Excerpt: Audiobook Player

Turn your audiobooks into usable notes.

Capture the passage you just heard, transcribe it into editable text, and export your highlights into the tools where you think, write, study, and remember.

Highlight spoken ideas in one tap
When something stands out, tap once to save the moment. Excerpt clips the audio around that point and turns it into a text highlight, so the ideas in your audiobooks are no longer trapped in playback history.

Review, edit, and organise
Highlights are grouped by chapter and separated into fresh and archived notes. Search your highlights, edit the transcript, adjust clip timing, or replay the original audio excerpt in isolation.

Read Along
Add an epub file of the same book, and on-device text-to-audio matching means you can open the ebook chapter to read your highlights in context, and even extend them, and create new highlights by highlighting the ebook text.

Built for serious listening
Listen with variable speed from 0.5× to 2×, chapter navigation, configurable skip intervals, background playback, and lock-screen controls. You can also create a highlight from the skip-back control, making it easy to capture something immediately after you hear it.

Export your knowledge
Send highlights to Readwise, or export them as Markdown, HTML, CSV, or JSON. Excerpt keeps your notes structured by book and chapter, ready for writing, research, study, or review.

Bring your own audiobooks
Import your own audio files and keep your library organised in one place. Excerpt supports chapter navigation and preserves the structure that makes long-form listening easier.

Browse public-domain classics
Search and download public-domain audiobooks from Librivox directly inside the app. Excerpt can fetch, unzip, and assemble multi-part recordings into a continuous audiobook with chapter markers.

Private by design
Excerpt is built around your own library, your own notes, and your own listening history. Audio highlights and transcripts stay part of your personal audiobook workflow.