Your media, yours forever
Keep your music and videos on your own device: listen for free, without limits, on the same network at home; subscribe and listen remotely across networks when you're out. No one else's cloud, no platform lock-in.
Why us
Never locked in
Your library lives on your own drive. Platforms may vanish and subscriptions may lapse — your collection stays. Take it all with you anytime; no format traps, no "membership expired".
Play anywhere
On the same network at home it's free and unlimited; when you're out, a subscription gets you an encrypted direct connection, with global relays as a fallback when the network is awkward. Phone or tablet, open it and play — as if your library travelled with you.
No network wrangling
No port forwarding, no public IP, no dynamic DNS. Pair once by scanning a code and it connects itself — switch networks or cities and there's nothing to reconfigure. The step that puts people off self-hosting, handled for you.
Three steps to start
Install a node
Use a computer you already have — a Mac with Apple silicon or a Linux machine — or a small device like a Raspberry Pi, and set up the node in minutes.
Scan to pair
Scan a code with the mobile app and the device is bound to your account.
Play everywhere
At home on the same network your music and videos play for free, anytime; to listen while you're out, subscribe for a direct connection across networks.
Get the apps
iPhone: public beta via TestFlight
Not in the App Store yet. You can join the public beta now:
- On your iPhone, install Apple's TestFlight app from the App Store.
- Open the invitation link on that iPhone: Join the Sontrove beta
- Tap Accept, then Install. New beta builds arrive through TestFlight.
Requires iOS 26 or later.
Android: beta via Google Play
Not publicly listed on Google Play yet. Join the beta with the Google account you use on Google Play:
- Join the testers' Google Group: Sontrove Android Testers
- Open the testing page and tap Become a tester: Sontrove on Google Play testing
- Install Sontrove from Google Play using the link on that page. It can take a few minutes to show up after you join.
Requires Android 8.0 or later.
These are test versions: they may change and may have bugs. The beta isn't available in every country yet.
Source code for the open-source components (LGPL-2.1, such as FFmpeg) in the versions of our apps that include them: browse by platform and version