A listening app for people who love books
Buy the book. It’s yours for good.
Knowledge that moves you forward.
LongformU is an audiobook shop and player with no membership and no credits. Pay once for a book and it stays in your library — downloadable, re-playable, synced to the second across your devices. The app and the account are free.
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Why LongformU
Buy it once, own it for good
No membership and no credits. A book you pay for stays in your library, downloadable, whether or not you ever open the app again.
Picked by people who listen
Every title and every narrator is chosen by an editor who heard the whole recording — a smaller catalogue you can trust at random.
It remembers, exactly
Position, speed and bookmarks sync to the second across your devices, and keep working offline once a book is downloaded.
How it works
- Get the app, make an account. Both free, and neither asks for a card.
- Listen before you decide. Every book has a sample from the real recording.
- Buy the book. One payment, the price on the page, and it appears in your library — no credits, no renewal, nothing to cancel.
- Download it, and stop anywhere. The whole book lives on the device; your position syncs so the next device picks up the same word.
Prices
One price per book — that’s the whole model. No subscription: buy the course, keep the course. Each book is a one-time purchase in AUD; free classics need only an account.
Questions people actually ask
Is there a subscription?
No. No membership, no credit system, no trial to cancel. The app and account are free; you pay once per book.
Do I keep the books?
Permanently. A book you buy stays in your library and downloadable for as long as the account exists.
Can I listen offline?
Yes. Download any book in the app and listen with no connection; progress syncs when you’re back online.
About
We built the audiobook app we kept wishing existed: it opens on your library, the player does the few things you actually do, and there’s no membership nudging you. You buy a book, you own it.