ShelfPlayer 4+

Audiobookshelf client

Rasmus Kramer

Designed for iPad

    • $4.99

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Description

ShelfPlayer is a sleek and modern Audiobookshelf client, specifically designed for audiobooks, podcasts and iOS, as well as iPadOS. Due to its design, snappy interface and deep integration it feels right at home on any supported device.

Features:

- Explore your Audiobooks, Podcasts, Episodes, Authors & Series: Use the beautiful UI to rediscover your favorite content
- Download audiobooks & episodes and listen to them on the go: The app is designed to work as well offline as if you were at home
- Sleep timer: Set a sleep timer to automatically stop playback, even at the end of the current chapter
- Siri integration: Use Siri to play your audiobooks or podcast episodes
- Custom playback speed: Customize the playback speed
- Automatic downloads & notifications: Download new episodes automatically in the background

Please note that collections are not supported right now.

What’s New

Version 2.5.2

- Remember CarPlay library
- Show remaining time in book
- Prevent crashes
- Stop playback from ending abruptly

Ratings and Reviews

4.3 out of 5
48 Ratings

48 Ratings

🔭🔬 ,

A great app, missing playlists though

Playlists are a core functionality for me, so this missing feature leaves it in feature disparity with the other app. Everything else is great, but settings being in the settings app isn’t a good move in my opinion.

Raptorious Dan ,

Disappointing

I expected a lot more from a $5 app that is written to take advantage of the latest iOS features. While the interface generally looks nice, it is actually less user friendly and less functional than the first party Audiobookshelf app (beta is unfortunately full and it’s not yet on the App Store). Just in the first week of use, I noticed a number of issues that really need to be addressed:

* Mysterious slowdowns that bring the app to a crawl such that force closing and restarting the app was the only option (encountered while queuing multiple downloads)
* Mostly unusable search; searching anything other than author just doesn’t work (searches for title and other metadata just run indefinitely, never returning results)
* The interface, while pretty, is just not at all intuitively designed. Finding settings was difficult, for example

Developer Response ,

Hey,

there is some work being done to address these issues. ShelfPlayer's offline system has already been rewritten to offload work from the UI thread. There are many other useful changes coming.
But I hope you can appreciate that large updates like this take their time, and it won't be ready available next week.

The search functionality was broken due to me some breaking API changes from ABS, a fix will be released soon.

If you have any other UX ideas please send them to git@rfk.io.
I can understand why you are not happy with the app, but pleas give it another try after the next update is released!

feoh ,

possibly the perfect iPhone app!

this app literally hits every note perfectly!

It’s tailor-made for a very specific niche use case: that being folks who run the Audio shelf self hosted audiobook software - but it does it so well that I now prefer it as my ex exclusive full-time way of listening to audiobooks! It’s that good! it’s worth every cent of its price and more. I can’t say enough good things. This is really outstanding work and I deeply appreciate all of the care the authors clearly lavished on this application! It really shows!

App Privacy

The developer, Rasmus Kramer, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

  • Siri

    Get things done within this app using just your voice.

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