Tromme vs NaviBeat

Tromme is a beautiful music player for your Plex library on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Point it at your Plex server and start listening in seconds. No Plex Pass required. PLAYBACK THAT SOUNDS RIGHT - Lossless streaming: FLAC files are converted to Apple Lossless (ALAC) for accurate, drift-free playback - Gapless playback, or crossfade with a length you choose - Sound Check keeps volume consistent using track or album gain - Optional cellular transcoding to save mobile data - An optional codec and bitrate badge shows exactly what you are hearing - A full queue with shuffle, repeat and Playing Next controls - Ask Siri to play any artist, album or song in Tromme MUSIC THAT KEEPS GOING - Magic Mix builds an endless playlist from the style and genre of the song you are playing - Infinite Mode automatically extends your queue so the music never stops, blending similar artists with matching styles and moods LYRICS YOU CAN FOLLOW - Lyrics light up word by word in time with the song, with synced line-by-line lyrics as a fallback. Choose left-aligned or centered text. - Lyrics are saved with your downloads, so they work offline too A LIBRARY THAT LOOKS GREAT - Artist, album and playlist pages take their color from the artwork - Album details show format, bit depth and genre - Popular track indicators help you find the hits - A customizable Home screen: choose which Plex hubs appear and reorder them in Settings - Upcoming concerts on artist pages - Fast search across your whole collection TAKE IT OFFLINE - Download songs, albums and playlists in their original quality - Download Library saves everything, including new additions - Music Cache keeps the playing song and the next songs in your queue on your device, so you save space - Offline mode keeps your downloaded Artists, Albums and Songs at your fingertips YOURS TO ORGANIZE - Create, rearrange and edit playlists - Edit song and album metadata, genre, style and mood tags, and change artwork right from the app - Your preferences sync through iCloud, so a new device feels like home CARPLAY AND MAC - Browse Home, Artists, Albums and Playlists in the car, with alphabet jump navigation. Tromme also runs natively on your Mac. TROMME PLUS Tromme is free to use. Tromme Plus is an optional subscription that adds: - AutoMix: smart crossfades timed from the last lyric of one song to the first lyric of the next - Premium app icons - Animated album artwork on album pages, Now Playing and the Lock Screen - Advanced playback options, including track trim to skip intros and outros - Higher bitrate downloads Tromme is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Plex, Inc. Plex is a trademark of Plex, Inc. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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 every language the app ships 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. MULTIPLE LANGUAGES The app comes in multiple languages, 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.