AudioNest: Audiobook Player
Captions & Character Guides
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Every audiobook, one calm home.
AudioNest is a beautiful audiobook player for iPhone and iPad. Listen to thousands of free classics, bring your own library, read every word as it's spoken, and never lose track of who's who.
CHARACTER GUIDES
Forget who someone is? Tap the characters button in the player and see who they are, without spoilers. Each character joins the guide once their chapter ends, so it never gets ahead of you. Books with a guide are marked Enhanced.
CAPTIONS
CC fills the screen with the narration, line by line; the spoken line lights up. Scroll back to catch something you missed, or tap any line to hear it again. Chapters are marked as they begin. Captions are made on your device, a few minutes ahead, and kept for offline listening. Nothing is uploaded.
3,000+ FREE CLASSICS, AND GROWING
Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes, The Great Gatsby, Dracula and thousands more, ready to play in seconds. No account needed.
YOUR OWN LIBRARY
Import audiobooks from Files, or stream from your own server or cloud: Audiobookshelf, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, OneDrive and more. M4B, MP3, ZIP and multi-part books, with chapters.
READ ALONG
Have the ebook? Import an EPUB and read beside the player. Read Along lights up the words as they're spoken, and keeps your place in both.
AUDIONEST INTELLIGENCE
Long descriptions become a few clear lines, and every bookmark keeps a Memory of the words you saved. Made privately on your device.
A PLAYER THAT STAYS OUT OF THE WAY
Speeds from 0.5× to 3.5×, Smart Rewind, a sleep timer that fades out, and bookmarks with notes.
YOUR LISTENING, REMEMBERED
Listening History tells the story of every book. Insights shows streaks, yearly goals, and your top genres and authors.
ON EVERY DEVICE, IF YOU LIKE
Start on your iPhone, finish on your iPad. A free AudioNest Account carries your library and progress between your devices, locked so only your devices can read it. Add a profile, keep your streaks, and join a weekly league if you want to see how you stack up. Optional: AudioNest works fully without it.
AUTHORS
Every author in your library gets a page: their photo, life story, and everything they wrote.
MAKE IT YOURS
16 themes, 22 accents and 8 app icons, your own Home, and covers two to six across. Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen and Control Center, CarPlay, Apple Watch and iPad.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No ads, no tracking. No account required: without one, your library and listening stay on your device and your own iCloud backup. With one, your library is locked on your device before it syncs, and your profile shares numbers, never titles.
AudioNest is free to download and use. AudioNest Premium unlocks extras such as Captions, Read Along, Intelligence, all of Insights and more, monthly, yearly (with a 1-week free trial) or once for life.
Captions and Read Along need iOS 26. AudioNest Intelligence needs an iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence.
Terms: https://audionest.pages.dev/terms/
Privacy: https://audionest.pages.dev/privacy/
Bug fixes and improvements
The developer, THE BLUE RIO, LLC, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- THE BLUE RIO, LLC
- Size
- 99.5 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Realistic Violence
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Horror/Fear Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Guns or Other Weapons
Contains
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Premium Lifetime $59.99
- Premium Monthly $3.99
- Premium Yearly $29.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 The Blue Rio, LLC