One purchase. Every device. Forever.
Buy NaviBeat once on any Apple device. It installs on the other four at no extra cost. $5.99, one time, no subscription, no per-platform fee, no “Pro” tier behind a paywall.
Pay once.
NaviBeat v1.1.3 · Live on the App Store
Your music. Your server. Every screen you own.
NaviBeat is a native Navidrome and OpenSubsonic player for Apple TV, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Now live on the App Store across all five platforms at $5.99, one purchase covers every device, forever.
One purchase. Every screen. Forever.
NaviBeat across the Apple ecosystem
tvOS · 4K
Living-room worthy.
Featured Album hero, Quick Play shelves, full Siri Remote support, tuned for focus, not the cursor.
macOS · SwiftUI
A real Mac app. With a real Mini Player.
Pin-on-top, time-synced lyrics, Up Next queue, sleep timer, directories. Not Electron, not Catalyst.
iPadOS · LRC
Lyrics that follow the song.
Word-perfect time-sync. Smooth scroll. Tap any line to seek. Reads .lrc straight from your Navidrome.
iOS · watchOS
Now Playing, everywhere you go.
Full-screen Now Playing on iPhone. Offline pinned playback on Watch. Run trails without the phone.
Universal Purchase
Five apps. One receipt.
Buy NaviBeat once on any Apple device. It installs on the other four for free. No subscription, no per-platform fee.
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Bring your own server
Works with the servers you already trust.
NaviBeat speaks the OpenSubsonic API. Any server that does the same will pair: drop in your URL and credentials, that is the whole setup.
- Navidrome Primary target. v0.50+
- Airsonic-Advanced
- Gonic
- Subsonic
- Lyrion (LMS)
- Astiga
- Funkwhale
- Supysonic
- Madsonic
- Any OpenSubsonic server
Self-hosted, on a Raspberry Pi, NAS, VPS, or anywhere else. Your library never leaves the box you put it on. New to self-hosting? Start with Navidrome.
One purchase, five devices
Every screen Apple makes. One receipt.
What you get
Five things no other Subsonic client does all at once.
Your Navidrome. No cloud in between.
Zero analytics. Zero tracking. Zero hidden services. NaviBeat doesn’t talk to anyone you didn’t sign in to. Optional Last.fm or ListenBrainz integration is opt-in and you’re in control.
Your server, your rules.
Native SwiftUI, one design language.
Not an Electron shell. Not a web wrapper. Each app is tuned for its screen: focus on tvOS, mouse on macOS, touch on iOS, crown on watchOS.
Tuned per screen.
Pin anything. Listen anywhere.
Pin albums, playlists, or whole artists with their artwork and details, so you can browse and play fully offline. LRU cache with a size you set. Flights, subways, trails, spotty hotel Wi-Fi, the music keeps going.
Built for the road.
Behind your tunnel, on every device.
Custom HTTP headers for Cloudflare Access and Authelia, plus mTLS client certificates and Tailscale, all work out of the box. Your server stays private and reachable from anywhere, with no third-party relay, ever.
Your tunnel, covered.
Fresh from the workshop
New, and shipping fast.
NaviBeat is in very active development: the beta gets new builds near-daily, and these just landed.
NaviBeat now speaks 10 languages.
- English
- German
- French
- Spanish
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Serbian
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
Every screen is translated, and an in-app language picker lets you force any of them, even on Apple TV, where the system offers no per-app language setting at all.
Don’t see yours? Tell me which one, and I’ll add it.
Deset jezika. Zehn Sprachen. Dix langues.
Your listening, mapped.
A 24-hour listening clock, a weekday heatmap, and your top artists, albums, and songs, with a week, month, and year switcher. Built from your Last.fm scrobble history once you connect your account in Settings, rendered beautifully on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Prefer ListenBrainz? Connect it instead for your own Your ListenBrainz Home shelf: listen count, top artists, and top tracks.
Know your own taste.
A 10-band EQ on the new audio engine.
Shape the sound with a full ten-band equalizer and presets, riding on NaviBeat’s selectable high-fidelity audio engine. Pick the engine in Settings, dial in your curve, and it follows your playback.
Your ears, your curve.
Your Navidrome, on a real RockBox player.
Sync songs, albums, artists, and playlists from your server to your RockBox player: your server transcodes, the album art actually renders even on old hardware, playlists are written for you, and plays sync back to your server as scrobbles. Two custom NaviBeat themes ride along, and NaviSyncRock now recognizes over 100 RockBox player models by brand, not just one. A Mac add-on.
Built on Rockbox, a wonderful volunteer-run open-source project that has kept old media players playing for decades. We’re fans building on top of their work, not affiliated with the Rockbox project, and glad it exists.
Real hardware, meet self-hosting.
Classical, done right.
Albums tagged as classical group by work, with every movement listed underneath in the right order. A suite stays one work with four movements, not four unrelated tracks. Ships on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and needs a Navidrome 0.63+ server for the work and movement tags.
One work, every movement.
Downloads you can trust, and retry.
Watch live speed and queue stats while albums download, then check a history of every transfer, finished or failed. One tap retries anything that did not make it. Sends to your Apple Watch show up in the very same list, tracked like any other download.
Nothing gets lost in the queue.
Offline first, even when you are not.
A new setting keeps downloaded tracks playing from disk, even when you are back on Wi-Fi or cellular. Turn it off and those same tracks stream fresh instead. Your whole library stays browsable in Offline Mode, with anything you have not downloaded dimmed rather than hidden.
Your call, every time.
More covers, less scrolling.
The Albums grid packs more cover art on screen at once on iPhone and iPad, so browsing by artwork takes fewer swipes to get where you are going.
Browse by artwork, faster.
Your watch, rebuilt.
The Watch app now uses compact, glanceable rows instead of tall tiles, and downloads pull directly from your server with no phone required. Send an album from your iPhone and it lands on your wrist by itself, tracked as a first-class transfer with the same retry history as any other download.
Small screen, full app.
Tap, speak, play.
Voice search on CarPlay understands “play <your artist>” in any of the app’s languages, resolves it against your own library, and shows exactly what it heard when nothing matches. Eyes on the road, hands on the wheel.
Say it, hear it.
Built in the open, fixed within hours.
Tester reports regularly turn into fixes the same day. Want the newest features months before the App Store release? Join the beta, every platform is covered by one TestFlight link.
Report it today, test the fix tomorrow.
No cloud. No account. No telemetry.
Your server. Your library. Your rules.
NaviBeat is a client. Your music lives where it already does: a Raspberry Pi, a Synology, a home server under someone’s desk. We never see your library, your credentials, or a single play event. We couldn’t if we wanted to: the app has no backend. The only services NaviBeat ever talks to are the ones you sign in to: your Navidrome server, and optionally Last.fm or ListenBrainz. Read the privacy policy.
network.trace
→ 10.0.0.14:4533 your navidrome
→ 10.0.0.14:4533 your navidrome
→ ws.audioscrobbler.com last.fm · opt-in
→ api.listenbrainz.org listenbrainz · opt-in
analytics.google.com ✗ blocked
telemetry.apple.com ✗ blocked
crashlytics.io ✗ blocked
// only services you authenticated with · 0 hidden third parties
About the maker
A one-person app, built for the way I want to listen.
NaviBeat is built and maintained by Nenad Jokic, one person in Belgrade. No team behind a wall, no investors to please, no analytics dashboard somewhere telling me what you listened to last night. The roadmap is shaped in the open by what self-hosters actually ask for: AirPlay routing, Cloudflare Access headers, sleep timer, time-synced lyrics, the things that came in through TestFlight and email.
NaviBeat is in serious, very active development. New TestFlight builds go out almost every day, with fixes and new features landing constantly, and beta testers get every improvement first. The roadmap moves fast because it is just me and the people who use it. If something is broken, you can write directly to me. I usually reply within a day.
Launch price
One purchase. Every device.
$5.99
One purchase. Every device. Forever.
Beta program
Do you want to help test NaviBeat?
If you are willing to share what you find, we would love to have you on the TestFlight group. iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch.
FAQ
Questions you were going to ask anyway.
NaviBeat is a native Apple-ecosystem music client for self-hosted Navidrome, Airsonic-Advanced, Gonic, and OpenSubsonic servers. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch, plus CarPlay, and is one $5.99 one-time Universal Purchase. It is a client only: it has no backend, no analytics, and no tracking, and connects solely to the server you run.
NaviBeat is a single native app that spans all five Apple platforms, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch, plus CarPlay, for one $5.99 Universal Purchase. It is built in SwiftUI for each device rather than a wrapped web view, supports Navidrome multi-library switching server-side, ships time-synced lyrics, internet radio, offline pinning, and Server Health diagnostics, and has no backend, no analytics, and no tracking. It works with Navidrome, Airsonic-Advanced, Gonic, and any OpenSubsonic server.
Yes. NaviBeat is a client: it plays music from a server you run. Navidrome is free, open source, and runs on anything from a Raspberry Pi to a NAS. Any OpenSubsonic-compatible server works too (Gonic, Airsonic-Advanced). navidrome.org takes about 15 minutes with Docker. NaviBeat is also officially listed on the navidrome.org/apps directory with the OpenSubsonic indicator.
Yes. NaviBeat is a Universal Purchase. Buy once on any Apple device and it installs on the other four (Mac, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch) at no extra cost. The Apple Watch app ships embedded in the iPhone app, so it installs automatically when you pair your Watch.
Yes. NaviBeat is live on the App Store on all five Apple platforms: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch. One $5.99 Universal Purchase covers every device, with no subscription. Open the App Store listing →
Yes. Pin individual albums, playlists, or whole artists for offline playback. NaviBeat keeps an LRU cache with a size limit you set in Settings. Flights, subways, and spotty hotel Wi-Fi don’t stop the music. Downloads sync across devices via your server, not our cloud.
Yes. NaviBeat is built for self-hosters who lock their server down. On the connection screen you can add custom HTTP headers for Cloudflare Access (your CF-Access-Client-Id and CF-Access-Client-Secret) or Authelia, attach an mTLS client certificate, or simply reach your server over Tailscale. It all works on every platform, with no third-party relay in between.
A diagnostics screen for self-hosters. It shows your server type and version, the OpenSubsonic extensions it advertises, the library scan status and track count, and whether artist images, lyrics and album covers are resolving, so you can confirm your Navidrome is set up exactly the way you expect.
Yes. NaviBeat detects multi-library servers automatically and surfaces a picker: at the top of the Library tab on iPhone, in the sidebar on iPad and Mac, and as a pill row on Apple TV. Pick All Libraries, a single library, or any subset. Filtering is server-side, so pagination and ranking stay intact, and the picker is hidden on single-library servers. See the multi-library page for the full story.
Apple handles refunds directly: their standard window is 90 days, no questions asked, through reportaproblem.apple.com. On the Mac App Store you can try NaviBeat free for 7 days first. If something doesn’t work, reach us at support@navibeat.app.
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