On iPhone and iPad, Morrow plays audiobooks stored on your device, with no server at all. They live under On This Device, alongside any servers, and work the same everywhere in the app, including CarPlay. On Android, this is in testing now and comes to everyone with the next Play release.
On This Device is free. It doesn't need Morrow Unlock and doesn't count toward the one server the free version includes.
Adding books
Choose Add Audiobook Files on the Home tab, or add On This Device under Settings, Servers. Then:
- Import Files or Import a Folder copies the audio into Morrow. The copy keeps playing even if the originals move or go away, but it uses storage on your device.
- Link a Folder plays the files where they are, in Files, iCloud Drive, or a storage app such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box, without copying them. Some storage apps don't allow linking; Morrow tells you, and you can import a copy instead.
- You can also share an audiobook file to Morrow from the Files app.
Morrow plays MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC and the other formats iPhone and iPad can play. Ogg and Opus files can't be imported, because iPhone and iPad can't play them; convert them to M4B or MP3 first.
Fixing a book's details
Imported files often have thin or wrong details. Open the book and choose Edit Details to change its title, author, and series.
Look Up Details fills them in for you, searching the catalogs you turn on in Settings, On This Device, Catalogs, in the order you set there: Audible, Apple Books, Open Library, and Hardcover (best for series; it needs your own Hardcover account). Pick the result that matches. Nothing changes until you tap Save. Only the book's title and author are sent, and only when you look a book up. See the privacy policy.
Backup
Books you add here stay on this device and are never synced. Copied books are left out of your iCloud backup unless you turn on Include in iCloud Backup.
Removing books
Open the book and choose Remove On This Device. For an imported book, Morrow deletes its copy, along with your place in it, its bookmarks and its listening history. A linked book's original files are never touched.