europe and emerging markets. Competes with Nextory on subscription-led digital reading, though with less geographic overlap in Western Europe.
• Podimo: European podcast and audiobook subscription platform headquartered in Denmark. Overlaps with Nextory on Nordic audio-first subscription and is expanding into spoken-word content including audiobooks.
• Perlego: Subscription e-book platform focused on academic and non-fiction textbooks. Partially competes with Nextory on the e-book subscription model but targets a different core use case (educational vs. leisure reading).

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Nextory
• Instagraminstagram.com/nextory
• Xx.com/nextory_se
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nextory

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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