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Earleaf: an offline audiobook app built out of frustration

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 18, 2026
∙ Paid

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A developer switched from iPhone to Android after 15 years and missed his audiobook app so much that he built one. Earleaf is $4.99, with no ads, no subscriptions, and no tracking. It plays locally stored audiobooks. The killer feature is Page Sync — photograph a page from your physical book and the app finds that exact…

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