Earmark Audiobooks vs Ondelia

Your audiobooks. Your files. Your place in the story. Earmark brings your MP3s, M4Bs and other audio files into a personal audiobook library. Listen from folders in Files or iCloud Drive, stream from your NAS, or download books for offline listening. No account, subscription or ads. SETTLE INTO A GOOD BOOK • Adjust playback from 0.5x to 3x with natural pitch and a speed remembered for each book. • Jump between chapters, skip back or forward, and save bookmarks. • Fall asleep with a timer, including an end-of-chapter option. • Pick up the thread with smart rewind after a pause. • Control playback from the lock screen and CarPlay's Now Playing screen. • Save listening presets for the way you like to listen. A SHELF THAT MAKES SENSE Browse by author, series or folder, and search your collection. Earmark uses file tags and folder names to group tracks into books, including multi-disc folders. Find duplicates, adjust book groupings, and put tracks in the right order. Save smart lists and see new arrivals without losing your place. AT HOME OR ON THE ROAD Connect an SMB share to browse your NAS alongside local books. Stream while your server is reachable, or prepare books for an offline trip. Reconnect a moved library and back up your library state to keep your organization and listening progress safe. YOUR COLLECTION STAYS YOURS Playing a book leaves its audio files where they are. Downloads, moves into Earmark and uploads to your NAS happen only when you request them. Bring your own audiobooks; no catalog or books are included. Free and open source. No analytics, donation prompts or rating nags. Source code: github.com/vanities/earmark Supported audio: MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, WAV, AIFF, CAF and FLAC.

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.