Your music. Your server. Every screen you own.

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.

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, plus Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Mac Desktop widgets wherever Apple allows them.

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.

Pick your own accent colour.

Amber is still the default and one tap brings it back, but the whole app now follows whatever colour you choose: six one-tap presets, a full colour picker, and a hex field if you know exactly what you want. Text and glyphs drawn on top of your colour switch between black and white on their own, so a pale yellow stays as readable as a deep purple.

iPhone, iPad and Mac. In the beta now.

Jump buttons, for the things you do not play end to end.

Skip back and skip forward by 10, 15 or 30 seconds, either side of Play, with Next and Previous exactly where they were. They can be limited to one library, which is the whole point if your audiobooks live on the same server as your music: turn them on there and your music player is unchanged.

iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. In the beta now.

Start on one device, carry on with another.

Leave a song half finished on the Mac and NaviBeat on your phone offers to continue it, at the second you stopped, with the queue intact. Tap it and the Mac pauses itself, so you are not chased through the house by your own music. It runs through your own server's play queue, so there is nothing to configure and nothing leaves your network.

iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. In the beta now.

Lossless that starts when you press play.

Streaming an original FLAC used to mean waiting while the app read through the file to work out how long it was. It now reads the exact length out of the first 42 bytes instead. On an eight minute 24-bit track over Wi-Fi that took the wait from 31 seconds down to 3, and the end of the track is still accurate to the sample. The joins between tracks on a seamless album got the same attention: the player no longer rebuilds its own queue at the exact moment it needs the next song.

Every platform. In the beta now.

Landscape on every iPhone.

The wide player with lyrics beside the artwork used to be limited to the larger phones, and it switched itself off entirely if you had Display Zoom set to Larger Text, which caught out people on big phones too. That rule is gone. Every iPhone rotates, at any zoom setting.

iPhone. In the beta now.

Smart Playlists, offline everywhere, saved servers.

The same beta also carries Smart Playlists you define with rules and that sync across your devices, offline browsing folded into the normal app with an automatic switch when your server drops, several saved servers you can move between without retyping anything, Shortcuts actions, discographies grouped by release type and ordered by the real release date, and an optional lyrics lookup for tracks your server has none for.

See every feature, or join the beta.

NaviSyncRock: your Navidrome, on a real iPod.

The headline of 1.3.0, and nothing else in the Navidrome world does it. NaviSyncRock syncs songs, albums, artists and playlists from your server to a Rockbox iPod, from a normal Mac app: your own server transcodes, album art is re-encoded so old hardware renders it, .m3u8 playlists are written correctly, plays on the device sync back to Navidrome, and two custom NaviBeat iPod themes are installed. No terminal, no Python scripts.

A one-time $4.99 unlock in NaviBeat for Mac, separate from the base app. See how it works.

Live now, in 1.3.0.

ListenBrainz, first class.

The open, self-hostable listening service from MetaBrainz, the same nonprofit behind MusicBrainz. A Your ListenBrainz shelf on Home with real album art, Your Mixes (Weekly and Daily Jams), star-first two-way loved-track sync, MusicBrainz-ID matching, and a Preferred Source picker where it shares a surface with Last.fm.

Like Last.fm, it is opt-in, and scrobbles route through your own server, never straight from the app. See the integration.

Open, like your server.

Mixes your own server builds for you.

NaviBeat Mixes is a free, open-source plugin for your Navidrome server (0.63.1+) that builds up to 23 playlists from how you actually listen: Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Night mixes, Rediscover for music you loved and left alone, Artist and Genre Radios, Daily Mixes, decade mixes and more. Contents rotate weekly; names never change, so the playlist you pinned stays the playlist you pinned.

They are ordinary server playlists, so every client sees them, and NaviBeat gives them a dedicated NaviBeat Mixes Home shelf, led by the mix that matches the current hour. Not the same thing as Your Mixes above: that shelf is ListenBrainz’s Weekly and Daily Jams, while NaviBeat Mixes is generated entirely by your own server, no external service involved. Get the plugin on GitHub.

Your listening, your hardware, your mixes.

NaviBeat now speaks 11 languages.

• English
• German
• French
• Spanish
• Polish
• 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.

Classical albums group by work, with every movement listed underneath in the right order. A suite stays one work with four movements, not four unrelated tracks. It does not need MOVEMENT tags, which almost no real library carries: a tag census of eight MusicBrainz-tagged recordings found zero of them, and every WORK tag that existed named the movement rather than the piece, which would split one symphony into four. NaviBeat recovers the parent work from titles and tags shaped like Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67: I. Allegro con brio, so it works on the library you already have. Ships on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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.