Podcast Shelf, my Android app for Audiobookshelf podcasts

I host my podcasts on an Audiobookshelf server (I wrote about it in Installing Audiobookshelf with Docker and Caddy).

There are plenty of clients for audiobooks, but podcast support is rather thin.

So I wrote Podcast Shelf, now available on Google Play.

One question: what to listen to next?

I chose not to build a bloated app. Everything revolves around an “Up next” playlist:

• every new episode your server downloads goes into it on its own (you can turn that off);
• you arrange it by hand, with drag and drop, or sort it by date in one gesture;
• a finished episode leaves it;
• it is a real Audiobookshelf playlist: the web interface and your other devices see the same one, live.

The rest

• Offline: playlist episodes download to the phone, and listening done without a network reaches the server once the connection is back.
• Playback: 15-second skips, adjustable speed, a “Mark as played and play next” button, and a short rewind after a pause to pick up the thread.
• Android Auto, with voice search.
• Subscriptions: with an administrator account, podcast search, subscribing and OPML import / export.

No account to create, no ads, no tracking: the app only talks to your server (Audiobookshelf 2.4.0 or later, Android 8.0 minimum). It is available in English and French.

Try it

No server yet? A demo instance is open, and the credentials are on the Try Podcast Shelf page.

Everything else is on the app's mini-site: podcastshelf.kgaut.net.

I welcome your ideas and feedback on the contact page.