# Biblio Digital Library — Your biblion butler > Your biblion butler (iPhone/iPad app by BRAILCOM.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/biblio-digital-library/id6760337882 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [BRAILCOM](https://appshunter.io/developer/1883962316) - Category: Books, Education - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 19 MB - Languages: American English, Czech - Released: 2026-09-01 - Data updated: 2026-09-29 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/biblio-digital-library/id6760337882/reviews.md ## What is Biblio Digital Library? Biblio is a personal digital library for iPhone and iPad. It collects your biblions from various sources in one place and lets you read them by sight, by hearing, or by touch. What is a biblion? A biblion is an authored work that you receive as a complete whole. What you used to call an “audiobook”, “e-book”, “podcast episode”, or “audiotext book” is called, in Biblio, “audio biblion”, “text biblion”, or “biblion with synchronization”. Biblio is designed for both sighted and visually impaired readers. All app features are accessible to both groups. VoiceOver users have an additional special gesture mode optimized for fast control without having to focus individual on-screen elements. You can choose any biblion form that suits you (audio, text, synchronization). A sighted user in a car picks the audio form; a visually impaired user with a Braille display picks the text form; anyone can pick synchronization to see and hear the text at the same time. App features: - your own library, into which you add biblions from multiple sources (KTN, NDK, Gutenberg, KDD, Camelot, podcast feeds, your own files) – more sources to be added - a choice of form when reading each biblion (audio / text / synchronization – depending on availability). - machine speech for text biblions (TTS) and machine transcription of audio biblions into text - a personal AI librarian that can search, add, download, and sort biblion and group them into series - synchronization between your devices via iCloud - Apple Watch companion for controlling the player from your wrist - CarPlay for listening in the car - metadata retrieved from the National Digital Library (NDK), Wikidata, and other reference sources SUBSCRIPTION All of Biblio is behind a subscription, including biblions you have already downloaded. New subscribers get the first week free. - Biblio Monthly: USD 6.99 per month - Biblio Yearly: USD 79.90 per year, 5% cheaper than monthly Prices shown are for the United States; elsewhere they follow the local price level and the app shows them before you buy. The subscription renews automatically until you cancel. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase, renewal 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://biblio.brailcom.org/en/privacy Biblio is developed and published by Czech non-profit organization BRAILCOM, o.p.s. that has been part of the Accessibility Expert group working on accessibility. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Biblio Monthly | $6.99 | per month | | Biblio Yearly | $79.90 | per year | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.4 — 2026-09-24 Playback now offers a wider range of speeds, from 0.5× to 3× in nine steps. The same choice applies in the player, on the lock screen, in CarPlay and on Apple Watch. If you use VoiceOver, you can turn on Read with the VoiceOver voice in Settings under Reading voice. Continuous reading, gesture mode and the NDK and scan readers will then speak with the same voice, rate and pitch you have set in VoiceOver, including automatic language switching. In gesture mode the speech rate now goes up to 200%. VoiceOver rotors now start from where you are reading or listening. In the player, Chapters and Tracks move without the boundary sound, and after the last chapter or track they continue with the first. In the reader, next chapter really takes you to the next one instead of the beginning of the biblion, and when you open bookmarks and close them without choosing one, you return to where you were. When browsing the KTN collection, each entry now shows how long the recording is and who narrated it. When a work has several recordings, they all open right in the listing, so you can pick an edition without waiting and without extra questions. The author and narrator indexes now list only names that actually have something you can open in Biblio, so you no longer land on empty lists. We also fixed older newspaper and magazine issues disappearing. Issues are now looked up by what the series actually contains, so everything you have downloaded is back in the periodical card. Podcasts that publish their episodes at older unencrypted addresses can now be added, downloaded and played. VoiceOver stays in an open reader or player instead of slipping into the library underneath. And the library no longer rebuilds itself under the player on every jump or pause, so the player responds more quickly. If something does not work the way it should, send us a report straight from the app. It is anonymous and a few words are enough. Most fixes start exactly there. ### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-21 Biblions in another language are read with the right voice If a biblion is in Italian, English or any other language, Biblio now tells the screen reader which language it is, so the text is spoken with that language's pronunciation. This covers reading paragraphs, continuous reading, scanned documents and bookmark labels, including the label Biblio creates by recognising speech from a recording. Biblio works the language out on its own: from the tags of your own MP3 files, from the recognised text of PDFs and photographed pages, and from the metadata of e-books. When the file does not state it, the language stays empty and you can set it in the biblion's detail under Edit book information. The KTN collection can now be browsed by author and by narrator Browsing the collection — going through it without typing into the search field — lives in the library, where you add a biblion. So far it offered titles alphabetically, new biblions in the catalogue, and the sections the collection sorts itself by. Names have now been added: Authors and Narrators, letter by letter and with search. In a narrator's listing their own recordings are kept apart from other editions of the same work. For some names the collection currently offers nothing Biblio can open — Biblio says so, rather than leaving you on an empty screen. Browsing by genre and topic is not there yet; we want to build it on library authority records. Listening from the collection without downloading You can start an audio biblion from the KTN collection straight away, without waiting for the download. Downloading remains an equal choice next to it — for listening offline and for saving data. Both are in the biblion's detail and in the row's actions. Your sorting stays put If you set sorting by title, author or genre, it stays that way after you close and reopen the app. Also in this release The library is put together faster and the screen reader keeps its place while it happens: statistics are computed off the main thread and the list is rebuilt only when something has really changed. In gesture mode we fixed three-finger recognition and the Z gesture. Thank you Much of what is in this release came from your suggestions and reports. Thank you to everyone who takes the time to tell us what does not work or what could be done better — it is the most valuable thing we have, and you will see it in every version that follows. You can write to us straight from the app: Report a problem, question or suggestion. ### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-18 Your own videos in the library You can now add your own video to Biblio — an MP4, M4V or MOV file from Files or iCloud Drive. One file becomes one biblion; from a folder, each video becomes a biblion of its own. Biblio takes the cover from the first frame and the title and author from the file's metadata. Video plays right inside Biblio: controls, speed, skipping, contents and bookmarks with a still from the video. Biblio remembers where you stopped, and the sound keeps playing when the screen goes dark. Every video can have text as well. Biblio picks up subtitles stored next to the file (SRT, VTT) and subtitles inside the video itself; when there are none, the video can be transcribed, on your phone or on our server. The text then opens in the reader and you can search it. Go from the video to the text with Switch to text, and back with Resume the video — always at the spot you are in. Searching YouTube channels now starts when you tap Search Google grants the daily YouTube search allowance to the app as a whole, not to individual readers — it is shared by everyone using Biblio and cannot be bought. Until now Biblio searched as you typed, so a single half-written word took several bites out of that shared allowance and there might be none left for anyone else. Video channels are therefore searched once you confirm your query. In libraries, newspapers and podcasts Biblio keeps searching as you type, just as before. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-13 Fixes reported by readers: • Titles the library keeps on two discs can be downloaded again. They used to end with a message that the catalogue released only some of the files. A biblion left undownloaded because of this only needs to be queued again. • Search in a large library is smooth again. With thousands of biblions, building the list held things up enough that the keyboard stopped responding. • One work can have several recordings — different year, publisher and narrator. You now see all of them, each with its publisher and year, so a screen reader can tell them apart. Search criteria gained an Editions option: all, latest, or by year. • For such a title the librarian asks which recording to download. • After downloading a new title, Biblio asks which series it belongs to. • The message shown while searching now says where it is searching. ### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-01 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-29.*