Akoue: your (audio)books

Akoue turns the audiobooks you already own — folders of MP3s, M4B files, archives from your home server — into a real library with authors, series, narrators and chapters, kept in your own iCloud, not in someone else's cloud. Finish a book and, with Akoue Pro, it moves to iCloud in one tap — or on its own if you set it so — to free up your phone. Nothing to buy again, no subscription to keep what's yours.

FROM ANY SOURCE, A READY-MADE BOOK
• CD1/CD2 discs, numbered file names, tags: Akoue assembles them into one book with chapters in the right order.
• Garbled titles from old encodings are repaired in one tap, with a preview and undo.
• Chapters come from M4B, tags and cue files; the cover from a tag, a file next door or the folder. None at all? Akoue draws one.
• ZIP archives unpack themselves, and non-Latin file names inside survive.
• Importing again never creates duplicates; a compilation is split into separate books.
• Audio plays without conversion: mp3, m4a, m4b, aac, flac, wav, aiff, alac, opus. The text edition of the same book sits next to it: epub, fb2, md and pdf in the built-in reader; txt, rtf, doc, docx in the system viewer.

A PLAYER FOR BOOKS, NOT MUSIC
• A hundred files play as one book; the position never gets lost between files.
• Separate skip-back and skip-forward intervals; after a pause the book rewinds on its own, further the longer you were away.
• Speed 0.5×–3× without distorting the voice.
• The sleep timer counts listening, not clock time: end of chapter, gentle fade-out, shake the phone and the book continues.
• Bookmarks with notes you can search and jump to.
• Finished a volume? The next one in the series starts by itself.

A COLLECTION IN ORDER
• Authors with pen names, narrators, series and cycles, a genre tree, tags, favorites and smart shelves.
• Twelve sort orders and nineteen filters. Search forgives the wrong keyboard layout and transliteration.
• One book can hold several narrations and a text edition; add editions by hand, …