# Prologue Audiobook Player — user reviews > 654 indexed App Store user reviews of Prologue Audiobook Player by Prologue Audio Pty Ltd, rated 4.90/5 from 5,610 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prologue-audiobook-player/id1459223267/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prologue-audiobook-player/id1459223267.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 5,160 · 4★ 265 · 3★ 77 · 2★ 34 · 1★ 74 ## What do users think of Prologue Audiobook Player? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Seamless Plex integration - 👍 Excellent audiobook management - 🚀 Reliable and stable performance - 👍 Beautiful and intuitive UI - 🚀 Efficient offline listening - 👍 Comprehensive feature set - 🚀 Responsive developer support **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional sync and playback issues - 🔒 Lack of family sharing support - 🔒 Download feature locked behind paywall **Commonly reported bugs** - Slide-out pane not working in latest version - Inconsistent behavior when removing/signing out of account **Most requested features** - Apple Watch app - Improved search and filtering - Automatic bookmarking and sleep tracking - Integration with other media platforms (e.g. Jellyfin) ## Newest reviews (18 of 654) ### 3/5 — It’s Ok *2026-08-29, version 4.2.4* AudioBooth is better. AudioBooth has a narrator and tag list where you can filter for books with a specific tag or narrator. This one does not do that and that’s a huge issue for me. ### 4/5 — Great app, some pausing *2026-08-16, version 4.2.3* Replaced Plexamp with this and very happy, occasionally it will freeze though and I have to kill the app and restart. ### 4/5 — Vergisst leider oft den adb login *2026-08-05* Tolle app und super, dass audiobookshelf als Server unterstützt wird. Leider muss der ständig neu autenthifiziert werden. Dass bedeutet einfach nur, dass man das Passwort neu eingeben muss... Das müsste noch gefixt werden. ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-07-30, version 4.2.3* Works great, the UI is very crisp and simple. Sometimes the CarPlay is wonky, but it keeps getting better with every update. Highly recommend, throw a few to the dev as well if you think of it. ### 5/5 — Great app for audio books *2026-07-28, version 4.2.3* I have been using this app to connect to my own server and it works perfectly. Love the paid family option. ### 4/5 — Works well for the most part *2026-07-22, version 4.2.3* While using the CarPlay app, the controls for next and last chapter are too close to the bottom and I bump them sometimes when driving my truck. I wish they were higher up or in the middle of the screen. The Apple Watch app has issues with intermittent internet connectivity even if the book is download to the watch. Other than those 2 issues, the program works extremely well to connect to my Plex library audio books. ### 5/5 — Great for Plex *2026-07-14, version 4.2.2* This is a great app to use for plex audiobooks. ### 3/5 — Okay *2026-07-14, version 4.2.2* Sort by title does not work very well. ### 3/5 — Good ui, pretty buggy *2026-07-14, version 4.2.2* title ### 5/5 — NUMERO UNO *2026-07-13, version 4.2.2* Perfect listening program ### 5/5 — Phenomenal *2026-07-11, version 4.2.2* Such a fantastic app. Love having such a great user experience for hosting my own books and podcasts. Recently upgraded to premium so my family and I can download books to listen on the plane and while we travel. Highly appreciate the one time purchase vs subscription model. Rare to see anymore. ### 5/5 — Great App *2026-07-04, version 4.2.2* Makes audiobooks with Plex a pleasure. Just need to add the ability to create and edit collections. ### 5/5 — Great! *2026-07-04, version 4.2.2* The app makes it super easy to set up your own audio book library. And feels like a professional app! Also I love that it’s a one time payment instead of a subscription. This feels like the team actually cares for the people using the app. Thanks!! ### 4/5 — Great app. Could be better *2026-06-30, version 4.2.2* Great app for the most part, but it works be even better IMO if it returned to showing the book being played and the larger playback controls when going back into the app. After all, what do you think the most likely action is going to be when something has already been started? The smaller playback controls on the home page just make it feel more awkward to use and it’s almost as if you have to peck at the screen. And showing anything to do with the library is pointless if users have already chosen something to listen to and just want to go back to that. ### 4/5 — Superior app with NO ADD’S *2026-06-29, version 4.2.2* This is like the other library apps I have but thins is superior because you don’t have to re-borrow the books and audiobooks. ### 5/5 — Absolutely Wonderful *2026-06-28, version 4.2.2* The amount of joy that this app brings me is immeasurable! Finally a way to easily get audiobooks onto my phone without having to convert and manually sync files! This has skyrocketed my audiobook listening, and reignited so much dormant interest in maintaining my narrative audio library as a whole. The Premium upgrade has been a no-brainer, and I find the price amazingly fair for the features included. Love the album art color matching in the player, and the progress bars. My only feature request would be keeping more details about what date I finished listening to something, and the option to set that manually. I've accidentally mis-tapped a chapter of a book I've already finished, and marking it finished makes it look like I've JUST completed it. But outside of adding manual and automatic completion date data, I am over the moon about this app and use it every single day. ### 5/5 — Лучший! Спасибо *2026-06-28* Прекрасное приложение, очень удобно и для Plex и для Audiobookshelf. Пожалуйста сделайте и для android ### 5/5 — 4.0 is a winner *2026-06-27, version 4.2.2* Excellent update. Makes it a breeze to listen. I’ll certainly continue to subscribe! Only bummer was that somehow my downloads got removed. Maybe it was Plex, maybe Prologue. Easy fix: redownload! Really pleased with the app. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No longer useful *2026-07-10, version 4.2.2* I was a fan, but it seems to no longer function. I’m not sure but given Reddit and the GitHub forums not having any response to login issues, and this being a paid app, I’d say it’s an abandoned/retired app. If anyone is still working on it, they are doing so very part time. ### 1/5 — All gone *2026-06-23, version 4.2.2* After IOS update Prologue wont open. Had to delete and reinstall the app, lost access to all servers, cannot play any books, lost all of my library. ### 1/5 — Wow, new version is baaad… *2026-05-06, version 4.2.0* I have loved this app for years, and it’s really heartbreaking to see the new version. Just be so awful it really basic things, like keeping listening position, UI responsiveness, and just playing the audio… I really really wish I could downgrade back to version 3 😭 ### 1/5 — Recently the app has sucked *2026-05-03, version 4.2.0* I never write reviews but this app used to be the best now it takes like a full minute to play an audio book I have downloaded on device. It’s very annoying. Don’t pay for premium until this is resolved. ### 1/5 — Buggy *2026-04-22, version 4.2.0* This app is a waste of money. I bought the family version because it was highly recommended online. It is truly one of the worst apps I’ve purchased. It is constantly switching books while playing. It will force streaming from my ABS server rather than just playing the local downloaded file. Worst of all it can’t even handle sleep timers. Such a basic feature. I will be awoken to my book still playing or sometimes even another book that I haven’t even started or downloaded. It is a joke. ### 1/5 — slow *2026-04-14, version 4.2.0* Really slow to start where you left off. I bought it and have it saved on phone and still takes much too long to play. ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2026-04-03, version 4.2.0* This app was great!before the update. Now it constantly freezes during playback and I need to close and reopen it to began listening to my audiobook again. Very frustrating. ### 1/5 — New version wiped all progress *2026-03-24, version 4.2.0* Launched the app and was presented with a completely empty screen. No library. No books. No progress. All gone. This is an unrecoverable loss of faith and confidence in an app. Was a happy paying customer and now I’m gone for good. Insane stuff. ### 1/5 — Wrong file played *2026-03-23, version 4.2.0* On multi file books it played the wrong file. Will update review if bug gets fixed. ### 1/5 — Unresponsive *2026-03-08, version 4.2.0* Loses connection to Autobookshelf server daily. Author won't answer. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The best ABS player on iOS *2026-08-26, version 4.2.4* Hands down the cleanest player on iOS for self hosted content. 10/10 ### 5/5 — The best audiobook player by far *2026-08-24, version 4.2.3* Integration with Plex and downloading is seamless ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-08-20, version 4.2.3* I exported all my books from audible and now just listen to them here with my plex server. Love it!!! ### 5/5 — Finally something that works *2026-08-19, version 4.2.3* I used to use plappa, it kept crashing, super happy I found this and it works flawlessly with my ABS server ### 5/5 — Best Audiobook app *2026-08-17, version 4.2.3* If you have Plex and audiobooks you need this, it’s perfect. I wish it had an android version so I could share it with friends With recent updates this app is even better, I use both plex and audiobookshelf and they both work flawlessly ### 5/5 — Best audio *2026-08-09, version 4.2.3* Lovely audio flexibility easy download good quality and you should use this app best audio app recommend ### 5/5 — Incroyable 😻 *2026-08-06* Bonjour Cette appli est vraiment géniale Que ce soit pour les enfants ou les adultes Tu télécharge ce que tu veux, tu peux les réécouter en boucle . Cents vraiment bien Je conseille 💘💖💗 ### 5/5 — Jetzt einfach perfekt *2026-08-04* Ich nutze diese App jetzt schon seit längerem und bis sehr zufrieden. Gerade habe ich gesehen, dass der Schlaftimer nun auch über die Airpods zurückgesetzt werden kann. Das hat mir noch gefehlt. Ich hätte vorher schon 5 Sterne vergeben. Einfach perfekt. Danke für die Arbeit. ### 5/5 — Works very well *2026-08-02, version 4.2.3* Easy to setup. ### 5/5 — The Best Frontend for Self Hosting *2026-08-02, version 4.2.3* I’ve been using Prologue for 2 years now, and I can’t imagine how I existed without it. The UI is beautiful and intuitive, and offers nice customization options with thoughtful widget design (which can be customized). The playback settings are also useful, including custom skip forward/back and automatic rewind when resuming playback. The iCloud sync is amazing, and saved me from losing my progress/stats/reading list when I had to reset my connection recently. If you’re a self-hosting, this is the best app, bar none (all my Android friends are jealous). --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-04.*