Akoue keeps the books you already own in one collection on iPhone and iPad: audiobooks and text together, in order. Folders of MP3s, M4B files and archives from your home server become a library with authors, series, narrators and chapters. With Pro, books move to your own iCloud, not someone else's cloud. Nothing to buy again.
A FOLDER IS A 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.
• Sleep timer: end of chapter, gentle fade-out, position rewind. Counts listening time or real minutes. Shake the phone and the countdown starts over, even with the screen off.
• 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, nested series, a genre tree, tags and smart shelves.
• Twelve sort orders and nineteen filters. Search forgives the wrong keyboard layout and transliteration.
• Several narrations of one book are normal: your choice of narrator is remembered.
• Every field is editable, the original file tags stay visible, and "Restore original" is always one tap away.
• The make-up of a book is editable too: name a file, drag files into order, drop a stray one from the book, rename and move chapters.
WHEREVER YOU LISTEN
• Apple Watch: a book travels to your watch and plays without the iPhone — on headphones, and on models with a speaker through it too.
• Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, widgets with buttons, Control Center, the Action button, Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight.
• CarPlay: your library and Now Playing without unlocking the phone.
AKOUE PRO, FOR THE BIG COLLECTION
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 moves back by more than a minute, the app asks instead of deciding for you.
• 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.
• Author merge: "Tolkien, J. R. R." and "J.R.R. Tolkien" become one person.
• Statistics and a year in review, author profiles, four extra themes and your own accent color for each.
YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS
• No accounts, no analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs. The app itself does not go online: Apple services handle the network.
• Everything on the device 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, look them up online or open DRM-protected Audible files (AAX).
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/
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