Aura app icon: a soft red play triangle on white

The polish of Apple Music. For the library you host.

A native SwiftUI player for Navidrome and Subsonic servers. Lossless, synced lyrics, mixes built from your own listening, fully offline.

Free · iPhone and Apple Watch · iOS 26 or later

Aura’s Home: the library’s counts, a link to Made For You mixes with their covers, favourite artists and songs, and the mini player above the tab bar
Aura’s Now Playing on a background drawn from the cover: the artwork, title and artist, the year and genre, a favourite heart, the scrubber, playback controls, and buttons for lyrics, Instant Mix, the queue, the sleep timer, the output and sharing
A radio in Aura: its cover shows the seed artist in a disc with two similar artists beside it, with Play, Shuffle and Save as Playlist above the radio’s songs

Built like it camewith your iPhone.

LosslessKeep FLAC and ALAC, or stream at 128 to 320 kbps.
Every formatOGG, Opus and WMA play too, converted by your server.
OfflineDownload anything. What you stream caches itself.

Instant Mix

Start a radio from any song or artist. When the queue runs dry, autoplay keeps going. Save it as a playlist on your server, and its cover goes with it.

A radio cover drawn by Aura: The Weeknd in a disc on pink, with Tory Lanez and Izzy Bizu beside him and the name in a black band

A real equalizer.

Five bands, fifteen presets, your own curves, and ReplayGain. Drag a point, or pick a preset.

Radar

This month’s releases from the artists you play most, newest first. What your server has plays whole; the rest plays as thirty-second previews, lyrics and all. Swipe away a release you don’t want, or stop following an artist.

  1. Karaté CœurZaoui · Album · Sept 25
  2. I Wrote You A LetterM83 · Album · Sept 25
  3. LIMINAL SPACESSky McCreery · Single · Sept 25
  4. don’t let go til you hate meZeph · Single · Sept 25

On your serverPlaying a thirty-second preview

Made For You

Mixes by time of day, mood and genre, drawn from your own library, each with its own cover. The Radar leads the row, and a Wrapped for each month and each year looks back on what you really played.

  • A Radar cover drawn by Aura: Zaoui holding roses in his teeth, the name in a band, Zaoui, M83 and Sky McCreery beneath
    RadarNew releases from your artists
  • An Afternoon Mix cover drawn by Aura: a portrait of Avicii, the name in a band, Avicii, Phats & Small and Rules beneath
    Afternoon MixSongs for your afternoon
  • A Focus Mix cover drawn by Aura: Fat Larry’s Band in striped shirts on red, Fat Larry’s Band and Naâman beneath
    Focus MixSteady songs to concentrate
  • A Feel Good Mix cover drawn by Aura: a black and white artwork, Lauv and The Frights beneath
    Feel Good MixUpbeat songs to lift your mood
  • The Wrapped icon
    Your September 2026 WrappedYour top songs, artists & genres

And all the rest.

Every word,as it’s sung.

Word by word when your server has the timing, line by line when it doesn’t, LRCLIB for the rest. For a duet or a remix, Aura checks the words match the version playing, and Radar previews show their lyrics too. If the timing is off, set it yourself: tap as each line starts. Add your own free Gemini key, and a tap puts a translation in your language under each line.

Scroll to sing along, or tap a line to jump to it.

Your music stays yours.

Aura talks to the server you set up. There’s no account to create, and nothing is sent to the developer.

No account. Nothing to sign up for.

Add your server address, a username and a password, and you’re listening.

Keychain. Passwords stay encrypted.

Server passwords live in the iOS Keychain, never in plain text.

No tracking. Nothing comes back to us.

No analytics, no developer server. Lyrics, credits, artist photos, the Radar and share links use public services, each one listed in the privacy policy.

Free. No ads, no subscription.

Nothing to buy inside the app, and nothing to unlock. The code is open, under the GPL 3.0, on GitHub.

Aura is a client, not a server.

It plays the library you host on Navidrome or any Subsonic server. It doesn’t host or provide any music.

Free and open source, on iPhone and Apple Watch.

iOS 26 or later · Navidrome, or any server that speaks Subsonic API 1.16.1

Get Aura on your iPhone

Aura runs on iPhone with iOS 26 or later. Pick the way that suits you.

  1. Sideload the IPA

    Download Aura.ipa from GitHub Releases, then open it in AltStore or SideStore on your iPhone.

  2. App Store

    Aura on the App Store: installed and updated the usual way.