# Amperfy Music

> Client for Ampache and Subsonic servers, offering streaming and offline playback. (iPhone/iPad app by Dirk Hildebrand.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/amperfy-music/id1530145038 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Dirk Hildebrand](https://appshunter.io/developer/654444924)
- Category: Music
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 135 App Store ratings · 177 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 24 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2021-02-08
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/amperfy-music/id1530145038/reviews.md

## What is Amperfy Music?

Amperfy allows you to play music or podcasts from an Ampache or Subsonic server.
Experience a clean, simplistic and modern client for your music server interactions.
Download the songs from your music server to play offline.
Amperfy requires a private hosted Ampache or Subsonic server installation to function.

Features:

- Multi account
- Offline mode
- CarPlay
- Gapless playback for appropriate media file formats
- Music, Podcast and Radio support
- Siri play media command, Siri Shortcuts and App Intents
- Equalizer
- Replay gain
- Sleep timer
- 5 star song rating
- Favorite song
- Sleep Timer
- Scrobbling

Amperfy is open source and licensed under GPLv3. 
It can be found at https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy
Please discuss this app and report all issues at https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy/issues

## Key features

- Offline playback
- CarPlay support
- Siri integration
- Gapless playback
- Podcast and Radio support
- Equalizer
- Sleep timer

## What do users think of Amperfy Music?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Smooth and responsive
- 👍 Clean and intuitive UI
- 🔒 Reliable connection to Navidrome/Subsonic servers
- 💡 Excellent offline playback experience
- 🚀 Fast library sync
- 👍 Great CarPlay integration

**Cons**

- 🐛 Occasional crashes or freezes
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🔇 Lack of gapless playback
- 🔇 Missing song volume leveling
- 🔇 Incomplete CarPlay functionality
- 🔇 No built-in equalizer

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Unknown artist display for manually tagged FLAC files
- Player unable to open certain files
- Inconsistent album art display
- Scrubbing issues causing song skipping

**Most requested features**

- Lyrics support
- Album shuffle mode
- Customizable cache location
- Airplay support on macOS
- Apple Watch app
- Chromecast support
- Recently played songs/albums view
- Playlist folders and sorting
- Dark mode

## Recent user reviews (10 of 177)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/amperfy-music/id1530145038/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Love this

*2026-07-27*

Great app. Just one bug I encountered: sometimes changing playback speed (especially to a lower speed than currently on) will garble audio and require an app reset. Occurs randomly and very rarely

### 5/5 — Great App!

*2026-07-25, version 2.1.0*

I recently installed Jellyfin and then tried out the official app and Finamp. Both failed to work properly on my phone, with Finamp taking 10 seconds to open an album, and neither offered the ability to browse by folder. This app, combined with Navidrome, is so far working brilliantly! It’s incredibly responsive, highly customisable and does everything I need it to. Thank you!

### 5/5 — Bin begeistert

*2026-07-12*

Nach rund zwei Wochen intensiver Nutzung von Amperfy bin ich schlichtweg begeistert von der hohen Qualität der App. Die Apple hauseigene Music-App verstaubt seit dem regelrecht.
Anfangs hatte ich zwar Probleme mit Ampache als API, aber nach Recherche im Netz stieß ich auf den Tip auf Subsonic zu wechseln und seit funktioniert alles soweit.
Bis auf eine deutsche Übersetzung fehlt mir aktuell nichts, dank vieler Einstellungsmöglichkeiten. Die App ist aber trotzdem nicht überladen. Weiter so und vielen lieben Dank an das Entwickler-Team.

### 5/5 — Unglaublich gut

*2026-07-09*

Meine erste Rezension jemals im App Store, aber hier kann ich wirklich nicht anders, der Entwickler hat es sich redlich verdient und noch mehr. 
Der Client ist wirklich nützlich und sehr sauber aufgebaut, keine unnützen Features, er tut was er soll und man kann so gut wie alles customizen - all das für lau. Vielen Dank für Ihre Arbeit und falls sie irgendwann eine Paid-Version rausbringen sollten, würde ich Sie gerne unterstützen  :)

### 5/5 — Perfekt für Navidrome mit offline Support

*2026-07-08*

Alles in allem ist die App nahezu perfekt. Das UI und die Bedienbarkeit sind sehr gut gelungen.

### 5/5 — Most Functional Player

*2026-06-30, version 2.1.0*

There are a lot of useful features that are mostly not available in other players with Subsonic API connection. I would like to note separately native iOS features are most commonly used in this app. However, many more visual improvements should be made for the "wow" effect of everyone who downloads this application. For example, gesture control on the audio playback panel on the main panel is extremely lacking (up - open, left/right - track switching) and other small things that would improve the user experience. I wish good luck to the developer and hope for the active development of the player! I will keep an eye on updates and try to give feedback.

### 4/5 — Sehr gute und schöne App aber…

*2026-06-22*

Ich finde diese App sehr gut. Neben dem, dass die App ähnlich zum Apple Music Dienst. Aussieht finde ich die Funktionalität sehr gut. Alles ist gut durchdacht und Funktioniert, wenn da nicht ein Performance Fehler wäre… aktuell hängt sich bei jeder Bewegung auf macOS die App jede Sekunde auf, was es echt nervig macht die App zu nutzen. Ich hoffe dies wird aber schnell behoben.

### 5/5 — Perfect.

*2026-06-22, version 2.1.0*

Everything i’m looking for in a music player. The ui stutters quite a bit both on mobile and carplay, but other than that, I love it!

### 5/5 — Great work

*2026-05-28, version 2.1.0*

Thanks for your work on this! I particularly like having a client that works well on MacOS and iOS

### 5/5 — Fantastic app!

*2026-05-20, version 2.1.0*

This is going to be a fairly long review, so here goes.

I have had my own mp3 music collection since mp3 was invented! I’ve gone from Winamp to windows media center through to media browser (emby, kodi and now navidrome. All these had one thing in common, how to get my music to play in all rooms, and more recently, on my phone.

Amperfy allows me to do that, it’s not just on my phone, it’s also on my two iPads! I have a set of speakers that have a raspberry pi that runs an airplay server connected to it! It looks premium and works great! Thank you!

## Frequently asked questions about Amperfy Music

### What does Amperfy Music do?

Amperfy Music acts as a client for Ampache and Subsonic music servers, allowing you to stream music, podcasts, and radio. It also enables you to download content for offline listening, providing a modern and simplistic interface for managing your server's media.

### What are the key features of Amperfy Music?

Key features include offline playback, CarPlay support, gapless playback for compatible media, Siri integration for media commands, an equalizer, sleep timer, and support for music, podcasts, and radio. It also offers multi-account support and song rating.

### Is Amperfy Music free to use?

Yes, Amperfy Music is free to use. It is an open-source application licensed under GPLv3, meaning there are no costs associated with downloading or using its features.

### What are the requirements to use Amperfy Music?

To function, Amperfy Music requires a private hosted Ampache or Subsonic server installation. It is not a standalone music streaming service and relies on your existing server setup to access your music library.

### How can I get help or report issues with Amperfy Music?

Amperfy Music is open source, and discussions and issue reporting are handled through its GitHub repository. You can find the project at https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy and report any issues at https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy/issues.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.1.1 — 2026-08-13

Features
- Support custom HTTP headers per account
- Support autoplaying similar songs at the end of the play queue
- Add "Instant Mix" via the server API to request similar songs
- Support sharing songs
- Display radio station metadata in player info
- Always-on-top setting for the macOS mini player
- Clicking a lyric line will seek to that point in the song
- Seek directly on click (instead of click-and-drag) in the macOS player

Bug Fixes
- Fixed endless artwork downloads
- Fixed playing a song directly when clicked in the Home random songs section
- Fixed CarPlay displaying the album's song list instead of directly playing the album

### 2.1.0 — 2026-03-19

Features
- Multi account support
- Configurable Home tab
- Reworked SiriShortcuts and Intents
- Reworked CarPlay interface
- Optional song rating display
- Siri support for radios via voice command
- Support radios in PlayID and SearchAndPlay intent
- New setting to optionally save and use song playback progress
- Library resync and logout can be done without restart
- Volume slider available in iOS and iPadOS

BugFixes
- Fixed mini player title tear
- Fixed NowPlayingInfo when player is paused
- Fixed macOS crash in fullscreen when selecting the searchbar
- Fixed cached scrobble times for Subsonic API

### 2.0.0 — 2025-11-10

Features
- Adaptation to Liquid Glass
- Equalizer support
- Support for replay gain received from server
- Settings: configure transcoding format separately for WiFi and Cellular
- Added pause quick action for music and podcast playback
- Added audio visualizer and spectrum analyzer in player view
- Display bitrate and audio format of the currently playing track in player view
- Settings: configure light/dark mode
- Songs: sort by "Date Added" for Subsonic API

Bug Fixes
- Fixed shuffle algorithm issue
- Fixed crash on playlist update
- Fixed crash when clicking "Random" on an empty radios list
- Fixed scrobble timer
- Fixed favorite swipe action color

### 1.2.3 — 2025-05-10

Features
- Radios: add support for Ampache API and Subsonic API
- Player: support gapless playback for appropriate media file formats
- Performance: reduce CPU consumption for API requests and player
- Artworks: downloaded artworks can be deleted in Settings
- Playlists: add multiple library element to playlist via edit
- Playlists: delete multiple songs at once from playlist
- Playlists: add songs to multiple playlists at once
- Playlists: show alert when duplicates are about to get added
- Siri-Shortcut: add "Play Random Songs" intent
- Tables: align columns and add ellipsis to playables
- Cache: display alert before deleting cache
- Transcoding: add option to let server decide which codec to use
- Player: improved error handling
- Artworks: create light and dark mode versions of default artworks
- Player: hide player mode change button if user hides podcasts from library category list
- X-Callback-URL Docu: add example copy button
- Player: reduce button count (move buttons inside options menu)
- General: multiple performance improvements

BugFixes
- Album: fix queuing albums sorted by track number
- PopupPlayer: fix moving elements after App opening
- Siri-Shortcut: fix failing play request due to long response times (fetch only playlist before play)
- Subsonic API: handle 404 status codes
- Subsonic API: fix empty albums due to missing isDir attribute
- Album collection: fix clipping title label
- Swipe & Preview: refresh cell when favorite and cache is changed
- Collections: fix duration overflow
- Preview: favorite and rating was interactable when in offline mode
- Preview: fix detail size

### 1.2.2 — 2024-12-02

Features
- macOS Catalyst: add platform support
- Lyrics (subsonic only): unsynced and synced lyrics are supported
- Theme: add theme colours
- Artists: support album artists filter
- Albums: display as collection (grid size is adjustable) or as table
- Sync: initial sync is skippable
- CarPlay: add "Cached" tab
- CarPlay: trigger artwork download and display on completion
- Songs: sort by starred date sort setting for favourite songs (Subsonic only)
- Songs: press to play songs add next songs to queue too
- OfflineMode: notify user at each start that Offline Mode is active
- SleepTimer: add option for 2 and 4 hours
- X-Callback: add action for rating and favourite
- Siri: log request and response in EventLogger

BugFixes
- Siri Intent: fetch elements before play
- Scrobble: cache failed sync scrobbles too
- Disabling shuffle mode in setting does not work everywhere
- Player: song progress wasn't kept when App crashed or mode changed
- Player: audio engine crash can be fixed by switching mode or play next song instead of App restart

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