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 shared playback preferences, audiobook progress, and podcast episode-list defaults:

• Default 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.
• Play button progress chooses whether an in-progress audiobook or part play button shows Time remaining or Percent complete. Audiobooks that have not started or are finished still show their 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 sort and Default filter set the starting order and played-state filter for episode lists.

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 Pro includes all Audely themes. Use the device’s system appearance setting to switch between light and dark mode, then return to Appearance in Audely and choose the theme you want for that appearance. The sun marks the light-mode choice and the moon marks the dark-mode choice. Either choice can use a light-looking or dark-looking theme.

Under Home, turn on Hide icon in Home title to hide the Audely icon beside the Home title. This is a device-specific Audely Pro preference.

When your Audely Pro subscription ends, both theme assignments reset to the Magnolia defaults and the Home icon resets to visible. Starting or restoring Audely Pro does not bring back the former themes or hidden-icon preference.

Sync and backup

The Sync and Backup pages manage the two optional iCloud features included with Audely Pro. Sync keeps current library information 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 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.