SHORT SUMMARY:Musiver is hands-down the best iOS app I’ve found for streaming my self-hosted Navidrome library. It connects fast, handles large collections with grace, and has a clean, intuitive interface that feels like Spotify — but with the joy of knowing every track is actually yours. Once you pay a few quid to unlock the premium version, the app transforms from slightly drab to downright swanky, offering smooth navigation, proper metadata support, and a genuinely pleasant listening experience. It just works — reliably and beautifully. My one major gripe? There’s still no “Download Entire Library” button. For those of us who treat our iPhones like portable record stores, that feature is a must. Other apps like Amperfy do it with ease, so there’s no technical reason Musiver couldn’t as well. Still, even with that one flaw, it’s an excellent app — and one I wholeheartedly recommend.FULL REVIEW:I still pay for Spotify. Yes, yes, I know. But before you throw your phonograph at me in disgust, allow me to explain: it’s purely for music discovery. Like a truffle pig snuffling through algorithmic playlists in search of sonic gems. But when it comes to actually owning my music? I don’t trust the cloud. I’m old-school. I want to keep every file, every folder, tagged and sorted more precisely than a Swiss watchmaker's sock drawer.Over the years, I’ve built a glorious collection of FLACs, WAVs, and the odd MP3 skulking in shame. It was organised — but barely tagged. Then along came Navidrome, the open-source server that changed everything. It was so elegant, I’d have proposed on the spot — but I’m already emotionally entangled with chocolate cake. With Navidrome running, I finally tidied it all: metadata, cover art, the lot. Suddenly, it felt like Spotify, but with the satisfying smugness of knowing every track is mine, mine, mine!One problem remained: how to play it all on my iPhone? Enter Musiver. And here’s where things get exciting.It connects to Navidrome like a golden retriever to a tennis ball: fast, eager, and relentlessly loyal. Multiple libraries? Easy. Clean navigation? Absolutely. Unlike other apps that get confused by their own reflection, Musiver just works — and works well.Visually, the free version is… let’s say practical. But if you open your wallet, release the moths, and shell out a few quid, it transforms into something positively swan-like — like polishing a rusty Morris Marina and revealing a vintage Aston Martin underneath. Sleek, stylish, and with a few extra perks thrown in (though I honestly forgot what they were — they were probably lovely).Best of all, it’s solid. Reliable. Everything — from artist thumbnails to album art — is displayed beautifully. Once your tags are sorted, it’s laid out with the grace and taste of a Michelin-starred menu. Delightful!But of course… I have a gripe: I want to download everything. Yes, all of it. In one tap. Why? Because I remember a time when you could listen to your music without needing an internet connection. I had an iPod once. It was white. It had a wheel. It didn't need Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 5G, or a blood pact with a Silicon Valley server farm. Please give me a button — shaped like a smiley face, ideally — to just download my whole library onto my iPhone in one glorious binge.Now, I read the developer’s thoughtful explanation about why it hasn’t been implemented — and with the greatest respect… I disagree.Amperfy does it. Free. Open-source. Rock solid. Sure, the UI is more Thermos flask than champagne flute — but it works. Tap, download, done. That one feature alone keeps dragging me back to it like a moth to a pile of obscure B-sides.I want Musiver to be my daily driver. It’s gorgeous. But when I’m off-grid and desperate for rare '90s remixes no one else remembers, function wins over form every time.As for the developers argument that “some users might not have enough storage”? Well, sure. If you’re still rocking a 32GB iPhone, maybe it’s not your day. But mine has half a terabyte, and my (portable) library is in AAC — not exactly a storage hog. Some iPhones go up to a full terabyte! That’s enough for a full FLAC collection, every “Now That’s What I Call Music” compilation ever made, and a Dolby Atmos audiobook of War and Peace narrated by Patrick Stewart… in Klingon. There are nerds like me out here who want to carry it all. Who will pay for the storage. Who see a full offline library not as a luxury, but as a basic human right — one that ranks just below antibiotics, but well above the right not to suffer through another U2 album drop via iTunes.So please, dear developer — you’ve built something genuinely excellent. Now give us the button. The glorious, mythical, one-button-to-download-them-all. You’re nearly there!
Thank you so much for your thoughtful review. Your kind words have been incredibly encouraging.Objectively speaking, there are still many issues in the software that need to be addressed, such as the iPad adaptation problems you mentioned.Regarding the software's name – as a non-native English speaker, I recognize the current name might seem awkward. If we gain more English-speaking users in the future, perhaps holding a community vote for a new name would be a better approach?However, I regret to inform you that the one-tap full library download feature won't be implemented. The primary reason is mobile devices' limited storage capacity – our Navidrome server primarily stores lossless audio files in substantial quantities, making full-device storage impractical. Streaming music remains the core philosophy of this software, with offline downloads serving only as a supplementary option for specific scenarios. If you have alternative implementation ideas or use cases requiring this feature, please feel free to discuss them with us at https://github.com/gitbobobo/StreamMusic.
