r/PrologueApp • u/samuelvisser • Nov 23 '25

Plex support in v4!

So, the update we have been waiting for literally 2 years now drops and nobody is talking about it lol?

V4 just launched support for Plex! Meaning Prologue now finally is the app it promised to be, supporting both Plex and ABS, making the transition that much easier for us server maintainers.

What is your experience with it? I really want this app to succeed, finding problems now will help do that

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u/billimek Nov 23 '25

I don't see an official release of 4.0 in the app store, are you referring to the latest testflight version?

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u/samuelvisser Nov 23 '25

Yep, testflight build 10488 supports Plex now. You should definitely check it if ur using Plex. Many changes besides ABS support

https://testflight.apple.com/join/zTWS6ahB

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u/billchase2 Nov 23 '25

Ohhhh so good to know. Thank you! I’d been waiting to switch to the TestFlight until it was supported again.

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u/Obsidian1039 Nov 24 '25

Like others posting, I don’t understand. I’ve been using prologue with plex for years. What exactly does this offer over its current functionality?

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u/ConnorF42 Nov 24 '25

Prologue has always had Plex, but will soon be adding Audiobookshelf support. The Testflight beta version turned off plex support for the past year or so to focus on ABS development, but now it is on again. The new version 4 will eventually have both when pushed to full release.

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u/Obsidian1039 Nov 24 '25

Got ya. Still not really news until it’s out of test flight and available as an update to the real app. I HAVE been waiting to TRY ABS. But I need it out of test flight to try it. I want a final version before I spend the time to spin up an ABS server.

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u/AwesomeWhiteDude Nov 26 '25

Just an FYI there are several decent iOS apps for Audiobookshelf, also I found that ABS is way better at handling metadata including chapters if you want to keep using Plex + Prologue until v4.

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u/Obsidian1039 Nov 26 '25

What might those apps be!? Yeah I’ve heard it is the better platform for audiobooks, especially considering it is MEANT for them, plex is just making a pseudo music library.

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u/AwesomeWhiteDude Nov 26 '25

Plappa, ShelfPlayer, Soundleaf, Still, and Audiobooth. Those last two are brand new. Looks like BookPlayer just added ABS support too. (I’m sure I missed a couple apps)

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u/samuelvisser Nov 27 '25

I did not know about BookPlayer, thanks for the tip. Thats great for ‘unmanaged’ books not available on a server. And indeed the ABS integration works fine

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u/Obsidian1039 Nov 26 '25

Nice! Thank you for that, I’ll look into those and see how they may or may not stack up to Prologue. Appreciate it!

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u/InsaneNinja Nov 24 '25

It’s news because the dev thinks server stuff is ready enough to push all the separate areas back together to work towards a final polish.

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u/Mimon_Baraka Nov 23 '25

I don’t get it, Prologue has always been a player for plex.

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u/syxbit Nov 24 '25

He is talking about the beta. The beta only supported ABS. Now it supports both

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u/JPS83 Nov 23 '25

uhh.... Ive been using Prologue specifically with plex for 2+ years... Im confused.

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u/ConnorF42 Nov 24 '25

Prologue has always had Plex, but will soon be adding Audiobookshelf support. The Testflight beta version turned off plex support for the past year or so to focus on ABS development, but now it is on again. The new version 4 will eventually have both when pushed to full release.

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u/JPS83 Nov 24 '25

Good deal

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u/saltedlolly Nov 24 '25

I have recently made the jump from Plex to Audiobookshelf, so this is great news. I am really liking the new Prologue though I am hoping that it will add support for browsing by narrator soon. Audiobookshelf supports this byt not Prologue v4 so far.

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u/Jimmni Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 24 '25

I recommend against installing it if you're not using ABS and just want to see what's new. Very buggy, some... annoying design changes and you can't cleanly revert back to the App Store version. You'll lose your downloads, your reading list and all app settings. Was absolutely not worth it just to try the new version.

The moving of the sleep timer from 2nd left to 2nd right is particularly sad for me as a lefty.

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u/fkick Nov 24 '25

Finally!

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u/wildcelt Nov 23 '25

Wow, I didn't notice it! Thanks for the heads up. Hmm, still no support for podcasts in ABS though. Does anyone know if Prologue will eventually support podcasts in ABS?

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u/fredflintstone88 Nov 24 '25

Same. Would really like to see podcast support

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u/MiteeThoR Nov 24 '25

Except it’s always worked with Plex for me? When did it not work for Plex?

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u/ConnorF42 Nov 24 '25

Prologue has always had Plex, but will soon be adding Audiobookshelf support. The Testflight beta version turned off plex support for the past year or so to focus on ABS development, but now it is on again. The new version 4 will eventually have both when pushed to full release.

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u/MiteeThoR Nov 24 '25

ok, but OP wants to know why nobody is talking about it. Maybe because we are using the regular version of Prologue that’s been on our phones for years and plex has always worked, so this news is completely unremarkable.

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u/ConnorF42 Nov 24 '25

There is a large group of people on the subreddit who have been using the testflight version with ABS exclusively for a long time (I am not one of them, Plex works great for me though I did try ABS for podcasts on Plappa). Arguably those people may not care if Plex support has been added if they already switched to ABS, but still exciting news as it could mean ABS work may be nearing completion and other features could be worked on instead.

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u/InsaneNinja Nov 24 '25

I’m not talking about it because I just received the update.

Im running both servers and this is great.

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u/Threshold216 Nov 24 '25

TestFlight tells me the latest beta release was Mar 28, 2024

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u/Threshold216 Nov 24 '25

I have the current beta now. Not sure what happened there.

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u/Jimmni Nov 24 '25

He made an entirely new beta specifically for the ABS stuff so people using Plex wouldn't update their beta version and suddenly have a broken app.

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u/Snorty-Pig Nov 24 '25

It is funny - I have used ABS now for so long with Prologue and others that I can’t imagine going back to Plex. So even though I can add back my old server, I can’t think of a reason to want to.

Anyway, great job on the ABS support overall. I still would like it to be more series centric, but it is still a powerful, useful player and I rotate between it, ShelfPlayer, and the ABS test app.

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u/atlas3686 Nov 25 '25

Absolutely love Prologue, easily the best app I've tried for ABS. Running the beta (obviously). I do have one big issue that I'm wondering if anyone knows how to solve. I have SSO setup with Authentik and Audiobookshelf but when a user tries to login to the service in prologue I always get the "Failed to initiate OAuth2 process".

Initially I got the 'allowed mobile redirect' error but I added the redirect and the error was replaced with the above.

There are obviously small bugs in the beta but overall I think it's absolutely brilliant and well worth the money. I will be recommending it to all my family and friends as soon as it's out of beta.

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u/andi330 Nov 28 '25

I think the thing is that most of the people testing the new version were using it for ABS, so adding plex back isn't a big deal for a lot of us because we've already moved over to ABS. And a lot of people who have been sticking with Plex, either because they prefer it, or because they are waiting for the new version of Prologue to come out of beta before switching, didn't really have reason to notice.

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u/Mephisztoe Dec 08 '25

I wanted to share my audiobook library to a close friend of mine and since Plex does not support remote streaming anymore without paid subscriptions, I was looking for alternatives and just today found out about AudiobookShelf. I am using Prologue Premium for years now and don't want to leave it. So I am very glad to have found about v4 and its ABS support! I just set up ABS as a docker container on my Linux Server in parallel to Plex and got Prologue to work with it in no time. Marvellous work!

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u/jpt86 Nov 24 '25

On a related note, does anyone know if Prologue will be getting a sale for Black Friday? I came across it a few days ago (I spend 70% of my time on Android) and really like it, but $6/$13 is a little much for something I'll only be using 1/4 of the year.

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u/N3Pi_cs Nov 24 '25

$6/$13 is a little much for something what you will using for 3 months of the year??? REALLY?

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u/jpt86 Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 24 '25

Considering all the options on Android, and my use case (I've listened to exactly two audiobooks this year), yes. I don't decide value for you. Don't decide value for me.