Listening

The audiobook player that follows you around the app — where it lives, how each book's place is remembered, and how previews share it.

Once a book has recorded audio, Listen on the bookshelf starts playback.

The dock

Playback moves into a dock at the bottom of the app and stays there.

You can open a book, design a cover, write a chapter and move between studios without the audio stopping. Every full-height screen shrinks to make room for it rather than sliding underneath.

The dock shows the book's real cover, the chapter title, transport controls, a ±10-second skip, a speed control, a chapter list and a ⬇ MP3 download that saves the chapter without leaving the app. Lock-screen and headset controls work too.

✕ hides the dock — and keeps your place.

The audiobook is the newest take of every chapter

What plays is your book, chapter by chapter, numbered as the book numbers them. Give chapter 5 a new take and chapter 5 changes; nothing else does. Checking the audio or building a release never changes what plays.

Every book remembers its place

Per book, across sessions. Start another book and come back: you are where you left the first one. Continue listening on the bookshelf takes you straight back, even after you've closed the dock.

Finished with a book for now? The ✕ in the corner of its Continue listening card takes it off the shelf. Your place is kept, so Listen on the book still picks up where you stopped, and the card comes back the next time you play it.

A saved place is checked against the chapters that exist now, so a place saved before you re-recorded a book cannot drop you somewhere that no longer exists.

Hearing a voice sample or a single passage in the Narration Studio plays in the same dock. The book pauses, and its place is kept; when the preview ends, or you close it, the book is exactly where it was. Two things never play at once.

If a link expires

Audio links are signed for a limited time. If one expires mid-chapter, the dock fetches fresh ones and carries on. If it can't, it says so and waits for you to press play — it does not sit on “playing” over silence.

Listening is never gated

There is no plan check on playback. If your subscription lapses you can still play and download audio you have already made.