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ShelfPlayer 4+
Audiobookshelf player
Rasmus Kramer
Designed for iPad
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- $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 2.4.3
Updated the search component to reflect the latest Audiobookshelf-API changes.
Ratings and Reviews
Super impressed & CarPlay works!
I downloaded this yesterday and am super impressed! It has a very nice looking interface that is both pleasant to look at and extremely functional. Though a relatively small thing, I particularly like the more books by author and more books in the series that show up under a a book. Also, I can’t over state how exciting it is to have real CarPlay support for books from Audiobookshelf. Add on that this app is truly open source and it’s pretty hard to beat. I highly recommend this app… and already have done so to friends.
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 [email protected].
I can understand why you are not happy with the app, but pleas give it another try after the next update is released!
The Best Player for AudioBookshelf!
The only thing that would make this app even better would be adding Apple Watch support for offline listing when I don’t bring my phone with me. I’d gladly pay a few dollars more for the option of taking my books with me on my watch.
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.
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Information
- Seller
- Rasmus Kramer
- Size
- 9.6 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.4 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.1 or later.
- Languages
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English, German, Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Rasmus Krämer
- Price
- $4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.
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Siri
Get things done within this app using just your voice.