NaviBeat

Your own music, on every Apple device: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch and CarPlay. Pay once, own it. No subscriptions, no ads, no tracking.

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. Own it.

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 premium client for Navidrome, the free and open-source self-hosted music streaming server. You run Navidrome on a NAS, Raspberry Pi, VPS, or any machine you control. NaviBeat connects to it and streams your collection across every Apple device you own. Airsonic-Advanced, Gonic, and any OpenSubsonic-compatible server work too.

ON iPHONE & iPAD

• Full library browsing: artists, albums, playlists, genres
• Voice search and text search with live results
• Now Playing with time-synced lyrics
• Background audio, Control Center, AirPlay, Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets
• Offline listening: pin a song, an album, a playlist, or a whole artist
• Listening Stats: a 24-hour clock, a weekday heatmap, and your top artists, albums and songs

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 understands the play command in every one of the app's 11 languages, resolved against your own library, not a streaming catalogue

ON MAC

• A real native Mac app, not a phone app in a window
• Mini Player that pins on top of any window
• Keyboard shortcuts, multi-window browsing, directory browsing, desktop widgets
• NaviSyncRock: sync your Navidrome library to a Rockbox player. Your own server does the transcoding, album art is re-encoded so it renders, playlists are written correctly, and plays sync back. A separate one-time in-app unlock.

ON APPLE TV

• Cinema-scale artwork with smart 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 time-synced lyrics

ON APPLE WATCH

• Now Playing complications on every watch face
• Music stored on the watch and played from the watch, 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, across 10 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.

ELEVEN LANGUAGES

English, German, French, 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 tips.

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

PRIVACY

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