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Soft rose pinks in daylight
The Ultimate Audiobookshelf iOS App
SoundLeaf is a native iOS client for Audiobookshelf. Your audiobooks, podcasts and ebooks from your own server, on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and CarPlay. No account with us, no tracking, nothing between you and your server.
Choosing an app? Compare SoundLeaf with other Audiobookshelf iOS apps.
THE CHANGELOG
What's new in SoundLeaf
SOUNDLEAF 2.4 / UPCOMING
Make it your listening day.
Listening goals, a more personal Home, and new ways to pick up your next chapter.
- Daily and weekly listening goals
- Play audio from an ebook passage
- NFC tags and QR playback actions
- Remove finished book downloads
SOUNDLEAF 2.3
More libraries. Less switching.
Keep your accounts together and find your next listen faster.
- Multiple saved accounts
- Collections and library browsing
- A scrolling ebook reader
- Podcast search and listening history
SOUNDLEAF 2.2
Follow every word.
Read with the narrator, search podcast transcripts, and listen offline.
- Word-by-word Read Along
- Podcast transcripts
- Refreshed themes
- Free audiobook downloads
Features
A native iOS client for Audiobookshelf that covers audiobooks, podcasts and ebooks, on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and CarPlay.
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Apple Watch
Send a book to your watch and listen with the phone left at home. Chapters, speed and the Digital Crown on your wrist.
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Ebook Reader
Read the epub in your library, free for everyone. One tap opens the page your narrator is on.
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Works Offline
Downloaded books play with your server switched off, and the whole app runs from what it already has.
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CarPlay
Your books and podcasts on the car display, with cover art, chapters and a bookmark button. Switch libraries from the car screen and filter to what is downloaded.
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Podcasts
Your Audiobookshelf podcast libraries, kept on the phone and working offline, with transcripts that run along with the audio, a drag-to-reorder queue and per-show download rules.
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Widgets and Siri
Now Playing, Recently Played and your listening streak on the home screen. Ask Siri to resume your book.
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Progress Sync
Your place syncs with your Audiobookshelf server, from the phone or the watch, catching up after time offline.
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A Real Player
A sleep timer that starts in your night hours, fades out, and can stop at the chapter end. Bookmarks, speed up to 3x, auto rewind, and voice boost.
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Yours to Set Up
Themes, text size that reaches every screen, 55 app icons, and separate server addresses for home and away.
In Motion
Read along with the audio: one tap takes the ebook reader to the sentence your narrator is speaking, and podcast transcripts scroll with the show.
Go to Position
Reading along? One tap takes the ebook reader to the sentence the narrator is speaking, and highlights it. Sped up.
Podcast Transcripts
The transcript runs with the audio, the current line in the accent colour, and opens into a full reader. Sped up.
Visuals
Thirty-one themes, fifty-five app icons. SoundLeaf looks the way you want it to.
Every screen below is the app as it ships, wearing a Supporter theme .
And the icon on your home screen is yours to pick
Six of the thirty-three Supporter icons.
Azure · Podcasts
Clear sky blues on white
The Reader
The built-in epub reader, free for everyone
Parchment · Library
Aged paper and sepia ink, daylight's answer to dark academia
Burgundy · Transcripts
Deep wine reds for long evenings and old libraries
Burgundy · Home
Deep wine reds for long evenings and old libraries
Evergreen · Library
Deep emerald in the dark, the forest after sundown
Midnight · Podcasts
The classic deep-blue dark
Lagoon · Library
Calm deep teal, still water after dark
Orchid · Listening Stats
Saturated magenta in the dark, vivid without the glare
Midnight · Transcripts
The classic deep-blue dark
Moss · Home
Quiet olive greens, the forest floor in the shade
Day Side, Night Side
The exact same screen in Parchment and Lagoon . Drag the line.
Parchment by day, Lagoon by night. Both ship with the app.
Every Shade of Listening
Five screens, five themes . The whole app follows the colour you choose.
Gold
Warm amber on deep black, like gilt lettering on a spine
Parchment
Aged paper and sepia ink, daylight's answer to dark academia
Ember
Copper glow on charcoal, the last coals of the fire
Moss
Quiet olive greens, the forest floor in the shade
Lagoon
Calm deep teal, still water after dark