Audiobooks that read along with you.

Books without audio

Import a plain EPUB — no narration required. A page mark keeps your place, so the book reopens exactly where you left it, and the library tile shows the page you're on instead of a running time. The mini-player stays out of the way until something is actually playing.

Time spent

A chart of how long each book has been open — listening and reading together — by day, week, month or year. One shade per book, stacked, so a bar shows both how long a day ran and what it went on. Details opens the individual sessions, loaded a page at a time as you scroll.

One Settings tab

The Timer tab is gone on both platforms. The sleep timer now sits in Settings under the new chart — four tabs instead of five, and the settings that were split across tabs sit together.

Change a running timer

iOS The setup controls stay on screen while a timer runs and start from what is armed: pick new values and tap Update timer to replace it, instead of cancelling and starting over — which is how the Android chips have always behaved.

A new look

The Athenaeum palette and a new icon, shared across the Android app, the iPhone app and this site. Material You theming from the wallpaper is still there behind a flag, but the shared identity is what ships.

Fixes

Android the reader could lose sync with the narration when a page turned as it opened, and player controls could be pushed off a short screen. iOS the mini-player no longer covers the Update button, and the iPad library shows four large covers per row instead of six thin ones.

Library

• Import .m4b from any SAF source — device storage, Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox…
• Grid of covers, each with a playback progress bar; sort by name or date added (remembered).
• Group books into collections (folders) with cover-shelf tiles; add / remove from a book's detail sheet, and hand-arrange each one.
• Tap a book to start playing; detail sheet has Open, Read, images, collection, and Remove.

Player

• Foreground media session — background playback from notification & lock screen.
• Mini-player on every other screen — play/pause, skips, Read button, chapter + book progress bars; tap to expand.
• Chapter-relative scrubber with a whole-book progress bar + time-left; the stacked chapter title / "Chapter N of M" is a tappable chapter picker.
• ±10 s / ±30 s skips, prev / next chapter, 0.5×–3× speed; auto-saves and resumes your position.
• Continue-the-collection prompt when a collected book finishes — jump to the next or previous by its cover.

Image viewer

• Grid of every image embedded in the m4b.
• Full-screen pager — pinch to zoom up to 5×, pan, swipe between images.
• Reachable from the library, the player top bar, or the Images tab.

Sleep timer

• Time mode — 5 to 90 min presets; pauses with playback, resumes on play.
• Chapters mode — end of current, or +2 / +3 / +5 chapters.
• Adjustable volume fade-out — Off / 10 s / 30 s / 1 min / 5 min — plus Postpone / Dismiss and shake-to-postpone.

Downloads

• Cloud SAF imports are copied locally so playback streams from disk.
• Local imports are referenced in place — no copy.
• Phase-aware progress: Downloading → Parsing m4b → done; pick any SAF folder.

EPUB companion + sync

• Built-in WebView reader with light / dark mode and adjustable text size, both remembered.
• A sync manifest ties audio timestamps to EPUB beats & illustrations.
• Auto-follow: highlights the active beat, scrolls, and turns pages as you listen.

Books without audio

• Import a plain .epub on its own — no m4b, no narration required.
• A page mark keeps your place, so the book reopens exactly where you left it.
• The library tile shows the page you are on instead of a running time; the mini-player stays out of the way until you are actually listening to something.

Time spent

• Every listening and reading session is logged on the device, and charted per book by day, week, month or year.
• One shade per book, stacked, so a bar shows both how long a day ran and what it went on.
• Details opens the individual sessions, loaded a page at a time as you scroll.

Requirements — Android

• Android 13 or newer (minSdk 33, targetSdk 36).
• A file manager or cloud app exposing a DocumentsProvider for your .m4b files — Drive, OneDrive, the system Files app, and most third-party managers work.

Requirements — iPhone & iPad

• iOS / iPadOS 17 or newer.
• Your .m4b files reachable from the Files app — On My iPhone/iPad, iCloud Drive, or any file provider. Imports are always copied into the app.