Audio Mark
A bridge between your audiobook player and your ebook reader.
" Read where you want. Listen when you want.
Jump between them instantly "
Pick up a paragraph in your ebook reader and instantly know exactly where to resume in your audiobook player — down to the second. No scrubbing. No guessing. No compromise.
Why Audio Mark Exists
Great tools already exist
Storyteller does an excellent job aligning EPUB text with audio narration. Dedicated audiobook players offer powerful playback controls. Ebook readers have deep reading and annotation tools.
But switching is painful
When you move between your ebook reader and audiobook player, you lose your place. You end up scrubbing through audio trying to find where you left off in the text. It's tedious and breaks the flow.
Audio Mark is the bridge
Storyteller is actively evolving and cannot fully replace both a dedicated player and a dedicated reader. Audio Mark doesn't replace any of these tools — it connects them, letting each do what it does best.
How It Works
Generate the database
Run AudioMarkGenerator on your EPUB3 file. It parses the SMIL timing data and builds a lightweight search index saved as a .db file.
Import into Audio Mark
Transfer the .db file to your Android device and import it into the Audio Mark app. Repeat for each book in your library.
Select text → get position
Highlight any passage in your ebook reader, share it to Audio Mark, and instantly receive the chapter name, audio file, and exact timestamp to resume in your player.
See It in Action
You are reading a book in your ebook reader. You come across this paragraph:
"One of the other Folk got too close, and Malidra hissed at her."
You want to continue listening from that exact moment in your audiobook player. Instead of manually scrubbing through hours of audio:
Features
Matches your selected text precisely against the indexed EPUB content.
Returns the human-readable chapter name alongside the position data.
Precise to the second, derived from SMIL timing data in EPUB3 files.
Import as many .db databases as you need — one per book.
No internet connection required. Everything runs locally on your device.
Zero analytics, zero telemetry, zero network requests. Your reading is your business.
Works with properly structured EPUB3 audiobooks using Media Overlays.
Getting Started
Android App
- Download the APK from GitHub Releases.
- Install on your Android device (enable "Install from unknown sources" if prompted).
- Import a
.dbfile generated by AudioMarkGenerator. - In your ebook reader, select any passage and share it to Audio Mark.
AudioMarkGenerator
- Clone the AudioMarkGenerator repo
- Create a virtual environment:
python -m venv ./.virt - Activate and install deps:
pip install -r requirements.txt - Run:
python build_index.py your_book.epub - Transfer the generated
.dbfile to your Android device.