VerbaViva

VerbaViva · audiobook player for iPhone

Your audiobooks. Right where you left off.

Drop your m4b files into iCloud Drive from your computer or the Files app. They show up on your iPhone, and your place is kept in your own iCloud.

Coming soon to the App Store for iPhone.

The VerbaViva player on an iPhone, playing Dracula, with the chapter, the position and the playback controls.

How it works

  1. Add your books

    Put m4b audiobooks in iCloud Drive › VerbaViva › Audiobooks, from your computer or the Files app.

  2. Press play

    They appear in your library, chapters and all.

  3. Never lose your place

    Your place is saved in your own private iCloud. A second or new iPhone picks up where you left off, and asks before it jumps ahead.

Drop an m4b file into iCloud Drive › VerbaViva › Audiobooks from your computer or the Files app. A moment later it is in your library, on your iPhone.

The small things that matter

A book in the VerbaViva library, Dracula, with its two coloured tags, Favorites and Book Club.

Tags that fit how you listen

Give books your own coloured tags — Commute, Kids, Up next — and filter your library by one or several at once.

How tags work

The VerbaViva player for Dracula, Chapter IV, at 16:12 with 18 minutes left in the chapter.

Your place, on every iPhone

Your place in each book is kept in your own private iCloud. On a new or second iPhone you pick up where you left off, and it asks before it jumps ahead.

A book row swiped left to show Remove Download, and below it the same book afterwards, in iCloud with a tap to download.

Free up space, keep the book

Swipe to remove a book's download when your iPhone runs low. The book stays in your iCloud Drive and in your library — one tap brings it back.

How it works

What it does

Private by design

No account, no server of ours, no ads, no tracking. We cannot see your books or your listening.

Read the privacy policy

A closer look

The VerbaViva library on an iPhone: Continue Listening, then books grouped by author, with coloured tags.
Your library, sorted and grouped by itself.
The chapter list of The Hound of the Baskervilles on an iPhone.
Every chapter, one tap away.
The sleep timer menu on an iPhone, with times and End of Chapter.
A sleep timer that can stop at the end of the chapter.
The library's filter menu on an iPhone, with sort, category, tags and Hide Finished.
Sort and filter by author, series, category or tag.
The library on an iPhone filtered by a tag, showing only the books that carry it.
Pick a tag and see only those books.

Questions

Which audiobooks does it play?

DRM-free m4b audiobooks, and audiobooks already in the Music app's library. Copy-protected books can't be played. Read the guide

Do I need a computer?

No. Add books with the Files app on your iPhone, or from any computer with iCloud Drive. Read the guide

What happens when I get a new iPhone?

Your books stay in iCloud Drive and your place is saved in your own iCloud. Sign in with the same Apple Account and VerbaViva picks up where you left off.

Your books, your place, your iCloud.

VerbaViva is a small, private way to listen to the audiobooks you already have.

Coming soon to the App Store for iPhone.