u/SpacTrek

Spine Audiobook Player - 1.0.2 Update

What's New

A clearer download indicator, a finer speed dial, and a delete button that actually deletes.

  • Tap a cover to cancel a download. Downloading books now show a large, App Store-style progress ring on the cover. Tap it to stop the download — no more digging through the context menu, and you can see exactly how far along each book is at a glance.
  • Playback speed, your way. The speed pill on the player opens a full slider from 0.5× to 3× in 0.1 increments, with quick chips for 0.75×, 1×, 1.25×, 1.5×, and 2×. Dial in the exact pace you want for any narrator.
  • "Remove from Library" sticks the first time. Deleting a book used to occasionally make it reappear because TorBox was serving cached data for a few seconds after the deletion. Spine now asks for a fresh read after every delete (and on pull-to-refresh), so the tile goes away and stays away.

See app details here
Download from AppStore

And, the app now has a dedicated subreddit if you need support or have ideas for new features...

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u/SpacTrek — 3 days ago

Apple Intelligence is pretty rad for a 3B parameter model

Just shipped an audiobook app and ended up leaning on the on-device Foundation Models framework for four things: "previously on…" recaps for series, cleaning messy filenames into typed structs, tightening publisher back-cover blurbs into 2-sentence summaries, and one-line witty captions for a year-in-review screen. All running on the 3B model, all offline, all free.

The real killer feature is @Generable + @Guide. You get a typed Swift struct back instead of parsing model output, and the per-field descriptions feel like a more reliable prompting surface than system prompts.

Rough edges: the safety classifier is aggressive on both input and output (book blurbs about war history or politics will trip it, permissiveContentTransformations plus stripping pull-quotes/URLs fixed most of it), and the model will confidently hallucinate authors for obscure titles, so treat output as a suggestion not truth.

Overall though: structured output, free inference, zero data leaving the device is a wild deal for a 3B model.

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u/SpacTrek — 7 days ago
▲ 66 r/AudioBookBay+1 crossposts

Spine - Audiobook app for TorBox

Free. No ads, subscriptions, or accounts (other than TorBox) required.

I built an iOS audiobook app called Spine that streams directly from your debrid library, so you don’t need to download files before listening. It also supports Hardcover sync, listening stats, and on-device Apple Intelligence features. You can check some screenshots here.

There are already some great audiobook apps out there, but friends and family kept asking for something focused on streaming from their cloud libraries with as little friction as possible. I couldn’t find one that worked the way I wanted, so I made this.

For the best experience, I’d recommend pairing it with a free account from hardcover.app since it lets you pull in lists, reviews, and metadata.

Edit - You have to finish one book for the yearly recap to appear. If you are just testing, you can long press a title and ‘mark as finished’ to check the recap. You can also undo with ‘mark as unread’ afterwards.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spine-audiobook-player/id6764636615

u/SpacTrek — 7 days ago