Library & Browsing
Browse, search, filter, and organize your audiobook library in FableFrog with five browse modes, playlists, series tracking, and more.
Home Screen
The Home tab is your personalized dashboard. It displays server-powered shelves like Continue Listening, Recently Added, and Discover, giving you quick access to what matters most. Below the shelves you'll find:
- Favorites: a quick-access row of books you've marked as favorites.
- Weekly stats: a snapshot of your listening time for the current week, with a progress indicator if you've set a listening goal.
- Upcoming books: notifications about new releases in series you follow.
The Home screen refreshes automatically when you open the app and maintains a real-time connection to your server via Socket.io, so changes on the server (new books added, progress synced from another device) appear without manual refreshing.
Browse Modes
FableFrog provides five distinct ways to explore your library, each accessible from the browse section:
Books
The default grid view showing every audiobook in your library. Each cover displays progress indicators and optional status icons (downloaded, finished). Tap any cover to open the book detail page.
Authors
A grid of all authors in your library. Tap an author to see their detail page with a biography (if available on the server) and a list of all their books in your collection.
Series
Browse all series in your library. Each series entry shows the number of books you own and your overall progress. Tap a series to see all books in order, with clear indicators for which ones you've started, finished, or haven't begun yet.
Narrators
A grid of narrators extracted from your library metadata. Tap a narrator to see every book they've narrated, making it easy to find more work from a voice you enjoy.
Genres
Browse your library organized by genre tags. Tap any genre to see all matching books, then filter and sort within that subset.
Filtering and Sorting
Every browse mode supports filtering and sorting to help you find exactly what you're looking for.
Progress Filters
Filter your library by listening status:
- Not Started: books you haven't begun
- In Progress: books you're currently listening to
- Finished: books you've completed
Combine progress filters with genre filters to narrow results further. Active filters appear as visual chips at the top of the browse view, and you can tap any chip to remove it.
Sort Options
Sort your library by title, author, date added, duration, year published, last listened, or last activity, in ascending or descending order. The available sort options vary slightly by browse mode. For example, the Series view offers sorting by series name and book count.
Alphabetical Index Bar
For large libraries, the index bar along the right edge of the screen lets you jump instantly to any letter. Tap or drag along the bar to scroll to that section. This is especially useful in the Books and Authors views when you have hundreds of entries.
Search
The search function works across your entire library in real time. As you type, results are filtered by title, author, narrator, and genre. Search is available from the main browse view and works within any active filter combination.
Book Detail Page
Tapping any book opens its full detail page, which includes:
- Cover art displayed prominently at the top
- Metadata: author, narrator, series, genres, year published, publisher
- Description: the full book description from your server
- Chapter list: all chapters with individual durations
- Progress bar: your current position in the book
- Listening sessions: a history of when and how long you've listened
- Ratings: your rating and any review you've written
- Quick actions: play, download, add to playlist, mark as finished, rate, and more
Long-press any book cover anywhere in the app to access a context menu with quick actions: navigate to the author, series, or narrator page, mark as finished, add to a playlist, rate the book, and more.
Playlists
Playlists let you create custom listening queues for any purpose: road trip lineups, themed collections, or a simple "up next" list. Playlists persist across sign-out and are tied to your account, so they're restored when you sign back in.
Creating a Playlist
Tap the Playlists section in the library and create a new playlist with a name of your choice. You can also add a book to a playlist directly from the book detail page or context menu.
Managing Playlists
- Add books from any book's detail page or context menu.
- Remove books by swiping on them within the playlist view.
- Reorder books with drag and drop to set your preferred listening sequence.
- Delete a playlist entirely when you no longer need it. Deleting a playlist does not affect the books themselves.
Favorites
Mark any book as a favorite by tapping the heart icon on its detail page or through the context menu. Favorites appear in a dedicated row on the Home screen for quick access. Tap the heart again to unfavorite a book.
Series Tracking
FableFrog helps you stay on top of multi-book series with its series tracking feature.
Following Series
Tap the Follow button on any series detail page to start tracking it. Followed series are monitored for upcoming releases, and FableFrog checks external data sources for release information.
Status Categories
Books in a followed series are categorized into clear statuses:
- Upcoming: announced but not yet released
- Available Now: released but not yet in your library
- Up to Date: you've finished or own all currently available books
Standalone Books
Many series include companion novels, side stories, novellas, and other entries that don't have a numbered position in the series. FableFrog detects these standalone entries and tracks them alongside numbered sequels so you never miss a release.
- Upcoming standalones always appear in your upcoming list, ensuring you don't miss pre-release entries.
- Available standalones can be shown or hidden using the Include Standalones toggle in the toolbar. Standalone books are labeled with a "Standalone" badge so they're easy to distinguish from numbered entries.
- The toggle preference is saved per server, so each Audiobookshelf connection remembers your choice.
- Toggling is instant — no network refetch required.
Unfollowing
Tap the Follow button again on the series page to stop tracking a series. This removes it from your upcoming books notifications.
Ratings and Reviews
Rate any audiobook on a 1 to 5 star scale (in half-star increments) directly from the book detail page. You can also write a text review of up to 5,000 characters to capture your thoughts. Ratings sync to your Audiobookshelf server, so they're visible from any client. You can update or remove your rating at any time. Your ratings also persist locally across sign-out, tied to your account.
You can also rate entire series from the series detail page. Series ratings are stored locally on your device, making them a personal reference for how you feel about a series overall.