AudiV is the audiobook player you fill yourself. No subscription, no streaming catalog, no ads — just your library, your rules, your family.
Reads embedded chapter markers from M4B, MP3, FLAC. Snap to chapter boundaries; prev/next; chapter list with search.
Drop a marker mid-listen. Add a note. Search them. Share a moment as a deep link with a single tap.
Trims silences automatically. 0.5–4× speed control with a per-author memory so you don't reset every book.
End-of-chapter or fixed minutes. Shake your phone mid-fade to extend by five. Resume picks up where you drifted off.
Lock-screen, CarPlay, Apple Watch. Background playback that just works. Bluetooth handoff to your car when you start it up.
Files app picker, AirDrop, or in-app Wi-Fi Transfer — drop files from your computer's browser straight onto the phone.
iOS and Android, byte-for-byte the same Family Link backend. A parent on iOS pairs with a kid on Android with no friction.
Books without artwork get a deterministic gradient + monogram, generated from the title. Same on every device, distinct in every grid.
PIN-protected. Adult-flagged titles disappear. Themes redesigned for older kids. Parent surfaces hidden entirely on the kid's device.
The kid's phone shows a 6-character code. The parent enters it on their own AudiV app. That's the whole setup.
Once linked, the parent dashboard shows what the kid is listening to right now, a 7-day chart of their listening, a streak ring, and a list of every book in their library. All of it tied only to the pairing code — never to a real-name account, an Apple ID, or an email.
Aurora, Galaxy, Wild, Lagoon, Citrus — saturated enough to feel different from the grown-up palette, never cartoony. Each ships with both a dark and a light variant.
Cover art tints individual rows automatically: AudiV extracts the dominant color from each book's artwork at import time, so the player background and library highlights match what's playing.
AudiV's data flows are documented exhaustively, not marketing-fluffed. Here's the whole picture in one card.
No. AudiV is free, and there are no in-app purchases or ads. We don't sell content; you bring your own audio files.
LibriVox (public domain, free), Libro.fm (DRM-free purchases that support indie bookstores), Downpour, your own Audible library converted via OpenAudible, podcasts, your own recordings. Any DRM-free audio file in M4B, MP3, M4A, FLAC, AAC, WAV, OGG, or Opus format.
No. Those are DRM-locked to their original apps. AudiV does not contain any DRM-stripping code. If you want a one-shop replacement, Libro.fm sells the same major-publisher catalog as Audible but in a DRM-free MP3 format that imports straight in.
The kid device generates a 6-character pairing code. The parent enters it on their own phone. From then on, the kid's app sends a small JSON snapshot — listening stats, current title, library list — to our Cloudflare Worker every two minutes while the app is open. The worker stores it under the pairing code; the parent's app fetches it on the same cadence. Generating a new code on the kid device immediately orphans the old data.
No, it's entirely optional. If you don't set it up, AudiV never transmits any data off your device. You can use AudiV as a pure local audiobook player and nothing leaves your phone.
Uninstall it and any locally-stored data is gone. If you set up Family Link, the cloud-side records auto-expire after 7 days of no publishes. You can also email support@runaboutdigital.com with your pairing code to wipe records earlier.
Both. Apple Watch syncs your library metadata + position via WCSession. CarPlay shows the now-playing card and lets you skip / pause / scrub. Bluetooth handoff to a car stereo just works.
No subscription. No login. Bring your library and listen.
iOS 17+ · Android 7.0+