Woodshelf is an iPhone app for the Audiobookshelf server you already run. It keeps your books on the phone for bad signal, keeps your series in order, and puts the lot on CarPlay the way a long drive needs it.
Join the TestFlight betaHow it worksPrivate beta. Needs an Audiobookshelf server to connect to; Woodshelf does not sell or host books.
Open the app in the car and the first thing you see is the book you were in the middle of, as a cover you can tap. Behind it: the next book in each series you follow, everything downloaded to the phone, and your whole library with a letter index down the side.
Now Playing has a speed button, a chapter list and a sleep timer, so nothing needs the phone.
Download whole books or let Woodshelf cache the rest of the one you are streaming. Playback and progress keep working with no signal and sync when it returns.
Every book shows its place in the series. Follow a series and the next unfinished book appears in Up Next; finish one and the next starts after a short pause.
Pause for a minute, come back five seconds earlier. Pause overnight, come back thirty. You never hunt for your place.
End of chapter or a set time, fading out rather than cutting off. Shake the phone to add fifteen minutes.
Drop a bookmark at any moment, see your listening sessions per book, and jump back to where any of them ended.
Hours, books, streaks and a yearly goal, matched to the badges on the web client, so both places tell the same story.
Woodshelf is a client for the open-source Audiobookshelf server. If you already have one, you are ready. If not, see the support page for how to get one running.
Woodshelf is in private beta. Ask for an invite, install TestFlight from the App Store, and the app appears there.
Enter your server address and the account you use on the web. Your library syncs to the phone and you are listening within a minute.