Excerpt: Audiobook Player
Sean Laidlaw Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Excerpt: Audiobook Player is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Sean Laidlaw. Rated 4.0/5 from 1 ratings. Requires iOS 26.0.
- Rating
- 4.0
- 1 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 167 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 12
- 2026 · v2.5.0
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About Excerpt: Audiobook Player
Excerpt is an audiobook player that lets you highlight what you hear, the way you would highlight an ebook. Tap the highlighter and the last 30 seconds are saved as text, while the book keeps playing. THE AUTHOR’S EXACT WORDS A transcript mishears names and drops punctuation. Link the book’s epub and Excerpt finds the passage you heard, so each highlight uses the sentence as the author wrote it. HIGHLIGHT WITHOUT TOUCHING YOUR PHONE Take a highlight from the Lock Screen, your headphones, the Action button, your Apple Watch or Siri. Useful when you are driving, running or washing up. READ ALONG AS YOU LISTEN With an epub linked, the ebook follows the narration sentence by sentence. On iPad the page opens beside the player. SEND HIGHLIGHTS TO YOUR NOTES Export a book’s highlights as Markdown for Obsidian, send them to Readwise, or share them as HTML, CSV or JSON. SEARCH EVERY HIGHLIGHT The Vault searches the highlights from all your books at once, on your device. SHORTCUTS AND SIRI More than 30 actions for the Shortcuts app, and links that open any highlight. YOUR OWN FILES, OR FREE LIBRIVOX BOOKS Import m4b and mp3 files, download books from your Audiobookshelf server and keep your position in sync with it, or search LibriVox for free public-domain audiobooks, many with a matching ebook. CLEAN UP LOW-QUALITY AUDIOBOOKS The Enhance model restores muffled, compressed narration on your device. Compare it with the original before you apply it. The original is always kept. ON EVERY DEVICE Books and highlights sync through your own iCloud to iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. There is no account to create. EXCERPT PREMIUM Excerpt is free to use. Premium is an optional subscription that adds Whisper transcription models, an ebook match for every book, and AI clean-up of transcripts. Privacy Policy: https://octetmediteranee.eu/excerpt/privacy Terms & Conditions: https://octetmediteranee.eu/excerpt/terms
What’s new
Version 2.5.0 · Updated October 12, 2026
The biggest update to Excerpt yet. • Read Along: the ebook follows the narration sentence by sentence. On iPad the page opens beside the player. • Highlight from the Lock Screen, Control Centre, the Action button, or a triple-press on your headphones. • Import books from your Audiobookshelf server, with your position synced both ways. • The new Enhance model cleans up low-quality, compressed audiobooks on your device. Compare it with the original first. • A sleep timer that fades out, shown on the Lock Screen. • New Shortcuts actions for the sleep timer, playback speed and Enhance, and more deeplinks in the URL scheme. • Browse the bundled LibriVox catalogue, and see which books come with a matching ebook. • In a book with an ebook, new highlights snap to whole sentences. • Downloads carry on in the background.
App privacy
The developer, Sean Laidlaw, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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