NaviBeat

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 all 12 of the app's languages

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

REACHING YOUR SERVER

Built for a locked-down homelab. Custom HTTP headers for Cloudflare Access and Authelia, mTLS client certificates, and access over Tailscale all work, on every platform, with no third-party relay in between.

TWELVE LANGUAGES

English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese, with an in-app language picker on every platform.

REQUIREMENTS

NaviBeat requires a running Navidrome server (v0.50 or later, free and open source) accessible from your Apple device. Self-host it on a home NAS, a Raspberry Pi, a VPS, or any machine you control. See navibeat.app for setup.

NaviBeat is a third-party client, not affiliated with the Navidrome project.

PRIVACY

NaviBeat collects zero data. There is no NaviBeat backend, no analytics, no telemetry and no third-party SDKs. Your credentials live in your device's Keychain. Your listening history stays on device. See navibeat.app/privacy.