NaviBeat · tvOS 18+
Stream your self-hosted music library from Navidrome, Airsonic, Gonic, or any OpenSubsonic-compatible server, directly on Apple TV 4K. Focus-driven grid, time-synced lyrics, internet radio, and full Siri Remote support. One $5.99 Universal Purchase covers every Apple device.
The App Store link opens the listing on your current device. To install on Apple TV, open the App Store on your tvOS device and search for NaviBeat. One $5.99 Universal Purchase covers all five Apple platforms.
tvOS 18+
Apple TV HD & 4K
0 SDKs
No analytics. No trackers.
7 tabs
Home · Library · Playlists · Radio · Search · Now Playing · Settings
$5.99 once
Universal Purchase · all Apple devices
The short answer
01 / Built for the couch
A Featured Album hero, Quick Play shelves, and full Siri Remote support. Every element is built for focus-based navigation at 4K with couch-readable typography, because a cursor-free interface is a different design problem, not a resize.
02 / Language picker
tvOS has no per-app system language setting at all, so on Apple TV every app is stuck in the system language. NaviBeat ships its own in-app language picker, so you can run it in any of its 12 languages regardless of what the TV is set to.
03 / The whole library
Browse and play your entire self-hosted library straight from the Apple TV: multi-library switching, star ratings, playlists, internet radio, time-synced lyrics on the big screen, a genre tree, genre and record-label chips on an album page that open the rest of that genre or label, Play Next and Add to Queue from any song, and your Last.fm and ListenBrainz shelves. It plays on its own, with no phone in the loop.
04 / Same purchase
The Apple TV app is part of the one $5.99 Universal Purchase. Buy it once on any Apple device and it installs on the other four at no extra cost. No subscription, no per-platform fee, and no analytics or trackers anywhere in it.
In the beta right now
All of this is built and in testers’ hands through TestFlight today, and it reaches the App Store in the next release. Anyone can join the beta, and it is free.
01 / Continue Here
The TV now carries the same Continue Here bar the phone and Mac have: it shows what is playing on another of your devices with a live position, and one press picks it up from the exact second. The TV also announces itself to your server as NaviBeat Apple TV, so the handoff works the other way too.
02 / Home
NaviBeat Mixes has its own shelf, and Made for You now holds your ListenBrainz mixes alongside the rest instead of splitting them across two rows. Home tiles take a focus ring and a small pop when the remote lands on them, so you can see where you are from the sofa, and a quiet Updated N ago line tells you how fresh a shelf is.
03 / Servers
The TV can save several servers, switch between them and change a stored password, none of which it could do before. It also stops forgetting the pairing when you quit the app or open another one, so you are no longer retyping an address and an account with the remote.
04 / Crossfade
Apple TV previously had no way to turn crossfade on at all, even though the engine underneath it worked. The setting is there now, beside ReplayGain, and one track fades into the next.
05 / ListenBrainz
If you run your own ListenBrainz-compatible instance, the TV can use it: a Use my own server switch with an address and a name. It replaces the public service rather than sitting beside it, and because ListenBrainz Labs is a separate host, similar-artist enrichment steps back rather than quietly falling through to the public one.
06 / Reading
Artist biographies on the TV had no Read more, so anything longer than a few lines was simply unreadable. They expand now, the same way they do on the phone and the Mac.
Every tab, every screen
Every Navidrome feature you use on the web is here: Albums, Artists, Genres, Playlists, Favorites, Internet Radio, Search with history, artist biographies from Last.fm, Hi-Res badges, and time-synced lyrics. Built from the ground up for the Siri Remote and the 10-foot interface. Connect Last.fm or ListenBrainz in Settings (ListenBrainz pairs with a QR code on the big screen) and listener counts, artist tags, similar-artist rails, and AutoMix all follow whichever you connect.
01 / Home
The Home tab opens on a rotating Featured Album hero, followed by a Quick Play row (Favourites, Shuffle Mix, Random Album, Random Artist) and a Recently Added shelf. One press on the Siri Remote and music is playing, no menu digging.
02 / Library
The Library tab mirrors Navidrome’s browse modes exactly. Albums grid with year and genre metadata. Artists as circular portraits with album counts. Random shuffle across your whole collection. Genre filtering. Your Favorites tab, synced from the server.
03 / Artist Detail
Every artist page opens with a full biography above a chronological album grid. Press Play to shuffle the entire discography. Complete artist and album metadata, on a self-hosted stack you own.
04 / Time-Synced Lyrics
Drop an .lrc file next to your track, or let NaviBeat pull synced lyrics from your server. Read them on the big screen. The current line highlights and scrolls automatically, no interaction needed.
05 / Now Playing
The Now Playing screen shows full-screen album art, transport controls tuned for the Siri Remote, an Up Next queue you can reorder, and a swipe-in lyrics panel. No modal stacking, no buried menus.
06 / Internet Radio
Internet radio stations configured in Navidrome appear automatically. Tap any station, the stream starts immediately. Skip to the next station without returning to the list.
All screenshots
Home: Featured Album
Library: Albums
Library: Artists
Artist detail + biography
Album detail + track list
Time-synced lyrics
Now Playing + Up Next
Internet Radio
Search
Launch price
One purchase. Every device.
Apple TV, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch. Forever.
Questions
Open the App Store on your Apple TV, running tvOS 18 or later, and search for NaviBeat. The App Store button on this page opens the listing on whatever device you are reading from, so on the TV itself, search directly on the device.
NaviBeat is a client, so it connects to your own server. It works with Navidrome v0.50 or later, or any OpenSubsonic-compatible server, including Airsonic-Advanced and Gonic. It does not host or stream any music of its own.
NaviBeat is $5.99 USD, one time. It is a Universal Purchase, so that single price covers all five Apple platforms: Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
NaviBeat runs on Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K, on tvOS 18 and later.
