NaviBeat Downloads & RevenueNaviBeat: Navidrome Player · App Store
NaviBeat: Navidrome Player is #7 in Music Paid in Germany and charting in 7 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperNenad Jokic
CategoryMusic
Price5.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.7 (48)
Version1.5.9
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10k+ worldwide
NaviBeat: Navidrome Player update history & changes
Last change · 53 events since 25 May 2026Full timeline ↓📦Updated to version 1.5.9✏️Description updated✏️Renamed⭐Passed 100 ratings🚀Now shown next to play:Sub Music Streamer, SubStreamer, JellyBox Player +5 more📦Updated to version 1.5.8📈Entered the top 10 on iPad · Top Paid All Apps📈Entered the top 10🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Its developer released another app: NaviFin
Full timeline · 53 events
- 📦NaviBeat: Navidrome Player updated to version 1.5.9FIXED: NAVIBEAT CLOSING ON THE iOS 27.2 BETA
On the early iOS 27.2 beta NaviBeat closed right after it opened. It opens now.
PLAY YOUR WHOLE LIBRARY
Play on the Songs screen starts at once and keeps adding the rest of your library behind the songs on screen.
BACK IN THE CAR, BACK ON THE RADIO
If the radio was the last thing playing, the radio comes back when you get in the car.
LIBRARY STATISTICS
Albums by decade, songs per genre, and how much of your library you have played.
ALSO NEW
One address at home and away (split DNS): NaviBeat now knows when you are home, so your home quality applies and Only away from home can be switched on.
Downloads: a song already at or below your Download quality downloads untouched.
Direct Playback with a client certificate: Opus files play, converted to AAC 256.
Crossfade works with Gapless playback off. ReplayGain raises quiet songs on the AudioStreaming engine. Song Path goes up to 20 stops. Composers lists every composer on a large library.
Song Path to Here: in the menu of any song, a path from the song that is playing to that one. Play keeps the playing song going.
On the artist page, the song count opens All Songs and the album count jumps to the albums. Similar artists you do not have in your library show up too.
CarPlay: an album has Go to Artist, the artist page starts with Top Songs, and Home shows a row of random albums you can refresh.
Radio stations that stream Opus play again.
FIXED
Track numbers past 99 stay on one line. Download quality lists all Opus options together. The iPad library picker stays open while you tick libraries. A title ending in " - EP" dims that part. Two rare crashes: one while a stream starts, and one on iOS 17 while a song was saved to your listening history. Crossfade: the old song no longer stops before its fade has finished. A jump in an OGG song lands where you asked, without dropouts.… more - ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: description updated· ES
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: renamedNaviBeat → NaviBeat: Navidrome Player · ES
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: description updated· NL
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: renamedNaviBeat → NaviBeat: Navidrome Player · NL
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: description updated· 8 countries
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · MX
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: renamedNaviBeat → NaviBeat: Navidrome Player · 9 countries
- 🚀NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: now shown next to play:Sub Music Streamer, SubStreamer, JellyBox Player +5 morethe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new iPad screenshots· GB, CA, AU
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · GB, CA, AU
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: app got bigger93 MB → 104 MB (+11%)
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: description updated· DE
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new iPad screenshots· DE
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · DE
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: description updated· TR, IT, US
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · TR
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: renamedNaviBeat → NaviBeat: Navidrome Player · TR, IT, US
- 📦NaviBeat: Navidrome Player updated to version 1.5.8MIX TWO PLAYLISTS
Mix with Playlist in a playlist's menu plays two playlists one song at a time. Stop mix in Up Next takes the second playlist out and the first plays on.
YOUR SETTINGS FOLLOW YOU
Sync Settings carries your settings through iCloud to iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. Audio engine, quality per network, downloads and sign-in stay on each device. The switch is next to App Language.
ALSO NEW
Play from Playlist in the song menu starts a playlist from that song.
Show Artist lists every artist when a song credits several.
Song Path to... in the song menu, on servers with the sonic similarity plugin.
Offline Library has Music files and Library info. The Home with no connection adds Recently Added, Favorites and Recently Played from what you downloaded, and your saved radio stations work without the server.
Lyrics: the pause bar also fills before the first line, and in word by word mode it starts at the real end of the line.
Show quality in album grids, a new switch in Settings.
Arrow keys on a keyboard: Up and Down for volume, Left and Right to seek.
iPad: swipe down on the player closes Now Playing.
FIXED
Freezes while loading covers. Downloaded albums keep a sharp cover on the lock screen. CarPlay: tapping a recent search no longer crashes. Seeking in a streamed FLAC lands exactly once the file is on the device. Song rows keep the title readable when space runs out. The E mark shows in landscape and sits beside the title.… more - ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player added 1 language+ CA
- 📦NaviBeat: Navidrome Player updated to version 1.5.7ONE PLAYER ACROSS ALL YOUR DEVICES
Your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV now see each other. Open Output in Now Playing and Play on lists every NaviBeat on your Wi-Fi.
Control: pick one and this device becomes its remote. Play, pause, skip, seek, volume and the whole queue. The mini player shows which device you control.
Send to: move what you are playing to another NaviBeat. It goes on from the same second, with the same queue.
The Continue card on Home has a Control button, so the Mac in the other room is one tap away.
ALSO NEW
Continue on Home shows every other NaviBeat that is playing, one row each, with Continue here and Control.
Keep library on this device (Settings, Library & Data) saves your library list and covers over Wi-Fi. With it on, Offline Mode shows the whole library and greys out what is not downloaded.
Add Account on This Server, for a second user on the same server. Share Settings sends your settings as a link or QR code, with Undo.
Home: My Playlist Rows you name and fill yourself, a Pinned Playlists row, Radio Stations, and "N new" on Recently Added.
Radio Stations can show as a grid. The station picture fills the cover and the lock screen.
Play the Artist's Next Album when an album ends. AirPlay to several speakers at once. Radio on network speakers.
Lyrics: background singers, a wave between lines, Furigana and Reading for Japanese, Flag Lyrics for wrong lyrics.
Filter inside a playlist. Long press the artist line in Now Playing for every artist. Similar Artists on album pages. Swipe a song for Favorite.
Apple Watch: double tap plays and pauses (Series 9, Ultra 2 and later). Lyrics now show for streamed songs on the watch too.
NaviBeat now speaks Catalan.
FIXED
Songs from octo-fiesta waiting in the queue are no longer skipped. Classic Subsonic servers: the Songs list fills, and search finds part of a word. A playlist that lists the same songs many times plays them all from its downloads. A song resumed from the middle ends and moves on. Music comes back after a notification or another app's sound. The heart in Now Playing on iPad. Home that opened empty after launch. A song that went silent while the time kept counting. And many smaller fixes.… more - ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · KR
- 📈NaviBeat: Navidrome Player entered the top 10 on iPad · Top Paid All AppsAE
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new iPad screenshots· VN
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · VN
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new iPad screenshots· IN
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · IN
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · RU
- 📈NaviBeat: Navidrome Player entered the top 10Top Paid · Music · RU
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · SE
- 📦NaviBeat: Navidrome Player updated to version 1.5.5NEW IN THIS VERSION
Popular songs. A flame in front of the track number marks up to three popular songs on each album. Settings, Popular songs picks the source: your server (the default), Last.fm, ListenBrainz or Off.
The Now Playing widget works away from home and in Offline Mode, using your downloads. A radio station shows the song it announces, with that song's cover. On the small widget the play button sits in the bottom right corner.
Home: Now Playing on This Server shows what others on your server are playing. It is off; turn it on in Customise Home.
Listening Stats work without a Last.fm account and show Most played on your server. They open at once from a saved copy.
Shuffle Mix, Songs Shuffle, genre shuffle, CarPlay, Siri and the Shuffle Library shortcut never start on the song that is already playing. Siri's "play music" keeps out what you excluded from shuffle.
CarPlay: New picks is the first tile of Random Picks.
Crossfade: songs played in order from one album are not crossfaded. Shuffled playlists still crossfade.
Album names dim their version part, like "[2019 Super Deluxe Edition]", with the Dim version text switch.
Manage Playlists: with Recent Playlists shown, the full list has its own Playlists header.
Refresh Lyrics in the song menu asks your server again for the lyrics.
Airsonic Advanced servers connect.
FIXED
iPad on iPadOS 17: signing in no longer freezes on the Connecting screen. Downloads, Search and Home in Offline Mode stay quick with thousands of downloaded songs. A downloaded song whose clock ran on past its end moves to the next song. Mono MP3 albums play the next song from its first note. Get Info no longer shows Bit Depth 0 for MP3. And many smaller fixes.… more - ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new iPad screenshots· BR
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · BR
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new iPad screenshots· ES
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · ES
- 📈NaviBeat: Navidrome Player entered the top 10Top Paid · Music · US
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new iPad screenshots· JP, CA, AU
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · JP, CA, AU
- 📦NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: now updating weekly4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new iPad screenshots· 7 countries
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: new screenshots10 screenshots (was 10) · 7 countries
- ✏️NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: app got bigger80 MB → 93 MB (+16%)
- 📦NaviBeat: Navidrome Player updated to version 1.5.4NEW IN THIS VERSION
iPhone Duo. Folded, the whole app is on the outer screen. Half open, Now Playing splits on the hinge: cover and controls on the left page, lyrics or Up Next on the right. Album and artist pages split too, also when the Duo lies flat.
Manage Playlists. For one song, Add to Playlist shows which playlists already have it. Check or uncheck, then Save. With several songs selected you see "2 of 5 in" for each playlist.
Shuffle Mix can let you choose the first song (Settings). It shows five random songs, you pick one, and the mix plays after it.
Radio Now Playing works like the song screen: the same backdrop and cover styles, swipe the cover for the next station, lyrics for the announced song.
Genres. From a genre, an artist or album shows only that genre's songs, with Show Full Album.
The blurred cover behind Now Playing fades to the next song's cover.
Artwork: Artist pages, Album pages and Now Playing each have their own Squared or Filled choice. Album versions can show, show subtly or hide on grids, lists and search.
Fade on pause and play (Settings, Playback, off by default).
Library Doctor report in Settings, Server and Library: split albums, missing covers, track numbers and more, from your server. Fixes are made on the Mac.
Downloads. A downloaded playlist picks up songs added on the server, and shows Downloaded only when every song is on the phone. Downloads, Artists groups by album artist, with the same grid or list switch as Artists.
Chinese and Japanese karaoke lyrics sweep character by character. Files the iPhone cannot decode, like APE, are converted by the server. An Opus first song is downloaded whole before it plays, so it is not cut short.
ListenBrainz gets a love for every song you starred on the server. Stars reach Last.fm and ListenBrainz from every place you can star a song.
Play on an artist plays all their albums. Rate several selected songs at once.
CarPlay. An album that is not downloaded no longer waits on a server that does not answer, and a downloaded song plays its file when the server is down. With the phone locked and a slow server, resume and covers no longer wait.
AutoMix always finds a next song, also for DJ mixes.
Tap a song in a shuffled queue and it plays without reshuffling. Shuffle off brings the album order back. An album opened from Search goes Back to its artist.
Settings, Lyrics: Blur distant lines. Off makes every lyric line sharp.
Dim version text in song titles (Settings, Appearance, on by default): "(Remastered 2009)" or "- Radio Edit" is lighter and a bit smaller.
Song cover for compilation tracks (Settings, Now Playing, off by default): a song from a compilation shows the cover of its own single or album from Last.fm. On radio, a song you have only on a compilation gets its own cover.
The Apple Watch uses the accent colour you picked on the iPhone. Home Layout says why Because You Listened is hidden when it has nothing to show.
FIXED
The active lyric line is no longer drawn twice for a moment when it changes. Add Album to Playlist works without a paired Apple Watch. Crossfade has no short silence at the switch to the next song. Lyrics translation works again. A song menu no longer jumps back to the top while it is open. Add to Playlist shows each recent playlist once. A playlist edit is refused when the server left missing songs out of the list, so no song is lost. And many smaller fixes.… more - 📈NaviBeat: Navidrome Player entered the top 10Top Paid · Music · FR
- 📦NaviBeat: Navidrome Player updated to version 1.5.3NEW IN THIS VERSION
CarPlay without signal. When your server does not answer within 5 seconds, albums, playlists, Favorites, artists and genres come from your downloads, so downloaded songs keep playing. On cellular, a short loss of signal keeps your cellular quality.
Radio with covers. When a station announces a song, the song's own cover replaces the station logo everywhere, lock screen and CarPlay included.
Recently Played on Home, on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. Coming back to Home keeps your place on Mac and iPad.
Add to Playlist shows your three most recent playlists on top.
A server switcher on iPhone and iPad when you have two or more servers saved: in the Home toolbar on iPhone, at the bottom of the sidebar on iPad.
Same user, new address. Pair the same username on a new address and NaviBeat asks whether to bring over your offline playlists, downloads and library selection. Nothing moves without the question.
Favorites given offline are kept and sent when the server answers, like ratings.
Mac. Direct Playback sets your output device to each song's sample rate when the device supports it, and puts your own rate back afterwards. The Songs screen can be a table with Title, Artist, Album and Duration, sorted by any column.
iPhone. Favorites swipes between Artists, Albums and Songs. Artists sorted by name get A, B, C headings, on Mac and Apple TV too. Now Playing closes on a quick swipe down. Lyrics in portrait get the blurred cover background.
Show on MusicBrainz in the album, artist and song menus when your server has the MusicBrainz id.
Composer and lyricist pages list the songs they are credited on. Get Info shows every genre of a song.
The text size from iOS Settings now reaches tile titles and Home shelf titles. Settings has a switch to hide the close arrow on Now Playing.
FIXED
Crossfade no longer cuts the sound for a moment when the next song starts. Lyrics keep their line breaks when a line becomes active, and on Apple TV every line starts at the same left edge. A crash on iPad when going from a playlist song to its artist is fixed. In Shortcuts, Toggle Favorite works and Play Media takes a typed name. Play after a call or a timer that came while paused starts the music again. On small iPhones, album and artist pages keep Play, Shuffle and Download above the Now Playing bar. Mac playlists reorder by drag again. Jukebox lyrics follow the song on the server. And many smaller fixes.… more - 📈NaviBeat: Navidrome Player entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Music · BR · Top Paid · Music · SA
- 📈NaviBeat: Navidrome Player entered the top 10Top Paid · Music · ID
- 📦NaviBeat: Navidrome Player updated to version 1.5.2NEW IN THIS VERSION
Ready for Navidrome's new sign-in. Navidrome plans to turn off token sign-in by default. NaviBeat still tries the token first, and if your server says no, it signs in with your password and remembers that for the server. It can also sign in with an API key, for servers that offer one.
Look & Feel. Artist and album pages and Now Playing can take the blurred colour of the cover, with a slider for how strong it is. On iPhone with Filled, Now Playing shows the cover edge to edge, its bottom fades into the page, and the next cover slides in as you swipe.
Album and artist pages that fit the screen. Turn your iPhone sideways and the page is two columns, cover on the left and songs on the right. On iPhone Duo the page follows the sidebar and the hinge.
Your queue is safe. If songs you added with Play Next or Add to Queue are still waiting, a tap on a song asks before it replaces them.
Reverse Order in the sort menu of playlists and song lists, and Songs sorted by Date Added now lists every song, album tag or not.
Bigger artwork. "Larger artwork in grids" shows fewer, bigger covers in every grid, with bigger titles.
An equalizer that reads AutoEQ. Import a headphone profile from text, use peak and shelf bands, and drag points on the curve to shape the sound.
Smart playlists are sorted by name and shown as tiles above your playlists. Playlists has an Owner menu when your server shares playlists from several accounts, and Select mode has Play.
Discography your way. Grouping by release type can be switched off, and a single or EP tagged as an album too shows only under Singles or EPs.
Offline that keeps its shape. Downloaded playlists keep the server's order, mirrored playlists show up offline, and on iPhone and iPad the "Show downloaded only" button is on every Library page.
Apple TV works behind a gateway that needs custom headers, covers included. The setup wizard offers the Look & Feel choices from Settings.
Mac. Choose where downloads live, an external drive too. Stop is in the playing bar's ... menu and on Cmd+.
Apple Watch runs from watchOS 10, so the first Apple Watch SE can run it.
FIXED
A song that stopped at its very end with Pause showing now moves on. A stream that freezes on mobile data restarts where it was. Crossfade works again for streamed songs. A song your server cannot play is skipped. Ratings given without a connection are sent later. The widget's Play works from a cold start. The "No network" bar shows only when the server really stops answering. Serbian texts have their proper letters. And many smaller fixes for battery, memory and fewer requests to your server.… more - 🆕NaviBeat: Navidrome Player first spotted by AppInsider#43 in Top Paid · Music · Italy
- 📦NaviBeat: Navidrome Player version 1.5No release notes
- 🆕NaviBeat: Navidrome Player: its developer released another app: NaviFin
- 🆕NaviBeat: Navidrome Player released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.7 ★
48 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#7
Music PaidMeasured
New ratings a week
14
▲ +144% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
NaviBeat: Navidrome Player at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-01. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A one-time purchase client for self-hosted music servers that enables cross-device streaming and offline playback of personal libraries on Apple platforms without subscriptions or cloud storage. The app is currently ranking in the top 20 paid music charts across major markets including Russia, France, Canada, Australia, and the US, indicating strong early traction among users seeking alternatives to subscription-based streaming services.
Similar apps: Substreamer, Amper Music, Plexamp
NaviBeat: Navidrome Player on the App Store
App details
App ID
6763518834
Publisher
Nenad Jokic
On the store since
May 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
13
CA EN FR DE IT PL PT RU SR ZH ES ZH …
Size
105 MB
Also listed in
Entertainment
App privacy Measured
NaviBeat: Navidrome Player declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
Declared label
Data Not Collected
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
NaviBeat: Navidrome Player downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where NaviBeat: Navidrome Player's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | MusicPaid | #7 |
 United States | MusicPaid | #38 |
 China | MusicPaid | #29 |
 France | MusicPaid | #22 |
| Germany | All AppsPaid | #102 |
| Italy | MusicPaid | #36 |
 Canada | MusicPaid | #53 |
 Sweden | All AppsPaid | #181 |
Apps near NaviBeat: Navidrome Player on the chart
Music Paid, around #7.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.7 ★
48 ratings
Measured
Ratings
48
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
14
▲ +144% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
2
US App Store
Lifetime rating
4.7★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
84/100
faster than 86% of Music apps
Growing fastest in United States ▲ +150%
New ratings by country (5)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4.8 | 52% | ▲ +150% |
 Netherlands | 1.5 | 16% | – |
| Germany | 1 | 11% | – |
| France | 1 | 11% | – |
 United Kingdom | 1 | 11% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about NaviBeat: Navidrome Player
From the 29 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly praise NaviBeat as the best Navidrome client for Apple devices, highlighting its polished UI, cross-platform consistency, and responsive developer. While most reviews are positive, a few users report streaming buffering issues and criticize specific navigation quirks on tvOS.
Mostly positive (86% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and its design. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Amazing app for navidrome music library!!”
- Design: “Music plays fast and the UI looks great”
- Useful: “Everything works perfectly, UI is slick”
- Price & subscription: “so cool and def worth the cost!”
About NaviBeat: Navidrome Player
NaviBeat brings your own music library to every Apple device you own: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch, plus CarPlay, as a single Universal Purchase. Pay once.
No subscriptions. No ads. No tracking. No NaviBeat cloud. Your music stays on your own server, exactly where you put it. NaviBeat just plays it, beautifully.
ABOUT NAVIDROME
NaviBeat is a client for Navidrome, the free and open-source self-hosted music server. Run Navidrome on a NAS, a Raspberry Pi, a VPS or any machine you control, and NaviBeat streams your collection to every Apple device. Airsonic-Advanced, Gonic and any OpenSubsonic server work too.
ON iPHONE & iPAD
- Browse artists, albums, playlists and genres
- Voice and text search with live results
- Now Playing with synced lyrics
- Background audio, Control Center, AirPlay, Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets
- Offline: keep a song, an album, a playlist or a whole artist on the device
- Listening Stats: a 24-hour clock, a weekday heatmap, your top artists and songs
- Smart Playlists you write yourself, from rating, genre, year, play count and more, kept current and synced across your devices
- Start on one device and carry on with another. The device you left pauses itself
IN THE CAR
- Full CarPlay support, included in the same purchase
- Your library, playlists, downloads and Now Playing on the car screen
- Voice search that resolves the play command against your own library, not a streaming catalogue, in every language the app ships
ON MAC
- A real Mac app, not a phone app in a window
- A Mini Player that pins over any window
- Keyboard shortcuts, multi-window and directory browsing, desktop widgets
- NaviSyncRock: sync your library to a Rockbox player. Your server does the transcoding, art is re-encoded so it renders, and plays sync back. A separate one-time in-app unlock.
ON APPLE TV
- Cinema-scale artwork and discovery shelves
- Recently Played, Most Played, Rediscover, On This Day, Because You Listened To
- Voice search via the Siri Remote
- Full-screen Now Playing with synced lyrics
ON APPLE WATCH
- Now Playing complications on any watch face
- Music stored on the watch and played from it, so you can run without your iPhone
- Downloads pulled straight from your server over Wi-Fi
AUDIO
- Selectable high-fidelity playback engine
- 10-band equalizer with presets
- ReplayGain volume normalisation, per track or per album
- Gapless playback
- Streaming quality set separately for Wi-Fi and cellular, in Opus, AAC and MP3 tiers, or send the original file untouched
- Internet radio
YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY
- Multi-library Navidrome support: All Libraries, a single library, or any subset, filtered on the server
- Star ratings synced to your server
- Classical music: automatic work and movement grouping
- Optional Last.fm and ListenBrainz integration. Scrobbles route through your own server, never directly from the app.
- Server Health diagnostics: server type, version, OpenSubsonic extensions, scan status
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No subscriptions. No ads. No tracking. No NaviBeat cloud. Your music stays on your own server, exactly where you put it. NaviBeat just plays it, beautifully.
ABOUT NAVIDROME
NaviBeat is a client for Navidrome, the free and open-source self-hosted music server. Run Navidrome on a NAS, a Raspberry Pi, a VPS or any machine you control, and NaviBeat streams your collection to every Apple device. Airsonic-Advanced, Gonic and any OpenSubsonic server work too.
ON iPHONE & iPAD
- Browse artists, albums, playlists and genres
- Voice and text search with live results
- Now Playing with synced lyrics
- Background audio, Control Center, AirPlay, Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets
- Offline: keep a song, an album, a playlist or a whole artist on the device
- Listening Stats: a 24-hour clock, a weekday heatmap, your top artists and songs
- Smart Playlists you write yourself, from rating, genre, year, play count and more, kept current and synced across your devices
- Start on one device and carry on with another. The device you left pauses itself
IN THE CAR
- Full CarPlay support, included in the same purchase
- Your library, playlists, downloads and Now Playing on the car screen
- Voice search that resolves the play command against your own library, not a streaming catalogue, in every language the app ships
ON MAC
- A real Mac app, not a phone app in a window
- A Mini Player that pins over any window
- Keyboard shortcuts, multi-window and directory browsing, desktop widgets
- NaviSyncRock: sync your library to a Rockbox player. Your server does the transcoding, art is re-encoded so it renders, and plays sync back. A separate one-time in-app unlock.
ON APPLE TV
- Cinema-scale artwork and discovery shelves
- Recently Played, Most Played, Rediscover, On This Day, Because You Listened To
- Voice search via the Siri Remote
- Full-screen Now Playing with synced lyrics
ON APPLE WATCH
- Now Playing complications on any watch face
- Music stored on the watch and played from it, so you can run without your iPhone
- Downloads pulled straight from your server over Wi-Fi
AUDIO
- Selectable high-fidelity playback engine
- 10-band equalizer with presets
- ReplayGain volume normalisation, per track or per album
- Gapless playback
- Streaming quality set separately for Wi-Fi and cellular, in Opus, AAC and MP3 tiers, or send the original file untouched
- Internet radio
YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY
- Multi-library Navidrome support: All Libraries, a single library, or any subset, filtered on the server
- Star ratings synced to your server
- Classical music: automatic work and movement grouping
- Optional Last.fm and ListenBrainz integration. Scrobbles route through your own server, never directly from the app.
- Server Health diagnostics: server type, version, OpenSubsonic extensions, scan status
R
Latest updates
1.5.9
FIXED: NAVIBEAT CLOSING ON THE iOS 27.2 BETA
On the early iOS 27.2 beta NaviBeat closed right after it opened. It opens now.
PLAY YOUR WHOLE LIBRARY
Play on the Songs screen starts at once and keeps adding the rest of your library behind the songs on screen.
BACK IN THE CAR, BACK ON THE RADIO
If the radio was the last thing playing, the radio comes back when you get in the car.
LIBRARY STATISTICS
Albums by decade, songs per genre, and how much of your library you have played.
ALSO NEW
One address at home and away (split DNS): NaviBeat now knows when you are home, so your home quality applies and Only away from home can be switched on.
Downloads: a song already at or below your Download quality downloads untouched.
Direct Playback with a client certificate: Opus files play, converted to AAC 256.
Crossfade works with Gapless playback off. ReplayGain raises quiet songs on the AudioStreaming engine. Song Path goes up to 20 stops. Composers lists every composer on a large library.
Song Path to Here: in the menu of any song, a path from the song that is playing to that one. Play keeps the playing song going.
On the artist page, the song count opens All Songs and the album count jumps to the albums. Similar artists you do not have in your library show up too.
CarPlay: an album has Go to Artist, the artist page starts with Top Songs, and Home shows a row of random albums you can refresh.
Radio stations that stream Opus play again.
FIXED
Track numbers past 99 stay on one line. Download quality lists all Opus options together. The iPad library picker stays open while you tick libraries. A title ending in " - EP" dims that part. Two rare crashes: one while a stream starts, and one on iOS 17 while a song was saved to your listening history. Crossfade: the old song no longer stops before its fade has finished. A jump in an OGG song lands where you asked, without dropouts.
1.5.8
MIX TWO PLAYLISTS
Mix with Playlist in a playlist's menu plays two playlists one song at a time. Stop mix in Up Next takes the second playlist out and the first plays on.
YOUR SETTINGS FOLLOW YOU
Sync Settings carries your settings through iCloud to iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. Audio engine, quality per network, downloads and sign-in stay on each device. The switch is next to App Language.
ALSO NEW
Play from Playlist in the song menu starts a playlist from that song.
Show Artist lists every artist when a song credits several.
Song Path to... in the song menu, on servers with the sonic similarity plugin.
Offline Library has Music files and Library info. The Home with no connection adds Recently Added, Favorites and Recently Played from what you downloaded, and your saved radio stations work without the server.
Lyrics: the pause bar also fills before the first line, and in word by word mode it starts at the real end of the line.
Show quality in album grids, a new switch in Settings.
Arrow keys on a keyboard: Up and Down for volume, Left and Right to seek.
iPad: swipe down on the player closes Now Playing.
FIXED
Freezes while loading covers. Downloaded albums keep a sharp cover on the lock screen. CarPlay: tapping a recent search no longer crashes. Seeking in a streamed FLAC lands exactly once the file is on the device. Song rows keep the title readable when space runs out. The E mark shows in landscape and sits beside the title.
1.5.7
ONE PLAYER ACROSS ALL YOUR DEVICES
Your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV now see each other. Open Output in Now Playing and Play on lists every NaviBeat on your Wi-Fi.
Control: pick one and this device becomes its remote. Play, pause, skip, seek, volume and the whole queue. The mini player shows which device you control.
Send to: move what you are playing to another NaviBeat. It goes on from the same second, with the same queue.
The Continue card on Home has a Control button, so the Mac in the other room is one tap away.
ALSO NEW
Continue on Home shows every other NaviBeat that is playing, one row each, with Continue here and Control.
Keep library on this device (Settings, Library & Data) saves your library list and covers over Wi-Fi. With it on, Offline Mode shows the whole library and greys out what is not downloaded.
Add Account on This Server, for a second user on the same server. Share Settings sends your settings as a link or QR code, with Undo.
Home: My Playlist Rows you name and fill yourself, a Pinned Playlists row, Radio Stations, and "N new" on Recently Added.
Radio Stations can show as a grid. The station picture fills the cover and the lock screen.
Play the Artist's Next Album when an album ends. AirPlay to several speakers at once. Radio on network speakers.
Lyrics: background singers, a wave between lines, Furigana and Reading for Japanese, Flag Lyrics for wrong lyrics.
Filter inside a playlist. Long press the artist line in Now Playing for every artist. Similar Artists on album pages. Swipe a song for Favorite.
Apple Watch: double tap plays and pauses (Series 9, Ultra 2 and later). Lyrics now show for streamed songs on the watch too.
NaviBeat now speaks Catalan.
FIXED
Songs from octo-fiesta waiting in the queue are no longer skipped. Classic Subsonic servers: the Songs list fills, and search finds part of a word. A playlist that lists the same songs many times plays them all from its downloads. A song resumed from the middle ends and moves on. Music comes back after a notification or another app's sound. The heart in Now Playing on iPad. Home that opened empty after launch. A song that went silent while the time kept counting. And many smaller fixes.
Store changes
What NaviBeat: Navidrome Player changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated
Renamed
NaviBeat → NaviBeat: Navidrome Player
Description updated 
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