📱 Best Android Clients for Self-hosted Music
A curated list of Android apps compatible with self-hosted music and other Subsonic-based servers.
⭐ Recommended Apps
🎧 Symfonium
- Support: ✅ Navidrome / ✅ Subsonic / ✅ OpenSubsonic / ✅ Jellyfin / ✅ Plex / ✅ NAS
- License: Proprietary
- Open Source: ❌ No
- Price: 💰 Paid (one-time purchase, trial available)
- Status: 🟢 Actively maintained
- Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🚀 Highlights
- Android Auto
- Android TV
- Wear OS
- Cast to Sonos / Chromecast / DLNA
- Offline caching
- Advanced equalizer
- Highly polished UI
- AutoEQ
📥 Installation (Android)
🎧 Jellify
- Support: ✅ Jellyfin
- License: MIT
- Open Source: ✅ Yes
- Price: 🆓 Free
- Status: 🟢 Actively maintained
- Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
🚀 Highlights
- Full library browsing
- Playlist support (create, update, reorder)
- Offline playback
- Google Cast support
- Storage UI manager
📥 Installation (Android)
- 🌐 GitHub
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📦 Releases (APK / IPA)
🎧 Chora
- Support: ✅ Subsonic / ✅ OpenSubsonic / ✅ Navidrome
- License: Apache-2.0
- Open Source: ✅ Yes
- Price: 🆓 Free
- Status: 🟢 Actively maintained
- Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
🚀 Highlights
- Android Auto
- Material 3 UI
- Android TV
- Download songs and albums from server
- Internet radio (IceCast metadata support)
- Synced and unsynced lyrics (lrclib or self-hosted)
- Navidrome and local playlists
- Multiple Navidrome libraries
- Transcoding
📥 Installation (Android)
🎧 Substreamer
- Support: ✅ Subsonic / ✅ Navidrome
- License: Proprietary
- Open Source: ❌ No
- Price: 🆓 Free
- Status: 🟢 Actively maintained
- Rating: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆
🚀 Highlights
- Simple interface
- Streaming and offline playback
- Lightweight
📥 Installation (Android)
🎧 Firmium
- API Support: ✅ Navidrome / ✅ OpenSubsonic
- License: GPL-3.0 license
- Open Source: ✅ Yes
- Price: 🆓 Free
- Status: 🟢 Actively maintained
- Rating: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆
🚀 Highlights
- Equalizer — 10-band graphic and parametric modes, saveable profiles, per-device assignment
- Gapless & crossfade playback — next track preloads silently; configurable 1–12 s crossfade
- Scrobbling — Last.fm (via server) and ListenBrainz
📥 Installation
⚠️ Notes
- Licensing and pricing information may change over time.
- Please verify the latest information in each project’s repository or Play Store page before using it.