Every book, right where you left it.

Home opens on the book you're on, tinted with its cover: the chapter, the time left at your speed and the day you'll finish at your pace. A series is a row of spines in reading order, and with community metadata on, the books you don't have stand among them as dashed ghosts with their real titles.

• Smart shelves: Finish what you started, Short listens under 5 h, Added this week
• Browse by book, author, series, narrator, collection or folder
• Publication, chronological or recommended order, where the community knows them
• Search finds characters too, but only the ones you have already met

When listeners have written characters and recaps for a book, they appear on its page and beside the player, gated by your position. Anything past where you are is counted, not shown: "16 hidden to avoid spoilers". The whole-book summary waits behind a tap until you finish.

Away for twelve days or more? Previously on picks up where you were and offers to resume with 30 seconds of overlap.

Characters and recaps cover a growing number of books, about 3,000 so far. Where they come from

The seek bar works within the chapter, so even a long book gives you fine control. Under it, a slim timeline of the whole book: chapters sized by length, bookmarks and notes pinned on. Jump more than a minute and a "Back to 17:26:50" chip offers the way home.

• Speed from 0.5x to 2x in 0.05 steps, pitch-corrected and remembered per book
• Time left at your speed everywhere, and the clock time the chapter ends
• Sleep after minutes, a chapter or the book; minutes timers fade out over the last 30 seconds, and in the apps a shake restarts the timer
• A "Fell asleep" bookmark, so you can jump back to where you drifted off
• AirPlay, or the Cast picker, where your device offers it

Up next is kept on your server, so the queue follows you from phone to laptop. Bookmarks carry labels (Quote, Favourite, Re-listen, Funny, Question) and notes pin a thought to a moment.

The Journal gathers them from every book on every server, with a diary of each day's listening, and exports to Markdown or CSV.

Your week, your streak and a goal ring; a listening calendar, the hours of the day you listen, your top authors and narrators. At the end of the year, up to eight story cards, each one shareable as an image.

Nothing leaves your server unless you share a card.

Download a book, or let the app keep the next ones ready from Up next and the series, always leaving storage free. It works in the web player too, over https. Progress made offline syncs when you're back, and a book never quietly restarts from zero.

Sign in to more than one server and Home, search and favourites merge them. The 2.0 apps for iPhone, iPad and Android (in beta now) switch between your server's home and public address on their own.