HiFier: Born for Audiophiles, High-Fidelity Music Within Reach!
We are dedicated to restoring the original truth of sound. HiFier is crafted by audiophiles for those who pursue the ultimate listening experience. All features are available to free users, and you can gain unlimited usage time by watching ads.
• A Connection Experience Built for the Internet Era
1. No need to download music files to your phone beforehand—directly connect to your cloud drives, media servers, and NAS for instant online playback. Your content stays synchronized with the cloud at all times, freeing up your valuable storage space. Don't worry about data consumption during online playback: HiFier features a built-in, optimized caching function that ensures no data is used during repeat plays and automatically manages cached data to maximize the efficiency of your storage and network. Of course, we also support batch downloading, allowing you to download files from any connected service for playback in completely offline scenarios.
2. Support for global search across all connected media servers for songs, artists, and albums, as well as searching for files across all cloud drives. Multiple accounts are supported for the same type of cloud drive, making the most of unlimited free space.
3. CarPlay is also supported.
• Two-way DLNA (UPnP) support
1. Support for pushing all connected music in your HiFier to compatible DLNA receiving devices (DMR); supports continuous playback of your playlists, as well as pushing album art, pause, volume control, and progress adjustment operations.
2. Support as a DLNA receiving device (DMR) to receive music pushed from DLNA control devices (DMC) for continuous playback, with playback capabilities completely identical to local playback.
3.HiFier cross-push, supporting iOS and Android platforms; can be used as a fixed digital transport device.
• Full Audio Format Support
1. Stop worrying about tedious audio formats—we support almost all of them, including DSD and SACD ISO. We also support DoP (DSD over PCM) output, allowing DSD audio to be sent directly to your DAC device. Support the audiobook (m4b) format and PDF files.
2. Common video formats are also supported, including HDR and Dolby Vision.
• iCloud Synchronization:
Your app data can be synced to iCloud. We only synchronize essential information, providing an extraordinary experience while occupying minimal iCloud space. This ensures you won't lose your data after reinstalling the app and allows for automatic data synchronization across different devices.
Detailed Features:
1. Supports almost all audio formats, including Hi-Res audio, DSD, FLAC, SACD ISO, audiobooks, PDF formats, and image browsing. Supports DSD (DoP) transmission via DAC. Supports playback of common video formats like MKV, MP4, FLV, TS, etc., with support for HDR and Dolby Vision, video hardware decoding, and a complete video playback interaction system.
2. Intelligent caching during playback to save data for future listening.
3. Batch download files to local phone storage for offline playback.
4. Support for online lyrics and album art.
5. Manage your favorite songs, playlists, and collect your favorite artists.
6. Supports Samba, WebDAV (can mount Alist), Jellyfin, Emby, SubSonic, Navidrome, FnOS Music and Audio Station media servers. Supports access to Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, pCloud, 115 pan, Baidu Netdisk, Alipan and other cloud drives.
7. Support for importing files from PC and Mac for playback. Support for selecting files directly from the "Files" app for playback.
8. Support for CarPlay.
9. Support for Music Recognition.
10. In audiobook mode, it supports playback speed control and resuming from listening history.
11. Universal Global Search.
12. Two-way DLNA (UPnP) support
13. Last.fm scribbling.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
This app offers a great user experience with smooth playback. I love that it allows me to import local music and also supports cloud drives or Jellyfin services. Highly recommend it!
Great potential , but with still limited features
Yanick Paquette
I was looking for a alternative to Flacbox to stream my vast hi resolutions cloud music library and HiFier work so much better. It’s way more reactive and start to play selected music a lot faster. Now, if only it could generate a music library I could browse with album thumbnails( like Flacbox do with metadata ) instead I need to find my specific music trough my cloud tree folders. I’ll keep an eye out for future improvements, keep on the good work 👍
Developer Response
Thank you very much for your feedback and support for HiFier! Regarding the music library scanning feature you mentioned, I’d like to explain why we haven't implemented this approach for the time being:1. Limitations of Metadata Quality and Server Rate Limits:HiFier supports a wide variety of cloud drives, but most of them place strict rate limits on third-party API requests. Once a threshold is crossed, the server will block access. In severe cases, a user’s entire cloud drive account could be temporarily suspended for a day (such as with 115 Drive), which causes massive frustration for both developers and users. High-frequency requests for online album covers would easily trigger these errors. While reading only embedded metadata tags (like Flacbox does) avoids online database calls, this workaround is far from perfect—if the music files lack proper embedded tags, the resulting library quality will be very poor. Yet, high-frequency tree scanning to fix this remains highly risky under cloud drive restrictions.2. Heavy Resource Consumption:We cannot predict the volume of our users' libraries—some users have hundreds of terabytes of data stored in the cloud. Even if the server doesn't throttle the requests, scanning at this scale would consume massive amounts of cellular data, battery, and time, which could lead to a poor user experience. Handling this kind of heavy-lifting work on a portable mobile device might not be the most ideal approach right now.3. Detecting New Files: If new files are added to the cloud, the app has no way of knowing without performing another full directory scan. Consequently, the time required for a re-scan scales up heavily with the total number of files in the cloud. 4. Storage and Local Database Backup: For massive collections, the generated local database itself becomes quite huge, eating up precious phone storage. Furthermore, if the app is ever reinstalled, that entire scanned database would be lost. Based on these current technical and user experience challenges, HiFier temporarily does not include a full file scanning feature. If you prefer to browse your collection as a structured library with thumbnails, we highly recommend using a media server instead. HiFier currently supports the most popular media server protocols (such as Navidrome, Subsonic, Jellyfin, and Emby). Handing the heavy scanning and scraping workload over to a dedicated media server running on a NAS or PC is much more efficient, keeping the mobile app lightweight and responsive. Additionally, unlike Flacbox, HiFier also supports video playback and can even browse PDFs and images. If we focused heavily on music scraping right now, it might overshadow these versatile extra features. In fact, many of our current users choose HiFier precisely because it keeps a clean, folder-based layout without forced scraping.Thank you again for your valuable input! We will keep optimizing the app, and I hope this helps clarify our current design considerations.
New features:
1. Added support for fnOS Music login.
2. Added support for using the currently playing album art as the background in Night Mode.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a potential crash related to lyrics.
Other Improvements:
1. Optimized the online lyrics matching logic to filter out lyrics without timestamps.
2. Updated the downloaded directory view to sort by time in descending order by default.
Version 1.6.8
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Information
Seller
KAI PING
Size
84.2 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 3 more
English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese