Keep ebook maps beside your audiobook, bring BookOrbit books into Read Along, and keep your reading place as you listen. Made for your Audiobookshelf library.
SoundLeaf is a premium iOS client for Audiobookshelf, the open-source, self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. Connect to your own server and get your whole collection — audiobooks, podcasts and ebooks — in a beautiful, fast app built for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and CarPlay.
Learn more, read setup guides and see the app in action at https://soundleafapp.com
OFFLINE FIRST
• Your library syncs to the app, so you can browse everything even with the server off
• Download books and episodes and play them anywhere, no connection needed
• Downloads are free for everyone, podcast auto-download included
• Local and remote server addresses: the app uses your local address on home Wi-Fi and your remote address everywhere else, on its own
BUILT FOR LONG LISTENS
• A powerful player with chapters, variable playback speed and position memory
• A smarter sleep timer: tell it your night hours and it starts itself, fades out instead of stopping cold, and restarts when you press play
• Progress syncs with your server, so every device stays on the same page
• Background playback, lock screen controls and full landscape support
PODCASTS, DONE RIGHT
• Podcast transcripts: when a show publishes one, it runs along with the audio, and a tap opens a full reader
• Smart Downloads keep the next episodes ready before you ask
• A queue that shows what is playing, what is next and what is on the phone
• Episode management per show: keep counts, auto-download, mark played
THE EBOOK READER
• Read the ebook that lives next to your audiobook
• One tap jumps the page to where the narrator is, and back
• Fonts, text size, line spacing, margins, and Light, Sepia and Dark pages
EVERYWHERE YOU LISTEN
• A real Apple Watch app, with offline playback on your wrist if you want it
• CarPlay with library switching and a downloaded-only filter
• Home screen widgets: now playing, recent books, your listening time
MAKE IT YOURS
• 32 themes and 55 app icons
• Listening stats with streaks, totals, a year heatmap and daily patterns
• Multiple libraries, series, authors, collections and search
SoundLeaf is made for self-hosters and their families: people who keep their audiobook library on their own server with Audiobookshelf and want the best way to listen to it on Apple devices.
Note: SoundLeaf requires an Audiobookshelf server to connect to. Audiobookshelf is free and open source; learn how to set one up at https://audiobookshelf.org and find help at https://soundleafapp.com/server/
Website: https://soundleafapp.com
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Great app for listening to podcasts and audiobooks
PodcastHoarder03
This app integrates beautifully with my Audiobookshelf instance. I like that there is a Mac app as well as an iPhone app, so I can keep everything in sync. One feature that would be nice, would be the ability to add a podcast to a playlist. Once done, all new episodes of the given podcast would be added to the playlist- sort of like a dynamic playlist.
Gorgeous and functional
Navin Ramkissoon
I’ve been using two other apps to stream my ABS library with varying degree of success. Feeling like something was missing, I continued my hunt for the best ABS player and I think I’ve found it. Not only is this app beautifully designed, but it works excellently. The instant I typed in my local address it connected. That was very satisfying. I used it for less than five minutes before buying the full version. Thank you for having a fixed price and not a subscription. Smart download is a game changer for me. That’s the one featured I didn’t know I needed and now can’t live without. My only wish is that you had widget support and I hope you’ll add it in a future update. Thank you
Issues with Series
gdbjr
I was excited when CarPlay got added to this app in the last update. I was all ready to switch to this from my other app until I realized it can’t order series correctly. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to how it orders series and you can’t even drill down into the series to see the order yourself. Apparently this has been an issue forever according to the bugs/request. Hopefully it gets fixed as I love the look of this app compared to plappa, but it still can’t match that app for features.
The best and most flexible app
Joe Bob Ace
This dev is the best! He added Calibre Web Automated integration days after I suggested it. I finally have a single client that can pull audiobooks from audiobookshelf and ebooks from Calibre Web Automated (audiobookshelf technically supports ebooks but not a proper replacement).And lastly to bring it all together syncing between ebooks and audiobooks is so awesome, I’m insanely impressed how spot on it is without needing multi-hour PC transcription like I previously needed with Storyteller.
• Keep your book's maps and illustrations close while you listen. Browse images by chapter, zoom in and pin favourites, or show an image alongside the audio in the player.
• Connect BookOrbit for companion EPUBs, offline reading, Read Along and reading-position sync.
• Update your ebook position while listening, even with the reader closed. Enable reading-position sync for a downloaded audiobook and its matching ebook.
• Faster Read Along, better page matching and more reliable position restoration, with less background processing during playback.
• Add audio bookmarks directly from the ebook reader.
• Choose Auto page colours to follow light and dark mode.
• Make the app's lettering your own with seven font styles in Settings > Appearance > Typography.
• Sync playback speed with Apple Watch, add bookmarks from its player and choose what its side buttons do.
• Explore the new Tips screen and refreshed What's New previews.
• Clearer book selection and download previews, plus fixes for bookmark sync, Wi-Fi downloads and screen layout.
Version v2.6
The developer, Hemant Kumar, 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.
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Information
Seller
Hemant Kumar
Size
50.8 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.