A minimalist audiobook player for the Light Phone III.
Play your local-only audiobooks on the Light Phone III, built using the Light SDK.
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- Plays audiobooks stored on the phone. Books stay on your device.
- One audio file = one book. One folder of audio files = one book, played in order (name your files 01, 02, 03… to be safe).
- Chapters: folder books list their files, single-file books use their embedded chapter tags (MP3 chapter frames, M4B bookmarks).
- Remembers where you left off.
- Playback speed from 0.5x to 2x, and an Auto-Play toggle for whether the next chapter starts on its own.
- After a pause longer than 5 minutes, playback jumps back 15 seconds so you re-orient.
- Plays in the background, with a media notification and lockscreen controls.
- Formats: MP3, M4B, M4A, AAC, OGG, OGA, OPUS, FLAC, WAV.
- Connect your Light Phone III to a computer and open shared storage.
- Make a folder called
Audiobooks(if it isn't there already). - Copy one audio file directly into it (that's a book), or make a folder per book and put its files inside.
- Open Audiobooks. (Rescan from the settings icon → "Scan Library Now".)
- To remove a book, delete its files on the device — there's no in-app delete yet.
Needs JDK 17/21, the Android SDK (API 36), and the Light SDK checked out as a sibling folder at ../light-sdk (fork: fenleon/light-sdk).
./gradlew :app:assembleDebugRelease signing: see RELEASE.md.
No analytics, no ads, no accounts, no telemetry. Your books never leave the device.
Started as a fork of Bard, rebuilt for local-only playback.
Unofficial, independent open-source project — not affiliated with or endorsed by The Light Phone, Inc. Light Phone and Light OS are trademarks of The Light Phone, Inc.
MIT licensed — see LICENSE. Includes resources from the Light SDK, noted in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.