I keep finding new apps, so I’ll keep sharing! Tonight’s fish on the hook, is an Audiobook client for Jellyfin and AudioBookShelf, written in Swift/SwiftUI.

Apart from playing audiobooks, plappa also syncs playback status via iCloud and allows you to download audiobooks for offline listening. It currently runs on iPhone and iPad, a Mac and Apple TV version are planned - roadmap.

Github Repo

About

plappa requires a Jellyfin or AudioBookShelf Server to work. If you don’t know Jellyfin or AudioBookShelf and would like to learn more, check out both at Jellyfin website or Jellyfin GitHub repo and AudioBookShelf website or AudioBookShelf GitHub repo.

Folder structure and formats for Jellyfin

plappa should be able to handle all common audio file formats, but is built for and tested mainly with MP3 and M4B files.

I always test plappa using the most common organization scheme for books, but other folder structures should work fine, plappa just searches for audio files recoursively, grouping by album.

Metadata

Most metadata will be taken from Jellyfin/AudioBookShelf, plappa additionally reads the composer field for the narrator name and (if applicable) chapters from the file metadata.

Roadmap

You can see the full roadmap in the plappa project, the short version is:

• [x] iOS App with all basic features
• [x] Carplay support (WIP)
• [ ] Apple Watch App
• [ ] Mac App
• [ ] Apple TV App
• [x] Support for AudioBookShelf servers (WIP)