EarMemo
A local-first audio player for files you actually own
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EarMemo - A local-first audio player for files you actually own

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EarMemo plays audio you already own — podcasts, audiobooks, lectures, voice memos — all locally on iPhone and iPad. No server, no account, no SDK, no tracking. Built for long-form listening: sleep timer, bookmarks, timestamped notes, yearly listening heatmap.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 Maker here. EarMemo is an iOS audio player I built for people who still own their audio files — DRM-free audiobooks from Libro.fm, downloaded podcast episodes, language-lesson MP3s, recorded lectures, voice memos. Files that live on your phone. The honest reason it exists: I bought an 18-hour audiobook on Libro.fm. It arrived as 22 mp3 files. Nothing on my iPhone handled it well — Apple Podcasts won't let you sideload, Apple Music turns it into 22 disconnected tracks, VLC plays anything but has no idea what an "album" or a "bookmark" is. So I wrote my own. **What's in the box:** - 100% local — no account, no server, no analytics, no third-party SDKs - One-time purchase — no subscription, no IAP, no ads - Built for long content: variable speed, sleep timer (with a Dynamic Island Live Activity), bookmarks, per-album notes with tap-to-jump timestamps - Plays mp3 / m4a / aac / flac / wav, plus the audio track of mp4 / mov / m4v lecture videos - Yearly listening heatmap (GitHub-style) for the stats nerds - Universal iPhone + iPad, split-view on iPad - iOS 17+ **What it does NOT do:** stream from any catalog, play DRM-protected files (Audible, Apple Books, Spotify, Apple Music), or phone home. For DRM titles, use the official apps — that's not what this is for. Would especially love feedback from: - Audiobook readers with Libro.fm / LibriVox / ripped CD libraries - Podcast listeners who keep offline copies - Language learners and lecture-recording students - Anyone who's wished iOS had a clean, opinionated player for the files already sitting in their Files app **One question for you:** what's the longest single audio file in your library right now, and which app are you using to listen to it? Genuinely curious — half the design choices in EarMemo came from frustration with that exact moment. AMA below. Thanks for checking it out 🎧 — Yang fan
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Quick technical note for anyone curious: EarMemo doesn't index, scrape, or upload your files. Import via Share Sheet → file is copied into the app's sandbox → app never touches the network. The yearly heatmap is computed on-device from your own playback log. There is no "EarMemo cloud" because there is no EarMemo server.

The 18 hour audiobook example makes a lot of sense. Its often the edge cases that expose gaps in existing apps, and long form audio seems to be one of them.

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 Yeah — the funny part is once I designed for the 18-hour case, the 90-minute podcast got better too. Resume behavior, scrubbing precision, what "remembered position" even means after a week away — the edge case forced choices the average case let me fudge.

What's the longest single file you've personally tried to listen to on iOS, and where did it break for you?