Audiobook player for iPhone
Listen to the book.Keep the moments.
Unpaged plays your own audiobooks, more than 20,000 free classics and your Audiobookshelf library. Save the passages that stay with you, and let Apple Intelligence name them, right on your iPhone.
- Free to listen
- iOS 18 and later
- No account, no ads, no tracking
Your library
Three ways in.
One shelf.
Already yours. Right at home.
Import DRM-free audiobooks from Files. Unpaged keeps the chapters, cover art and your exact place together in one personal library.
- MP3, M4B, M4A and AAC
- Embedded chapters, read straight from the file
- Offline by default
Twenty thousand first chapters.
Browse the LibriVox catalog of public-domain audiobooks. Hear a 20-second sample, compare other recordings of the same book, then stream it or download it.
- A new classic picked every day
- Curated collections and filters for language, genre and length
- Downloads continue in the background
Your server, in your pocket.
Connect your own Audiobookshelf server over your home network or VPN. Browse series, collections, authors and narrators, and keep your place in step with the server.
- Stream, or download for the road
- Listening progress syncs both ways
- Works over Tailscale and plain LAN
Moments
Some passages deserve
a bookmark.
Tap Save Moment and Unpaged marks the exact second, stepping back as far as you choose so you catch the start of the line. Name it, add a note, and come back to it whenever you like.
- Search every moment
- One search across every book, by name, note, quote or title, even for books no longer on this iPhone.
- Back to the second
- Tap a moment on the book page or in search, and playback jumps straight to it.
- Yours to keep
- With iCloud sync, moments follow your library to your other devices.
Anatomy of a moment
How a moment
writes itself.
With Unpaged Plus, Apple Intelligence can fill in a moment for you. Here is what happens when you tap Save Moment in a downloaded book. All of it runs on your iPhone. The audio and the words never leave it.
01Listen back
It hears what you just heard.
Unpaged takes the 75 seconds behind the playhead and 15 ahead. The moment is what you just heard, without spoiling what comes next.
02Transcribe
The words, on device.
Apple’s speech model reads that stretch of the audio file directly, punctuation included. Recognition is required to happen on device, so nothing is uploaded.
03Name
A title from the turning point.
The on-device model writes a three-to-five word title around the event the passage turns on. Short fields come first, so a long passage can only ever trim the last one.
04Categories & mood
Labels from a closed list.
Categories and mood aren’t free text. The model picks one to three of ten categories and one of eight moods, so every label is one you can filter by.
05Characters
Who is in the scene.
Up to six names, speaking or mentioned. “His wife” becomes Mrs. Bennet because the passage makes it plain.
06Quote
A quote it cannot make up.
The quote has to be copied word for word. Unpaged then checks it against the transcript, ignoring case and punctuation. A near miss snaps to the real sentence, and an invented line is dropped.
07Note
Then a note, and it’s yours.
Two short sentences on what is happening and why it matters, written last. Edit anything before you save.
Transcript
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. “My dear Mr. Bennet,” said his lady to him one day, “have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?” Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. “But it is,” returned she; “for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.” Mr. Bennet made no answer. “Do you not want to know who has taken it?” cried his wife impatiently. “You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.” This was invitation enough.
Netherfield Park Is Let
“You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.”
Mrs. Bennet rushes to share the news that Netherfield Park has a new tenant. Mr. Bennet’s dry replies set up the comedy of the marriage plot.
Smart naming needs Unpaged Plus, iOS 26 or later and Apple Intelligence. Without it, moments still save with the exact time, and you can name them yourself.
An illustrative example. Real results depend on the passage and the device. Excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, in the public domain.
Listening
A chapter here.
A habit, eventually.
The walk. The dishes. The last half hour of the day. Unpaged keeps a quiet record of the time you spend with books, and helps you back in when life gets in the way.
See it add up
A heatmap of every listening day, streaks, your best day and hour, and the authors you keep returning to.
Where was I? Plus
After three days away, a welcome-back recap sums up where you left the story, just above Continue.
The player
Made for the way
you listen.
The small controls that make one more chapter possible.
Chapter by chapter
Embedded chapters from M4B, M4A and MP3 files, or the chapters your Audiobookshelf server knows. The player, the chapter list and CarPlay all agree.
A proper stopping point
Sleep in fifteen minutes, or at the end of this chapter. Pausing keeps the timer armed.
The voice, just right
A five-band equalizer with Voice Boost, remembered for each book.
Pick up anywhere
Continue Listening widgets, a Siri shortcut and CarPlay put your book one tap away.
Free to listen
Your library is personal.
So is the intelligence.
No ads, no tracking, no account to create. The player is free, for good. Unpaged Plus adds iCloud sync and the Apple Intelligence features, and the AI runs on your iPhone.
Unpaged
Free, for good
- Your own audiobook files
- LibriVox classics and Audiobookshelf
- Moments, search and listening stats
- Chapters, sleep timer and equalizer
- CarPlay, Siri and widgets
Unpaged Plus
Everything free, and
- Smart moment naming
- Welcome-back recaps
- iCloud sync for library, progress and moments
- Reading activity on every device
AI features need iOS 26 or later and Apple Intelligence. iCloud sync keeps your library records, not audio files. Plans and any trial are shown in the app.
Good books go with you
Make room for
another chapter.
Free on the App Store, for iPhone with iOS 18 or later.
