Building SoundLeaf (https://soundleafapp.com) - a native iOS client for Audiobookshelf, the self-hosted audiobook server.

The whole thing started because my wife couldn't get into the official Audiobookshelf iOS TestFlight beta. Her exact words were "I cannot live without audiobooks." I'm a backend dev, never touched iOS or Swift before, but how hard could it be? (It was quite hard.)

About a year in now. CarPlay, offline downloads with background sync, Cloudflare Access support for tunneled servers, sleep timers that create bookmarks so that you can remember where you were the next morning. Currently working on podcast support. Solo project - no tracking, no accounts, just talks directly to your server.

If you self-host your audiobooks and have an iPhone, give it a shot: https://apps.apple.com/app/soundleaf/id6738428638