AudioBookEcho

AudiobookEcho is your private audiobook player for your own library, with CarPlay, Apple Watch offline playback, chapter navigation, Recent Places, and Siri integration.

Meet AudioBookEcho, a fast, private audiobook player that puts your library first. Enjoy simple playback, smart progress tracking, Siri voice control, CarPlay support, and powerful Apple Watch features.

Why you’ll love it

• Your library, your device: Keep audiobooks organised with titles, authors, folders, artwork, and chapters. Plays most common audio formats, with chapter support for MP3, M4A, and M4B files. • Stored in Files: Your books live in the Files app, making them easy to manage, back up, and organise in your own folders. • Folder management: Create and organise folders directly in the app to keep large libraries tidy. • Drag and drop: Move files and folders with full drag-and-drop support on iPhone and iPad. • Beautiful playback: Play, pause, scrub, or skip back and forward while seeing your current position, elapsed time, and total duration. • Siri support: Start or resume playback with your voice. Try “Hey Siri, play AudioBookEcho” or “Hey Siri, play [book title] in AudioBookEcho”. • Custom skip durations: Choose a skip interval from 5 to 90 seconds. The default is 15 seconds. • Listen your way: Adjust playback speed while keeping voices natural. • Improved Volume Boost: Make quiet recordings easier to hear with Low, Medium, or High boost levels and peak limiting to help prevent clipping. • Personalised look: Choose a theme colour used throughout the app and Apple Watch app. • Split view: A redesigned interface adapts beautifully to iPhone Pro Max, Plus models, iPad, and Mac for a more spacious layout. • iPad multitasking: Use split screen or Slide Over while listening, reading, browsing, or taking notes. • CarPlay support: Browse recent books and jump into Now Playing with familiar in-car controls. • Apple Watch control: Start and stop playback, skip, and stay in the story directly from your wrist. • Apple Watch offline playback: Download selected audiobooks and artwork to your Watch so you can listen when your iPhone is out of reach. See download progress, cancel transfers, retry failed downloads, or remove books when finished. • Apple Watch chapter navigation: Browse chapters and files, jump to an exact playback position, and see which chapter is currently playing. • Reliable iPhone and Watch sync: Improved library updates, playback controls, progress acknowledgements, and recovery from interrupted or conflicting updates. • Recent Places: Quickly return to meaningful listening locations, including scrubs, chapter jumps, file changes, and skips. Review current and previous locations, see chapter or file details, tap an entry to return there, or clear your history. Recent Places are kept separately for each audiobook, with entries retained for the last week and at least your 10 newest locations preserved. • Works everywhere: Control playback from the Lock Screen, Control Centre, headphones, and car media buttons. • Progress that sticks: Your position is saved automatically across files and chapters, with completion tracking and listening statistics. • Stay tidy: Detect missing files and safely remove them. • Support the app your way: An optional tip jar supports development, with no subscriptions or paywalls.

Privacy by design

• No accounts required. • No data is collected or tracked. Everything stays entirely on your device.