Familiar Player
Self-hosted music player
Free
Familiar is a self-hosted music player that understands the sound of your music, not just its metadata. Ask for "something that sounds like rain on a window" and it actually works.
Point Familiar at your own home server (macOS Docker, Linux, Synology, OpenMediaVault — whatever you run). Nothing leaves your network. No cloud accounts, no subscriptions, no tracking.
• AI chat and playlist creation — Powered by the Claude API using your own key. Describe a mood, a setting, a vibe; Familiar pulls from your library.
• Semantic audio search — CLAP embeddings let you match by how music sounds, not just artist or genre.
• Deep feature analysis — BPM, key, energy, brightness, danceability, valence, instrumentalness, and more, extracted on your server.
• Ambient mode — continuous drone plus ghostly snippets from your library, tuned to the current key.
• Community analysis cache — opt in to share anonymized audio fingerprints so others skip hours of analysis, and benefit from theirs.
• Smart playlists — rules-based playlists that update automatically as your library changes.
• Offline playback, lock-screen controls, synced lyrics (LRCLIB), Last.fm scrobbling.
• Works with FLAC, ALAC, MP3, AAC, Ogg, Opus.
Familiar is open-source (MIT) and requires you to run your own backend. Setup guides for Docker, macOS, and common NAS platforms are on GitHub.
Ratings & Reviews
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A compact transport on iOS 26, so playback controls stay reachable from anywhere in the app.
Faster library browsing, with artists grouped by album.
Offline downloads and playback reliability improvements throughout.
The developer, See-through Lab LLC, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- See-through Lab LLC
- Size
- 17.2 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.4 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 See-through Lab LLC