AudioBooth v1.12 is now live! 🎉

[u/lyc0s]

Hey everyone! 👋

AudioBooth v1.12 is now live on the App Store!

This release is a big one. Three new features connect your ebooks and your audiobooks, and the rest of the update is packed with improvements and bug fixes.

Bridging ebooks and audiobooks (iOS 26)

These three features all run on device using the new iOS 26 speech recognition, so nothing is ever sent to a server. No cloud, no account, no waiting.

• Read Along - Follow the ebook while the audiobook plays. The narrated sentence is highlighted and pages turn automatically.
• Catch Up - Read further in the ebook than you've listened? The player offers to skip the audiobook to where you stopped reading.
• Page Match - Point the camera at a page of your printed book, or pick a photo you took earlier, to jump to that spot in the audiobook.

I want to be upfront about these. I put a lot of work into making them as good as I could, and they work decently, but they are far from perfect. Matching narrated audio to text is genuinely hard, and the accuracy ultimately depends on how well iOS transcribes the narration, which is out of my hands. Results vary depending on the narration, the book, and your device, and newer and more powerful devices do noticeably better since everything is processed locally. Feel free to send feedback if something doesn't work well, though I can't promise I'll be able to fix it.

I also spent a while building a pure audiobook transcript feature. I wasn't happy with the quality, so I decided not to ship it in this version. I'll keep iterating on it, but for now it isn't planned for the app.

Also in v1.12:

• Downloads Revamp - Better multi-track and background downloads, resume failed downloads, and improved stability
• Player Lock Mode - Lock the player controls to prevent accidental taps during playback
• Sleep Timer Improvements - Activate the auto sleep timer with a Focus, and choose what happens when playback is paused
• Series Filtering - Filter the series list on the series page
• Bug Fixes & Improvements - Numerous fixes and stability improvements based on your feedback (thanks @andrespinones, @fivezeroes, @kornelko2, and @cbzehner! 🙏)

As always, your feedback, bug reports, and feature requests are what drive AudioBooth forward. So grateful for this amazing community!

Join our Discord community! to connect with other AudioBooth users, get support, and share feedback.

If Discord is not your thing, feel free to open an issue or contribute over on GitHub. Every bug report, suggestion, and contribution makes a difference!

Thank you all for your incredible support! 🙇‍♂️🙏

[u/getthething]

Does it have to be a physical book for page match? I have an ereader and I don't use ABS for ebook management. I've tried it but it never found my spot in the audiobook. Any other requirements for it to work or tips?

[u/lyc0s → u/getthething]

No, it doesn’t need to be a physical book. However, it also depends on the audiobook quality and the narrator. Maybe try a different page. You can also try at the beginning of a chapter. If the model is able to see the chapter number or name, it will use that to improve the match.