NaviBeat 
Linux Open beta
A native desktop music player for Navidrome, Airsonic, Gonic, or any OpenSubsonic server. Time-synced lyrics, a pin-on-top Mini Player, downloads, a 10-band equalizer, and NaviSyncRock sync to a Rockbox player. No Electron, no web view, just a real Linux app. It is free, and it is in beta.
Free
Open beta · on GitHub
0 SDKs
No analytics. No trackers.
1 file
Self-contained AppImage
Rockbox sync
NaviSyncRock, free on Linux
The short answer
01 / Actually native
Written in Kotlin with Compose Multiplatform. Real window management that remembers its size and position, a sidebar, keyboard control, directory browsing, and MPRIS so your keyboard's play and skip keys just work. The Mini Player stays on top of whatever you are doing.
02 / Rockbox iPod sync
Plug in a Rockbox iPod or player and send it a song, album, artist, or playlist: your own server does the transcoding, album art is re-encoded so old hardware renders it, playlists are written correctly, and plays sync back to Navidrome. On the Mac this is a paid add-on. On Linux it is free. See how it works.
03 / Audio quality
A 10-band equalizer (32 Hz to 16 kHz), ReplayGain so a shuffle across a mixed library does not swing in loudness, and crossfade. A quality badge shows FLAC or the exact bitrate. Send the original file untouched, or ask the server to transcode to a lighter tier.
04 / Homelab-grade access
Custom HTTP headers for Cloudflare Access and Authelia, mTLS client certificates, and access over Tailscale, with no third-party relay in between. Many clients only speak to a plain, directly exposed server. NaviBeat is built for the one behind your proxy.
Every screen
Sidebar navigation, keyboard control, a Mini Player, downloads that keep playing when you go offline. The same design as the Apple builds, drawn natively on Linux. Screenshots use a demo library.
01 / Home
The sidebar gives you Home, Artists, Albums, Playlists, Radio and Directories. Home opens on a Featured Album hero with Quick Play, Made for You, and Most Played below. Connect Last.fm or ListenBrainz and Home adds personalized shelves too.
02 / Now Playing & Lyrics
Open the lyrics panel next to Now Playing and each line lights up as it is sung. An optional word-by-word karaoke mode uses your server's timing when the track has it. Album art, a quality badge, ratings and full transport controls sit alongside.
03 / Albums
An Albums grid with cover art, artist name and release year. Sort by recently added, alphabetically, by artist, or by year. Click any album for the full track list, and keep control from the persistent now-playing bar.
04 / NaviSyncRock
Pick your whole library or just some artists, albums and playlists, choose a format and bitrate, and NaviBeat transcodes on your server and copies it to a connected Rockbox iPod or player. Set it up from Settings, or just plug the player in. It is a paid add-on on the Mac, and free here.
05 / Artists
Browse artists as circular tiles with their images and album counts. Open one for the full discography. Connect Last.fm for richer artist pages and Listening Stats.
All screenshots
Home
Now Playing
Lyrics
Albums
Artists
NaviSyncRock
Rockbox sync
Get it running
chmod +x NaviBeat-linux-*.AppImage./NaviBeat-linux-*.AppImageThe AppImage carries its own Java runtime, so you do not need to install Java. Runs on 64-bit Intel and AMD, and on ARM64 like a Raspberry Pi or Asahi Linux.
An AppImage does not really install, it is a single file you run. The natural home for it is a ~/Applications folder. For a menu entry and icon, use AppImageLauncher.
sudo dnf install vlc · sudo apt install vlcsudo apt install libfuse2), or run it with --appimage-extract-and-run.Free, in beta
Free to download. Free to keep.
Open beta on GitHub. The Apple builds are a one-time $5.99 Universal Purchase.
Questions
It is free. The Linux build is in open beta and free to download from GitHub. The Apple builds (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch) are a one-time $5.99 Universal Purchase on the App Store.
It is in beta. It is built and tested on real hardware, but it is early and you may encounter bugs. Please report anything that breaks on the GitHub issues page so it can be fixed.
Download the AppImage from GitHub, make it executable with chmod +x, and run it. It carries its own Java runtime, so you do not need to install Java. You do need VLC installed, because NaviBeat plays audio through your system's libVLC.
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.