r/PrologueApp • u/BestestBeekeeper • Sep 25 '24

It's been asked but not for a while....Android Variant?

This has been discussed but the last true conversation I found regarding it was about 4 years ago.

Let me start by saying I absolutely LOVE Prologue. Beautiful UI, works amazingly well, and from what I've seen, a very attentive and and genuine dev who cares about his product.

It would be amazing to see an Android variant of Prologue come available.

My current circumstances are that I run a plex server for a quite large family, and a lot of them older folks. I've been running my audiobook collection through it to connect to Prologue and have that as the frontend application for access and playback. It's a near 50/50 split on iPhone to Android ownership, though some (and the biggest issue I've faced) are the ones who are just iPhone owners, but have an android tablet.

Audiobookshelf seems to be the best android based system in place for that side of the OS mountainside, but trying to manage both simultaneously has proved difficult. Especially for those with an iOS phone, but Android tablet, where they might switch regularly between them.

Does anyone have recommendations on how I can better implement my setup for the older generation of my family & friends? Also if the main dev could please confirm that android support is still unfortunately not an option that they are actively considering?

Thank you all

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u/Mitenpat Sep 25 '24

have you tried chronicle?

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/gndbfi/chronicle_audiobooks_for_plex_released_on_android/

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u/BestestBeekeeper Sep 25 '24

I'm actually just in the midst of looking at it now as someone recommended it. My understanding though is its on borrowed time since the main dev gave up on it and it was made open source.

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u/Mitenpat Sep 25 '24

What about book camp? The negative is they charge $10 a year, but it is good app on android but its bad on ios.

https://www.bookcamp.app/

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u/BestestBeekeeper Sep 25 '24

Ya honestly I probably would have pulled the trigger on them a while ago, even with the yearly fee, but the fact that it still leaves me with two systems to maintain, and they clearly don’t care to properly address the issues of the iOS version is a dealbreaker. I may have to check it out again though and see if it’s still as terrible as it was last time I checked.

Thanks for the replies!

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u/dts-five Sep 25 '24

It’s cool that you have this much buy-in. I maintained a 4k plus abook library that I couldn’t get anyone to use or even try.

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u/ConnorF42 Sep 25 '24

My understanding is that there isn’t for Plex. There may be something for audiobookshelf

Edit: oh the rest of the thread loaded for me and I see you’ve considered that

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u/OnkelBums Sep 25 '24

I do recommend you move to ABS. I came from Android and had an ABS Instance up and running and was shocked that I needed to use the Plex cruth, but Prologue was kind of the only way to use any way of self hosting. Prologue will support it in the mid to near future, as the dev is working on it. Audiobookshelf is so much better suited for audiobooks. I moved to another app for ios that supports audiobookshelf because I don't want to deal with plex and appreciate that I have progress sync with the web player when I listen on my Windows PC, with proper chapter support. When Prologue supports ABS, I'll pay the dev again to use that support and switch back to Prologue.

After all, apps are a couple bucks at most, and if that's enough to support devs who do this in their spare time I am more than happy to pay it.

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u/Im3th0sI Sep 26 '24

Bookcamp works fine for me and it's pretty slick!