ShelfPlayer - Audio Book Shelf3.3.1 - App Store

ShelfPlayer is a powerful iOS app for listening to audiobooks and podcasts, built for people who run their own self-hosted Audiobookshelf libraries. Written in Swift 6 for iOS 18+, it's fast, privacy-respecting, and deeply integrated with the Apple ecosystem.

ShelfPlayer does not include any media content. A running Audiobookshelf instance is required to use the app.

Why Choose ShelfPlayer?
- One app for everything: A single native experience for audiobooks, podcasts, episodes, authors, narrators, series, collections, and playlists
- Connect your own libraries: Works with multiple Audiobookshelf servers and libraries at the same time
- Flexible sign-in: Supports both username/password and OpenID, plus custom HTTP headers for advanced setups
- Find anything fast: Global and per-library search across books, podcasts, people, series, and episodes
- Stay in sync: Listening progress and sessions stay synchronized with your Audiobookshelf server
- Made for Apple devices: Native iPhone and iPad layouts, CarPlay, Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, Home Screen widgets, Live Activities, and Dynamic Island

Features at a glance:
- Listen Now to continue and discover content across connected libraries
- Chapter navigation with quick-access controls in playback
- Configurable skip intervals for forward and backward jumps
- AirPlay and native Apple media controls
- Bookmarks with optional notes to save key moments
- Detailed, item-level listening history and daily listening goals
- Offline mode with manual and automatic background downloads
- Built-in tools to create, edit, and organize collections and playlists
- In-app PDF viewer for attached documents
- Customizable tabs, sorting, and filters

Premium features
ShelfPlayer subscription unlocks the following:
- Offline listening: Download audiobooks and episodes and keep listening without a connection
- Custom playback speed: Adjust the rate beyond the default 1x
- Flexible sleep timer: Choose any duration or a chapter-based timer, beyond the default 5 minutes
- Bookmarks: Save and revisit key moments with notes
- Add to queue: Build your own listening order with the main and Up Next queues
- Statistics: Track your listening time, streaks, and finished titles

Download ShelfPlayer today and get the most out of your Audiobookshelf library!

Subscribe to access premium app features; subscription details are the following:

- Length: weekly or yearly
- Free trial: only on selected subscriptions
- Your payment will be charged to your Apple Account as soon as you confirm your purchase
- You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase
- Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period
- The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period
- When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded
- Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription

Terms & Conditions:
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Privacy Policy:
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If you have any questions, please contact us at aitools@gmail.com

Version History Bug fixing and improvements 3.3.1 Aug 25 This release introduces Podcast Channels support and a new Statistics sheet showing listening activity and goals. The Episode view has been redesigned, and the Now Playing screen now features an animated background. The Sleep Timer and playback speed picker have been reworked, and the home screen has a new customization editor.

OpenID Connect authentication has been fixed, and library lookup is more reliable, with better genre handling and tag support. Settings have been redesigned, and iPadOS layout, accessibility, and CarPlay have all received polish, including a fix for physical wheel buttons that didn't work in some circumstances. Internally, event propagation has moved from NotificationCenter to Combine.

Other changes include:

- New Bookmark Export App Intent
- Updated Intents and Shortcuts support
- Better image aspect ratio handling
- New marquee text for long titles
- Increased offline mode timeout
- Convenience Download subsystem rework
- More WebSocket events for progress, sessions, and item updates
- Memory leak fixes
- Under-the-hood refactors and project structure cleanup
- Translation updates
- Various bug fixes 3.3.0 Jun 9 - Crash fixes
- Fix audio player selecting wrong audio track during startup
- Show progress in % on the compact item row if enabled 3.2.1 Mar 18 This release contains under-the-hood improvements to the Networking, Offline, and Progress subsystems of ShelfPlayer. Previously the offline mode existed mostly in the UI, which worked fine for servers that were always reachable or completely offline, but not for servers only accessible on the local network. The new offline mode works throughout the entire app and is based on actual reachability. The new network client is more efficient and supports queueing, so a maximum of five requests are currently dispatched concurrently.

The progress system has also been improved to work more reliably in general and in certain edge cases.

Other improvements include:

- Crash fixes
- WebSocket support for progress updates (more planned)
- Episode chapter extraction
- Updated and improved color extraction algorithm
- More stable and easy-to-use CarPlay experience
- Bookmark editing
- Liquid Glass design updates
- Caching, item, and image loading improvements
- Updated project to Swift 6.2 (enabled approachable concurrency and default main actor isolation) 3.2.0 Mar 15 - Replace LastPlayed with with StartWidget which has an configurable item parameter and can be added to the lock screen
- Added "Start" panel which allows mixing Tabs from all libraries
- Fix start race condition
- Added playback bar placeholder
- Bug fixes and improvements 3.1.4 12/06/2025 Bug fixes and improvements 3.1.2 10/26/2025 Bug fixes 3.1.1 10/16/2025 - Updated the Design for iOS 26
- Offline mode improvements
- Various improvements and bug fixes 3.1.0 10/15/2025 - Added Russian translation (Nikita Kolmakov, @K1ndWha1e GitHub)
- Updated Privacy and ToS
- Minor bug fixes and improvements 3.0.4 08/30/2025 - Fix offline mode only accessible in airplane mode
- Fix chapter title missing in now playing widget
- Fix handling of non ascii usernames
- Improve playback speed handling
- Improved performance by implementing a on-disk cacheing mechanism
- Various bug fixes

Please make sure your server is up to date if you encounter any issues. 3.0.3 08/26/2025 After several months of development, this major update introduces a complete internal rewrite of ShelfPlayer, laying the groundwork for improved performance, reliability, and future expansion. Alongside the new foundation, this release brings a wide range of new features, enhancements, and fixes.

Below are some of the highlights:

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

* Support for ABS 2.26+ authentication
* Multi-user support
* Sleep Timer Live Activity
* Home screen widgets
* App Intents integration
* “Listened Today” – daily listening statistics
* “Listen Now” – combines content from all libraries
* Global search
* Updated design and layout
* Revamped Now Playing view with new animations
* Smarter automatic downloads
* Improved handling of multiple simultaneous downloads
* More playback speed and sleep timer options
* Audiobook PDF support
* VoiceOver accessibility improvements

FIXES

* Resolved crashes from version 2.5.0
* Fixed Mac (Designed for iPad) application

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Versions 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 were not publicly released. Version 3.0.2 is the first public release in the 3.0+ series.

This update marks a major milestone for ShelfPlayer, with a reengineered core and a more capable, future-ready foundation. Thank you for your continued support and patience throughout the development process.

Special thanks to all translators and beta testers for their invaluable contributions! 3.0.2 08/18/2025 Better handling of audio tracks without an index 2.5.3 02/23/2025 - Remember CarPlay library
- Show remaining time in book
- Prevent crashes
- Stop playback from ending abruptly 2.5.2 12/21/2024 Fix chapter sleep-timer edge case. 2.5.1 11/26/2024 This update modernizes the systems that power ShelfPlayer. All parts of the app have been refined to improve their appearance and performance and reduce crashes.

New features include:

- New CarPlay implementation
- Playback queue
- Multiple-chapter sleep timer
- Option to collapse series
- Playback history
- Improved Siri integration
- Improved handling of multi-author & -series audiobooks
- iOS 18 tab- & sidebar

Translations:

- New Swedish Translation: @AlexGustafsson (GitHub)
- Updated Chinese Translation: @zhimiaoli (GitHub)
- German & English: @rasmuslos (GitHub) 2.5.0 11/25/2024 Fix searching for audiobooks 2.4.5 09/17/2024 Fixed an authorization issue that was caused by malformed progress entities 2.4.4 09/10/2024 Updated the search component to reflect the latest Audiobookshelf-API changes. 2.4.3 08/25/2024 - Added a download progress indicator
- Remember audiobook & episode playback rate
- Custom playback rate & default playback rate
- Account sheet overhaul
- The progress indicator is now solid white 2.4.2 05/09/2024 - Rework Siri integration
You can now setup shortcuts for recently listened items. More general actions are planned.
- Notifications and the player can now link to items
- Improved the layout on iPadOS and added hover effect

- Show remaining time in chapter in the notable moments sheets when the option "Show chapter track" is disabled
- Listen to all skip & seek events
- Clarify some translations
- Hide bookmark button when playing episodes
- Added support for images with aspect ratios other than 1:1
- Layout fixes & improvements
- Added custom tint options
- Added option to disable serif fonts 2.4.1 05/05/2024 This update adds a native iPadOS app

- Added 20 seconds seek option
- Fix tips
- Fix progress indicator
- Make progress easier to read
- Make padding consistent 2.4.0 04/23/2024 - Fixed the position of new bookmarks
- Fixed a podcast filter translation 2.3.7 04/18/2024 - Fix series matching
- Display buffering indicator in now playing bar
- Downloaded items will now contribute to your listening statistics
- Long press the skip buttons to seek to the previous / next chapter
- New now playing animation
- Added bookmark support 2.3.6 04/16/2024 This update fixes some bugs and
- improves series sorting
- allows you to set custom http headers
- lock the now playing bar 2.3.5 03/29/2024 Fixed a bug that caused podcast episodes to crash the app 2.3.4 03/18/2024