If you're enjoying Voca, it may now ask, once in a while, for a rating on the App Store. It only asks after you've been listening for a while, at a pause or the end of a book, never mid-listen. Apple Watch: Voca's own headphones now appear on the Not Playing screen and on your watch face complications, in Voca's orange. Widgets: Voca on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, in small, medium and large, with play, pause and skip, and your Continue Listening on the large one. On iOS 18 there's also a Play or Pause control for Control Center and the Action button. Captions: turn them on in the player to see the narration as it's read, scrolling in place of the cover like lyrics. They're made on your device as the book plays, so nothing leaves it, though unusual names may be spelled the way they sound. Needs iOS 27 or later on a device that supports on-device transcription. A finished book now plays again from the beginning when you press Play or choose it again. Tall cover art no longer pushes the player's controls off the screen.

Apple Watch: Voca's own headphones now appear on the Not Playing screen and on your watch face complications, in Voca's orange. Widgets: Voca on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, in small, medium and large, with play, pause and skip, and your Continue Listening on the large one. On iOS 18 there's also a Play or Pause control for Control Center and the Action button. Captions: turn them on in the player to see the narration as it's read, scrolling in place of the cover like lyrics. They're made on your device as the book plays, so nothing leaves it, though unusual names may be spelled the way they sound. Needs iOS 27 or later on a device that supports on-device transcription. A finished book now plays again from the beginning when you press Play or choose it again. Tall cover art no longer pushes the player's controls off the screen.

Widgets: Voca on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, in small, medium and large, with play, pause and skip, and your Continue Listening on the large one. On iOS 18 there's also a Play or Pause control for Control Center and the Action button. Captions: turn them on in the player to see the narration as it's read, scrolling in place of the cover like lyrics. They're made on your device as the book plays, so nothing leaves it, though unusual names may be spelled the way they sound. Needs iOS 27 or later on a device that supports on-device transcription. A finished book now plays again from the beginning when you press Play or choose it again. Tall cover art no longer pushes the player's controls off the screen.

Captions: turn them on in the player to see the narration as it's read, scrolling in place of the cover like lyrics. They're made on your device as the book plays, so nothing leaves it, though unusual names may be spelled the way they sound. Needs iOS 27 or later on a device that supports on-device transcription. A finished book now plays again from the beginning when you press Play or choose it again.

Made for iPhone Duo: Voca fits the front screen, then spreads out when you open it, with the player on one side and chapters or documents on the other. It works half folded too, propped up like a laptop. On Mac and on iPad with a keyboard: new Playback and Go menus with shortcuts. Space plays and pauses, ⌘← and ⌘→ skip back and forward, ⌥⌘← and ⌥⌘→ move between chapters, ⌘[ and ⌘] change speed, ⇧⌘P shows the player, and ⌘1, ⌘2, ⌘3 and ⌘F jump to Library, All Books, Series and Search. Series covers now show how far through each series you are, with a progress bar, the number of books in the corner, and a green tick once you've finished them all; the author appears under each series name. Large libraries show every series.

A fresh Home screen, laid out like Audiobookshelf: Continue Listening, then Continue Series with the next book in every series you're reading, Downloaded, Reading List, Recently Added, Books with Extras, Discover, and Listen Again for books you've finished. Your Reading List now syncs through iCloud, so a book saved on your iPhone is waiting on your iPad, Mac and Apple TV. Read along: companion PDFs and EPUBs open beside the player on iPad, Mac and in landscape, and full screen with a slim playback bar on iPhone. PDFs reopen on the page you left. Made for bigger screens: on iPad, Mac and folding phones the player puts the cover and controls on one side and chapters or extras on the other, and book pages split the same way. The scrubber now follows the current chapter, so it moves on even a 24-hour book. Tap the times to switch to the whole book. Sleep timer: stop at the end of this chapter, or after two or three, or set your own number of minutes or chapters. Chapter timers now stop exactly at the chapter's end at any playback speed. Tap any chapter to start playing from it, even when the book isn't loaded. Downloaded books show their chapters and extras instantly, and downloads always include the book's extras. Now on Mac: Voca runs on Macs with Apple silicon. Install it from the Mac App Store, and the player, chapters and documents spread out across the window.

Finished books now show a checkmark on their cover, and All Books has an unread filter to hide the ones you have already listened to. Books marked as played on your Plex server now show correctly in the app, and Continue Listening picks up progress from the server rather than only from this device. Fixes the player controls running off the edge of the screen with Larger Text or Display Zoom, and the bottom row being cut off. Large libraries load faster.

Your library now refreshes when you return to the app, so books added to your server appear on their own instead of waiting for a pull to refresh. Pull to refresh keeps your books on screen while it works, with a progress readout on large libraries, rather than emptying the list and rebuilding it a page at a time. Fixes a pull to refresh that could fail immediately on a library already on screen. Search offline books in app.

- Apple Watch Cover art now fills the screen a few seconds into playback, so the book is readable at a glance. Tap to bring the controls back. - Apple Watch speaker playback when no headphones are connected. - Connecting to a Plex server is far quicker. - Audiobookshelf now receives accurate listening time, so the statistics on your server match what you have actually listened to.

Apple Watch • Playback now continues when you leave the app • Digital Crown scrubbing, so you can move through long books quickly • Volume control from the Now Playing screen • Add a Voca complication to your watch face Apple TV • Choose whether the screen stays visible, shows the screensaver, or goes blank while listening • Audio keeps playing in the background • The server list now scrolls during setup Playback • Downloaded books play from your device instead of streaming again • Repeat now restarts a book properly • Books are marked as finished on your server when they reach the end • Playback resumes after Siri finishes speaking, rather than talking over it Plex • Progress now syncs from your server, so you can start on one device and pick up on another • Search now finds authors, not just titles Library • Much faster loading for large libraries, with a progress indicator while it fills • The library no longer rebuilds itself every time you open the app Also in this release • Larger cover art on the player and book detail screens • The app now appears as "Voca" on your home screen • UI improvements and core code enhancements for responsiveness

Some UI enhancements, Plex sync, Apple Watch complications and scrubbing.

Fixed continued playback after Siri notifications from Workouts and alerts.

Added support for local files. Now just add your Audiobook files to your device and Voca Player will play your books. Full extras support included.

UI Enhancements

Multi library support

Series Cards, UI Enhancements, Caching

Apple Watch offline playback Apple Watch support Sorting fixes Lock Screen support

Full offline support with extras. Favourites and reading list. Save location of epub and pdf extra files. Stability improvements for large libraries.

Now with Podcast & Apple CarPlay support! Release includes some minor updates and fixes for offline playback.

Now with Podcast & Apple CarPlay support! Release includes some minor updates and fixes.

Now with Apple CarPlay support! Release includes some minor updates and fixes.

Apple Watch companion app — Now Playing controls on your wrist!

Update with some minor bug fixes.