Features

What you can do with Earshelf

Every feature below is in the app today, shown in a real screenshot. Your diary, seven day plan, queue, suggestions, notebook and money tools.

A plan that fits your listening time

Set your daily minutes and the days you listen. Earshelf shares that time across your current books and queue, using what's left at each book's speed. It shows where a loan or finish date needs more room.

Today's logged listening counts against today's time
Move any planned book earlier or later in the queue
Share your dated plan

Seven day plans are free. Fourteen and thirty day plans are part of Pro.

Earshelf's Listening plan on iPhone, showing 13 hours to listen over the next 14 days, a daily minutes chart and books in listening order — A 14 day plan, with Pro

See what's left at your speed

Now shows the time left in your current listen at your playback speed and your usual pace. Log 15 or 30 minutes, update your position or save a thought with one tap.

Log time from widgets, Siri or a Lock Screen listening session
See current listens and loans on Apple Watch

For iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Works with iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and watchOS 26 or later.

Earshelf's Now screen with 3 hours 8 minutes left in the current audiobook at 1.5x speed, and buttons to log 30 or 15 minutes — Know what's left at your speed

Choose what to hear next

Narrow your want to listen shelf by length and context. Earshelf starts with books you own or already pay for, and shows why each one fits, from your narrator ratings to series order.

Add a pick straight to your listening queue

For iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Works with iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and watchOS 26 or later.

Choose next, suggesting an audiobook from the want to listen shelf with the reasons it fits and an Add to listening queue button — Choose your next listen

Look before you pay again

Renewal review shows upcoming renewals, unused credits and what you listened to this cycle. Recorded costs stay separate for each currency, and music plans stay out of the audiobook total.

Credit or cash advice before you buy
A budget for the audiobook hours in your Spotify plan
Costs come from what you record and from Apple Books

For iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Works with iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and watchOS 26 or later.

Renewal review listing recorded audiobook subscriptions with their monthly cost, listening this cycle and unused credits — Review before you renew

Keep the parts that stay with you

Save a thought at your current position in a book. Search your notes across books and chapters, and share the ones you choose. Spoiler notes stay covered until you open them.

For iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Works with iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and watchOS 26 or later.

The listening notebook with notes saved at a time and chapter in three audiobooks, one covered as a spoiler — Keep the parts that stay with you

A diary for everything you hear

Keep built-in and custom shelves, re-listens and private reviews, with half-star ratings for story, narration and production. Narrator pages keep voice tags, ratings and usual speeds together.

Search Apple Books or scan an ISBN
Import Goodreads, StoryGraph or Libby exports
Export CSV or restore a full backup
Hide AI narration with one switch

For iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Works with iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and watchOS 26 or later.

The Library with shelves for want to listen, listening, finished and did not finish, and audiobooks with their narrators — Your whole listening diary

Earshelf is coming soon to iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

Plan around library dates and the time you have, and keep every book you hear in one diary.

Coming to the App Store

Your diary, seven day plan, queue, suggestions, notebook and money tools.

For iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Works with iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and watchOS 26 or later.