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play:Sub Music Streamer

Delightful Subsonic Client

429 ratings
278 reviews
#119 in paid Music
🎬 Entertainment
🎵 Music
$4.99
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Details

  • Released
  • Updated
  • March 26, 2015
  • September 30, 2026

Features

Developer

Michael Hansen
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About

Stream your self-hosted music library to various devices with customizable audio settings. Enjoy lossless playback, gapless transitions, and a powerful equalizer. Browse your collection by folders, artists, or albums, and cache music for offline listening.

✓Stream Subsonic-hosted music
✓Lossless and gapless playback
✓10-band customizable equalizer
✓Crossfade and replay gain
✓Browse by folder, artist, album
✓Offline caching of music
✓Supports multiple servers
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What users say about play

Reviews of play are mostly positive: the Music app is rated 4.5/5 from 429 App Store ratings. What users like most: smooth playback, customizable UI. Top complaints: crashes and stability issues, battery drain. Summarized from real user reviews.

Positive things

  • 🚀Smooth playback
  • 👍Customizable UI
  • 🔒No tracking
  • 🎨Detailed song/album info
  • 💡Useful features (EQ, crossfade, etc.)

Negative things

  • 🐛Crashes and stability issues
  • 🔋Battery drain
  • 🤔Confusing navigation/UI
  • ⚠️Buggy CarPlay integration
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What's New in play

2026.10.1

September 30, 2026

RECORD LABELS, TITLE QUALIFIERS, CARPLAY IMPROVEMENTS RECORD LABELS Browse your collection by record label. Every label gets its own page with its albums, artists and songs - all of them, shuffled, or the starred ones - and an album's About page now says who released it. Star the labels you follow and find them under Favourites, in search, and in CarPlay. Record labels come from servers that publish them, such as Navidrome. The URL scheme plays a label too: playsubapp://play?recordlabel=Blue Note (wildcards like Blue* work). TITLE QUALIFIERS "Rubber Soul (Remastered)" can be shown as "Rubber Soul", or with "(Remastered)" in smaller, dimmed text - your choice, in Settings > User Interface Tweaks > Title Qualifiers. CARPLAY ● New: On iOS 27, album, artist, playlist, folder, genre, decade and record label pages open with a header showing the cover, title and details, with Play, Shuffle and Enqueue right there. Earlier iOS versions keep the quick action row. ● New: An artist button on the Now Playing screen takes you straight to the artist/album. ● Fixed: Icons in dark mode were black on very dark grey. AND THE REST ● New: Automatic theme changes now follow the system appearance. ● Fixed: Handing playback off to Chromecast lost the playback position. ● Fixed: WMA files would not play on Chromecast. ● Fixed: Swiping back through the navigation stack works again. ● Various other bugfixes and improvements. For feature requests or issues: please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback), or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk

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Subscriptions & In-App Purchases

$99.99

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📉 119-17

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This app dropped -17 positions in Music chart.

Last updated on October 16, 2026.

User reviews

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Few areas for improvement, but best streamer I’ve tried on iPhone

I think interface of this app is a little overcomplicated and could be simplified to something more user friendly, though I’d love to see more customization settings so I can configure it myself to my liking. Sometimes all I want is to hit single giant button and get random music from my library.

I really like live lyrics in modern music apps and it’s great that we get lyrics displayed in this app, but I believe there should be a way to make it live so it highlights a line as it goes.
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samartinellsamartinell

Tolle App

Läuft flüssig und performant. Hübsche Optik. Stabil. Hat in Summe die meisten Features. Nur ein eichtiges Feature fehlt leider: bei ausgeschaltetem Screen spielt er keine Musik mehr ab.
Troshy2kTroshy2k

Play:Sub and Navidrome together is king

I have tried three different players to work with Navidrome and this one blows them all out of the water. More features I never thought would make this smoother to use. Worth every penny.
punkdbarbiepunkdbarbie

Amazing Functionality!!

Really loving my transition from the native IOS music app to play:sub - so many settings available to tweak to make my listening experience amazing!!
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Great subsonic experience

Not the prettiest UI, but it’s exceptionally functional. Trust further development will happen!
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User experience

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Reported Bugs

4 issues

Songs not playing properly

Bug

Library desyncing issues

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Freezing during database sync

Bug

Inconsistent behavior when switching networks

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Requested Features

5 requests

Repeat single track option

Feature

Automatic theme switching

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Batch download/caching

Feature

Apple Watch support

Feature

Improved CarPlay experience

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FAQ

What is this app?

This app is a client for streaming music hosted on a Subsonic server. It allows you to access and play your personal music library on your iOS device, CarPlay, Chromecast, or other compatible players. You can enjoy your music anywhere, anytime, with customizable audio quality.

What are the key audio features?

The app supports playback of most audio formats, including FLAC and MP3, with lossless and gapless playback. It features a 10-band customizable equalizer with presets, crossfading between tracks, and replay gain for an optimized listening experience. High-resolution audio up to 24bit/192kHz is also supported.

How does offline listening work?

The app automatically caches played songs and allows you to manually cache individual songs, folders, artists, or entire albums. This ensures you can listen to your music even when your internet connectivity is poor or unavailable.

What servers are compatible?

The app is compatible with Subsonic servers version 4.8 and above, as well as other compatible servers like AirSonic, Ampache, Madsonic, Funkwhale, Libresonic, and Navidrome. It supports multiple servers and allows for easy switching between them.

Is this app free?

The app is free to download and use with in-app purchases. While the core streaming functionality is available, certain features or enhancements might require an in-app purchase.