• Support for basic html formatting in book/author/collection descriptions (e.g. bold, italics, etc)
• [Watch] Support for finer-grained playback speed. Tap the label (e.g. “1x”) to show presets
• [Watch] Fixed an issue where chapter skip controls could show “x of 0” chapters
• [Watch] Fixed an issue causing book title to be displayed twice on placeholder covers (i.e. when cover images haven’t yet loaded)
• [Watch] Potential fix for additional “Other” storage usage after downloading a book

• [Watch] Complications should update more reliably when playback progress changes on the iPhone app
• [Watch] Fixed a crash when downloading large files (2.1gb+)
• Don’t show watch app purchase button on Settings tab when a paired Apple Watch is unsupported

• [Watch] Added chapter skip controls (under the “…” menu on the now playing view)
• [Watch] Fixed an issue causing the initial watch app data load to fail
• [Watch] Fixed a couple of crashes

• Fixed a crash when starting playback from CarPlay when “Show automatically” player setting is enabled
• [Watch] Fixed a widget/complication load issue

Prologue is now available for Apple Watch

• Stream books you’re currently reading, or books in your reading list
• Download books to listen when you’re offline
• Widget and complications

Prologue for Apple Watch is the culmination of months of work by a single developer. To keep Prologue financially sustainable, I’ve decided to ask for a small extra payment to use the app.

Thank you for the continued support!

- Lachlan

• Widgets can start playback without launching app (iOS 17)
• New “Play in Background” widget option to restore iOS 16 functionality on iOS 17
• New “End of next chapter” sleep timer option
• New “End of selected chapter” sleep timer option
• Chapter-based sleep timers now display correct time remaining based on current playback rate
• New gold accent colour (default for new installs)
• Fixed an issue where widgets wouldn’t refresh after switching libraries
• Prologue now requires iOS 16

• Internally reworked how book progress is tracked in the app. I’m hoping this fixes the issues some users are seeing with loss of progress
• Fixed a crash on launch
• Reduced app size by ~30%
• Updated Chinese (simplified) translations

• Fixed an issue preventing log file generation

• Minor fixes

New

• New family-shareable premium tier. Users on the existing Premium tier can upgrade from the Settings tab
• Redesigned purchase view
• An error message will now be displayed on the Home tab when Plex authentication fails (e.g. after a password change)
• Enable text selection for book / collection titles, author names and summaries
• Library contents are now visible during initial collection/playlist metadata load

Fixed

• Fixed an issue causing author list to scroll to top when an author is selected
• [CarpPlay] Chapter skip buttons now respect the current system theme
• Fixed a crash on import

• Fixed (another) crash when iCloud storage quota has been exceeded
• Fixed possible crash on library refresh

• Fixed a possible crash when iCloud storage quota has been exceeded

• Fixed sync issue causing high battery usage in some circumstances

• Lock Screen widgets (iOS 16)
• Completely rewritten iCloud sync service in preparation for the upcoming Watch app
• New iCloud status info under Settings > iCloud
• Support for custom collection/playlist covers
• Restored functionality to show more than 15 search results
• An error message is displayed on Home tab if Plex authentication fails (e.g. due to a password reset)
• Raised minimum iOS version to 15.0

• Fixed a potential crash when displaying Collections tab

• Fixed a rare crash on launch

• Books in the Reading List can now be reordered by dragging and dropping. Order is synced via iCloud.
• New refresh library button on Home tab
• Pull to refresh library on Home, Book, Author and Collection tabs
• Libraries are automatically refreshed in the background when device is charging
• The “Refresh Now” button under Settings > Metadata should no longer cause the app to hang when loading a large number of files
• Opening the app from the widget will no longer display a duplicate book view if that book is already displayed
• Additional Voice Over actions mirroring those available from the context menu

• Fixed a sync issue causing chapters to disappear
• Library refresh is now available when using VoiceOver
• Books can now be played from list views directly when using VoiceOver

• Refreshing a library should no longer hang at 100% for an extended period
• Fixed an issue causing author images to load unreliably

• Sorting books by author now correctly sorts by author, then book title
• Fixed a few instances where the app was using excessive memory

Note: playlists are temporarily limited to 2500 files while I track down a performance issue. Where possible, use Plex album collections instead of playlists - they don’t suffer from the same performance issues.

• Fixed a widget display issue when not displaying a cover image
• Fixed a crash on launch

New

• Book list, author bibliography and collection can now be displayed in grid layout
• Display collection summaries (requires full library refresh)
• Support for exporting a database copy (Settings > Storage)
• New Siri shortcuts:
  • Start sleep timer
  • Extend sleep timer
  • Cancel sleep timer

Improved

• Redesigned book list view
• Book titles and author names can now span an unlimited number of lines
• Improved support for large font sizes
• The Collections tab now sorts collections based on the collection’s “Sort Title”, if set in Plex
• The app is now smarter about restoring items from the trash
• Sleep timer now fades volume over a few seconds upon completion (doesn’t apply to “end of current chapter” timers)
• The “Add bookmark” Siri shortcut now supports adding an optional note
• Redesigned active sleep timer display
• Improved performance when loading large playlists/collections
• Searching on the Authors tab now displays results by author
• Lots of UI tweaks

Fixed

• Seeking before beginning playback now overrides any pending “rewind on resume”
• Alphabetical indexes no longer overlap books/collections in grid mode on iPad/macOS
• Fixed library items erroneously being added to the trash when database is suspended while a library refresh is in progress
• Increase play/pause button tap area