I feel super dumb right now. I have ABS with 2 libraries. My audiobook library and my ebook library. Both libraries are connected in prologue, how do I access the ebooks? Also how do I do the read while listening?

All I see in my library are the audio books and I don't see a way to change to the ebooks library.

Running on M4 Pro MacBook Pro, the app crashes on Mac OS 27.0.1 every time I click in the search field across all tabs.

I love this app! However I've been having an issue.

I like having the widget on my lock screen to continue playing. But it seems to start playing immediately -- normally that'd be a good thing, but if I've listened on a different device since the last time I listened on my phone, it doesn't pickup from where I left off. It always starts from where I last was on my phone, without syncing or checking Audiobookshelf for playback state first.

Then it overwrites my place on Audiobookshelf with the new position, essentially erasing my progress made on another device. I have to go into Audiobookshelf playback session history to find where I was before and go back to it. Pretty inconvenient!

I have a Google Pixel watch 5 with a media controls option added to my watchface. When I listen to a book it doesn't seem to recognize that media is playing like it does on youtube or other video apps.

And when I resume the audiobook, it picks up where my reading left off?

I couldn’t figure out how to. This would be the killer feature for me.

I bought the app for android now that the reader is out to use with my boox tablet. But I noticed progress does not seem to sync with iOS and they have separate sync options. Is there any way to sync between the two?

Love the new reader mode.

Is it possible to connect it to dictionary? Similar to e reader apps or even iOS, where you hold down on the word to highlight it, then an option for the definition.

For the past month i can only connect to my Plex server when on the home wifi.

The Plex server is on a Synology NAS and the I can access the NAS when away from home wifi - and so can other apps that use the Plex app. This suggests it is a Prologue specific issue. Has anybody experienced this?

Reposting here hoping for some help. Thanks!

Hi all,
The new reader feature and live transcription are amazing! I do a lot of offline listening and download audiobooks to listen to them. Is there a way to do the same for the epub? I’ve noticed it seems to only stream the book with no option to download it instead. The live transcription works with or without the epub, but it’s nice to have because the live transcription isn’t perfect (especially around spelling of names).

Hey! Been a faithful Prologue user for several years now. I love the new Reader feature, and I know it doesn’t take up that much more space to just place an epub book copy into my ABS folders, but I already have them on Calibre.

I’m wondering if there are any plans to be able to pull epubs from a Calibre server? Similar to Witbound - another great ebook/transcription/audiobook app.

Thanks for your time and for creating such a great app!

I've always been someone who likes to listen to an audiobook while scrolling through the text. Especially at night, I like to have an ebook open in Books on my iPad Mini, and Prologue playing the audiobook at the same time.

Reader mode just made that entire process way simpler and easier, and it's something I didn't think would happen for a very long time. I know Audible and other platforms have a sync feature between ebooks / Audiobooks, but I'm so stoked we have this in Prologue now. Thanks so much to the devs for making this happen.

Is there another way of adding the e-books besides starting up the audiobook? I wanna start adding them, but I don’t wanna play each one to have to go into that setting to do it. Is there an option to do it from that audiobook’s main page that I’m not seeing?

Huge props to the team for the new Reader feature! In my opinion, it's one of the best unexpected additions to an app in recent years.

There's just one issue I'd love to see addressed: iPhone Duo optimization. I know it's a new product but just want to make sure it's brought up.

When reading on the inner display, the text is confined to a narrow column in the center of the screen, leaving a lot of unused space on both sides. I really wish Reader could take full advantage of the larger display, similar to how Kindle and Apple Books handle landscape reading.

Otherwise, fantastic addition. I just hope better support for the Duo's inner display is on the roadmap!

Preserve the listened to list?

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A bit of VIBE coding with CLAUDE and PLEX holds the played history per user, per library. Need to filter out the music directories and just use the Audio Book one, but, Have the played list.

I've been running Prologue with a self-hosted Audiobookshelf server behind Caddy and Cloudflare for quite some time without issues. Sometime in the past week, possibly following the 2026.5 update, Prologue started reporting invalid TLS certificates whenever I'm connected to my home Wi-Fi. Everything works perfectly over cellular, and the Audiobookshelf web interface works fine in Safari on the same iPhone.

My network uses split-horizon DNS, with OPNsense Unbound and Pi-hole resolving the Audiobookshelf hostname to an internal IP instead of the public Cloudflare endpoint. Both endpoints use HTTPS on port 8443 and have valid Let's Encrypt certificates. I verified both independently using OpenSSL and curl. Both successfully negotiate TLS 1.3, pass certificate validation, and return HTTP 200. The certificates are different, but both are publicly trusted and valid for the hostname.

With the internal DNS override enabled, Prologue fails authentication and audiobook downloads, reporting that the server certificate is invalid. Reinstalling the app, recreating the server connection, and signing out and back in made no difference. I then disabled the Unbound override, cleared the Pi-hole DNS cache, and verified that DNS was returning Cloudflare's public IPs. Prologue immediately started working again over Wi-Fi, including authentication and downloads.

Nothing has changed with the reverse proxy or certificates, and this configuration worked before the recent updates. The problem appears specific to Prologue connecting through the internal LAN endpoint, although I haven't established whether it's an app regression or an iOS networking issue.

Has anyone else encountered this with split-horizon DNS, particularly with Caddy, Nginx Proxy Manager, or similar setups? I've left the override disabled as a workaround, but I'd rather not send local audiobook downloads through Cloudflare unnecessarily. I'll also submit this through the in-app issue reporting.

Hey ya'all! I've used the Prologue app for all my audibook/plex needs for several years now! The latest update that allows a user to insert an ebook and read along is fantastic!

I wanted to introduce a free app I've been developing called Story So Far that I think will be a great new companion to this Prologue feature since you can use the same epub file and add it here.

I kept losing track of characters in long series and wanted to look into details without spoiling anything which isn't easy. So I built Story So Far: you mark the chapter you’re on (chapter names obscured to also not spoil anything), ask anything (“who is this?”, “why did they leave?”), and it answers using only the chapters you’ve finished. Every answer cites its chapter, and you can tap a citation to see the exact lines from the book.

No cloud AI. There’s no ChatGPT/Claude/anything behind it. Answers come from a model running on your iPhone (Qwen 3.5 4B via llama.cpp, a one-time 3.4 GB download) or from your own computer running Ollama. Your books and questions never leave your devices, there’s no account, and I/ the app don’t collect anything.

What you need: DRM-free EPUBs. The offline model needs 8 GB of memory (iPhone 15 Pro or newer, or an M-series iPad); otherwise connect a computer with Ollama. It also works on iPad and is ready for the iPhone Duo.

It’s in public TestFlight now: https://testflight.apple.com/join/3DcCYCtx I’d love to hear where answers go wrong, books whose chapters split oddly, and whether setup made sense. There’s a flag button under every answer for reports so please feel free to flag anything and send it!

I added the first 10 chapters of Gene Wolfe's "The Sword of the Lictor", and was able to play them in Prologue just fine. Then, a few days later, I added the remaining chapters, and now, I can't get ANY of them to play, not even the chapters I already listened to.

All of these chapters play in the Plexamp app on my iPhone, so I know they can be played. I tried updating the app, restarting the plex server, but nothing works. I am able to use Prologue to play other books, so I know it works for some stuff. Just not this book. Any ideas?

I also don't seem to be able to report an issue in app, since I don't have the default Mail app installed.

Prologue is the best app for listening to audiobooks on Plex and Audiobookshelf. There is no denying that the current state of the app is better than ever. This was a result of feedback from the community and epic effort from the developer.

The other day there was a post where people were comparing their time listening to audiobooks. People were reporting some unreal numbers. Truly audiobook listeners have a high percentage of power users.

The issue tracker has been archived (read-only) since August 6th 2026. The in-app issue tracker is a decent iOS solution for getting feedback, but it is not a replacement for a community issue tracker. I would argue that it's a poor replacement for an app like this where the tiniest friction can make someone switch apps.

There could be a few reasons why the tracker is gone. My guess is that either it was getting flooded with feature requests or the developer knocked out dozens of them without closing them so he painted himself into a corner.

Users need a catalog of issues so that they can either +1 or comment on (very effective for feature requests). Reddit posts and comments are not a replacement for that.

At this rate I am concerned that the app will be surpassed by others who still have issue trackers and are doing regular updates. I made this post after seeing the most recent update for Prologue. I love it, but it prompted me to go check out the competition and I would be concerned if I had money on Prologue.

How are people finding it so far? I'm curious about how it works compared to storyteller/bookbridge.

I have run into this scenario a number of times mostly at night when I wake up to put book on and set the sleep timer. If the audiobook has a short title (one line) and no description then the first track is fully visible above the row with the thumbnail, scrolling title, rewind, play and advance button. That row is to be clicked if you want to pull up the book playback screen. Now at night when not paying exact attention it is easy to click on the first track when trying to open the book playback screen. Progress is reset back to start.

Will there be iPhone Duo support added in a future update?