NaviBeat · macOS 15+
A beautifully native SwiftUI music player for Navidrome, Airsonic, Gonic, or any OpenSubsonic server. Mini Player with pin-on-top, time-synced lyrics, AutoMix, sleep timer, and directory browser. No Electron, no Catalyst, just native Mac code.
macOS 15+
M1 & Intel
0 SDKs
No analytics. No trackers.
Mini Player
Pin-on-top · compact mode
$5.99 once
Universal Purchase · all Apple devices
The short answer
01 / Actually native
Written in SwiftUI for macOS 15. Real window management that remembers its size and position, a sidebar, keyboard control, directory browsing, and a menu-bar icon that stays put. The Mini Player pins on top of whatever you are working in. There is a 7-day free trial on the Mac App Store.
02 / Rockbox iPod sync
A one-time $4.99 in-app unlock, shipped in 1.3.0. Right-click a song, album, artist, or playlist and send it to a Rockbox player: your own server does the transcoding, album art is re-encoded so old hardware renders it, .m3u8 playlists are written correctly, plays made on the device sync back to Navidrome, and two custom NaviBeat iPod themes are installed. No terminal, no Python scripts. See how it works.
03 / Audio quality
A selectable high-fidelity playback engine with a 10-band equalizer and presets, ReplayGain (track, album, or automatic) so a shuffle across a mixed library does not swing wildly in loudness, and gapless playback for live albums and mixes. Ten streaming-quality tiers, or send the original file untouched.
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 shortcuts, menu bar mini player, drag-and-drop queue reordering. Every detail of the macOS platform considered: not a port, not a compromise. Downloads now keep a retryable history with live speed and queue stats, and Prefer Downloaded Music, in Settings, keeps local copies playing from disk even when you are back online.
01 / Home
The sidebar gives you instant access to Home, Artists, Albums, Playlists, Radio, and Directories. The main area opens on a Featured Album hero with your recently played albums below. Connect Last.fm or ListenBrainz in Settings and Home adds a personalized stats shelf too.
02 / Mini Player
Switch to the Mini Player and it floats above every other window, even full-screen video. Album art, track name, transport controls. Resize it to taste. One keyboard shortcut to show or hide it.
03 / Time-Synced Lyrics
Open the lyrics panel alongside your library, or expand it to fill the window. Drop an .lrc file next to your track or let NaviBeat pull synced lyrics from your server automatically.
04 / Albums
Albums grid with cover art, artist name, release year, and genre. Sort by recently added, alphabetically, by artist, or by year. Click any album for the full track list with Hi-Res badges.
05 / Internet Radio
Internet radio stations configured in Navidrome appear in the Radio sidebar item. One click to start a stream. Station name and now-playing metadata show in the toolbar and Mini Player.
06 / Classical
Albums tagged as classical group by work on Mac too, with movements listed in order beneath each one. A suite stays one work instead of several unrelated tracks. Needs a Navidrome 0.63+ server for the work and movement tags.
All screenshots
Home
Albums
Artists
Playlists
Lyrics panel
Mini Player
Mini Player + Lyrics
Up Next queue
Internet Radio
Directories
Classical
Launch price
One purchase. Every device.
Mac, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch. Forever.
Questions
Open the Mac App Store, search for NaviBeat, and install it. It runs on macOS 15 or later, on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
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: Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Apple Watch.
It is a native Mac app that looks and behaves like one, not a scaled-up iPad build.
