PMDA
Your music, your server
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
PMDA (pronounced "pimda") is one music lover's take on building the music library of his dreams — and now yours. Point the app at your own self-hosted PMDA server and enjoy your entire collection, beautifully organized, anywhere you go.
WHY PMDA
Most music apps lock you into a subscription and their catalog, or leave your carefully-built library a mess of mismatched tags and missing covers. PMDA is different: 100% self-hosted, private, and it actually understands your music.
WHAT YOU GET
• Your whole library, everywhere — browse artists, albums, genres and labels, with rich, clickable artist pages.
• Real listening — gapless playback, history, cross-user recommendations, synced lyrics and waveforms.
• Lossless, your way — stream bit-perfect FLAC or save data with smart transcoding; download albums for offline, even on a plane.
• Clean and yours — your files, your server, your rules. No cloud lock-in, no ads, no tracking, no AI.
HOW IT WORKS
PMDA mobile is a companion to the PMDA server (a free, self-hosted music library app you run on your own machine or NAS). Enter your server's address, sign in, and your library is in your pocket. Nothing is stored on our servers — the app talks only to the server you point it at.
Built for people who are in love with music. Welcome.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app has not received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
PMDA 2.0 is a new app, rebuilt natively for iPhone and iPad.
- A magazine-style home, album, artist, label and genre pages, with reviews, biographies, credits and editions up front.
- iPad gets its own layouts: a two-column home, album and artist pages side by side, a wider player; it turns with you.
- A player in the album page's style. On iPhone, Queue, Lyrics, Explore and Output open full screen from the bottom; on iPad they take over the right-hand pane while the cover stays put.
- CarPlay: browse and play your library from the car, with thumbs-up, shuffle and repeat.
- Thumbs-up likes everywhere, and sharing with the other listeners on your server.
- Faster, steadier, and it follows your phone's light or dark setting.
The developer, Raphael Vael, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Provider
- Raphael Vael
- Size
- 86.4 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.4 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.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Raphael Vael
