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Continue reading on another device

How to pause a book on one device and pick it up at the same sentence on another, through a folder in your own iCloud Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox.

Windows
Yes
Mac
Partly
iPad
Partly
iPhone
Partly
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Start a book on your computer and finish it on your phone. Turn on sync and choose the same folder in your own cloud on each device: iCloud Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive or Box. There is no LuceVoce account and no LuceVoce server; your reading stays between your devices.

Know what travels

  • Where you are in each book.
  • Your bookmarks, highlights and notes.
  • Your tags, stars, folders and smart shelves, and the Reading List (you can turn this off with Shelves, ratings and tags).
  • The theme, speed and voices you chose (you can turn this off with Settings, in the same place).
  • If you turn them on, the books themselves, your audiobooks and the voices you added. See Share your books between devices.

For notes, bookmarks and shelves, see Sync your notes and bookmarks.

Turn on sync

Do this on every device you read on.

  1. Open Settings and choose Sync.
  2. Turn on Sync the reading place.
  3. Next to Folder, choose Choose folder… and pick a folder that all your devices can see. Pick the same folder on every device, and keep it private.
  4. Check This device's name. Your other devices show it, as in "Continue from Kitchen iPad". Type a new name if you like.

Once a folder is chosen, Settings shows the cloud service it belongs to, such as "OneDrive" or "iCloud Drive".

Windows

Pick a folder inside any cloud service that keeps a synced folder on your PC:

  • OneDrive
  • Dropbox
  • Google Drive for desktop
  • Box
  • iCloud Drive, through the iCloud for Windows app

A USB stick or a shared network folder works too.

Mac

Choose a folder in iCloud Drive.

iPhone and iPad

The Files app opens. Choose a folder in iCloud Drive.

OneDrive folders can't be chosen on iPhone and iPad yet, because the OneDrive app doesn't let other apps use its folders.

Use the same cloud on every device

Every device has to reach the same folder:

  • Windows PCs only: any of the services above.
  • A Windows PC with a Mac, iPhone or iPad: use iCloud Drive everywhere. On the PC, install iCloud for Windows and choose a folder inside iCloud Drive.
  • Mac, iPhone and iPad: iCloud Drive.

Continue where you left off

  1. Read on one device, then pause or close the book.
  2. Open the same book on the other device.
  3. A bar at the top says, for example, "Continue from iPhone: chapter 4, 10 min ago". Choose Continue to jump to that place, or Stay here to keep your own.

The bar also appears when you come back to LuceVoce, and while a book is paused. It never interrupts while a book is reading aloud. If you press play while the bar shows and the other device's place is further on, LuceVoce continues from there.

Stay here hides the offer until the other device reads on again.

Choose what happens with another device's place

  1. Open Settings and choose Sync.
  2. Under Another device's reading place, choose one:
    • Ask each time: shows the Continue bar. This is the starting choice.
    • Go to the other device's place: moves there by itself and tells you, for example "Continued from iPhone."
    • Stay at this device's place: never offers another device's place.

See your other devices

Under Other devices, Settings > Sync lists every device that uses the folder and when each last saved a reading place. If a device is missing, turn sync on there and choose the same folder.

Good to know

  • LuceVoce saves your place for your other devices when you pause, jump, close the book or leave the app, not while the voice is reading.
  • How fast a place arrives depends on your cloud service. It usually takes seconds, sometimes longer.
  • Two devices recognise the same book by its file, or by its title and author when the files differ, such as an EPUB downloaded twice. The place lands on the same words even if the copies were imported differently.
  • Audiobooks continue at the same time in the recording.
  • Sync is off until you turn it on.

Related

  • Sync your notes and bookmarksHow highlights, notes, bookmarks, tags, ratings and reading status reach your other devices once sync is on, and what happens when two devices change them.
  • Share your books between devicesHow to have the books from one device appear in the library of your other devices through your sync folder, choose which books go, and save mobile data.
  • Bookmark a place in a bookHow to add a bookmark at the sentence being read or at any word, write a note on it, and jump back to it later from the Bookmarks panel.
  • Fix common problemsWhat to do when the voice sounds robotic, a language has no voice, a book won't open, a scanned PDF is silent or your place doesn't reach another device.

Last updated 13 November 2026