When I installed this app back in April, it was pretty barebones and a little buggy, but Leo’s continued development efforts are really bringing out the best in his product. It’s stable, it’s quick, and it is easy to use. The Audiobookshelf iOS app will eventually come out, but as of this moment, I don’t see why I would switch to it.
Keep it up, Leo!
Had a need for something that uses audiobook shelf and works with CarPlay. This fits the bill perfectly outside of the typical CarPlay audio issues. Since the latest update that syncs progress with server it’s almost perfect as I use audiobook shelf on my computer. Only thing missing is multiple servers, but I see that’s it’s requested on the GitHub roadmap. Overall very worth the price for the future potential.
I loaded this app as part of a move off Audible and to self hosted content. The app has been great and is easily navigated. I stayed with Audible for so long because of its ease of use. This is a great replacement.
Clean UI and prompt response to feature requests.
I run an ABS server and can’t play books on my iphone because there is no native client. This bridges the gap perfectly. Once I test a little more, I’ll gladly pay the five bucks for a lifetime subscription! A++++!
It’s a lovely looking app, but after I added an Audiobookshelf server it just sat, with a spinner going non-stop. It populated the author list but tapping on a name got no information at all.
I can’t see paying for this right now, I’m afraid.
Developer Response
Sounds like a bug, can you send me the debug logs from plappa at support@plappa.me?
You can find them at the bottom of the settings tab.Throughly impressed with the app. Only one but for the last 3 weeks and it’s strange how it happened.
In the Podcasts library, it no longer lists all my podcasts. I see “Where you left off” and “Recently added” in the home, but the Podcasts and Playlists tab show up as empty. I also can’t search for the Podcasts by name to find my list. I’ll update once it’s fixed.
Even with the issue, I couldn’t recommend this enough along with Audio bookshelf!
Developer Response
Hey appleuser227,
That’s surely a bug. Can you send me the debug logs from plappa to support@plappa.me?
You can find them at the bottom of the settings tab.Really impressed with this app and it’s getting better with every update. Many thanks to the dev for their great work on this.
What’s there is nice. No issue in book form layback. Interface is simple and nice.
But it is missing two major features:
One, I am stunned there is no easy way to see the books you have not played. The Listen Again on the home screen is useless and should be Books Not Played. Or there should at least be a filter or sort for unplayed on the library page.
Two, and related, it does not sync the unplayed/unlistened flags with AudiobookSelf so I have to set the flags in two places.
Developer Response
Hey Sylmatyr,
Thank you for the feedback. Not having a list of unplayed books surely is a big oversight.
Regarding the unplayed status not syncing, that seems to be a bug.
I have made some changes with the recent 1.3.0 update, but if you still have issues with the syncing, feel free to contact me at support@paperparrot.me!Wonderful. I subscribed to premium within minutes of using the app.
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