Enjoy Your Music Library with Rigelian on iPhone and iPad
Want to experience your music library on an OpenHome, MPD, or Kodi-based player with a sleek and modern controller on your iPhone or iPad? Rigelian is the perfect choice.
Rigelian is fully optimized for the latest iOS updates, allowing you to effortlessly navigate your music library and start listening to your favorite tracks in seconds.
Key Features of Rigelian:
• Easy Browsing: Explore your collection by Artist, Album, Genre, Folder, Composer, and Performer (MPD only).
• Qobuz Integration for BubbleUPnP and upmpdcli players: Access and play the entire Qobuz library (BubbleUPnP and upmpdcli only; requires a separate Qobuz subscription).
• Vast Radio Station Selection: Browse and play thousands of radio stations via radio-browser.info (MPD only).
• Playlist Management: Create, edit, and save playlists (MPD only).
• Cue File Support: Play cue files seamlessly (MPD only).
• Quick Access to New Music: Instantly access your most recently added albums.
• Random Play: Play a random album or random songs with ease.
• Powerful Search: Quickly find any track, album, or artist with an intuitive search function.
• Flexible Music Queueing:
• Replace your current play queue
• Add tracks to play next in the queue
• Add and immediately start playing the next track in the queue
• Append tracks to the end of the queue
• Intuitive Play Queue Editing: Easily move and remove tracks from the play queue.
• Cross-Browsing: Navigate directly from the play queue to the corresponding artist or album.
• Track Quality Indicator: See the quality of the currently playing track at a glance.
• Automatic Player Detection: Rigelian automatically finds and configures players on your network, including Kodi, Bryston, Volumio, Rune, moOde, and standard MPD.
• Seamless Player Switching: Effortlessly switch between multiple players.
• Optimized Cover Art Retrieval: Enjoy high-quality album art.
• Today Widget: Quickly access your music with the Today widget.
• Dark Mode: Enjoy a visually pleasing interface, day or night.
• Multitasking Support on iPad: Run Rigelian side-by-side with another app.
• Support for All Device Sizes: Fully compatible with iPhone SE, iPhone 8, iPhone 8+, iPhone X, iPhone Xs Max, iPad, and iPad Pro.
Subscription Information:
Some features in Rigelian require a subscription, which helps support ongoing development and future enhancements. Choose between monthly and annual subscriptions, both of which include a 2-week free trial. If Rigelian isn't for you, simply cancel within the trial period without any charge.
Additional Subscription Details:
• Payment will be charged to your iTunes account after the 2-week trial ends.
• Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is disabled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period at the same price as the original subscription.
• Manage your subscriptions and disable auto-renewal in your App Store Account Settings.
• Read the terms of service and privacy policy for more information.
Rigelian is praised as a low-cost, well-supported MPD controller with a clean, responsive UI and strong streaming capabilities. Reviewers highlight its solid MPD integration, intuitive design, and active development, making it a compelling alternative to pricier options. The main drawbacks cited are a subscription-based pricing model to access playback, lack of Tidal/online service integrations, and some album art retrieval limitations (metadata art gaps and SD-card artwork issues on certain hardware). Overall, it’s reliable for MPD users seeking a polished, affordable control point with robust streaming.
Pros
Excellent MPD support and reliable control of MPD-based libraries.
Polished, minimalist UI/UX that is intuitive and uncluttered.
Great value for money; affordable pricing compared to alternatives.
Active development with responsive support and bug fixes.
Broad streaming capabilities including internet radio and OpenHome control.
Cons
Subscription-based pricing required to access music playback; ongoing subscription model.
Lacks Tidal integration and other online streaming services (e.g., Spotify) / UPnP support.
Album art retrieval issues: metadata art pulls can be unreliable and some hardware (e.g., SD-card art on certain devices) cannot pull artwork.
Recent reviews
Requires monthly subscription to play music in your house. This is not a SaaS product but uses SaaS pricing.
bySw*****, 2026-01-17
Minimalist, responsive, all the features you want without being too cluttered w extraneous stuff. Really enjoying this.
byGe*****, 2025-09-09
I was looking for an attractive and intuitive control point for OpenHome streaming and was glad to find this app met my needs. Thanks to recent bug fixes, Rigelian now meets my needs and wants as a daily driver for music enjoyment. I like its UI design and that it is actively developed and improves over time. The only feature that I currently miss is Tidal integration, which I understand is no trivial task.