Your Audiobookshelf server

If you keep your audiobooks on an Audiobookshelf server, Kevra can connect to it: you browse your library, listen without downloading or download what you want, and your progress is shared with the server.

How to connect it

1. In the Library tab, tap the name at the top to open Your libraries and, at the bottom, Add a library.
2. On Remote library, tap Add a library → Connect Audiobookshelf.
3. Type the Server address (for example, http://192.168.1.20:13378).
4. Sign in with your Username and Password, or tap Sign in with an API key if you'd rather not hand over your password (create one in Audiobookshelf → Settings → API Keys).
5. Tap Connect.

Kevra talks directly to your server from this device: the password isn't stored and nothing goes through our servers. If the server is at home, you need to be on your Wi-Fi or have Tailscale on.

Browsing your library

The Audiobookshelf library has the tabs Home, Books, Series, Collections, Authors and Narrators. In Books you can search, sort, group series and filter (in progress, not started, finished, format, genre, language…).

Listening

On each audiobook's page:

• Listen now: plays straight from your server, without downloading. You need to be connected to it.
• Download the audiobook: downloads it to Kevra so you can listen offline.
• Download the book (EPUB): if the server also has the written book.

Progress, both ways

What you listen to in Kevra is recorded on your server, and the other way round: if you carry on in another app or on the Audiobookshelf website, when you open it in Kevra it puts you where you were and tells you. If you have both the audiobook and the written book, you can switch between them without losing your place. More in Audiobooks.

More

• Edit metadata (title, narrators, series, cover…), if your user is allowed to edit on the server.
• From the Your server button you can add an Away-from-home address (for example, your Tailscale one): if one doesn't respond, the other is tried. Disconnect is there too; what you've already downloaded stays in your library.

Common questions

• I can't see my podcasts. Kevra only shows book libraries, not podcast libraries.
• It won't connect. Check the address and port, that you're on your network (or on Tailscale) and, on iPhone, that you accepted the local network permission.