# Ondelia — Audiobooks & AudiobookShelf

> Audiobooks & AudiobookShelf (iPhone/iPad app by Jonathan Jayet.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ondelia/id6809228480 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jonathan Jayet](https://appshunter.io/developer/6809228482)
- Category: Books, Entertainment
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 27 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France)
- Released: 2026-09-21
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Ondelia?

Ondelia plays the audiobooks you already own. No store, no subscription, no account: import your files and they stay on your devices.

YOUR FILES, YOUR LIBRARY
Import a file, a whole folder or a ZIP from Files or over AirDrop. Ondelia reads embedded chapters and CUE files, picks up cover art and duration, and rebuilds series.

LISTEN ON APPLE WATCH, WITHOUT YOUR IPHONE
Send the current chapter and the next ones to the watch: playback is local, with no phone and no signal. The watch keeps its buffer topped up, and your position finds its way back to the iPhone.

A SERIOUS PLAYER
Per-book speed, custom skip intervals, smart rewind after a pause, one tap back to where you were before a bad scrub, bookmarks, a play queue, and a sleep timer with fade-out or end-of-chapter.

TEXT THAT FOLLOWS THE VOICE
On-device transcription: the text scrolls with the narration, and tapping a sentence jumps there.

EVERYWHERE IN IOS
iPhone and Apple Watch widgets, Siri shortcuts, Lock Screen and AirPods controls complete with CarPlay.

NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICES
No account necessary, no ads, no analytics, no profile.
Positions, bookmarks and finished state sync through your own private iCloud, and can be turned off in one tap. Your audio files are never uploaded anywhere.

ENHANCED WITH HARDCOVER
Use Hardcover to get metadata, track your progress and the book you've read, automatically create book series.

## Is Ondelia safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Ondelia.

## Is Ondelia legit?

Ondelia has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Ondelia is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.9.3 — 2026-10-21

AudiobookShelf

- Your server's listening stats now include the time you spend in Ondelia, streamed or downloaded, past listening included.
- Hide Finished Books, on by default: books your server has as finished leave the shelves, Search and Collections. Turn it off in Settings › AudiobookShelf.
- An older position from iPhone or Apple Watch no longer overwrites a newer one on your server.

Transcription

- Search highlights every match, says how many there are, and steps through them with the up and down arrows.

CarPlay

- Speed opens the list of speeds, with the current one marked.
- Bookmarks lists the book's bookmarks, with Add Bookmark on top.

Improvements

- Continue Reading shows the time left in the book you are listening to. With Play back to back on, it counts the whole series.
- Settings › Storage › Transcripts: see how many there are and delete them.
- A folder or ZIP holding a single audio file keeps that file's chapters, title and author.
- CUE sheets saved in Windows encoding now import with their chapters.

Fixes

- The End of chapter sleep timer stops at the end of a book instead of starting the next one.
- Playing a finished book starts it over, and Mark as Unread takes it back to the start.
- Jumping into the last seconds of a book no longer marks it finished.
- A finished series reaches 100 %.
- Hardcover asks you to sign in again when your sign-in has expired.
- Chapters held up on their way to Apple Watch are sent again, and Clear Watch works after a restart.
- In Search, deleting a book asks first.

### 1.9.1 — 2026-10-14

What's New

iPhone Duo

- We revamped the whole app to support your shiny new foldable phone

Fixes

- The chapter you're on now says "paused" while playback is paused.
- "1 book" instead of "1 books".

### 1.8.1 — 2026-10-12

Fixes

- On the Collections screen, a server collection you have no book of yet now opens itself rather than another collection.
- Back from a collection, or from a book opened in one, now returns to the screen you came from.
- The transcript's title now names the chapter you're listening to in long chapters, rather than the first one.

### 1.8 — 2026-10-06

Several servers

- Sign in to as many AudiobookShelf servers as you like with Add Server, and see all their books together in your Library, Search and Collections.
- Each server has its own settings: Show in Library, which server library to use, and Sign Out.
- If one server is out of reach, only its books step aside; the others stay.
- New optional Port field when you sign in.
- Apple Watch can browse and stream from each of your servers.

Hide what you don't want

- Hide a server book, series or author from its long-press menu. Hiding an author hides all of their books.
- Hidden & Shown, in each server's settings, lists everything with a switch to bring it back.
- Hidden items stay hidden on all your devices, and nothing is removed from your server.

Collections
- Your AudiobookShelf collections now appear among your Collections.

- A new Collections strip on your Library shows the collections you're listening to first, then the ones you played recently. See All opens the new Collections screen.
- On the Collections screen, filter by All, Mine, Series or Server, search, sort by Name, Recent or Progress, and switch between List and Grid.
- Server series and collections you have no book of yet come last, under On the server, none here.
- A collection's covers now include its server books you haven't added yet.
- Long-press a collection to Download All, Rename, Hide or Delete Collection.

Library

- A downloaded server book can Remove Download to free space and keep streaming, with its position and bookmarks. Delete from Library removes it entirely.

Hardcover

- Match New Books now also matches server books once they're in your Library, so listening to them updates your Hardcover progress.

### 1.6.1 — 2026-10-03

Apple Watch

- Stream your AudiobookShelf books on Apple Watch over Wi-Fi or cellular, without your iPhone nearby.
- Tap Server on the watch to browse or search your server library and start any book; it joins your Library on iPhone too.
- When a chapter isn't on the watch yet, playback carries on from the server instead of waiting for your iPhone.
- Your iPhone signs the watch in to AudiobookShelf: there's nothing to type on your wrist.

AudiobookShelf

- New Tap Action setting: tapping a server book streams it (the default) or downloads it. A long press offers the other.
- Choose which server library to browse and download from.
- Downloads now show their progress and size, such as "295 MB / 1.2 GB", even for books the server sends as a zip.
- Download a book you're streaming right from its menu in the Library.
- When a book you're streaming finishes downloading, playback switches to the downloaded file at the same spot.

Transcript

- On a streamed book, the transcript now asks you to download the book, with a Download button, and starts transcribing as soon as it's on your device.

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