play:Sub Music Streamer App Reviews

Works great. Plays full quality.

This app would be perfect if this issue is resolved with carplay, When selecting a folder then a song you have to choose two songs further down in order to get the one you want to play.

I love the app and having the option to play my own music off my own server. I love the features. One problem I noticed: the app crashes every time i try to make a new playlist / add a song from the song menu. Great otherwise so far. One wish— writing idv3 tags to my files (if that’s even possible)!

Lacks an essential feature for all apps in 2025: automatic switching between light and dark based on system theme. Instead, the theme is bizarrely coupled to screen brightness.

Has all my music organized!

Night and day over the two other apps I had been using to stream music from my Airsonic server. Would be nice if the equalizer could be adjusted from the “now playing” screen as opposed to having to back out to the Equalizer Presets in the Settings menu.

Only client I can find that has CarPlay support. Artists and albums are not loading in but honestly it’s still huge steps ahead of other apps

While the iOS app is great, the experience while driving via the CarPlay interface STINKS! It is lacking the most basic of functionality such as being able to browse by genre (which the iOS app has). So, while driving, I’m stuck listening to a handful of random songs that play:Sub chooses, or having to pull over and browse by folder. Guess I’ll have to hope the devs improve the CarPlay interface or I’ll have to find an alternative

One complaint though. When I select all artists, it shows a lot of artists with 0 albums. Then if I click on those artists I can really do anything with them. I would prefer only showing the Album artists in this lists. Or at least having the ability to do that via a setting.

It does have some bugs, crashes and imperfections. But I am more than satisfied with this app, it offers most of the functionality of modern music apps. I am missing only a few things: 1. Live lyrics - where you see timed lyrics from .lrc files 2. Music suggestions. (not just random music) When you have a big library and you want to have 1 click option to just turn on music that will be perfectly shuffled. But I see limitations here since most of the time, needed metadata doesn’t exist. 3. Mayb

Playback is still more stable than modern apps such as Arpeggi or Narjo, but it’s quite buggy in iOS 26: - UI becoming unresponsive sometimes - random playing an album or a list would always skip first track - etc.

Unless Im missing something would be nice to download all the songs and not have to individually click….

The app is the best for navidrome/subsonic out there.. but it doesn’t have a show all songs options, just random/favorites/recent Would be good to have an option to just show everything I have Edit: can you add support for non western alphabets? Like on the right side, songs in any other alphabet other than Latin appears as 2 Ä ó or whatever, instead of the right letter Just so it recognises the first letter of the song and put them on the list, so that way it shows regardless of the alphabet a

Love the app it’s better than all the other iOS clients out there. Worth the money. But I want to make a feature request can you please allow us to cache all songs on the server with a single click of a button? Makes it easier to download all the songs for offline listening if your going on a flight etc thanks

I’ve tried the other players and this one is definitely the best. I’m knocking a star because it does not work with CarPlay. It will not sure my albums or songs, which means I have to use my phone while I’m driving, which entirely defeats the purpose

I’ve used play:sub for several years as stand alone and for its CarPlay abilities and it has proven awesome and reliable. Since recent app/iOS updates CarPlay seems to be broken. I can see artist lists but no files to play. Very frustrating. The app is useless for my needs without full CarPlay support. I’m running ios17 and the latest play:sub version with Navadrome server.

This app is so well thought out and customizable exactly to my liking… except when I get out of a CarPlay vehicle, it stops and then resumes on my phone on speakerphone… I never ever want to hear music in this way. AppleTV support would be awesome too

Using it on my iPhone 14 Pro and iPad m1 11”. I still can’t choose an icon on my iPad (works on the iPhone). Taping any other icon does not select it. Some song titles are truncated. It’s been like that since I purchased the app years ago. Contacted the developer a long time ago and he said that I’ve hit a very old bug. Well, how about fixing it. It’s been years. I’m using it with Navidrome running in a Docker container.

iPhone 12promax发热严重

Great app that does almost everything I’m looking for in a streaming phone app. The only thing I wish it had is better sorting for non English characters. Instead it will sort it as it’s own unique character instead of conveying to Pinyin for alphanumeric sort. That’s nitpicking cause most apps besides a few do that. Definitely if that could be added this would be the perfect music player for my use case.

The software is great, but it quit unexpectedly on iOS 16.4

I figured out the issue with ampache not working, and now that it is this app is great. I tried the other free ones, but they all had some problems that I didn’t want to deal with.

The UI is beautiful, and I love how customizable it is. My one suggestion that is really me being picky is the repeat function. Usually there's 2 types of repeat, repeat all songs and repeat one. So far, it doesn't repeat one song and I poked around the settings and I found nothing for it. I'd really love that function.

Car play is very buggy. Loading list of artists or albums only partially loads and will stop at the letter L. If I exit and reopen sometimes the full list will load, other times not. Playing from a playlist or album will frequently pause between songs forcing me to press play multiple times to get the next song to play. I really want to like this app but it’s frustrating have to constantly mess with it to get it to function properly, very distracting while driving.

More features, and decent interface. I wouldn’t call it the most polished, but at that point I’m being really nit picky. Stable so far, and I do love all the controls it provides. So far for me worth the purchase. Thanks!

This player + Navidrome is best combo ever. It is amazingly stable and polished. Comes with car play support. Does offline playback. Everything about this app is amazing.

The app is the best of the subsonic players out there. My major complaint is the lack of a sleep timer. I often fall asleep to long tracks or audio books and find that I need to use another app if I want to have a sleep timer.

i've been mostly pleased with this app, but I have one frustration. when i delete albums from my server they still show up in the album view in the app. of course, im unable to play them, so this is just clutter.

I love this app! Has more features than I will probably ever need, except one. Repeat track. I cannot find a way to repeat one track, in particular, the current track. Please let me know what I am missing.

I’d love to see a “sleep” feature added so you can listen to audiobooks as you fall asleep without having to worry about it playing all night.

There are a handful of Subsonic clients for iOS. This one is my daily driver. It has a clean interface, is stable, and continues to receive support from the developer. Long term support for niche apps like this is very much appreciated.

I absolutely LOVE this app. Having such a nice interface is great. Definitely worth the purchase! Gets better with every update!

Nice UI. Has been stable. Developer is engaged and active. What more can you want?

using it with libresonic and it works amazingly well.

I use play:sub all day every day while working. I have zero complaints. It’s a beautiful app, feature rich, maintained by a responsive dev, and it works like a charm!

this app cant searching when i type on CAP, or spacing that defer with file name.

Great app but really needs CarPlay support. Would make it the go to choice for everyone. Please add this. Would be amazing for commutes and drives then.

Such a great app. I use it all the time without the slightest issue. The developer is responsive and helpful.

Thanks for letting me beta test. The new multiple server option and ability to do audiobooks and music is perfect for my needs.

When it works it works fine however there is an issue with SSL enabled sites. It identifies Let’s Encrypt issued certificates as “self signed” and won’t connect unless I enable to connect to sites using self signed certs.

The only usable subsonic client on iOS in my opinion.

Supports a ridiculous amount of customizations for all you fickle people.

app is nice, good navidrome frontend. main issue is id like it to stream to my watch app over cell network, untethered to my phone. so i can workout without carrying my phone with me. also think it needs some work with downloads / caching. sometimes my albums disappear? or get evicted from the cache?

Often loses its mind when you try to skip a song while shuffling. Also has trouble with playing songs that haven’t downloaded yet.

Play:sub has been my go to app for a few months now. But I recently noticed that playlists weren’t always adding all entries. I’m reverting back to iSub until this gets figured out. If it doesn’t then I’m ditching this app.