# Akoue: your (audio)books — Audiobook player & reader

> Audiobook player & reader (iPhone/iPad app by Evgenii Fureev.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/akoue-your-audiobooks/id6814911733 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Evgenii Fureev](https://appshunter.io/developer/6814911735)
- Category: Books
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 23 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Russian, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-10-28
- Data updated: 2026-11-06

## What is Akoue?

Akoue turns the audiobooks you already own — folders of MP3s, M4B files, archives from your home server — into a real library with authors, series, narrators and chapters, kept in your own iCloud, not in someone else's cloud. Finish a book and, with Akoue Pro, it moves to iCloud in one tap — or on its own if you set it so — to free up your phone. Nothing to buy again, no subscription to keep what's yours.

FROM ANY SOURCE, A READY-MADE BOOK
• CD1/CD2 discs, numbered file names, tags: Akoue assembles them into one book with chapters in the right order.
• Garbled titles from old encodings are repaired in one tap, with a preview and undo.
• Chapters come from M4B, tags and cue files; the cover from a tag, a file next door or the folder. None at all? Akoue draws one.
• ZIP archives unpack themselves, and non-Latin file names inside survive.
• Importing again never creates duplicates; a compilation is split into separate books.
• Audio plays without conversion: mp3, m4a, m4b, aac, flac, wav, aiff, alac, opus. The text edition of the same book sits next to it: epub, fb2, md and pdf in the built-in reader; txt, rtf, doc, docx in the system viewer.

A PLAYER FOR BOOKS, NOT MUSIC
• A hundred files play as one book; the position never gets lost between files.
• Separate skip-back and skip-forward intervals; after a pause the book rewinds on its own, further the longer you were away.
• Speed 0.5×–3× without distorting the voice.
• The sleep timer counts listening, not clock time: end of chapter, gentle fade-out, shake the phone and the book continues.
• Bookmarks with notes you can search and jump to.
• Finished a volume? The next one in the series starts by itself.

A COLLECTION IN ORDER
• Authors with pen names, narrators, series and cycles, a genre tree, tags, favorites and smart shelves.
• Twelve sort orders and nineteen filters. Search forgives the wrong keyboard layout and transliteration.
• One book can hold several narrations and a text edition; add editions by hand, and deleting one never deletes the book — remove every file and the catalog entry stays.
• Manage the catalog: merge narrators, edit books, series and cycles; a field's original value is always one tap away.

WHEREVER YOU LISTEN
• Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, widgets with buttons, Control Center, the Action button, Siri, Shortcuts and CarPlay.
• Books show up in Spotlight.

AKOUE PRO — FREE UP YOUR PHONE, KEEP EVERYTHING
Buy once for good, or yearly. Family Sharing either way.
• Move to iCloud: keep only what you are listening to on the phone; the rest waits in your iCloud Drive and plays on tap, downloading chapter by chapter. A local file is never deleted until the cloud copy is confirmed.
• Sync between iPhone and iPad: position, bookmarks, catalog edits, listening history. If a device has moved back by more than a minute, the app asks where to continue.
• Bulk cleanup: move everything you have finished in one action, with a preview of how many gigabytes you get back.
• Silence skipping and volume leveling.
• Merge and rename authors: "Tolkien, J. R. R." and "J.R.R. Tolkien" become one person.
• Statistics and a year in review, author profiles, four extra themes.

YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS
• No accounts, no analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs. Akoue goes online only to Apple: your iCloud, and the App Store for Pro.
• Everything works offline. The catalog exports to JSON and CSV; a backup is a single file.
• The free version is not a trial: no limit on books, no time limit.

WHAT AKOUE DOES NOT DO
It does not sell or download books, does not search the internet for them and does not open DRM-protected Audible files (AAX). Akoue is for the books you already have.

Interface in English, Russian, German, Spanish and French. Full VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Akoue Pro — 1 Year | $14.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Akoue Pro — Forever | $49.99 | one-time |


## Is Akoue safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Akoue.

## Is Akoue legit?

Akoue: your (audio)books has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Akoue is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.3 — 2026-11-04

• Choose your app icon: “Standard”, “Outline” or “Filled” — in Settings
• In Settings, under “About”: “Rate on the App Store” and “Tell others about Akoue”
• After you finish a book, Akoue may ask for a rating — in the standard system window
• A shorter privacy policy: the app itself does not go online, Apple services handle the network

### 1.2.1 — 2026-11-02

• Favorites: “Add to Favorites” in the book menu and a heart on the book card; a filter and a smart shelf condition pick out favorite books, and the mark doesn’t stop offloading them to iCloud
• The library remembers its grouping and sort order between launches; filters reset at launch
• The “Added in the period” filter takes custom dates, and a shelf saved from it keeps them as they are
• Covers in the Library widget have a play button: the book starts without opening the app, and the one that’s playing gets a pause
• Fixed: in the reader on a light page theme — White, Sepia, Cream — the status bar and the progress bar took the app theme’s colours and were barely visible

### 1.2 — 2026-11-01

• Universes: books set in one world — by different authors and from different series — come together, and each universe has its own page
• Timeline: each book in a universe has its place in the order of events, and Fill by Series places volumes by their numbers
• When a book ends, the next one in the timeline starts, and the player tells you why it’s that one
• Series completion: set how many volumes a series has, and it gets marked “Series Read” or “Series Collected”; until you set the number, “All Released Volumes Read”
• Series map: paste a list of volumes, and the missing ones join the series as books without files, so you see at once what’s missing
• Share your listening stats as an image: each theme has its own card, for stories and for the feed
• Bookmarks export to a file, grouped by chapter — from the book card, the player and the full list
• Your own skip interval — any number of seconds; the buttons, mini player and widget show it
• In CarPlay, series volumes follow their numbers, and smart shelves by author and series now work on your other devices too
• Titles in legacy encodings now read correctly in Polish, Greek, Japanese, Chinese and Korean too; fixing the encoding repairs the whole book, and “Restore original” works for every field

### 1.0 — 2026-10-28

No release notes.

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