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SoundLeaf
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.
SoundLeaf ships often. Read about new features, fixes, and what's coming next.
SoundLeaf 2.1 for Audiobookshelf: Apple Watch, an Ebook Reader, and Gapless Playback
An Apple Watch app for Audiobookshelf, a free epub reader that can jump to the page your narrator is on, gapless multi-file playback, rebuilt offline downloads, and a library that works with the server switched off.
Read more →Podcasts Are Coming to SoundLeaf
Podcast support has been the number one request since launch. It's almost here. Here's what I've been building.
Read more →SoundLeaf v1.5 & v1.6: The Stability Update (and Some Nice Touches)
Series ordering fixed, offline progress syncing, smarter session handling, chapter navigation in the player, a docs section, and a bunch of reliability fixes under the hood.
Read more →Featured guide
How to Remove Ads From Your Podcasts
Self-hosted ad removal for your podcast feeds, with real cost numbers from my own server.
Getting Started
Set up SoundLeaf and connect to your Audiobookshelf server
Read guide →CarPlay
Listen to your audiobooks while driving with CarPlay support
Read guide →Podcasts
Follow the shows on your Audiobookshelf server, work through the episode list, queue what's next, and read the transcript while it plays
Read guide →A native iOS client for Audiobookshelf that covers audiobooks, podcasts and ebooks, on your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and CarPlay.
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.
Ebook Reader
Read the epub in your library, free for everyone. One tap opens the page your narrator is on.
Works Offline
Downloaded books play with your server switched off, and the whole app runs from what it already has.
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.
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.
Widgets and Siri
Now Playing, Recently Played and your listening streak on the home screen. Ask Siri to resume your book.
Progress Sync
Your place syncs with your Audiobookshelf server, from the phone or the watch, catching up after time offline.
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.
Yours to Set Up
Themes, text size that reaches every screen, 55 app icons, and separate server addresses for home and away.
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.
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.
Soft rose pinks in daylight
Clear sky blues on white
The built-in epub reader, free for everyone
Aged paper and sepia ink, daylight's answer to dark academia
Deep wine reds for long evenings and old libraries
Deep wine reds for long evenings and old libraries
Deep emerald in the dark, the forest after sundown
The classic deep-blue dark
Calm deep teal, still water after dark
Saturated magenta in the dark, vivid without the glare
The classic deep-blue dark
Quiet olive greens, the forest floor in the shade
The exact same screen in Parchment and Lagoon . Drag the line.
Parchment by day, Lagoon by night. Both ship with the app.
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