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Audrey

    • 4.8 • 41 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Listen to classic audiobooks with notes from an expert guide and beautiful hand-made illustrations.

Our growing library features a hand-picked selection of the classic novels, novellas, short stories, plays and poems that you've always wanted to read (or re-read!), from Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice to Moby Dick and Great Expectations.

Each audiobook is highly produced and read by world-class actors like Juliet Stevenson and Anton Lesser, and our Audrey Guides are thoughtful and friendly scholars, academics and authors who know these books and authors inside-out.

Every book on Audrey comes with chapter recaps, character descriptions, hand-made illustrations and notes from the guide. Here are some of the many delights you can expect to find in the notes from an Audrey guide:

- Insights into the book's cultural, historical and social context
- Voice notes from the guide and guest contributors
- Thought-provoking questions and personal reflections
- Photos of the author
- In-depth information about the author and their process
- Light-touch literary analysis and links to further reading
- Photos of the book's real-life settings
- Illustrations from the early editions of the book
- A book-inspired playlist
- Recipes from the book
- A curated selection of reviews
- Recommendations for further reading, watching and listening

EVENTS
Join a community of book lovers in our free regular listen-alongs. Sign up to the app to be the first to hear about them.

FEATURES
Hands-free mode for when you're driving.
Buy one audiobook at a time, no subscriptions or commitments.
Recaps for every chapter of every book so you don't get lost.
Character descriptions and connections that update in real-time.
Contribute your own voice notes and listen to the thoughts of other listeners.
Links to The StoryGraph to rate, review and log your listening.
A Spotify playlist curated for every book.
Buy prints of the illustrations.

A SELECTION OF TITLES FROM THE AUDREY LIBRARY

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Rolf Fjelde
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dubliners by James Joyce
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, translated by Richard Stokes
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Selected poetry by John Keats
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, translated by Olesch, Dreher, Coulter, Langer and Chaichenets
The Black Cat and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Villette by Charlotte Brontë



The Audrey app currently only works on mobile devices.

What’s New

Version 0.37.0

Bug fixes!

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
41 Ratings

41 Ratings

SGC123456789 ,

Unique and wonderful audiobook experience!

This app takes listening to audiobooks to a whole new level! As you listen to the amazing performances by the voice actors, your listening journey is also enhanced by light background music that helps set the scene along with sound effects.

There is a knowledgeable guide who shares interesting information about the story you are listening to, such as maps and insights on the location, historical facts, recipes, and more. One of my favorite notes was a recipe for Ann’s Layer Cake (minus the Liniment 😜).

Watch this reel to see more about the app’s features, including:
💚 A library of classics
💚 New, modern illustrations
💚 Artwork from previous publications
💚 Chapter Recaps
💚 Character Descriptions
💚 Book, Film, and Podcast Recommendations
💚 Playlist inspired by the book

I truly enjoyed this app and its features. It would be a perfect way to enjoy classic stories with the whole family!

Developer Response ,

Thank you!!

reader4447 ,

Needs more features that are standard on other apps

Enjoyed the guide that is available, but there are some features that are not available that I would like to see added in the future. I usually listen to audiobooks on 2x speed or higher and can’t listen faster than 1.5x. I also can’t track where I am in the book in real time. There is only a tracker that shows how many chapters you have left and how long those chapters are. I would also like to be able to see all of the chapters in the book, but you can only see the chapter after you have finished listening to it.

Still needs some work, but headed in the right direction!

Developer Response ,

Hi, thank you for this review, really glad to hear you enjoyed the guide.

Your feedback on the features is super useful for us as we're building and developing all the time. I'll try to give a quick idea of where we're at on these points:
- Track speed - we're working on adding 1.75x, 2x and 2.5x
- Tracking - we're working on adding percentage listened to on the book shelf and the top of the recaps page, so you will be able to see exactly how far through the book you are, as well as how many chapters (and hours and minutes) you have left. The reason we don't include the recaps of chapters until you've listened to them is to avoid spoilers. But we'd be open to finding a way around this if you have an image in mind of how you'd like it to work 💡

I hope that helps... if there are other features you'd find useful, or if I've misunderstood what you meant with the above, please email me on lucy@readwithaudrey.com with more details - we'd really appreciate it!

Lucy

MomPark18 ,

Unique reading experience. Love it.

This app takes the reading experience and adds context, music, history, and illustrations. It’s so much more than just listening to a book. I really enjoy it.
The character list is helpful to me and is added to as characters appear. The chapter recaps help me make sure I didn’t get distracted while listening and miss something important. Customer support is great and they are updating and improving the app regularly. Also, there are read-a-long discussions hosted on Discord that I enjoy.

Developer Response ,

thank you!!!

Events

In-App Purchases

A Doll's House
A Doll's House
A Doll's House audiobook
$2.99

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