SubStreamer

Name: SubStreamer
Rating: 3.9 (118 reviews)
Author: Gaven Henry

By: Gaven Henry

Stream Your Own Music Library

Features & Capabilities

SubStreamer is a free, open-source Chrome extension that turns your Subsonic-compatible server into a personal streaming service. Stream in full quality or download for offline listening on iPhone and iPad. It’s ad-free, subscription-free, and designed to keep your music on your own server, with no data collection. It’s verified with Navidrome, Subsonic, Gonic, Nextcloud Music, Ampache, and works with Airsonic-Advanced, Funkwhale, Supysonic, and other Subsonic API servers.

Beyond playback, SubStreamer offers smart mixes based on your listening history—time-of-day playlists, deep cuts, era blends, and a custom mix builder. It provides listening analytics (top artists, hours, heatmaps), robust library management (ratings, favorites, playlists), and flexible playback controls (lock screen, background playback, speed, shuffle). The app emphasizes privacy with offline sync and no analytics or accounts required; everything stays between you and your server. Open-source under GPL-3.0; code available at github.com/ghenry22/substreamer.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Music & Audio Open Source Privacy & Security

By:

Gaven Henry

Rating:

3.90

(118) 3 new ratings

Version:

8.0.56 Last updated: 2026-04-26

Version code:

884749250

Creation date:

2015-07-15

Compatible devices:

Size:

42.22MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-05

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 149,686 ▲ 1,268

Other platforms

Substreamer - Music Streamer (v8.0.52)

75,391 3.68

(705)

For Developers

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Developed by:

Gaven Henry

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/substreamer/id1012991665

Website:

https://substreamer.org

User Reviews

SubStreamer shines with strong Navidrome/self-hosted music support and a sleek, intuitive UI, plus solid offline caching. However, users frequently report playback instability (crashes, buffering, AirPlay interruptions), a lack of a universal all-songs view, and some early UI bugs. Overall, it’s a standout Navidrome client on iOS that could benefit from reliability refinements and a more complete library browsing experience.

Pros

Excellent Navidrome/self-hosted music support; repeatedly praised as the best Navidrome/iOS client and works well with Navidrome servers.
Sleek, polished, and intuitive user interface that makes navigation and playback feel smooth.
Strong offline capabilities, including downloading entire playlists into cache and clear separation between cached and downloaded music.
Good discovery-oriented home screen and overall feature richness for self-hosted music experiences, with positive feedback on server integration and usability.

Cons

Playback stability issues across many reviews, including frequent stops, crashes when rewinding/fast-forwarding, long buffering on cellular, and interruptions during AirPlay.
Missing a global 'view all songs' library view; navigation is limited to albums or artists, making it harder to locate individual tracks.
Early bugs and UI glitches (such as splash-screen issues on older devices and occasional unresponsiveness) and general stability concerns during initial usage.

Recent reviews

1不能删除歌曲 2歌单里面的歌曲没有排序功能 3歌单需要通过资料库—播放列表才能找到太不方便了我认为可以把歌单放在和主页按钮一排的位置如果可以在歌曲的表面能显示歌曲的详细信息就更完美了文件格式比特率文件大小

by 墨尔*****, 2026-05-06

Newly resigned. This is the best app I’ve tried at least for my phone. When they push to car play I can delete other apps and go to this one full time.

by Ra*****, 2026-04-22

After the rewrite, this very quickly became my favorite music streaming app. All my problems I had with it before are gone, the UI looks so nice and feels great to use! It also now properly works with Navidrome, the old version didn’t tend to like Navidrome instances.