Hades is a privacy-first, local audiobook player with a premium glassmorphic design, on-device AI subtitles, and full Android Auto support. Your books, your device. No account, no cloud.
An audiobook-tuned player on a professional audio engine, with true background playback: screen off, app minimized, story on.
The seek bar, notification, and car display show your position through the entire book, across every chapter file, with seamless automatic chapter advance.
0.25×–4×, and every book remembers its own. Quick-tap cycles 1× → 2×, long-press opens a slider, and a live readout shows time remaining at this speed.
±10s in-app, ±15s from the lock screen, and skips intelligently roll across chapter boundaries instead of stopping at them.
Position is saved continuously, so every book reopens at the exact chapter and second. Optional “resume last book on launch.”
A full chapter list with the current chapter highlighted. Jump anywhere with a tap.
Rewind, play/pause, fast-forward, plus a speed button whose icon shows your current speed (“1.5×”) and cycles it right from the notification.
Single click play/pause, double click +10s, triple click −10s. Time skips, not track skips. Built for books, not music.
Volume control built into the player. It drives system volume on phone and in-app volume on desktop.
Save your spot with one tap, then manage a rich bookmark list per book.
Open Subtitles and the spoken words appear as scrolling, karaoke-style captions within seconds, generated by Whisper speech recognition running entirely on your device. No internet after a one-time model download, and your audio never leaves your phone.
Best quality. Handles accents, names, and noisy recordings.
Runs on most devices. Switch anytime; delete to reclaim space.
Great for accessibility, noisy environments, language learners, and “wait, what did they just say?” moments.
Browse your entire library from the car screen: a Recent/Resume shelf, alphabetical browsing, cover art on the car display, tap-to-play, and a whole-book seek bar.
Say “play [book title]” and Hades finds it by title or author. A bare “play” resumes your most recent book.
A slowly drifting four-color aurora glows behind the entire app: frosted-glass cards, real-time blur, glowing neon icons. One continuous, living dark theme.
Edge-to-edge window with native traffic lights, a frosted sidebar (Library, In Progress, Authors, Stats, Settings), and a persistent bottom transport bar with artwork, whole-book seek, and volume.
macOS security-scoped bookmarks keep your chosen folders accessible across launches, without broad disk access.
Right-click editing, hover states and cursors, and a resizable window that gracefully becomes the mobile layout when narrowed.
Runs a nearly-1,000-book library without breaking a sweat.
Everything (library, progress, bookmarks, stats, transcripts) lives in a local database on your device. The network is used for exactly two optional things: metadata lookup and the one-time subtitle model download. No user data is ever uploaded, and the subtitle AI runs 100% on-device.
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