Settings
Opening Settings
- Library, wide window:Settings at the foot of the sidebar.
- Library, narrow window:More (⋯) → Settings.
- Player: the Settings button at the top (wide window), or More → Settings (narrow window).
Settings opens over the screen you were on. On a wide window, the sections are listed down the left and one is shown at a time; on a narrow window they are stacked in one scrolling column. Changes take effect straight away; there's nothing to save. Close Settings to go back.
Sections
| Section | What it covers | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Appearance | Dark mode, colours, language and how the library looks | Everywhere |
| Playback | Playback speed | Everywhere |
| Voice | The voice that narrates books you make | Where audiobooks can be made |
| Performance | How fast the on-device voice works | Where audiobooks can be made |
| Devices | Sync with your other devices | Not on the web |
| Library folder | Where your books are kept | Everywhere (changeable on desktop) |
| Backup | Snapshots of your library | Not on the web |
| Help & feedback | This guide, tips, hints, the welcome tour, what's new and bug reports | Everywhere |
Appearance
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Dark mode | Switches between light and dark. Until you use it, the app follows your device's light or dark setting. |
| Invert pdfs in dark mode | Shown in dark mode. Shows PDF pages light-on-dark when you read along, to match. |
| Color scheme | The app's accent colours: Blue, Gray, Green, Neutral, Orange, Red, Rose, Slate, Stone, Violet, Yellow or Zinc. |
| Language | The language of the app: Device language (your device's, where the app is translated into it, otherwise English), English or Español. |
Under Library:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Covers on spines | Shows each book's cover at the foot of its spine in the spines view. |
| Spine height | Makes all the spines taller or shorter. |
| Spine width | Makes all the spines thicker or thinner. |
| Background image | A picture of your own behind the library and the player. Choose image… picks one (the app keeps its own copy); Remove takes it away. If the picture can't be used, the app says so. |
| Blur background | Shown when you have a background picture. Blurs it, so a busy picture sits back behind your books. |
| Transparency | Whether the panels over the background picture follow your device: they turn solid when it is set to reduce transparency or to high contrast. Always see-through or Always solid ignores the device. See Solid panels. |
| PDF background | Shown when you have a background picture. How much of it shows around a PDF's pages when you read along: at 0% the background is solid, at 100% the picture shows fully. Solid panels make it solid too. |
Some parts of the app, such as the editors and the sleep timer, are in English only for now.
Playback
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Speed | The playback speed for every book, from 0.5x to 2x. The same as the speed menu in the player; a change in either place changes both, and it is remembered. |
Voice
Text-to-Speech Source: the voice that narrates the books you make from documents. Choose On-device voice or System voice, the voice model and speaker, the Speaking speed, and use Preview voice to listen. Voice models are downloaded and deleted here.
Each book can still have its own voice, chosen when you make it. The voice of the last book you made becomes the one here.
Full details: Voices.
Where the device can't make audiobooks at all, this section says so.
Performance
How fast the on-device voice makes books: Performance Level (Low to High), and under Faster rendering, Voices at once and Sentences per request. On a narrow window, this section appears when the on-device voice is chosen.
Full details: Making books faster.
Devices
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sync with my other devices | Switches sync on or off. |
| This device | Its name and its role (Server, Follows the server or No server yet). Rename… changes the name; Make this the server moves the server role here. |
| Devices | The other devices found on your network, with Pair, Use as server and Unpair, and whether each is online. |
| Bring books from the other devices | Whether whole books are copied here, or only your place and edits. |
| Status | Last synced …, changes waiting, and Sync now. |
Full details: Syncing your devices.
Library folder
Shows where your books are kept (In the app, or the folder you chose).
Desktop:Choose folder… / Change… moves your library to another folder; Keep them in the app moves it back.
Full details: Where your audiobooks live.
Backup
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Backup folder | Where snapshots go. Choose folder… / Change…, or Use the app's folder. |
| Back up automatically | Takes snapshots on a schedule. |
| How often | Every hour, every 6 hours, every day or every week. |
| Keep at most | 3, 5, 10 or 20 backups. |
| For at most | 3, 7, 30 or 90 days. |
| Include audiobook files | Puts the books' audio and documents in the backup too. On by default. |
| Back up now | Takes a snapshot straight away. |
| Restore… | Restores a snapshot from the backup folder. |
| Restore from a folder… | Restores a snapshot from anywhere, such as one made on another device. |
Full details: Backup and restore.
Help & feedback
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Help | Opens this guide. |
| Show a tip each day | The tip of the day when the library opens. |
| Browse tips | Every tip, in a list. |
| Replay: Welcome tour | Closes Settings (and the player, if you opened Settings from there) and runs the welcome tour over the library again. |
| Show hints again | Brings back every hint you have dismissed. |
| What's new | What changed in each version. |
| Report a bug | Tells us about a problem. See Reporting a problem. |
| Reports waiting to send | Reports kept until the app can reach the server, with Send now. Shown while there are any. |
| Version | The version of the app, marked Beta in test versions. |
The ? button at the top of Settings opens the page of this guide about the section you are in.