Local Audio Books
Free audiobooks & podcasts
$0.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
New in 3.0: every source is a tab, podcasts stream without downloading, free classics play the moment you tap, and a sleep timer. And a lot of new free sources!
Local Audio Books plays the audiobooks you own, free classics in eight languages, and podcasts that just play.
EVERYTHING ON ONE SCREEN
Listen holds everything on your device, from every source: the book or episode you played last, with its progress and a play button, then the rest grouped — in progress, favourites, podcast episodes, not started, finished. Every source — your folders, each free catalogue, Podcasts — has its own tab, and Search looks through all of them at once.
FREE AUDIOBOOKS IN YOUR LANGUAGE
• LibriVox — public-domain books read by volunteers, with catalogues in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Polish
• Wolne Lektury — Polish classics read by actors (CC BY-SA)
• Project Gutenberg — synthetic narration
Tap Listen now and the book plays at once while it downloads in the background. Afterwards it is yours offline, with author, narrator, source and license recorded.
PODCASTS AND RADIO DRAMA
Follow shows from recommendations, your country's top charts or a search of the podcast directory — or paste any feed address. Episodes stream straight away, newest first, and each keeps its own position. Download only the ones you want offline.
YOUR FOLDER IS YOUR LIBRARY
Point the app at a folder of audiobooks (one subfolder of MP3 or AAC files per book) on your device or in iCloud Drive. No hidden database: manage everything in Files or Finder.
BUILT FOR LONG LISTENS
• Resume exactly where you stopped
• Sleep timer — in minutes, or at the end of a chapter
• Speed from 0.8× to 2.5×, remembered for each book
• Skip intervals you choose, chapters and bookmarks
• Lock screen, headphone and CarPlay controls
MADE FOR EVERY SCREEN
A Liquid Glass design for iOS 26 with the system tab bar: each source is an icon with a count, and the bar tucks away as you scroll. On the iPhone Duo it becomes a rail on the right edge, right by your thumb.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no ads, no tracking. The network is used only for catalogues, podcasts, downloads and cover art.
Available in English, Polish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese.
• A new design in Liquid Glass: every source is a tab in the system tab bar, with a count; on the iPhone Duo the tabs sit on a rail at the right edge
• Listen gathers everything on your device, with what you played last on top, its progress and a play button
• Podcasts: follow shows from recommendations, top charts or search — episodes stream right away, newest first, each with its own position
• Listen now: free audiobooks start playing at once and download in the background
• One search across your books, every catalogue and podcasts
• Sleep timer, speed remembered per book, adjustable skip intervals
• A quick setup on first launch, LibriVox Polski, and many reliability fixes
The developer, Blazej Zyglarski, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Blazej Zyglarski
- Size
- 7.9 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 7 more
- English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Blazej Zyglarski
