Let your music move: discover Dynamic Lyrics, beat-responsive scenes, custom lyric fonts and shuffle tuned to familiar favorites or new discoveries.
Bring your music, podcasts, audiobooks and internet radio together on iPhone and iPad. Play local files or connect to your own servers, NAS and cloud drives, with synced lyrics, rich audio controls and a player you can make your own.
YOUR FILES, SERVERS AND CLOUD DRIVES
Connect to Navidrome, Subsonic/OpenSubsonic, Airsonic, gonic, Jellyfin, Emby, Plex, Synology Audio Station, Fn Music, Daoliyu Music and Songloft. Browse Synology or QNAP NAS and cloud drives including Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Baidu Netdisk, 123 Cloud Drive, Guangya Cloud Drive and Drime. Supported protocols include WebDAV, SMB/CIFS, FTP/FTPS, SFTP, NFS, S3 and UPnP/DLNA.
AUDIOBOOKS AND PODCASTS
Connect Audiobookshelf or Ting Reader, or add your own M4B and spoken-word files. Keep books on a separate shelf with chapters, saved positions, bookmarks, speed control and a sleep timer. Archive finished books or return for another listen. Discover shows in the podcast directory, organize local episodes by show, sort and filter them, and save favorites. Read available transcripts full screen with search, reading themes and playback highlighting.
A LIBRARY THAT FITS YOU
Browse albums, artists, genres, release dates and folders. Build playlists and smart playlists; use favorites, ratings, comments and listening statistics. Set a song's playback range, or mark it as disliked to skip it in shuffle, automatic continuation and recommendations. Sync favorites with compatible servers and scrobble to Last.fm or ListenBrainz.
Import playlist links from Apple Music, Spotify and other services, or playlist files. Entries are matched to your own library; missing songs remain available for later matching.
RADIO
Search stations, add stream URLs, import or subscribe to station lists, and organize favorites with folders and tags. See live track information when available.
SOUND AND FORMATS
Enjoy offline downloads, gapless playback, crossfade, ReplayGain, EQ, reverb and dynamics. Choose download quality, save EQ presets and link them to output devices. Play formats including FLAC, ALAC, MP3, AAC, M4B, WAV, AIFF, APE, DSD, Ogg, Opus, WavPack and DTS. Browse CUE album images, open STRM links and watch compatible music videos. Some formats require caching or conversion.
LYRICS, VISUALS AND KARAOKE
Follow line- and word-synced lyrics, translations and duet parts. Edit tags, artwork and lyric files, including TTML, and save to supported writable formats and sources. Enjoy cover flow, vinyl, starry skies and music-responsive full-screen effects with selectable frame rates.
Reduce vocals, change key, practice a line, score your singing or record. Medleys let you sample songs in short clips and return to the full track. On-device AI vocal separation requires iOS/iPadOS 26.4 or later and a model download.
SYNC AND DISCOVERY
Sync supported library data, favorites, Home layouts and playback preferences with iCloud. Transfer music, lyrics and artwork over your local network. Discover music through library recommendations or optional AI tools for semantic search, translation and audio-to-lyrics. Built-in AI requires your consent; audio transcription uploads audio only when you agree.
MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD
Customize player buttons, menus and backgrounds. Use CarPlay, Siri, widgets, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island lyrics, AirPlay, and Apple Watch controls, queue and lyrics. Share lyric posters as images, videos or Live Photos.
Apple Music uses the system player with the required account access. Album pages can include catalog tracks not saved in your library, and search playback can continue with similar music.
This may be a bug rather than a feature request. This app is absolutely amazing. It is what I had envisioned a music player would be if I were to make one. The only issue is that whenever I add my Apple Music library (7,300 songs), the app becomes so slow that it is unusable. I want to listen to my Apple Music songs next to the songs I have downloaded locally on my device. Any tips?Could you also add the ability to export the modified music tags back to the file?Thanks
Developer Response
Thanks for the detailed feedback! Both issues will be addressed in version 1.9.2. The update will likely take about a week to become available due to the App Store review process.Please note that tag changes can only be written back to music files you downloaded yourself. For Apple Music tracks, the modified tags will be stored locally as cached metadata on the current device rather than written to the original files.
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Kujo. J
This app has so many features that I’ve been wanting for so long in one single app. Apple Watch integration, multiple source options, and custom full-screen modes. I use Navidrome so this works very well.
Developer Response
Thank you! I’m so glad Primuse brings together the features you’ve been looking for, and it’s great to hear it works well with your Navidrome setup. Enjoy the music, and feel free to share any ideas or feedback!
its so good!!
RomeyooJ
Ive been trying out free and opensourced apps in github, almost every open source apps had problems like crashing, features that are essential for me that are missing, Primeuse literally hits every checkmark i have in mind!- always on top player island- lyrics grabber- nice and modern UI- smooth and doesnt crashCant believe this is free!!
Developer Response
Thank you so much for the kind words! I’m really happy Primuse ticks all the boxes for you. Your support means a lot to me, and I’ll keep working to make it even better! ❤️
Missing ALBUMARTIST Field
Nachtphilia
Great music player on macOS but because it does not handle the ALBUMARTIST field, albums featuring multiple collaborators appear repeatedly under ALBUM.
Developer Response
Thanks for the report. This issue has been fixed in Primuse 1.9.2 and later. Primuse now reads the ALBUMARTIST field, including FLAC/Vorbis ALBUMARTIST and ID3 TPE2, and uses it to group albums. Tracks with different ARTIST values but the same album title and album artist will now appear as a single album. If the album was indexed by an older version, please allow the metadata refresh to finish or run a metadata rescan once.
1.12.1
• Dynamic Lyrics adds song-specific scenes, beat-responsive backgrounds, vertical scrolling and cascading lyric transitions.
• Back up ratings, likes and personal playlists, and recover them after source changes. Search your full library with artwork in Spotlight.
• New simple player preset and larger borderless controls. Choose Previous-button behavior, rename and sort playlists, and translate transcripts manually or by sentence. Improved player reuse, lyric startup and widget artwork.
• Redeem promotional AI credit codes. Prompt-based AI playlists and similar-track discovery are improved. Upload diagnostics directly and receive a report ID.
• Improved cloud/NAS audiobook resume and seeking, Fn Music playlist playback, GBK/Big5 lyrics and album grouping. Fixed chunked HTTP crashes and mixed Apple Music transitions; reduced repeated sync and offline requests.
• Choose new lyric and transcript fonts, or import your own. Lyric fonts carry through Now Playing, full-screen effects and karaoke.
• Move one or several songs to the top of Liked Songs or playlists. Updated app icons keep the classic options available.
• Adjust music pitch from -6 to +6 semitones without changing tempo on supported playback paths.
• Shuffle can favor frequently or rarely played songs or artists while keeping the current track playing.
• Artwork-colored backgrounds now use a mesh effect, with the classic gradient still available. Missing music artwork can use the app icon.
• Improved word-synced lyric wrapping, Japanese recognition and translation fallback. AMLL matching distinguishes live and other versions; manual search includes candidates with source and duration filters.
• Server playlists retain names, artwork, order and tracks not yet imported, resolving them after import with stricter cross-source matching. Reduced repeated library and iCloud data writes.
• Subsonic album grouping keeps compilations together. M4A detection avoids unnecessary background file reads, and Fn Music playlist syncing handles differing track counts.
• Liked local podcasts now appear in Liked Episodes instead of music lists. New installations show Podcasts and Audiobooks by default; existing preferences are kept.
• Play Next avoids duplicates and preserves playback history, progress and shuffled order. Fixed silence when inserting tracks around crossfades, and improved Apple Music queue position and pause handling.
• Stop album and playlist downloads in place or cancel batches in Offline Downloads. Reclassify local podcasts as music or audiobooks without losing progress; fixed truncated speed labels.
• Reduced background import refreshes and CUE track startup delays. Fixed the first clip-export screen, Fn Music favorites and album/duration column alignment.
• Show artwork and lyrics, effects or mirroring on an external display. Customize playback buttons by content type and hide individual controls. Improved iPad mini-player, offline and multi-select toolbars, artwork and audiobook layouts, sleep-timer switching, first ringtone export and saving Apple Music songs from Now Playing.
• Switch the iPhone player between portrait and landscape. Apple Watch brings key controls onto one screen and adjusts iPhone volume with the Digital Crown.
Version 1.12.1
The developer, 玉琴 孙, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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