Audiobooks · Plex · Audiobookshelf
Cue plays the audiobooks on your Plex or Audiobookshelf server with everything a book needs: chapters, speed, Smart Resume and a history of every place you’ve been. In the same app as your music, on your iPhone, in the car, on your wrist or on Sonos.
A book app, a music app and the Sonos app, folded into one player that keeps your place in all of it.
Start a chapter on the drive in, then tap Back to Music and your playlist picks up exactly where it stopped. Back to Book goes the other way.
The Play On button sends the book to a room or group, chapters and all. Your place keeps syncing to your server while it plays there.
Take a book on a run with your Apple Watch. Your place is waiting on your iPhone when you’re back, through iCloud if the two never met.
Smart Resume
Press play after a pause and Cue goes back just far enough to catch the thread: a second after a quick pause, up to 15 seconds after a day away. Then it listens for a pause in the speech and starts there — at the end of a sentence after a longer break.
Read Along · Cue Super
Open the transcript and the narration appears line by line, each word lighting up as it’s spoken. It’s written out on your iPhone, a few minutes ahead of you, from the book you’re streaming or the one you downloaded. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
History
Fell asleep? Tapped the wrong chapter? Cue keeps a timeline of each book: where you started, paused and left off, every jump and scrub, and the moment another device took over. Tap any moment to go back to it.
Library
Continue Listening gathers every book you’re partway through, from Plex and Audiobookshelf alike, newest first, each with its own Play button. Book pages show the narrator, the series and where you are; author pages add a photo, a biography and every book of theirs on your servers.
Book apps are good at books. Cue is good at books and everything around them.
The usual wayA second app, with its own queue
In CueThe same player. Back to Music picks up your playlist where it was
The usual wayAirPlay from your phone, or the Sonos app
In CueThe Play On button sends the book to a room, your place kept in sync
The usual wayBack a few seconds, wherever that lands
In CueBack by how long you were away, landing between words
The usual wayBuy the ebook as well
In CueRead Along, transcribed on your iPhone as you listen
The usual wayScrub around until it sounds familiar
In CueHistory has every place you’ve been, one tap back
The same book and the same place, on every screen Cue runs on.
An Audiobooks tab on the car’s screen: the books you’re partway through with their progress, then every server’s shelves.
Download books to your watch with Cue Super and leave your iPhone behind. Chapters come down in the order you’ll hear them.
Play a book on any room or group, and bring it back to your iPhone with a tap when you head out.
Small things, every one of them noticed by the second chapter.
0.75× to 3× on iPhone, remembered for each book, with the narrator’s voice kept natural.
From your files’ own marks, or Audible’s chapter list when a Plex book has none.
A sleep timer that stops at the end of the chapter, at whatever speed you’re listening.
In the player, the mini player and on the Lock Screen, in place of previous and next.
Synced with Plex and Audiobookshelf both ways. Moves made offline catch up next time.
Files kept just as your server has them, for planes and tunnels. With Cue Super.
A photo, a biography and every book of theirs on both servers, oldest first.
See who reads each book, and open a series to find what comes next.
Mark a book finished, or take it off Continue Listening until you play it again.
Every book on your server plays free. Cue Super adds downloads, your watch and the full Read Along.
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Plex and Audiobookshelf, on their own or both at once. Plex has no audiobook library type, so Cue reads books from Music libraries you keep for books, and from albums tagged with the genre Audiobook.
Yes. Cue reads your place from the server when you open a book and sends it back as you listen, so the Audiobookshelf web app or another Plex app picks up where Cue left off. When the two disagree, the newer place wins. For Plex, turn on Store Track Progress in the library’s settings.
No. Starting a book sets your music aside rather than adding the book to your queue, and books stay out of your downloaded songs and Shuffle. Back to Music in the player’s menu brings the music back where it was.
iOS 26 or later, and Cue Super after a free 30 seconds a day. The transcript is written on your iPhone by Apple’s on-device speech model, so nothing about the book is uploaded.
No. Audible and Apple Books only let their own apps play their books. Cue plays the books on your own server, the files you own.
Cue is almost here. Sign in to Plex or Audiobookshelf and pick up right where you left off.
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