Your music. Your files. One player. Trove plays FLAC, ALAC, APE and DSD from your own library, streams straight from your NAS over WebDAV or SMB, and follows word-by-word synced lyrics — no cloud, no account, no subscription.
Free to use · Pro is a one-time purchase · Never a subscription
15+
Audio formats, from MP3 to DSD
Mac + iPhone
Native SwiftUI on both
$0/month
One-time purchase, no subscription
What Trove does
Built for local libraries, NAS collections and lossless files — the things streaming apps treat as an afterthought.
Trove plays your files as they are — no re-encoding, no uploading, no library lock-in. Lossless and exotic formats included.
Keep music on your NAS, a server or your device — Trove connects to it directly. No cloud middleman, no account required.
One player, built with SwiftUI for both platforms — not an Electron shell, not an iPad app stretched to a desktop window.
How it works
No uploads, no account, no re-encoding. Your files stay yours.
Add a local folder, or connect a WebDAV or SMB share on your NAS or server. Your files stay exactly where they are.
Tags, album art, lyrics and duration are read in the background. Your library appears organized by songs, albums and artists.
Gapless playback, synced lyrics, EQ presets and AirPlay — on your Mac and your iPhone, with no subscription and no account.
FAQ
Quick answers about Trove Player, formats, NAS streaming and pricing.
Trove Player is a native local music player for macOS and iOS. It plays audio files you own — including FLAC, ALAC, APE and DSD — from your device, or streamed from a WebDAV or SMB server such as a NAS, with gapless playback, a 10-band equalizer and word-by-word synced lyrics.
Trove Player is free to use. Advanced features are unlocked with a single one-time Pro purchase — there is no subscription and no recurring fee.
Trove Player runs natively on macOS 14 or later and iOS 17 or later. It is built with SwiftUI for both platforms, so it feels at home on the Mac desktop as well as on iPhone.
Natively: MP3, AAC, ALAC (m4a), WAV, AIFF, CAF and FLAC. Through built-in extended decoding: APE, OGG, OPUS, WMA, DSD (DSF/DFF), WavPack, TTA and Musepack.
Yes. Trove connects directly to WebDAV and SMB shares, so you can browse and play a library stored on a Synology or other NAS, a home server, or any WebDAV-compatible storage — without uploading your collection to a third-party cloud.
Swinsian is macOS-only and has seen few updates in recent years; foobar2000's Mac version lacks the component ecosystem that makes it powerful on Windows. Trove is actively developed, runs natively on both Mac and iPhone, and adds synced lyrics, a 10-band EQ and WebDAV/SMB streaming out of the box.
Yes. Trove is local-first: your files never pass through our servers, there is no account to create, and the app does not track your listening. Your library index stays on your device.
Trove Player is in active development, with macOS and iOS builds already running. Join the waitlist on this page and we will email you when the public release is available.
More questions? Read the full FAQ
Trove Player is in active development for macOS and iOS. Leave your email and we'll let you know the moment the public release is ready.
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