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Terondo on Android — 275 audiobooks to enjoy offline
The Terondo app for Android is here: the site’s radios, television, webcams, and podcasts, plus 275 classic audiobooks you can take with you and listen to offline. No account, no advertising, and your favorites stay on your phone. Here’s what it includes, what it doesn’t ask for, and how to install it now.
The mobile site in an app
Version 1.0 was released on October 3, 2026, followed that same day by version 1.1, which brings over the mobile site’s design and features. You’ll find the familiar header, the Television, Radio, Podcasts, Webcams, and More sections, panels for sorting by category, country, and language, station pages, favorites, and a light, dark, or automatic theme. If you already use Terondo on your phone, you’ll feel right at home: the same landmarks, now inside an app.
The app offers radios, television, webcams, and podcasts whose broadcasting status is documented: public service, written authorization, or an open license. Channels that broadcast only through YouTube remain on the site, where you can still find them.
275 books read by volunteers
The library brings together 275 French-language classics in the public domain, read by LibriVox volunteers: Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Maupassant, Jules Verne, Proust, La Fontaine… That adds up to 8,432 chapters, or about 2,105 hours of listening. Each book has a back-cover description, a preface, and its chapters, so you know what you’re getting into before you start. A library this size won’t run out over a weekend: you can return to it one chapter at a time, as your journeys allow.
Picture a train journey. Last night, you left Maupassant halfway through a chapter: the app picks up at the exact second. Missed a sentence in a tunnel? One button rewinds 15 seconds; another skips ahead 30. You can adjust the playback speed, and at night the sleep timer stops the book for you.
When the network goes down
The Offline section lets you download a whole book or a podcast episode to your phone, then listen without a connection: on a plane, in the mountains, or on the metro. By default, downloads happen only over Wi-Fi, saving your mobile data allowance. The app shows how much storage is in use, and deleting a download takes two taps.
Picture an evening in a mountain chalet, where your phone shows no bars at all. The episode you downloaded the day before at home over Wi-Fi is there, ready to play. And playback resumes at the exact second, just as it did on the train. Offline listening applies to audiobooks and podcast episodes.
Listening continues with the screen off and your phone in your pocket. Controls remain available on the lock screen and in notifications.
What the app doesn’t ask for
No account to create. No ads and no advertising trackers. Your favorites and playback positions stay on your phone.
The app does measure its audience anonymously. It uses Matomo, a tool installed and hosted by Terondo: no cookies, a shortened IP address, and a randomly generated number. If you’d rather not be included, you can opt out of this measurement in the menu under “Anonymous statistics.”
Where to find it, and what’s still in the works
For now, you can download the trial version of the app from terondo.com/application. It’s an APK file, the format used for Android apps, which you install yourself: you start the installation, without going through an app store. A Google Play release is in preparation. If you try the trial version, uninstall it before installing the Play Store version.
The app is less than 3 MB and requires Android 7 or later.
Read our privacy policy at terondo.com/confidentialite.
The Terondo editorial team
Credits : Screenshots: Terondo app 1.1.0 on Android.