Features

Fine-grained speed control in 0.25x increments. Set a global default or override per book. FableFrog even tracks your total time saved from faster listening.

Quiet narration? Crank it up with the built-in volume boost. Per-book overrides mean you set it once and forget it.

Presets from 5 to 30 minutes, custom hour:minute picker, or "end of chapter" mode. Shake your phone to extend after it expires without waking up your screen. Shake sensitivity is configurable globally and per book.

Set a time window (e.g. 10 PM to 6 AM) and FableFrog automatically starts a sleep timer when playback begins inside it. Pick between Duration and End-of-Chapter modes, with per-book overrides. Manual timers always take precedence.

Choose which actions appear in the player's bottom row — Speed, Volume Boost, Sleep Timer, Car Mode, Bookmark, Listening Activity, or Book Details. Set a global default in Playback Settings or override per book.

Full chapter list with durations. Jump to any chapter instantly. Toggle between chapter time and total book time remaining.

Tap to bookmark your position. Add a title and up to 5,000 characters of notes. Jump back to any bookmark later. Swipe to delete.

Large, tap-friendly controls designed for glanceable use while driving. Auto-prevents screen lock.

Prevent screen dimming while you listen. Toggle on or off per session.

Customize what double-press and triple-press do on AirPods and other headphones. Double-press: create a bookmark or skip to the next chapter. Triple-press: skip back by your configured seconds (the default, matching Overcast and Apple Books) or jump to the previous chapter. Per-book overrides on both.

Prevent accidental seeking by auto-locking the scrubber after a configurable delay (10-60 seconds). Tap to unlock, scrub, and it re-locks.

Built-in AirPlay route picker. Send audio to any AirPlay-compatible speaker or receiver.

Pause, resume, skip forward or backward, jump to the next chapter, set or cancel a sleep timer (duration or end-of-chapter), check upcoming books in a series, or play any book in your library — all hands-free with Siri or Shortcuts. A Voice Shortcuts screen in Settings lists every supported phrase with copy-able examples.

Books, Authors, Series, Narrators, and Genres, each with its own dedicated grid view and detail page.

Filter by progress (Not Started, In Progress, Finished) and by genre. Combine filters freely. Visual filter chips show what's active.

Sort by title, author, date added, duration, year published, last listened, or last activity. Ascending or descending.

Real-time search across your entire library by title, author, narrator, or genre.

A quick-scroll index bar along the edge of the books, authors, narrators, and series pages. Tap a letter to jump instantly. Essential for large libraries.

Toggle "Collapse Series" in the books tab to fold every series into a single compact row. Tapping a collapsed series jumps into its detail view. Great for libraries packed with long series.

Switch between libraries on your server right from the Home toolbar. One tap, new library — no trip to Settings.

Library, Home, authors, and series tabs render instantly from cache on re-entry, with a silent background refresh. Filter and sort changes apply optimistically — no spinners. Each sort view also remembers your last direction independently.

Server-powered shelves (Continue Listening, Recently Added, etc.), quick access to favorites and history, weekly stats at a glance, and fun facts about your listening habits. Reorder, show, or hide any section to make the home screen yours.

Follow your favorite series. FableFrog checks for upcoming releases and shows their status: upcoming, available now, or up to date. Standalone entries like companion novels and side stories are tracked too, with a toggle to show or hide them. Upcoming and available releases also appear inline on the series detail page. A "Following" filter chip on the series browse tab shows only the ones you track. Follow up to 3 series free; Premium unlocks unlimited tracking.

A dedicated Manage Followed Series page lets you scroll through every series in your library — with covers, alpha-scroll, and cross-field search across title, author, narrator, and contained book titles — and follow or unfollow them with a single tap. The header shows your most recent follows as quick-jump chips.

Opt in to push notifications when a new book drops in any series you follow, even when the app is closed. Granular per-type toggles and a friendly permission flow let you choose exactly what you hear about. Release-day detection runs in the background and paginates long series so nothing slips past.

Tap any upcoming or available-now book to see a detail page with cover art, series info, narrator, duration, book description, series navigation, release date with a live countdown timer, and a link to view it on Audible or Goodreads. Tap **Add to Calendar** to drop the release date into your calendar so you don't miss it. Hide books you're not interested in.

When a book in a followed series releases today, a celebratory banner appears on your Home screen with the cover art, title, and an "Open in Audible" link. Multiple same-day releases rotate automatically.

Mark books or series you've given up on as abandoned. Abandoned items get a visual indicator on their covers, can be filtered in the library, and live in a dedicated Abandoned list. Abandoning a series can optionally abandon all its books too.

Cover art, full metadata, description, chapter list with tap-to-jump navigation, duration, progress bar, listening sessions history, ratings, and quick actions, all on one screen. A "Streaming" label appears on covers that aren't downloaded so you always know whether a tap will play from the network or local storage.

Long-press any book for quick actions: navigate to author, series, or narrator, mark as finished, add to playlist, rate, and more. Series cards have their own context menu with follow/unfollow, rate, search on Audible, and batch-add all books to a playlist.

Edit titles, authors, narrators, series, genres, tags, descriptions, and more — right from the app. Changes sync back to your Audiobookshelf server.

Download any audiobook for offline listening. Full playback controls work identically offline.

Configure a listening threshold (5-30 minutes). After you've listened that long, FableFrog automatically downloads the book. Auto-removes finished downloads to save space.

View all downloads with progress indicators, file sizes, and status. Search and sort your downloaded library. Retry failed downloads. Delete selectively.

Restrict downloads to Wi-Fi connections. Get warned before using cellular data.

Even offline, browse your cached library metadata, see your progress, and access downloaded content.

Your overall library completion rate: total listening progress across all books divided by total library duration. A satisfying library progress bar.

Daily, weekly, and monthly listening time charts with sparkline trends. See which days of the week you listen most. Year-by-year comparison. Rotate to landscape for full-screen charts.

A GitHub-style heatmap showing your listening activity over time. Spot patterns, streaks, and gaps at a glance.

Visualize long reads and parallel listening sessions with timeline-style Gantt charts.

See when you listen most — morning, afternoon, evening, or late night. Discover your peak listening hours.

See your listening time split across genres. Discover patterns you didn't know you had.

Ranked by total listening time. See which series you've invested the most in.

Track the cumulative time you've "saved" by listening faster than 1x. A motivating metric for power listeners.

Full list of completed books with finish dates. Your audiobook trophy case.

Weekly, monthly, and annual personalized insights about your listening habits.

Detailed log of every listening session with timestamps and durations. Group by day or by book.

A granular, cross-book feed of playback events — plays, pauses, seeks, and chapter changes — with live updates. Group by day or by book. Accessible from Listen History with pagination and pull-to-refresh.

Tap any entry in the activity feed or listening history to jump directly to that position in the player. If the book isn't loaded, FableFrog loads it and seeks automatically.

6 light themes (Default, Parchment, Lilac, Electric, Terracotta, Rosé), 11 dark themes (Midnight, Nebula, Ocean, Forest, Espresso, Sunset, Lavender, Neon, Deep Sea, Mocha, Noir), and 3 accessibility themes.

Choose between Neon (default), Sunset, and Forest icon variants, with more on the way.

Six text size levels from XS to XL. Preview before applying.

Override global speed, volume boost, skip forward/backward durations, and scrubber auto-lock timing on a per-book basis. Reset to defaults anytime.

Skip forward: 10-60 seconds. Skip backward: 5-45 seconds. Set your preference globally or per book.

Choose the icon displayed in your lock screen widget: Frog (default), Frog Foot, Headphones, or Sound Library. The widget updates instantly when you change it.

Choose which tabs appear in the navigation bar. Keep what you use, hide what you don't. Rearrange tabs to match your workflow.

Choose between Audible and Goodreads as your default external link provider. Every "View on..." link throughout the app — upcoming releases, context menus, release day banners — respects your choice.

Optional overlay icons on book covers showing download status and completion state. Series cards also display followed and abandoned status icons.

High Contrast (golden yellow on pure black), Blue-Orange (deuteranopia-friendly), Pink-Teal (tritanopia-friendly). These are first-class themes, not afterthoughts.

Comprehensive VoiceOver support across every screen with detailed accessibility labels on every control, button, slider, and interactive element. Full screen reader navigation.

Full Dynamic Type scaling support. Text sizes adapt to your system-wide accessibility preferences.

Voice Control identifiers on interactive elements so you can navigate and control FableFrog entirely by voice.

Supports the Differentiate Without Color system setting, ensuring information is never conveyed by color alone.

All 20 themes meet WCAG AA contrast requirements, verified and fixed across every screen.

Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency system settings are honored throughout the app.

Six size levels ensure readability for everyone.

Large tap targets in car mode, auto-lock scrubber prevents accidental input, gesture-based actions for key features.

A home screen widget (small/medium) showing your current book's cover art, chapter info, and a progress ring. The medium size adds an interactive play/pause button. Tap to jump straight to the player.

A home screen widget (medium/large) displaying your in-progress books with cover art and progress bars. Tap any book to deep-link directly to it in the player.

A home screen widget (small/medium/large) showing countdown badges for upcoming releases from series you follow. Color-coded by urgency: green for under 7 days, orange for under 30.

A home screen widget (small/medium) with a circular progress ring tracking your daily listening goal and 7-day goal dots.

A home screen widget (small/medium/large) showing today's listening time, your streak, a 7-day bar chart, books finished, and weekly total.

A compact home screen widget (small) displaying your listening streak count with a flame icon and 7-day activity dots.

A dedicated nightstand widget for iOS 17+ StandBy mode. Full-bleed cover art, chapter progress, a progress bar, and skip/play/pause controls. Respects your chapter vs. book timeframe toggle and per-book skip settings.

Circular progress gauge showing your current book's progress, title, and percentage. Choose from multiple widget icons — Frog, Frog Foot, Headphones, or Sound Library — to personalize your lock screen.

Pick the icon displayed inside your lock screen widget. The default Frog icon is free; Frog Foot, Headphones, and Sound Library are available with Premium. Changes appear on your lock screen instantly.

Widgets refresh daily in the background so your data stays current even when you haven't opened the app.

Full Now Playing integration with playback controls, chapter info, and cover art.

Play/Pause and progress control widgets in the new iOS 18 Control Center.

Dedicated CarPlay scene with a driving-optimized interface for safe in-car listening.

Long-press the FableFrog app icon for a Search shortcut (jumps straight to the Library tab with the search field active) and a dynamic Now Playing entry showing the current book's title and author — taps open the player and resume if paused.

Read EPUB and PDF ebooks directly in FableFrog. Open the reader from book detail or the player — your audiobook library and ebook library in one place.

A compact mini-player floats over the reader so you never lose your place in the narration. Switch between reading and listening seamlessly.

Create, edit, and manage user accounts on your Audiobookshelf server without opening a browser.

Manage your libraries, configure settings, and organize your server-side collection from the app.

Create and manage server backups directly from Settings. Keep your library safe without switching to a desktop.

Configure authentication methods and server access controls from within the app.

Organize your library with server-side tag and genre management. Bulk edit and clean up metadata.

Walk every book on your server, split comma-separated genre strings on a configurable delimiter (`,`, `;`, `:`, or `|`), dedupe case-insensitively, and write the cleaned arrays back. Scan → preview every per-book before/after diff → exclude any book with a tap → apply with progress and per-failure retry. Lossless guarantee: every non-empty atom from the original maps to a canonical entry in the result.

Automatic, continuous sync across all your devices signed into the same iCloud account. Settings, ratings, playlists, and per-book overrides stay in sync.

Export your data to a JSON file and import it on any device. Useful for server migrations, one-time transfers, or offline backups.

Changed your server domain? Import a backup from a different connection — FableFrog detects the mismatch and re-identifies your data gracefully.

Backups capture global settings, per-book playback overrides, ratings, playlists, followed series, and abandoned series — everything stored locally on your device.

Username/password, API key, and OIDC (OpenID Connect) for SSO support. An auth mode picker on the login screen keeps the three options cleanly separated. OIDC works with Keycloak, Authelia, Authentik, and other identity providers.

Generate an API key in your Audiobookshelf server settings and sign in without exposing a password. Tokens are validated on refresh so revoked keys are caught immediately.

Add custom headers for reverse proxies (Caddy, Nginx, Traefik) and corporate network configurations.

All credentials stored in iOS Keychain. No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking. Your data stays between your device and your server. App Store privacy label: "Data Not Collected."

A redaction-aware rolling 48-hour log of auth, session, and playback events you can export as a single NDJSON file via the share sheet — useful when reporting an issue. Tokens and bearer values are scrubbed before they ever hit disk. One tap to clear the store.

The player auto-recovers from wedged stalls during local playback. A circuit breaker stops repeated session sync failures from cascading. Server-evicted sessions reopen automatically on a 404. Token refresh failures sign you out cleanly instead of getting stuck mid-state.

Switch between libraries on the same Audiobookshelf server without signing out.

A dedicated HTTP/HTTPS toggle on the login screen makes it easy to connect to local servers without manually editing the URL.

Automatic, transparent token refresh with proactive renewal 60 seconds before expiration. Single-inflight deduplication prevents race conditions. Sign out on unrecoverable auth failure.