Aura: Audiobooks & Podcasts

Listen to timeless public-domain audiobooks and your favorite podcasts in one calm, distraction-free space — free to use, with no account required, no subscriptions, and zero ads. Aura opens straight into your library so you can press play in seconds. NEW IN AURA 2.0 • Apple CarPlay: Take your audiobooks and podcasts on the road with a native CarPlay dashboard, chapter lists, and one-tap playback speed control. • Siri & Action Button Shortcuts: Say "Siri, resume my audiobook in Aura", "Siri, set an Aura sleep timer for 30 minutes", or "Siri, what's playing in Aura?" • Interactive Home Screen, Lock Screen & StandBy Widgets: Play, pause, and rewind 15 seconds right from your Home Screen or nightstand without opening the app. • Dynamic Discovery & Episode Tracking: Rotating hero spotlight, automatic episode sync, and persistent per-episode progress and played status across restarts. KEY FEATURES • Free & Private: No login, no subscriptions, no tracking, and zero third-party SDKs. • Classic Audiobooks: Stream public-domain recordings from LibriVox and the Internet Archive — from Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, and Sherlock Holmes to Homer, Dumas, and Dostoevsky. • Curated Podcasts: Explore technology, science, history, philosophy, literature, and culture with automatic episode updates. • Thoughtful Listening Tools: Smart Rewind (steps back 10 seconds after pauses over 5 minutes), a 20-second fadeout Sleep Timer (including "End of Chapter"), variable playback speed (0.75x – 2.0x), and one-tap timestamped Bookmarks.