NaviBeat · iPadOS 18+
The full Navidrome and Subsonic library on a bigger canvas. Sidebar + detail view, drag-and-drop playlist editing, keyboard shortcuts, and landscape support across every screen size. One $5.99 Universal Purchase covers every Apple device.
iPadOS 18+
iPad Pro, Air, mini
0 SDKs
No analytics. No trackers.
Sidebar + detail
Full landscape support
$5.99 once
Universal Purchase · all Apple devices
The short answer
01 / A real iPad layout
A persistent sidebar with your libraries, playlists, and downloads, plus an album grid sized for the display instead of two fat columns stretched from a phone. The multi-library picker lives in the sidebar, where it belongs on a big screen.
02 / Lyrics and stats
Time-synced .lrc lyrics that scroll with the music and let you tap a line to seek, and full Listening Stats: a 24-hour listening clock, a weekday heatmap, and top artists, albums, and songs with a week, month, or year switcher.
03 / Offline
Pin whole artists, albums, or playlists with artwork and metadata, so the library browses offline and not just plays. An LRU cache with a size limit you set handles the space, and Prefer Downloaded Music keeps playback local even when you are online.
Every screen
The iPad layout takes advantage of the larger canvas. Persistent sidebar, split view, and full-screen lyrics side-by-side with your queue: the whole app visible at once, with no scrolling required.
01 / Home
Persistent sidebar with Home, Artists, Albums, Genres, Playlists, Radio, and Directories. The main area opens on a rotating Featured Album hero with Quick Play and Recently Added shelves below. Connect Last.fm or ListenBrainz in Settings and Home adds a personalized stats shelf too.
02 / Albums
The Albums grid now fits more covers on screen at once, each one still large enough to actually look at. Title, artist, year, and genre stay visible at a glance; tap any album for the full track list with Hi-Res badges.
03 / Lyrics + Queue
On iPad, the lyrics panel and Up Next queue can both be visible at once, no switching between views. Follow the lyrics while managing your queue without interrupting playback. AutoMix keeps the queue going when it runs dry, seeded from your connected Last.fm or ListenBrainz account.
04 / Downloads
Browse everything you have downloaded by album, artist, or playlist. Behind the scenes, NaviBeat tracks live speed and queue stats while a download runs, keeps a history of every transfer, and lets you retry anything that failed with one tap, including sends from your Apple Watch.
05 / Offline Mode
Offline Mode keeps your downloaded albums front and center on Home while everything else dims. Prefer Downloaded Music, in Settings, keeps those tracks playing from disk even once you are back online.
06 / Classical
Albums tagged as classical group by work, with every movement listed underneath in order. Suite No. 1 in D minor stays one work, not four separate tracks. Needs a Navidrome 0.63+ server for the work and movement tags.
All screenshots
Home
Albums
Lyrics
Up Next queue
Directories
Downloads
Offline Mode
Classical
Launch price
One purchase. Every device.
iPad, iPhone, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch. Forever.
Questions
Open the App Store on your iPad, search for NaviBeat, and install it. It runs on iPadOS 18 or later, on iPad Pro, iPad Air, and iPad mini.
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: iPad, iPhone, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch.
No. The iPad layout gives your library room to breathe, with a wider interface built for the larger screen rather than a stretched phone view.
