plappa is an audiobook player/client for Jellyfin, the free software media system 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 (see the roadmap).
For now, plappa is in a closed TestFlight beta. The public release is set for early 2024.
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.
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.
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.
You can see the full roadmap in the plappa project, the short version is:
- iOS App with all basic features
- Carplay support (WIP)
- Apple Watch App
- Mac App
- Apple TV App
- Support for AudioBookShelf servers (WIP)
If you encounter any issues while using plappa, please create an issue here on GitHub. Follow the guidelines for creating an issue and provide as much information as possible without revealing any personal data. Please check if a bug has already been reported before creating a new issue.
Feature requests are managed in the discussion section of this repo. You can create feature requests and vote on other ideas here. Please check if a similar feature has been requested before and vote on that instead of creating a duplicate.