Appollo
Real chapters, read from the file
Appollo parses chapter lists straight out of your m4b and mp3 files, including the layouts most players miss, so a 30-hour epic is easy to move around in.
Audiobook player for Android
Your library.
Your library.
Your pace.
Always in your pocket.
Point Appollo at a folder on your phone, an Audiobookshelf server, or both. It finds your books, reads the chapters out of the files themselves, and keeps your place in step across devices.
Free to download. No account, no analytics, no telemetry.
Features
Built for long books and real libraries
One player session shared by the screen, the notification, your car and your headphones, so nothing can disagree about where you are in a book.
Audiobookshelf built in
Connect your server with its address, username and password. Books stream by default; tap the cloud badge on a cover to pin one to the device for offline listening.
Sync that gets offline right
Listen on the train with wifi off, then pick up on another device. Unpushed local changes win, so a stale timestamp from the server never rewinds you.
Sleep timer and call rewind
Drift off with a timer set to a duration or the end of the chapter. When a phone call interrupts, playback resumes five seconds back so you never lose the thread.
Android Auto and Bluetooth
Every library gets its own node in Android Auto. Steering wheel and headphone buttons control the same session as the screen and the notification.
Multi-file books, one timeline
A book split across a dozen files behaves like a single recording. Skip back at the start of part three and you land at the end of part two, not at 0:00.
How it works
Up and listening in under a minute
Add a library
Pick a folder on the device, or sign in to your Audiobookshelf server. Add as many libraries as you like; each gets its own tab in the app and its own node in Android Auto.
Press play
Appollo scans the files for tags, covers, duration and chapters. Playback keeps running in the background, in the notification, and in the car.
Pick up anywhere
Your position is saved to the second and synced through your server when one is connected. Go offline for a week and it catches up when you are back.
Plays the files you already have
DRM-free audiobooks from any store, library rip, or your own recordings.
M4B
M4A / AAC
MP3
Audiobookshelf
Privacy
Your listening is nobody's business
The only network traffic Appollo makes is to servers you add yourself. No analytics, no accounts, no telemetry, no ads. Read the privacy policy; it is short.
Ready for your next chapter?
Download Appollo for Android and bring your whole library with you.