Written a century ago.
Heard on your walk this morning.
A calm voice starts with a scene you know, then gives you the book’s own idea, as its author put it a hundred years ago. Nine classic books, each a complete audio course, in English and Ukrainian.
9 books · 245 episodes · 1,405 minutes of audio in English
Thinking for ResultsChristian D. Larson 
The Human MachineArnold Bennett 
Power Through ReposeAnnie Payson Call 
Creative ExperienceMary Parker Follett 
How to Live on 24 Hours a DayArnold Bennett 
Why Worry?George Lincoln Walton 
The Simple LifeCharles Wagner 
Prosperity: How to Attract ItOrison Swett Marden 
The Art of ThoughtGraham Wallas
Which of these sounds like your week?
In 1908 a Boston physician described a man who posted a letter, then waited by the box for the postman so he could check it once more. Nine books, each about something an ordinary week still brings.
Give each thought a purpose, and let it build the next step.
Thinking for Results · Christian D. Larson
Open the book →Notice the familiar reply before you give it.
The Human Machine · Arnold Bennett
Open the book →Keep the effort the task needs, and let the extra strain go.
Power Through Repose · Annie Payson Call
Open the book →Find the answer neither side walked in with.
Creative Experience · Mary Parker Follett
Open the book →Find room for your own life inside an ordinary working day.
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day · Arnold Bennett
Open the book →One wave at a time, not all of them at once.
Why Worry? · George Lincoln Walton
Open the book →Let what matters lead, and let the rest serve it.
The Simple Life · Charles Wagner
Open the book →Let money support your life instead of deciding it.
Prosperity: How to Attract It · Orison Swett Marden
Open the book →Prepare the question, then leave room for the idea to arrive.
The Art of Thought · Graham Wallas
Open the book →Three free lessons, three books.
The first lesson of three courses, exactly as it sounds in the app. No sign-up.
Found an idea you want to follow?
Open its course for more free episodes, the whole programme and the book.
“Intimacy is no excuse for rough manners, though the majority of us seem to think it is. You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.”
Why go back a hundred years
The settings have aged: horse carriages, gas lamps, the morning train with a newspaper. The people have not. Annie Payson Call explained why a carriage ride wore people out: they kept trying to help the horses. Arnold Bennett counted the sixteen hours an office worker has outside the office. George Lincoln Walton, a Boston physician, noticed how many people live several hours ahead of the moment they are in. They wrote about these habits plainly, with conviction and often with real humour.
So we go to the books themselves, not to someone’s summary of them. Every course is built on the complete original, and it tells each author’s ideas as the author held them, with the same conviction. In most courses whole passages are read aloud as they stand on the page, and the full book sits beside every course in English and Ukrainian: the original edition, or a complete translation made for Audeno when the author wrote in another language.
Reading a whole book asks for time, quiet and focus, the very things a phone keeps taking. Listening fits the day as it is: the walk to work, a queue, the washing up. Each lesson follows one idea all the way through, and the next picks up where it left off, so by the end you have followed the book’s argument in the order its author built it.
Three steps. No homework.
Choose a book
Start with what is on your mind: worry, evenings that keep disappearing, tension that outlasts the work, an argument that keeps taking the same turn. Every course stands on its own and introduces its book and its author, and its introduction and first three main lessons are free.
Give it ten minutes
On a walk, on the way home, between two tasks. Each lesson takes one idea from the book, shows it in a scene you will recognise and brings it back to the book. The app keeps your place, so tomorrow you simply carry on.
Read, and keep the lines that matter
When a sentence stays with you, open the full book and read on. Select a passage and save it as a quote: it stays tied to its place in the chapter, beside the lines chosen from the book.
The app, screen by screen
A lesson downloads the first time you play it and then stays on your iPhone, and a course you own can be kept whole for offline listening.
What a course is made of
Main lessons
Twelve to twenty in each course, most of them five to ten minutes of calm narration. One idea at a time, opened through a familiar scene and brought back to the book. A course opens with an introduction and usually ends with a closing lesson.
The author’s own words
In most courses, separate episodes read whole passages from the book aloud, in the author’s own words, without paraphrase.
Reviews
Most courses pause for a review that brings earlier ideas back in a new situation, so they have time to settle before the next part begins.
Conversations after the book
Three to five at the end, taking up the questions a thoughtful listener may still have: how an idea works in a particular situation, where it gets difficult, what to do with a doubt.
The full text
The whole book, free to read in English and Ukrainian, in the original or in a complete translation made for Audeno, with bookmarks and search.
Quotes
Lines chosen from the book, each tied to its place in the text, with room beside them for the passages you save yourself.
Start free. Pay once for the book you keep.
Every book can be read in full without paying, and the opening of every course can be heard before you decide. When a book earns its place, one purchase opens its whole course. No subscription, nothing that renews.
Free, for every book
- The full text, in English and Ukrainian
- Its quotes, each linked to its place in the text
- The introduction and the first three main lessons
- Texts offline; each lesson stays on your iPhone after its first play
One purchase per book
- The complete audio course, every episode
- Every language the course has now, and every one added later
- 4.99 USD in the US, adjusted by country
- No subscription. Restore it on any iPhone with your Apple Account
Coming soon to the App Store in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Ukraine.
Why Audeno exists
Audeno began with one book. Christian D. Larson’s “Your Forces and How to Use Them” truly captivated me: how people a century ago saw life and what a person is capable of. Yet even a book like that often goes unread, especially on a phone, where something always interrupts. So the idea was simple: if a book is worth your attention, turn it into an audio course you can hear on the way to work.
Yahor Kamarou, creator of Audeno
Read the whole story →Questions
Is it an audiobook, or a summary?
Neither. A course is built on the complete original book: short lessons take its ideas one at a time through scenes from present-day life, as the author held them, and in most courses whole passages are read aloud as well. The full text sits beside every course, so the book itself is always a tap away.
What is free, and what do I pay for?
For every book: the full text, its quotes, and the introduction plus the first three main lessons of its course. One purchase per book, 4.99 USD in the US and adjusted by country, opens the complete audio course in every language it has now and every language added later. There is no subscription.
How long is a course?
Between 22 and 46 episodes, from under two hours of listening to a little over three. Most lessons last five to ten minutes, there is no homework, and the app remembers where you stopped.
Do I need to know the author or read the book first?
No. Every course stands on its own: it introduces its book and its author from the beginning and explains everything it uses. Start with whichever book is closest to you.
Which languages, and does it work offline?
English and Ukrainian, for every course and every book: the original edition, or a complete translation made for Audeno where the author wrote in another language. The texts and quotes are inside the app; each lesson downloads the first time you play it and stays on the iPhone, and a course you own can be downloaded whole for listening with no connection and no account.
Where can I get Audeno?
At launch, Audeno will be on the App Store for iPhone in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Ukraine. It needs iOS 17 or later.
Your next walk home can be the first lesson.
Choose the book closest to what is on your mind. Its introduction, three lessons and the whole text are free. Listen to the first lesson and see whether an idea from a century ago stays with you for the rest of the day.
Until then, the free episodes and the full books are here on this site.