The Story Behind AudioBo
AudioBo didn't begin as a product. It started with a simple change in how I read. When rolling power outages in Ukraine made evening reading unreliable, I shifted to audiobooks. And to save whatever battery my iPhone had left, I often listened on a vintage iPod Classic instead.
That's when the real problem showed up: many of my public-domain or previously purchased audiobooks existed only as loose MP3 files. No chapters. No resume position. Broken metadata, random folders — and on Apple devices they appeared in the Music app instead of showing up as proper audiobooks in Apple Books on iPhone, Mac and my iPod Classic.
The tools available back then didn't help much. Most converters felt dated or overly technical, and a few expected you to touch Terminal. None of them felt like something made for the Mac. Eventually I realized I simply wanted a small, native tool that stayed out of the way — so I built it.
I've been a Mac user for more than 15 years, and I've always appreciated apps that feel calm and respectful. That idea shaped AudioBo from the start: let the app handle the technical details, and let the user stay focused on their books.
My favorite part is its export intelligence. AudioBo analyzes the source files, picks sensible settings automatically, and can split long books into seamless parts so that Apple Books — and even classic iPods — treat them as one complete audiobook. And for people who like control, there's an Advanced panel with deeper options that stays quietly in the background unless you need it.
In the end, AudioBo became the tool I wanted for myself: a lightweight, privacy-respecting Mac app with no tracking, no subscriptions, and no fuss — built to make personal audiobooks behave the way they should.
The Team Behind AudioBo
Vlad
Orso
