I couldn't find a good audiobook player, so I built one
I switched from iPhone to Android after 15 years and couldn't find an audiobook player I actually liked. The main options felt dated or were missing things I cared about, like proper collections and clean design. So I built my own. Earleaf plays locally stored audiobooks. No accounts, no cloud, no ads, just a one-time purchase on the Play Store. The feature I'm most proud of is Page Sync. I go...
I'm Andreas - creator of Earleaf
Hey, I'm Andreas, and I'm a software engineer from Sweden. I recently built Earleaf, an audiobook player for Android, as my first Android app. The standout feature is Page Sync: photograph a book page and it finds that spot in the audio using on-device speech recognition and OCR. Launching on Product Hunt tomorrow! Feel free to read more on the blog or check the app out on Google Play!
Earleaf - an audiobook player that syncs with your physical book
Hey! I'm launching Earleaf tomorrow—an audiobook player for Android built for local files. The feature I'm most excited about is Page Sync: you take a picture of a page from your physical book (or e-book) and the app jumps to that position in the audio. Wrote up how it works under the hood here: https://earleaf.app/blog/a-deep-dive-into-page-sync This is my first Android app, built as a solo...