Sonora vs Cassette

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.

Cassette plays the music you already own, from the server you already run. It is a client for Subsonic, OpenSubsonic and Navidrome servers. You will need one of those — Cassette does not provide any music of its own, and there is no account to create. No ads. No tracking. No analytics. No subscription and no in-app purchases. Your credentials stay in the Keychain and every request goes straight to your server, with nothing in between. Open source, under MPL-2.0. LISTENING - Background playback with Lock Screen and Control Center controls, and AirPlay - Real offline mode — download albums, playlists or single tracks and play them with no network at all - FLAC, MP3, AAC, WAV and Ogg Vorbis - Lyrics, synced to the track - Crossfade and ReplayGain - Your session is remembered: reopen the app and carry on where you stopped - Shuffle, repeat and full control of the queue YOUR LIBRARY - Browse by playlist, artist, album, downloads and favourites - Pin what you play most to the home screen - Full-text search across the library - Favourites synced back to your server - Cassette Wrapped — a yearly recap of what you actually listened to EXTRAS - ListenBrainz scrobbling, with recommendations and fresh releases - Home Screen widgets - Internet radio stations - Share a track as a public link, on servers that support it BUILT FOR SELF-HOSTING - Custom HTTP headers for servers behind a reverse proxy — Cloudflare Access, Authelia and the rest - Works with any Subsonic or OpenSubsonic compliant server - Available on iPhone, iPad and Mac Cassette is free, and it stays free. There is no paid tier planned, and no part of it is held back.