Sonora vs NaviBeat

Sonora is a polished Navidrome client for iPhone that brings your self-hosted music library anywhere. Browse artists, albums, songs, and playlists with a fast, clean interface built for everyday listening.  Search your collection in seconds, stream your personal library on the go, and enjoy a music experience designed to feel simple, smooth, and native on iPhone. Sonora is built for self-hosted music lovers who want their own library without giving up a great mobile experience. Your music. Your server. Your way.

NaviBeat brings your own music library to every Apple device you own: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch, plus CarPlay, as a single Universal Purchase. Pay once. 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 client for Navidrome, the free and open-source self-hosted music server. Run Navidrome on a NAS, a Raspberry Pi, a VPS or any machine you control, and NaviBeat streams your collection to every Apple device. Airsonic-Advanced, Gonic and any OpenSubsonic server work too. ON iPHONE & iPAD - Browse artists, albums, playlists and genres - Voice and text search with live results - Now Playing with synced lyrics - Background audio, Control Center, AirPlay, Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets - Offline: keep a song, an album, a playlist or a whole artist on the device - Listening Stats: a 24-hour clock, a weekday heatmap, your top artists and songs - Smart Playlists you write yourself, from rating, genre, year, play count and more, kept current and synced across your devices - Start on one device and carry on with another. The device you left pauses itself IN THE CAR - Full CarPlay support, included in the same purchase - Your library, playlists, downloads and Now Playing on the car screen - Voice search that resolves the play command against your own library, not a streaming catalogue, in all 12 of the app's languages ON MAC - A real Mac app, not a phone app in a window - A Mini Player that pins over any window - Keyboard shortcuts, multi-window and directory browsing, desktop widgets - NaviSyncRock: sync your library to a Rockbox player. Your server does the transcoding, art is re-encoded so it renders, and plays sync back. A separate one-time in-app unlock. ON APPLE TV - Cinema-scale artwork and 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 any watch face - Music stored on the watch and played from it, so you can run without your iPhone - Downloads pulled straight from your server over Wi-Fi AUDIO - Selectable high-fidelity playback engine - 10-band equalizer with presets - ReplayGain volume normalisation, per track or per album - Gapless playback - Streaming quality set separately for Wi-Fi and cellular, in Opus, AAC and MP3 tiers, or send the original file untouched - Internet radio YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY - Multi-library Navidrome support: All Libraries, a single library, or any subset, filtered on the server - Star ratings synced to your server - Classical music: automatic work and movement grouping - Optional Last.fm and ListenBrainz integration. Scrobbles route through your own server, never directly from the app. - Server Health diagnostics: server type, version, OpenSubsonic extensions, scan status REACHING YOUR SERVER Built for a locked-down homelab. Custom HTTP headers for Cloudflare Access and Authelia, mTLS client certificates, and access over Tailscale all work, on every platform, with no third-party relay in between. TWELVE LANGUAGES English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese, with an in-app language picker on every platform. 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. NaviBeat is a third-party client, not affiliated with the Navidrome project. PRIVACY NaviBeat collects zero data. There is no NaviBeat backend, no analytics, no telemetry and no third-party SDKs. Your credentials live in your device's Keychain. Your listening history stays on device. See navibeat.app/privacy.