Releases

🚀 New

• Keep companion files alongside your audiobooks in the new “Extras” page
• Import folders and ZIP archives

✨ Improved

• Updated layouts with more consistent spacing, colors, and typography

🔧 Fixed

• Chapter start times on the “Chapters” page omit the duration of earlier files in multi-file audiobooks
• The “Chapter end” sleep timer continues playing the next file in multi-file audiobooks
• Some MP3 files stop near the end without continuing to the next file
• Titles stored in iCloud Drive sometimes fail to play until the Player is reopened
• A paused player does not update when you continue listening on another device
• Player controls can size incorrectly in narrow windows or when the keyboard is visible
• The bottom player can shrink too narrow to show the title and artwork on some window sizes
• Artwork is too large in expanded player after rotation

🚀 New

• Add files directly to an existing title

✨ Improved

• Redesigned Add Files flow with clearer options and a summary of added and skipped files
• File copying now continues when Every Word moves to the background
• File reordering and deletion have moved to Info → Manage Files

🔧 Fixed

• Player transitions can dismiss an unrelated open screen

✨ Improved

• Redesigned player bottom popups for better legibility

🔧 Fixed

• Playback stops at the end of a file in multi-file books instead of continuing to the next file

✨ Improved

• Chapters are now saved with the library, so chapter lists load consistently across the Player, Info, and CarPlay

🔧 Fixed

• Library can appear empty after a book is deleted
• Shorten Silences can distort speech during long continuous playback
• Shorten Silences can sound more abrupt after recent audio pipeline changes
• Rapidly tapping skip backward or forward can crash the app
• Starting several book back-to-back can play audio from more than one book at once

🚀 New

• Bookmarks

🚀 New

• Database Storage screen in Settings shows database and cache sizes

🔧 Fixed

• Book playback can get stuck at the end of playback and never finish.

Every Word is now updated with support for Liquid Glass. This is a broad refresh across the app, including the Player, all screens, menus, popovers, and control popups.

🚀 New

• Japanese, Russian, German, French, Italian, and Spanish localizations
• Customize playback speed presets in Settings → Player Controls

✨ Improved

• Library now remembers the selected sort
• Sleep timer Live Activity is now more reliable and handles app restarts better
• Free playback now allows 2 titles per day across all locations

🔧 Fixed

• Importing files with # in the filename fails
• Playback does not resume on cold launch
• Resetting progress for the currently playing title restarts playback and immediately saves progress again
• Sleep timer continues running after stopping and closing the Player

🚀 New

• Enhance Audio
• Toggle from the player for louder volume and cleaner sound

✨ Improved

• Various accessibility enhancements

🚀 New

• CarPlay support

🔧 Fixed

• Playback progress in Now Playing sometimes continues moving when paused

🚀 New

• Lock Screen Widgets
• Check your progress and jump back in with one tap
• New alternative app icon: “Layers”

✨ Improved

• The original app icon returns as a selectable alternative

🔧 Fixed

• Chosen app icon applies correctly, but the selection in settings resets to default after a relaunch

🚀 New

• Control Widgets
• Instantly play audiobooks or toggle playback speed from Control Center, Lock Screen, or using your device's Action Button
• Prevent Lock Screen Scrubbing
• When turned on in Settings → Player Controls, Lock Screen slider is disabled to prevent accidental position changes

🚀 New

• App Shortcuts support
• Continue playback, start a sleep timer, or skip chapters from the Shortcuts app, Siri, or Spotlight
• Additional actions to adjust the sleep timer, skip by a time interval, change playback speed, or toggle Shorten Silences

🔧 Fixed

• Missing artwork when importing a new book
• Incorrect order when sorting by author in reverse

✨ Improved

• Rewritten artwork caching for better performance

🔧 Fixed

• When importing multiple files, only one of them is actually imported

✨ Improved

• Updated colors for the main app icon
• Added dark and tinted variants for all app icons
• Moved batch delete and library management from the “Settings” tab to the “Library” tab
• Output selection button now adjusts volume only after a long press to prevent accidental changes
• Better touch detection on position slider

🔧 Fixed

• Deleting a book from the info screen crashes the app
• Playback sometimes fails to resume from the widget on first attempt

✨ Improved

• Remember last played book when relaunched
• Option to reset progress now only shows for unfinished books that have some progress

🔧 Fixed

• Import storage selection not saved
• Toggling finished state doesn't immediately update the UI
• App crashes on launch if database file is inaccessible
• Widgets crash if database file is inaccessible
• Tab bar is shown together with the sidebar on older iPadOS versions

🚀 New

• “Search” tab is replaced with a “Library” tab
• Added a link to the official Bluesky
• Stop playback and close player from the “More” button
• Library sort options: by author, by runtime

✨ Improved

• Redesigned home screen
• Selecting a book now opens the info screen instead of starting playback
• The playback position slider now allows scrubbing from any point, not just the grabber
• Always present confirmation alert before deleting a title
• Toggling between time remaining and percent completed when playing is now done from the “More” button

🔧 Fixed

• Crashes when using the app after toggling iCloud sync
• Widgets displaying incorrectly in tinted mode
• Player background appearing too gray in light mode
• Tapping an already selected tab to scroll to top stops at the wrong position
• Missing home image on older OS versions
• Tapping the ”Suggest” button when editing a book can crash the app

🚀 New

• Added current membership details to Every Word Plus screen

🚀 New

• Tab bar navigation
• Renamed “Library” to “Home”
• Added a dedicated “Search” tab
• Mini player now floats above the tab bar instead of sticking to the bottom
• Updated expanded player navigation:
• Replaced the top grabber with navigation buttons
• Switched navigation between sections to horizontal swipes
• Removed the info pane: use the new “More” button to view the currently playing book in the library

✨ Improved

• Redesigned info screen
• Added a header to the chapters screen displaying the chapter count

🔧 Fixed

• Incorrect chapter progress in the info screen when a different book is playing
• Missing chapters icon on older OS versions
• Player freezes when changing files
• Wrong colors in cover art for newly imported books

🚀 New

• Added a link to the official Mastodon

🔧 Fixed

• High battery usage during playback

🚀 New

• Quick skip: repeated taps skip up to 5× faster
• Settings to adjust the amount of time skipped by skip buttons

🔧 Fixed

• Skipping causes the app to slow down until it is restarted
• Quickly skipping crashes the app

🚀 New

• Redesigned file import flow

🔧 Fixed

• Background color for library screen in Dark Mode changes when playing a title
• Showing incorrect time in Now Playing when playing chapters other than the first
• Button text has low legibility on some themes
• Distribution includes test files making the binary larger than needed

🚀 New

• Added an info pane button to the player
• Added a skip forward button to the mini player
• Chapters section in the player is automatically scrolled to the current chapter

✨ Improved

• Player info pane is redesigned with sections split into tabs
• Scrolling down snaps the info pane to top
• Opening player animation is now smoother

🔧 Fixed

• Mini player is sometimes stuck in a half-scrolled position
• Playing a title to the end does not clear the system Now Playing information
• Resuming from Now Playing does not work after quitting the app

Every Word is now updated to work great on iOS 17.

🚀 New

• StandBy support
• Interactive widgets
• Sleep timer shows a Live Activity

✨ Improved

• Better default artwork image
• Now Listening widget has a new look
• Updated context menu appearance

🔧 Fixed

• Popover and showing player animations are too fast
• Can't resume after playback interruption
• Can't dismiss some modals in landscape orientation
• File order can be incorrect after import
• Quickly seeking between files or titles can cause multiple files to be played simultaneously

First release 🎉