plappa 4+
Self-hosted Audiobooks
Leo Wehrfritz
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Disclaimer: plappa only works in connection with a Jellyfin or AudioBookShelf media server!
plappa is an audiobook player/client for Jellyfin, Emby and AudioBookShelf, the popular self-hosted media server.
Features:
- Support for most common audio formats
- Purpose built for audiobooks
- Save and sync playback states via iCloud or your AudioBookShelf server
- Reads metadata like author, narrator and others
- Download audiobooks and podcast episodes for offline listening*
- Support for podcasts, collections and series with AudioBookShelf
* plappa allows you to unlock additional features like downloads and customization options through optional in-app purchases:
You can choose between a one-time purchase or an auto-renewing subscription (1 month free trial included).
The one-time purchase unlocks all current and future updates. With the subscription, all features are available for the duration of your subscription.
Both the subscription and one-time purchase can be shared with your family.
plappa is licensed under the Apple standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s New
Version 1.1.5
New Features:
- Added narrators tab
- Added swipe down gesture to dismiss player
- Added sorting for podcast episodes
Changes:
- Performance improvements for larger libraries
- Fixed an issue causing finished audiobooks to appear unplayed after restarting plappa
- Fixed an issue causing audiobooks made up of multiple m4b files to receive duplicate track numbers
- Removed 14 day limit for “Where you left off”
Ratings and Reviews
Great for books!
This is great for books and podcasts. However, CarPlay mode for podcasts needs a lot of improvements. New episodes are not displayed. You have to start the podcast in the phone and then continue to listen on CarPlay. No way to see new episodes in CarPlay mode. Also I have noticed that podcasts won’t resume automatically if paused by maps or any other apps.
The phone experience is amazing and very polished.
Developer Response ,
Hey Bibin, thank you for your Feedback!
I'm actively working on the CarPlay implementation! The bug that caused podcasts not to resume after interruptions has been fixed with the 1.1.3 update released on Monday :)
Beautiful UI, a few missing features
This is THE Audiobookshelf app. It has an absolutely beautiful UI. The official Audiobookshelf mobile app feels cluttered, slow, and old. This app is great, and it mostly works well! There are a few features that I miss from the Audiobookshelf official app that keep me from using this app. Primarily, I wish this app had a slider for fine-tuned control of playback speed instead of a select menu. I like to listen to my audiobooks at occasionally 1.3x or 1.4x speed, but I can not do that with this app.
Over all, it's amazing, but the most important part of an audiobook app -- the playback -- is lacking features. With that one feature I'd be sold.
Developer Response ,
Hey leeandjack,
thank you for your feedback! I know it's not exactly what you asked for, but there's already an option to define custom values for the playback speed (Settings->Change Playback Rates), maybe that works for you? You could just add 1.3x and 1.4x there to have them appear in the selection menu within the player.
I've haven't put a slider for the playback speed as I'm trying to keep the interface as uniform as possible between the iOS app and the CarPlay interface (which doesn't support draggable sliders for safety reasons).
Should you have any additional feedback, questions or suggestions, feel free to contact me at leo@plappa.me.
Feels very professional
The app feels and works as good as something like audible great job there!
I would have liked an option to ignore untrusted certificate warnings on an https connection when setting it up since I use my own internal CA but I just installed the root ca on to the device to bypass that.
Developer Response ,
Hey Mack, thank you for your feedback!
I definitely see how using HTTPS locally can be annoying when self signed certificates are not trusted, but I feel like installing the root certificate is the more elegant and secure solution.
Should you have any additional feedback or suggestions, feel free to let me know at contact@plappa.me!
App Privacy
The developer, Leo Wehrfritz, 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
- Leo Wehrfritz
- Size
- 4 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Leo Wehrfritz
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Full Version (Lifetime) $4.99
- Subscription (1 Year) $1.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.