Your listening life, visualized.
The offline-first reading tracker that syncs with your Audiobookshelf server. No cloud middleman. No subscription. Just your data, your way.
DASHBOARD
Good evening
Reading Activity
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
247
Hours
42
Books
4.2
Avg ★
OracleTime to move on
Goodreads was built for readers
Amazon's ad engine.
Goodreads treats your reading data like an ad engine. Aura treats it like a private library. Offline-first architecture with secure, cross-device cloud sync. No ads, no tracking, no selling your data.
Import & escape
Bring your entire reading history — ratings, shelves, dates — and never look back. A step-by-step tutorial walks you through each platform.
100% offline-first
Full functionality on airplanes and subways. Your library updates instantly on-device and syncs quietly to your private cloud account the moment you regain signal.
Your server, your rules
Connect directly to your Audiobookshelf instance. Your ABS credentials stay securely encrypted on your device — Aura just acts as the bridge to fetch your listening stats.
Built different
Every feature you wished Goodreads had.
Decentralized ABS Sync
Point Aura at your Audiobookshelf server and let it pull your listening progress automatically. Your credentials stay encrypted on your device via SecureStore. Your audiobooks stay on your server — Aura simply pulls the progress metadata to keep your stats up to date across all your devices.
Server
abs.yourserver.com
Last sync
2 min ago
Deep Analytics
Velocity charts. Reading heatmaps. Genre radar graphs. Rating distributions. See patterns in your reading habits you never knew existed. Data visualization built for power readers.
Weekly Listening Velocity
Native-First, Web-Ready
Built from the ground up for iOS and Android using React Native. But the same account works on the web — check your stats from any browser. One identity, every platform.
Instant Everything
Offline-first with Firebase. Every tap is optimistic — log a session, rate a book, update your progress — it all resolves instantly on device and syncs in the background. No spinners. No "Saving..." toasts.
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UI response
0kb
Server round-trips
100% On-Device Mode — Available If You Want It
Don't want cloud sync at all? You don't have to use it. Aura is fully functional with zero network access — all data lives in SQLite on your device. Cross-device sync is opt-in, not the default. If your threat model includes "no data ever leaves my phone," that's a supported configuration.
Cloud sync
Opt-in only
The One-Click Eject Button
Don't trust the cloud? We don't blame you. Start on Aura Cloud today, and when you're ready to spin up your own Docker container, hit the Eject button. We'll download your library, switch to your server, and burn your cloud account to the ground. No lock-in. Ever.
Lock-in
Zero
Feature Bounty Board
Drop a coin on the features you want most. When a feature hits 50 coins, it gets locked into the next development sprint. You decide what gets built.
Which platform do you need first?
Aura is being built mobile-first. Help us prioritise the launch order by voting for the platform you'd use most.
Visualize everything
Your reading year at a glance.
GitHub-style heatmaps tuned for OLED. Every cell is a day, every shade is a tier of listening time. The glow means you crushed it.
Reading Activity
247 hours this year
42
Books finished
18
Day streak
2.1h
Daily average
4.2
Avg rating
The Oracle
AI that actually knows your taste.
The Oracle learns from your ratings, genres, and listening patterns to surface recommendations that feel eerily personal. No generic "Customers also bought" lists.
The Oracle
Analyzing 42 books & 247 hours of data…
Based on your reading patterns, you gravitate toward epic fantasy with deep magic systems and hard sci-fi survival narratives. You tend to rate character-driven stories higher than plot-driven ones. Here's what I'd recommend next:
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Because you loved The Martian and hard sci-fi survival stories
94%
match
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Matches your preference for atmospheric world-building
89%
match
The First Law
Joe Abercrombie
Dark fantasy fans with 4.5+ Sanderson ratings love this
87%
match
Get the Native App
Aura runs everywhere — as a native app on your phone or right in your browser. Choose what works for you.
iOS
Awaiting App Store review. Coming soon.
Coming Soon
How to Join the Android Beta
Google Play requires new apps to complete a Closed Testing track with 12 active testers for 14 continuous days before allowing public publication. We currently have 4 testers — once we get 8 more, the 14-day countdown begins.
To help us reach that milestone, join the testing group:
- Join the MAM Aura Google Group
- Use the same Google account you use on the Play Store on your Android device
- Download from the testing link or search "Aura" on the Play Store
Privacy note: I can see a list of email addresses in the group, but I have absolutely no way to link those back to any usernames on any other platform. Your identity remains completely separate and anonymous. After the 14-day testing period with enough testers, the app will move to open beta — available to anyone on the Play Store without joining any group.