The narrator, performance, playback speed, and time spent listening belong in the record of a book.
Why Booktrace exists
A listening life deserves more than a page counter.
Booktrace is an independent iPhone app built around a simple mismatch: audiobooks happen in hours, chapters, voices, speeds, and sessions, while most reading trackers were designed around pages.
Hours
Chapters
Narrators
Sessions
The missing record
The player knows today. Booktrace remembers the whole story.
Audiobooks often move between Audible, Libby, Spotify, Apple Books, Everand, and whatever service happens to have the next title. Each player can show what is happening inside itself. Booktrace exists to give the listener one lasting record across all of them.
It does not replace those players or quietly pull data from their accounts. A listener chooses what to record: the book, chapter, narrator, playback speed, session, note, rating, or shelf that matters.
Product principles
The decisions behind the app.
There is no Booktrace account or public profile. The library, history, notes, and ratings stay on the iPhone.
A percentage alone is not enough. Booktrace keeps the chapter, published runtime, personal pace, and time remaining together.
Covers, sessions, calendars, stats, narrators, notes, and shelves turn a list of finished titles into a listening history.
A companion, not another player
What Booktrace keeps—and what it leaves alone.
Keep the parts a player forgets
Booktrace is for the durable record around an audiobook: the chapter where you stopped, the narrator who made a performance memorable, the speed you actually used, the sessions that got you there, and the notes or rating you want to keep.
Listen wherever the book lives
People move between Audible, Libby, Spotify, Apple Books, Everand, libraries, and other listening services. Booktrace does not ask you to replace those players or pretend to sync private histories it cannot access.
Choose what becomes part of your history
Add a book, record a live session, or log listening afterward. You decide which chapters, times, notes, quotes, ratings, shelves, and finished books are worth preserving.
Privacy is part of the product
There is no Booktrace account and no public reading profile. Your library and listening history stay on your iPhone. AI discussion is optional and clearly disclosed when the conversation and current position are sent to an AI provider.
Questions about Booktrace
A few straightforward answers.
What is Booktrace?
Booktrace is an audiobook-first tracker for iPhone. It keeps chapters, narrators, playback speed, sessions, notes, ratings, shelves, and statistics together. Print books and ebooks can be tracked in the same library.
Does it replace my audiobook player?
No. Keep listening in Audible, Libby, Spotify, Apple Books, Everand, or another player. Booktrace keeps the history around what you heard.
Do I need a Booktrace account?
No. Your library, sessions, notes, and ratings stay on your iPhone. Optional AI discussion is the only feature that sends conversation context to an outside provider.
Independent by design
Built by Brian Fisher.
Brian is the founder and developer of Booktrace. Product questions, press requests, and support all reach the person building the app.
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