It’s a fantastic app, and it’s well worth the download. Prologue is a free download on the App Store, and there is a one time $5 in-app purchase to unlock offline downloads and the collections features I mentioned earlier. It also supports voice boost (similar to Overcast), variable playback speeds, sleep timer, bookmarks, and Siri support. It has a great CarPlay version, so it’s perfect for listening to books in the car. If you build “collections” in Plex (think: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc.), they will show up as Collections in the app. Playback progress syncs over iCloud to listen on your iPhone and your iPad without losing your spot.

Instead of having to load your books manually, you sign in to your Plex server, and all of your books are available to stream or download offline. Once that is all set up, the Prologue app becomes the best audiobook app on the App Store. There is a step-by-step guide for configuring it on the Plex Forums. While Plex doesn’t support it out of the box, it’s a pretty straight forward process to add a section of your library for books. Once I discovered it was possible to put these files into Plex, it became an audiobook dream setup for me. I will often find cheaper copies of books on CD from Amazon, and then use Audiobook Builder to combine them into an M4B format that works great for audiobooks. I’ve had an Audible subscription since 2008, and I’ve listened to hundreds of books during that time. I’ve been an audiobook fan for as long as I can remember. Earlier this year, I added a new type of media to my server: Plex audiobooks with the Prologue app. Plex is an essential part of my media life for TV and Movies. I then have my setup rounded out with a Backblaze subscription to keep everything backed up. After that, I used an Nvidia Shield for several years and recently moved to an Intel NUC with a 14 TB external drive to house all of my media. I set up my first very Plex server running on an old MacBook Pro I had, and it worked well for several years. When I moved in 2013, I decided I was done with physical media for TV shows and movies and ripping all of my DVDs into digital format.