• Stop playback after the next chapter or queued podcast episode with new sleep timers. • Add Home Screen widgets for goals and monthly or yearly listening totals. • Sort books and podcasts by Recently Listened. • Order podcast playlists and Up Next oldest first, newest first or grouped by podcast. • Download Unfinished skips completed podcast episodes, and finished episodes stay out of Up Next. • Find downloads across saved accounts, grouped by library, with books and podcasts kept separate. • Choose separate light and dark themes, including Ivory and Paper. • Get started with guided setup and turn ebook pages with keyboard arrow keys. • Fixes for reading-position jumps, saved podcast downloads, library switching and sign-in recovery after moving devices. OpenID users: add soundleaf://oauth to Allowed Mobile Redirect URIs in Audiobookshelf.

• 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.

• Discover podcasts through charts, categories and search. Browse episodes and add shows to your Audiobookshelf library when your server account allows it. • Bring companion EPUBs from Calibre Content Server, Calibre-Web or Calibre-Web Automated into SoundLeaf for offline reading and Read Along. Find matching ebooks from a book's page. • Sync reading positions with Calibre Content Server, Calibre-Web Automated or a separate KOReader sync server. Choose whether to resume a newer position from another device. • Create and reorder playlists of books or episodes, then play the list or add it to your queue. Choose Play Next, queue the next book in a series, and open Up Next from the mini-player or CarPlay. • Read Along now uses your book's language to match narration to the ebook. Choose a different language per book when needed. Available languages depend on your device. • Long press or select several books and episodes to manage playlists, downloads and progress. Hide a story from Continue without losing your place, or reset progress for a fresh start. • Change playback speed from CarPlay Now Playing and customize its speed list in Settings. • Apple Watch downloads now work with Audiobookshelf servers using HTTP. • Progress and playlist changes made on your server appear while SoundLeaf is open. Finished and hidden stories leave Continue immediately. • Clearer reading actions and ebook download progress, plus fixes for offline progress syncing, widget playback buttons, library switching and Read Along scrolling.

• See listening time, streaks and goal progress on Home. Choose a stats style for each library, or keep the original library stats. • Set a daily or weekly listening goal. Books and podcasts count together. • Fresh book and podcast quotes, with a little encouragement as you reach your goal. • Write NFC tags or share QR codes to open books, start podcasts or control playback. • Start the latest podcast episode, the latest unfinished one, a random episode or a random unplayed episode. • Play from your ebook page, or select a passage and start listening from there. • Jumped by accident? Go back to your previous listening position. • Listen at 3.5×, 4× or 5×. Remaining time adjusts to your speed. • Faster ebook navigation with saved page indexes. • Free up space automatically: remove finished audiobook downloads, and the companion ebook with them. Off by default, in Settings > Downloads. • More reliable progress syncing and finished-book status. • Fixes for resuming when the server is unreachable, listening time landing on the wrong day, and a position from your watch being overwritten. • Support SoundLeaf by the month. Supporter now has a monthly option next to yearly, and the yearly price is lower.

All your stories. Together. MORE ROOM FOR YOUR LIBRARIES Keep multiple users and servers in SoundLeaf, with separate progress, listening stats and downloads. Switch accounts on your phone or in CarPlay, and let your Apple Watch use its own account. Connections adapt when your network changes. BROWSE YOUR WAY Books, Series, Authors, Genres and Collections now sit side by side in Library. Swipe between sections and choose lists, grids or shelves where available. Browse your Audiobookshelf collections, choose how author names appear and sort, and filter books by abridged or explicit content. A MORE COMFORTABLE READER Choose horizontal pages or vertical scrolling, with Read Along keeping the highlighted words in view. Refreshed appearance controls make fonts, spacing and margins easier to adjust. See your page number, tap for percentage, and find search results without losing your place. The reader stays awake while Read Along is playing. PODCASTS AND LISTENING HISTORY A redesigned podcast player brings audio, transcripts and bookmarks together. Search episode titles within a show or across your library, and browse shows as lists, grids or episode shelves. A book's History tab shows listening sessions across devices; tap a session to return to that moment. CLEARER DOWNLOADS See what's downloading, waiting for Wi-Fi or already downloaded. Download Up Next automatically, choose when played downloads are removed, or press and hold a waiting download to use mobile data. THE FINISHING TOUCHES Clearer typography, refreshed chapter rows, consistent menus and better layouts on iPhone and iPad. Plus fixes for scrolling hitches, search highlights and playback progress syncing with Apple Watch. ALSO INCLUDED FROM v2.2 Read Along follows the narrator word by word, with on-device processing and offline support. Downloads and podcast auto-download are free for everyone. Enjoy a smarter sleep timer, more watch controls, and new Pro and Supporter app icons.

All your stories. Together. MORE ROOM FOR YOUR LIBRARIES Keep multiple users and servers in SoundLeaf, with separate progress, listening stats and downloads. Switch accounts on your phone or in CarPlay, and let your Apple Watch use its own account. Connections adapt when your network changes. BROWSE YOUR WAY Books, Series, Authors, Genres and Collections now sit side by side in Library. Swipe between sections and choose lists, grids or shelves where available. Browse your Audiobookshelf collections, choose how author names appear and sort, and filter books by abridged or explicit content. A MORE COMFORTABLE READER Choose horizontal pages or vertical scrolling, with Read Along keeping the highlighted words in view. Refreshed appearance controls make fonts, spacing and margins easier to adjust. See your page number, tap for percentage, and find search results without losing your place. The reader stays awake while Read Along is playing. PODCASTS AND LISTENING HISTORY A redesigned podcast player brings audio, transcripts and bookmarks together. Search episode titles within a show or across your library, and browse shows as lists, grids or episode shelves. A book's History tab shows listening sessions across devices; tap a session to return to that moment. CLEARER DOWNLOADS See what's downloading, waiting for Wi-Fi or already downloaded. Download Up Next automatically, choose when played downloads are removed, or press and hold a waiting download to use mobile data. THE FINISHING TOUCHES Clearer typography, refreshed chapter rows, consistent menus and better layouts on iPhone and iPad. Plus fixes for scrolling hitches, search highlights and playback progress syncing with Apple Watch. ALSO INCLUDED FROM v2.2 Read Along follows the narrator word by word, with on-device processing and offline support. Downloads and podcast auto-download are free for everyone. Enjoy a smarter sleep timer, more watch controls, and new Pro and Supporter app icons.

A fresh new look, read along for ebooks synced to narrator position, podcast updates, and downloads free for everyone. • Read along: your ebook follows the narrator word by word and turns its own pages, ready a few minutes ahead of where you are. Processed on device, works offline • A fresh new look: the player, Settings, your stats and every podcast screen redrawn, and the whole app now supports landscape • Podcast transcripts: when a show publishes one, it runs along with the audio, and a tap opens a full reader. Free • Podcasts are offline first: every show's episodes stored on the phone, and downloads finish with the app closed • Downloads are now free for everyone, podcast auto-download included • Smarter sleep timer: tell it your night hours and it starts itself, fades out instead of stopping cold, and restarts when you press play • Manage the watch from your phone: remove several things at once, set how many episodes shows keep, put back an episode • CarPlay: switch libraries from the car screen, filter to what is downloaded, and skips show the moment you tap them • New app icons: five new with Pro, and a thirty-three icon Supporter tier • Press and hold the tab bar to switch library, a Files tab on the book page, and your choice of site for book links • A few dozen bug fixes, including a playback speed set for one book carrying over to the next

NEW • Apple Watch app. Send a book or an episode to your watch, then listen with the phone left at home. Progress finds its way back to your server on its own. • Ebook reader, free for everyone. Read a book’s epub in the app, offline. Search the text, set the font and spacing, and tap Go to Position to open the page your narrator is on. • Smoother playback. Books split across many files now play straight through the joins at any speed. Voice Boost lifts quiet or muddy narration. • Auto rewind. Playback starts a little before where you stopped, and further back after a long break. Every number is yours to set. • Downloads rebuilt. A downloaded book now plays with the server off, and closing the app mid-download no longer strands it. • Home screen widgets. Now Playing, Recently Played, and a Listening card with your streak and library totals. The sleep timer counts down on the lock screen. • Signing in. Use OpenID if your server has it, and set one address for home Wi-Fi and another for everywhere else. • Also: pick your app icon, drawn covers for books with no artwork, a bookmark button in CarPlay, and a lot less stutter. FIXED • Listening sessions not syncing to the server, which could break streaks • A crash on launch after an interrupted library update • Playback skipping ahead at file boundaries in multi-file books • Multi-file books ending one file early • End-of-chapter sleep timer not pausing at the chapter end

• Podcasts - browse, play, and download episodes from your podcast libraries • Playback Queue - add to queue, drag to reorder, auto-advance to next • Episode Filters - Unplayed / In Progress / Played / Downloaded • Per-Podcast Settings - auto-download, keep-last-N, Wi-Fi only, auto-delete after played, sort order, per-podcast playback speed • CarPlay - podcast libraries now work in CarPlay • Library Switcher - each library shows a unique icon so you can tell them apart

Bug Fixes: - Continue section now shows your last 3 recently played books at the start, so you can quickly pick up where you left off - Fixed series books displaying out of order — now sorted by sequence number (#43 — thanks @PandaUnit-TWL, @Atlas3686, @JoeSmartChicken, @Timo-1979, @marshallpt) - Fixed listening progress not syncing to server after offline playback (#59 — thanks @JoeSmartChicken) - Fixed session expiry from transient network errors incorrectly showing login screen - App now syncs progress immediately when network connection is restored - Play button now shows "Resume" or "Play Again" based on your progress

Minor Bugfix related to auth refresh token

• Fixed token refresh loop that caused "APIError error 4" and rate limiting - try using the app normally and see if you still get kicked out • Improved error messages - errors now show helpful descriptions instead of cryptic codes • Fixed sign out button not responding

CarPlay Support - Browse your library from your car's display - Continue Listening and Recently Added sections - Full playback controls Cloudflare Access - Custom HTTP headers support for tunneled servers Player Improvements - Chapter skip buttons - Chapters list in player controls - End of chapter sleep timer - Smoother progress bar scrubbing - Preset speed buttons - Lock screen chapter progress - Fixed skip duration not updating on lock screen Bookmarks - Mark and annotate moments in your audiobooks - Sleep timer bookmarks sync to server New Themes - Catppuccin Latte, Frappe, Macchiato, Mocha Other - JWT authentication for Audiobookshelf v2.26.0+

What's New • Progress Navigator Autolock - Prevent accidental seeking with customizable auto-lock • Chapter vs Book Progress Toggle - Switch between chapter and book progress modes • Interactive Library Stats - Tap stats to refresh, search, or explore your library • Authors Grid - Browse all authors with beautiful cover art • Library Switcher - Easily switch between multiple Audiobookshelf libraries Improvements • Dramatically improved performance and eliminated UI stuttering • Enhanced download system with background support • Better progress syncing across devices • Improved iPad layout with proper spacing • Native network monitoring for offline detection • Persistent playback speed across sessions Fixes • Fixed crash when logging in without library selected • Fixed chapter navigation accuracy • Fixed download size display inconsistency • Fixed progress tracking for resumed downloads • Fixed player controls spacing on iPad • Fixed HTML content in descriptions