play User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience72.3% of reviews
Neutral12.9% of reviews
Negative experience14.8% of reviews

~ Based on 271 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is play Safe?

play:Sub Music Streamer appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for play is 89/100.

This assessment is based on 421 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

86.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 421 App Store ratings for play.

Is play Legit?

play:Sub Music Streamer appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for play is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

The BEST Subsonic Client

So far, this is the only client I have found (and I have tried MANY) that consistently works exactly how I expect it to. No gaps between tracks, no issues when scrolling around intra-track, and no extra fluff functionality. Everything just works. Do yourself a favor and skip the other apps and just get this one if you’re looking for a Subsonic/Navidrome compatible app!
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Great app that has replaced spotify

This app has been great to stream my audio collection from a NextCloud instance in my home, completely replacing spotify.

Background playing issues? Really?

Ok, I have tried substreamer, Amperfy, they are free and have their own pros and cons. I think of trying paid one maybe have better optimization although the UI is not that good. But it turns out I am facing the biggest issue even when I try these players. It will always stopped playing after go to background in about 1-2 minutes. And I’ve tried to reach out it’s 5 stars service also no response😂so anyone can help me?
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I just love this app

Thank you so much for the years of consistent dedication on this app. I find it impossible to replace with anything else 7 years later!

This app helped me leave Spotify

Great streaming app for Subsonic which I host on my Nextcloud instance. Full featured, user friendly, and smooth!

Optimal mit Navidrome

Nutze die App um meine Musik von meinem Navidrome Server zu streamen. Funktioniert überraschend gut. Auch mit Car Play.
Vielen Dank an die Entwickler.

Au top!

Cette app à petit prix est pour mon usage la meilleur!
Super ergonomie, facile d’utilisation, pas de bug
Bref foncez !!

Terrible UX and UI

As the title says. For this reason it’s clunky. But this app was one that worked compared to many. Too bad i couldn’t try it first.

Maravilhoso

Totalmente integrado com o ios, boa interface e ótimas opções para configurar uso de dados

Très bonne appli

Très bonne application, facilement paramètrable et personnalisable. Fonctionne bien avec CarPlay. Elle vaut son prix.

Best $5 I have spent in ages

This app is amazing. It integrated easily with my home Navidrome server and it just works. It even outputs to my Sonos speakers - it just finds them. (Unlike the Sonos app which regularly loses connection to its own hardware). Highly recommended.

Bad UX

Honestly, you can tell that UX is not the strong point with this application. For example, if you want to change your queue “play next” does what you expect, but “add to queue” doesn’t add the song right after that, instead it goes to the very bottom of the long randomly generated queue of shuffle. And if you want to remove a song from the queue then you have to open the queue, click the pencil to edit, click the minus next to the song, then confirm delete.
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“Silence!!”

Although at first I could not remember exactly it was not exactly what I had suspected, thank the Big Man up stairs!! I had needed the username to restart the app, I in desperation communicated with my brother in law and retrieved itself. Restarting the app was then simple, and once again I had had my own personal music!! play:Sub Music Streamer has improved my Individual personal ability to enjoy my personal music with my cellular phone…although I have been through five pairs of Apple AirPods.(generation1, generation 2, generation 3).!! You’re the best man, I swear!
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Only fully functional navidrome client for iOS

I have tried every available navidrome client for iOS and this is the only one that could reliably download my 50k song library transcoded using server-defined codecs.

Won’t Stay Up to Date

I love the app. Love the options and customization. Can’t recommend it though bc it won’t remove albums that have been removed from the underlying database.

Lots of niche issues.

Playback is still more stable than modern apps such as Arpeggi or Narjo, but it’s quite buggy in iOS 26:
- UI becoming unresponsive sometimes
- random playing an album or a list would always skip first track
- etc.

Great subsonic client

This was worth every penny. The only client to allow you to download your whole collection, efficient transcoding, automatic radio of songs, playlist management and you can even adjust the server from the app. However a gesture I struggled often with is proper handling of multi genres. Even with subsonic managing it. For example a song that is „Pop“ „Rock“ would normally show up in „Pop“ and „Rock“ but here the separator „;“ is taken literally and thus creates the genre „Pop; Rock“.

Other than that I am throughly satisfied.
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App crash

The app will crash when playing songs. The CPU usage is too high and the system terminate it. It should be a memory leak. It cannot be used normally. I have sent three emails and have not received a reply.

Possibly the best music streamer on IOS

It does have some bugs, crashes and imperfections. But I am more than satisfied with this app, it offers most of the functionality of modern music apps.
I am missing only a few things:
1. Live lyrics - where you see timed lyrics from .lrc files
2. Music suggestions. (not just random music)
When you have a big library and you want to have 1 click option to just turn on music that will be perfectly shuffled. But I see limitations here since most of the time, needed metadata doesn’t exist.
3. Maybe a little simpler interface or some option to simplify it, I want to see a few clean big buttons and nothing else.
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New interface is great

The new interface is great, it feels like a much better user experience now. Thank you for your work on this app. It’s changed the way I listen to music