Your audiobooks, with your books
Lexory plays the audiobooks you own — MP3, M4B and M4A, as a single file or a folder of chapters — and keeps them on the same shelves as your books. Chapters, speed, bookmarks, a sleep timer, the Lock Screen and CarPlay are all there, and so is the place you stopped, on every device.
A file or a folder — it's one audiobook
Add an M4B with chapters, a single MP3, or a folder of files: the folder becomes one audiobook, its files become chapters in order, and a cover or text file inside is picked up. A folder with discs inside (CD1, CD2…) asks whether that’s one book or several. Audiobooks come in from Files, Share, AirDrop, Wi-Fi, WebDAV, links — and from OPDS catalogs straight to the Audio tab.
The player
A big cover on a spinning disc, chapter list with durations, ±15 seconds, next and previous chapter, speed, and bookmarks with a note at the exact second. Time left in the chapter and in the book. The mini player stays at the bottom while you browse or read something else.
Sleep timer and bookmarks
Fall asleep to the end of the chapter or after a set number of minutes — the timer is in the player, one tap away. Bookmarks go to the exact moment and open from the list.
Your cover, your title
Open the audiobook’s card and tap Edit: a cover from Photos or from a file, title and author — useful for folders that arrived without art. Mark an audiobook as listened, add it to Favorites, put it in a collection next to the book it belongs with, and delete it with a swipe.
Lock Screen, headphones, CarPlay
Playback continues with the screen locked and in the background; play, pause and skip from the Lock Screen, headphones or AirPods — sound resumes after a phone call. In CarPlay, Lexory shows your audiobooks with chapters and Now Playing. Home shows what you’re listening to, and the Now Listening widget plays or pauses without opening the app.
Books and audiobooks together
Library lists everything with a filter — All, Books, Audiobooks — shared search, sorting, authors and grid. Listening positions sync through your iCloud like reading positions; your daily goal counts listening minutes too.
Good to know
- Lexory plays files you have; it isn’t connected to Audible or any audiobook store, and DRM-protected audio won’t play.
- Audio files are stored on the device and, if you turn on Store Books in iCloud, in your iCloud Drive — large audiobooks count toward your iCloud storage.
- CarPlay shows audiobooks; read-aloud of a book is controlled from the device and the Lock Screen.
- A folder’s audio files become chapters in file-name order; rename files on the computer if the order is wrong.
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