Akoue Pro
The free version is not a trial: you can listen and catalogue without a book limit and without a deadline. Pro is for when the collection does not fit the phone, or there is more than one device.
- Offload to iCloudKeep on the phone only what you are listening to now. The rest waits in your iCloud Drive and comes back on a tap — the book plays while it downloads.
- Sync across devicesStart on the phone, carry on from the same place on the tablet. Bookmarks, edits and listening hours are shared.
- Bulk operationsFree space across a whole finished shelf at once instead of book by book. Before anything happens: the list of books it touches and the space it frees.
- Merge authors“Tolkien, J. R. R.” and “J.R.R. Tolkien” become one person — with all the books on one page.
- Author profilesA photo, a note and links on the author’s page — the collection looks like a collection.
- StatisticsHow many hours, which genres, which narrators and how many days in a row. Plus a year in review.
- ThemesThree themes beyond the free one — Fluid, Tape, Aura — and an accent colour for each.
- Audio processingThe narrator’s pauses get shorter, a quiet recording gets louder — the book sounds even, with no hand on the volume.
What stays free for good
Nothing about data safety, accessibility or security ever moves into Pro.
- Import with no book limit: folders, archives, separate files, cloud links
- The whole catalog: authors, series, narrators, genres, smart shelves, every field editable
- The whole player: chapters, skips, speed, sleep timer, bookmarks, the next volume by itself
- The reader, search that forgives layout and transliteration, Spotlight
- Lock screen, widgets, Control Center, Siri, CarPlay
- Backup, export to JSON and CSV, the integrity check, the trash
- Five languages, VoiceOver and Dynamic Type
Pro for good with one purchase, or yearly for as long as you need it. Both work on all your devices, family included. The lifetime option is never going away. There is no book limit and there never will be. Your local price is shown in the App Store.
What people ask about Pro
Which is better value: for good or yearly?
For good costs about three years and a bit. If you listen all the time and the collection is large, for good is cheaper; if you want to try a year, take the year: you can buy for good later, and the year will not have been wasted — Pro worked the whole time.
What happens when the subscription ends?
The Pro features close, the data does not: books offloaded to iCloud come back to the device for free and play; the catalog, bookmarks, statistics and edits stay. Renew or buy for good and everything opens up in the same place.
Why a subscription at all, if you have no servers?
The yearly one is not payment for servers, there are none; it pays for development: the updates people renew for. Anyone who does not want a subscription buys Pro for good — that option comes first and is not going anywhere.
Is there Family Sharing?
Yes, on both purchases: one for the family group.
What if I never buy Pro?
Everything you need to listen to books and keep them in order stays: unlimited import, the catalog, the player, the reader, search, widgets. The locked features stay visible and explained rather than hidden.