NaviBeat

NaviBeat brings your own music library to every Apple device you own — iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch — as a single Universal Purchase. Pay once. Own it. No subscriptions. No ads. No tracking. No NaviBeat cloud. Your music stays on your own server, exactly where you put it. NaviBeat just plays it — beautifully. ABOUT NAVIDROME NaviBeat is a premium client for Navidrome, the free and open-source self-hosted music streaming server. You run Navidrome on a NAS, Raspberry Pi, VPS, or any machine you control. NaviBeat connects to it and streams your collection across every Apple device you own with a polished, native-feel experience. ON iPHONE & iPAD - Full library browsing: artists, albums, playlists, genres - Voice search and text search with live results - Now Playing with synced and plain lyrics - Background audio, Control Center integration, AirPlay - Offline listening for downloaded albums and playlists ON MAC - Native macOS app with MiniPlayer mode - Keyboard shortcuts, multi-window browsing - Full library browsing with large artwork ON APPLE TV - Cinema-scale artwork UI with smart discovery shelves - Recently Played, Most Played, Rediscover, On This Day, Because You Listened To… - Voice search via the Siri Remote - Full-screen Now Playing with synced lyrics ON APPLE WATCH - Now Playing complications on every watch face - Standalone queue control from the wrist - Download albums and playlists straight to Watch storage CORE FEATURES - Gapless playback - Scrobbles back to your Navidrome server - Lossless streaming when your server and network allow - Beautiful dark UI throughout - Optional iCloud Keychain sync for credentials across your Apple devices REQUIREMENTS NaviBeat requires a running Navidrome server (v0.50 or later, free and open source) accessible from your Apple device. Self-host it on a home NAS, a Raspberry Pi, a VPS, or any machine you control. See navibeat.app for setup tips. NaviBeat is a third-party client and is not affiliated with the Navidrome project. PRIVACY NaviBeat collects zero data. There is no NaviBeat backend, no analytics, no telemetry, no third-party SDKs. Your credentials live in your device's Keychain. Your listening history stays on device. See navibeat.app/privacy.

- Home: fixed a "couldn't reach your music server" error that could show on a brand new or freshly scanned library even when the server was connected and working. Empty sections (no favourites yet, nothing recently played) now count as simply empty, not as an error, so Home loads cleanly from the first launch. - iPhone: in a playlist's Select mode, the bottom buttons were cramped and hard to read. Queue, Add to Playlist and Download now sit on their own row as clear, full-width buttons, with Select All / Deselect All above. - Mac: a large drop in CPU usage. The desktop Now Playing widget and the small "now playing" animated bars on the track list were both using far too much CPU; both are fixed and now stay light. - Mac: the desktop Now Playing widget is more compact, closer to the iPhone one, and the large size leaves more room for the Up Next list. - Mac: Play Next and Play Last are now right in a track's menu instead of tucked inside a submenu. - Mac: closing the Mini Player now keeps your main window at the size and position you left it. - Mac: an album's year no longer shows with a separator (it now reads 2025, not 2.025). - Mac: the pointer no longer stays a link hand after you click an artist name to open the artist. - Mac: the Downloads list now uses the same frosted background as the rest of the app instead of a flat grey. - Mac: tidied the first sidebar button height and a Settings toggle that was out of line. - Apple TV: pressing Play on an artist now plays all of their albums, not just the first one. - CarPlay: an artist now has Play and Shuffle for all of their albums at once, not just within a single album. - CarPlay: starting a list with the Play or Shuffle button now opens the Now Playing screen right away instead of leaving you on the list. Also since build 101: no more brief distorted sound when quitting while music is playing; on the AudioStreaming engine the scrubber no longer flashes to 0:00 when you seek an unbuffered track; and Year in Review now shows real artist and song names instead of internal codes.

Developer

Nenad Jokic

Main Category

Music

Version

1.1.3

Version Release

2026-06-12

Initial Release

2026-05-22

Size

18 MB

Age Rating

4+

Price

USD 5.99

Languages

EN

Bundle ID

app.navibeat.NaviBeatApp

Version Rating

★ 5.00 (2)

First Seen

2026-05-28

Metadata updated 2026-06-16

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