Narjo vs Tromme
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Narjo
Stream your personal music library from various servers or local storage. Enjoy lossless playback, synced lyrics, and extensive library exploration. Cast to multiple devices and customize your listening experience with a powerful equalizer and offline downloads.
- Connect to Navidrome, Subsonic, Jellyfin, Emby, Plex
- Lossless playback and gapless support
- Real-time synced lyrics with translation
- Browse by artist, album, genre, decade, folder
- UPnP/DLNA casting and Sonos support
- 10-band graphic equalizer
- Offline downloads and full offline mode
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Your music. Your server. Brought to life. Narjo is a beautiful, powerful player for the music you already own. Connect directly to Navidrome, Subsonic, Jellyfin, Emby, or Plex and enjoy lossless playback, synced lyrics, deep customization, and immersive animated artwork wherever you listen. No Narjo account. No ads. No behavioral tracking. Just your collection, your way. CONNECT YOUR LIBRARY • Navidrome, Subsonic, Jellyfin, Emby, and Plex • Add multiple servers and switch between them instantly • Automatically switch between home and remote addresses as your network changes • Client certificates (mTLS), custom headers, reverse proxies, Cloudflare Tunnels, and self-signed certificates • No server? Local Library mode plays music stored directly on your device ARTWORK THAT MOVES • Bring covers to life with animated artwork in Now Playing and album views • Display animated artwork on the Lock Screen on supported devices and system versions • Play animated WebP covers from your library • Add custom video artwork to individual songs or complete albums • Dynamic interface colors inspired by the current artwork PLAYBACK, DONE RIGHT • Lossless FLAC and ALAC, plus MP3, AAC, WAV, and AIFF • Gapless playback and customizable crossfade • BPM-aware AutoMix transitions with a smooth adaptive fallback • ReplayGain normalization with clipping protection • Separate streaming and download quality for Wi-Fi and cellular • Smart pre-caching for smooth, responsive playback • 10-band equalizer with 18 presets, custom presets, Simple and Advanced modes, and Equalizer APO import LYRICS THAT KEEP UP • Synced lyrics with real-time, line-by-line highlighting • Lyrics from your server, embedded tags, LRC files, and LRCLIB • On-device translation into your preferred language • Adjustable timing, text size, and alignment REDISCOVER YOUR COLLECTION • Browse artists, albums, songs, genres, decades, and folders • Recently Played, Recently Added, Most Played, and Time Capsule • Song, Artist, and Album Radio • Smart playlists, favorites, hearts, and 5-star ratings • Fast library-wide search • Optional AudioMuse-AI for similar songs and Song Path • Optional Lidarr integration for discovering and adding music OFFLINE AND AROUND THE HOME • Download songs, albums, and playlists • Auto-download and smart playlist downloads • Full Offline Mode when no connection is available • Favorites, ratings, play counts, and scrobbles sync when you reconnect • AirPlay, Sonos, and speaker groups • Bit-perfect UPnP/DLNA casting with native DSD passthrough on compatible renderers • Navidrome Jukebox mode MAKE NARJO YOURS • Dark, Light, and System themes with customizable accent colors • Personalize the player, Home screen, tab bar, and artwork presentation • Sleep timer and configurable swipe gestures • Sport Mode can match playback to your target running BPM EVERYWHERE YOU LISTEN • iPhone and iPad • Apple TV for big-screen listening • Apple Watch with volume and playback controls, library browsing, Up Next, and offline playback • CarPlay • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Siri and Shortcuts • Available in 11 languages PRIVATE BY DESIGN Narjo connects directly to your server. Your credentials stay securely stored in the Keychain. Narjo contains no advertising and does not use your activity for cross-app behavioral tracking. A compatible server account is required for server features. Availability may vary by server, configuration, device, operating system, and audio renderer. Your collection deserves a player as expressive as the music itself. Download Narjo and hear—and see—your music in a new way. TERMS & PRIVACY Terms of Use: https://narjomusic.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://narjomusic.com/privacy
Tromme
Stream your music library from Plex without needing a Plex Pass. Enjoy features like CarPlay support, infinite playlists, and synced lyrics. It offers lossless transcoding and cellular streaming options.
- Plex music streaming
- CarPlay support
- Magic Mix infinite playlists
- Lossless ALAC transcoding
- Synced lyrics
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Stream your music library from Plex, no Plex Pass required. - Full CarPlay support - Magic Mix - generates an playlist based on the style and genre of what you're listening to - Infinite Mode - keeps the music going by automatically adding tracks to your queue - Lossless ALAC transcoding for FLAC files - Cellular transcoding - Sound Check (like ReplayGain) - Synced lyrics from LRCLIB.net - Offline Downloads and Playback - Changeable app icon and app theme
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Narjo at Free against Tromme's $0.99. Narjo also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 50%) and ratings volume (31 vs 6). Tromme's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Narjo is free to download; Tromme costs $0.99 up front. Narjo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Tromme asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tromme holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Narjo has 31 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of Narjo's written reviews are positive against 50% of Tromme's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Narjo ships an update every 11 days, Tromme every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Narjo | Tromme |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (31 ratings) | 4.7 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.4% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arturo Yumpo | Kyle McClain |
Customer experience
Narjo
Tromme
In-app purchases
Narjo
- Narjo Pro Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Narjo Lifetime$29.99
Tromme
No in-app purchases





