Delightful Subsonic Client
Stream your Subsonic-server-hosted music to your iOS or CarPlay device, Chromecast device or Subsonic Jukebox.
Enjoy your music everywhere, anytime, in the quality you decide!
play:Sub supports playback of most audio formats like FLAC, MP3, AAC and more.
Lossless and gapless playback is supported, as well as crossfading between tracks.
Use the 10-band fully customizable equalizer to get the right sound.
The equalizer has presets for common genres and scenarios.
Apply crossfade and replay-gain for the perfect listening experience.
Browse your music your way, be it by folder, artist, album, decade.
Control playback using gestures, buttons or remote controlled from you headset.
Play on anything: builtin speaker, headphones, Bluetooth connected headphones/amp/speaker/car-stereo or AirPlay devices.
play:Sub streams your music over any connection, and caches songs for when connectivity is bad.
Played songs are cached automatically, and you can manually cache individual songs or entire folders, artists or albums.
SERVER SUPPORT
• Subsonic, AirSonic, Ampache, Madsonic, Funkwhale, Libresonic, Navidrome
• Supports multiple servers and easy switching between them
• Any Subsonic 4.8+ compatible server should work
• You may need to enable Subsonic API on some server types
USER INTERFACE
• Dark and light UI themes
• All orientations, incl. iPad multitasking support
AUDIO
• FLAC, AAC, ALAC, MP3, MP4, OGG, WAV, AIFF, WEBM and more
• Plays most audio formats without transcoding
• Lossless playback (wo transcoding)
• Gapless playback
• 10-band equalizer
• Crossfade
• Replay Gain
• HI-rez digital up to 24bit/192kHz
• Variable playback speed (0.5-2x)
PLAY ON
• Any iOS device
• CarPlay
• Chromecast
• Jukebox
DISCOVERY
• Artist radio.
• Artist top songs
• Similar artists
• Be inspired by random artist, album or songs
• Play random songs in a genre
BROWSE YOUR MUSIC ANY WAY YOU LIKE IT
• Artists, Albums, Songs
• Folders
• Playlists, Favorites, Genres
• Podcasts, Audiobooks, Bookmarks
• Decades
• Filter by Subsonic mediafolder
INTERNET RADIOSTATIONS
• Server configured / shared internet radiostation.
• 20000+ radiostation directory powered by radiobrowser,info
PLAYLISTS
• Create, update and delete playlists
• Personal and shared playlists
• Cache complete playlists to device
• Full playlist support in both online and offline mode
FAVORITES
• Starring of artists, albums, tracks and folders
• Starring works in both online and offline mode
• Items starred when offline is synced at first chance
• Easily filter lists for starred content
GENRES
• View All, Random or Starred albums from a genre
• View Random or Starred songs from a genre
CONTEXT MENU EVERYWHERE
• Long-press any item to show relevant actions
• Easily navigate between associated artist, album, tracks and folders
• Add tracks, albums, artists or folders to playlists
• Swipe-to-reveal shortcuts
CACHING
• Automatic caching of played tracks, pre-cache upcoming tracks
• Manually cache selected folders, artists, albums or tracks
• Upgrade cached audio to better bitrate when available
SEAMLESS OFFLINE MODE
• Play cached music when connectivity is bad
• Show only cached content
• Same user interface in online and offline mode
INTEGRATION
• AirPlay, Bluetooth, remote control, lock screen & control center integration
• Support iOS’ sleep timer
• Resumes music after being interrupted by phone calls
• Background downloads
CONNECTION
• SSL, self-signed certificates
• Secure authentication for Subsonic 5.3+ servers
• cellular/wifi dependent bitrate; override settings for slow/fast WiFi networks
SCROBBLING
• Scrobbles to last.fm if configured on the server
• Updates Now Playing on the server
• Updates server-playcounts when playing cached content
• Music played while offline is scrobbled when online again
NOTE: a licensed installation of Subsonic 4.8+ is required.
Some features need a higher server version (Top Songs, Artist Radio, Similar Artists, Last.fm Imagery, Album Info)
This is the best client i’ve used for airsonic so far. I’ve been on the market for a client and i’ve tried so many other free alternatives. Nothing beats this. it might look minimal but functionality wise, just nope. this has served me very will! Would love to thank the dev for his/her continuous work towards this project. Will continue supporting 💯
Fanatastic
Phil Hudson
This is by far the best Airsonic client around, thank you for your continuous work.
AUTO DJ, AUDIO VISUALIZER, DOWNLOADS VS CACHE
AUTO DJ
Never let the music stop: when the play queue runs out, play:Sub keeps it going.
Pick a mode - favourite artists, random albums, cached songs, newest additions, artist radio, decade radio and many more - or let Auto DJ draw a fresh strategy for every round.
Choose it in Settings, or straight from the play queue menu. "Up Next" on the player screen tells you what is coming.
AUDIO VISUALIZER
A spectrum analyzer has moved into the player. Swipe past the last player page to find it, with a frequency axis in octaves, peak markers.
Not your thing? Turn it off in Settings > User Interface Tweaks > Audio Visualizer.
DOWNLOADS AND CACHE ARE NOW TWO DIFFERENT THINGS
Downloads are yours to keep: "Keep Offline" downloads stay put until you remove them, and are never removed to make room for something else. The automatic cache still fills and trims itself in the background.
● New: Choose Download or Cache directly from the context menu.
● New: Reorganised "Storage and Caching" settings, with separate Clear Cache, Remove Downloads and Clear All actions.
● New: "Preload Upcoming Tracks" is now configurable, from 1 to 30 tracks.
AND THE REST
● New: play:Sub now requires iOS 16.
● New: Context menu for Decades.
● New: The user interface follows along with the freely resizable windows of the newest iOS, iPadOS and macOS.
● Fixed: Random songs and browse lists now respect the active media filter.
● Fixed: Browse lists could get stuck showing nothing after changing the media filter.
● Fixed: The radio station directory is back, and station metadata is parsed correctly again.
● Various other bugfixes and improvements.
For feature requests or issues:
please use the in-app form (play:Sub | Feedback),
or the contact form on http://michaelsapps.dk
Version 2026.9.22
The developer, Michael Hansen, 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.
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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Information
Provider
Michael Hansen
Size
28.6 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.