Settings and appearance

Choose how Audely works for you

Audely keeps everyday preferences together in Settings. Changes apply on the current device unless the setting is included in sync.

Open settings

The app-wide Settings pages are separate from Book settings, Part settings, Show settings, and Episode settings in an item’s actions menu. Use those item editors to correct metadata or set book- or show-specific preferences. See Edit details.

General

The General page controls collection display, playback preferences, audiobook progress, and podcast episode-list defaults:

• Show items outside collections shows collected books and shows as individual tiles in the parent Library grid and Home shelf too.
• Separate collections on Home gives collections their own Home section instead of combining them with Books or Shows.
• Default playback speed sets the starting playback speed for audio that does not have an audiobook- or podcast-specific speed.
• Skip forward and Skip back set the transport-button intervals.
• Progress display chooses whether in-progress audiobook cards and book or part play buttons show Time remaining or Percent complete. Cards for unstarted books keep the author or duration, and finished cards show Finished. Play buttons for unstarted or finished audio still show the full length.
• Continuous playback decides whether Audely continues to another podcast episode. Audiobook parts always follow their audiobook’s narrative order.
• Hide played episodes by default controls the initial visibility of completed episodes.
• Default episode order and Default episode filter set the starting order and played-state filter for episode lists.

Both collection display choices apply only to the current device. See Create collections and Customise Home for their effect on browsing and section visibility.

An audiobook can override playback speed, but its fixed part order does not use podcast sort or played-episode visibility preferences. A podcast can override its episode order, played-episode visibility, and playback speed from Show settings.

Library

The Library page contains source folders, source scan actions, and local library data. Source folders are device-specific, so changes here do not grant another device access to the same audio.

For folder status, scans, restoring access, and safe removal, see Add audio and folders.

Transcripts

The Transcripts page manages the on-device podcast transcription model, transcript search, and transcript data. Downloading the model, generating podcast transcripts, and searching transcript text require Audely Pro. Audiobook parts are excluded from transcription. Cancelling generation and removing transcripts or the downloaded model remain available without Audely Pro.

See Generate and search transcripts for the complete workflow.

Appearance

Audely follows your device’s Light and Dark Mode settings. With Audely Pro, turn on Use pure black in Dark Mode for a black background on browsing pages. Turn on Hide Home logo to remove the mark beside Home. Turn on Hide empty notes or Hide empty transcripts to leave those sections off a page until it has content. These choices apply on this device.

Earlier versions of Audely offered themes, with separate choices for Light and Dark Mode. If you chose Nightshade Dark for Dark Mode, pure black starts on. Other dark themes use Audely’s dark background. Your Home logo choice carries over. When the App Store confirms that your Audely Pro subscription has ended, pure black switches off, the Home logo becomes visible, and empty notes and transcripts show again.

Sync and backup

The Sync and Backup pages manage the two optional iCloud features included with Audely Pro. Sync keeps current library data moving between devices. Cloud backups preserve recent recovery points. Neither feature uploads source audio.

Read Sync across devices and Cloud backups and restore before deleting synced library data or replacing a library from a backup.

Help and app information

Subscription status, purchase restoration, and App Store management are explained in Audely Pro.