The music you own,
played properly.
sPlayer is an iPhone music player for your own audio files. Move music across with a web browser, read lyrics in sync on your phone, in the car and on the Lock Screen — with no account, no subscription and nothing sent anywhere.
Built for a library you actually own
Most players assume your music lives in someone else's cloud. sPlayer assumes it lives on your phone — and makes that pleasant.
Plays your files
MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF and more, straight from the app's own folder. Your Apple Music library works too, if you grant access.
Wi-Fi file transfer
Turn on the server and manage your music from any browser on the same network. Drag files in, make folders, rename, delete — no cable, no iTunes.
Lyrics in sync
Drop an .lrc or .vtt next to a song and it scrolls
along as it plays, highlighting the current line.
CarPlay, free
Browse songs, albums and playlists on the dashboard — and read the current lyric line on the Now Playing screen while you drive.
Folders become playlists
Every folder you create turns into a playlist automatically. Hide the ones that aren't music — audiobooks stay out of your song list.
Siri and Shortcuts
Say “continue in sPlayer” with nothing to set up, or build automations from Play Playlist, Continue and Shuffle All — so the right thing starts the moment you get in the car.
A–Z index and search
Jump anywhere in a big library with the alphabet rail — Chinese, Japanese and Korean titles are indexed by their reading, not dumped under “#”.
Sleep timer & queue
Set music to stop after 15–60 minutes, reorder what's up next, and pick up exactly where you left off when you reopen the app.
Listen at your speed
From 0.5× to 3×, pitch corrected, so a voice at double speed is still a voice. Stop at the end of the current track instead of guessing the minutes.
Made for audiobooks
Every playlist remembers exactly where you stopped. Skip the intro and outro of every track in a folder, and keep audiobooks out of your music library entirely.
Widgets & quick actions
Home Screen widgets in three sizes show what's playing. Long-press the icon to pick up where you left off, shuffle, search, or start a transfer.
On the big screen
AirPlay to a TV and sPlayer shows the artwork and the words, sized to be read from the sofa — not a phone screen stretched to fit. There is an AirPlay button in the player too.
Every way in
AirDrop a track straight to sPlayer, open one from the Files app, or drag a folder across over Wi‑Fi. However the music arrives, it lands in the library.
Private by design
No account, no ads, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. Your library never leaves your device.
Your phone, as a folder in your browser
Flip one switch in Settings and sPlayer starts a small web server on your local network. Open the address it shows on any computer and your music library is right there.
- Drag and drop whole folders of music straight in.
- Organise in place — create folders, rename, delete.
- Play before you commit, right in the browser, lyrics and all.
- Stays on your network. Nothing is uploaded to the internet.
http://192.168.1.42:8080 📁 Albums/ 📁 Audiobooks/ hidden from library 📁 Jazz/ ├ Blue Monday.mp3 ├ Blue Monday.lrc ├ Clocks.m4a └ Dreams.flac 📁 Podcasts/ ⇪ Drop files here to upload
Words where you need them
Name a lyrics file after the song and sPlayer finds it. Language tags are
understood too, so song.en-GB.vtt and song.zh-Hans.lrc
both work — sPlayer picks the one closest to your language.
- On the player, scrolling in time with the music.
- On CarPlay and the Lock Screen, written into the Now Playing info so you can read along at a glance.
- Line repeat for drilling a phrase, timed to the frame so it never bleeds into the next line.
- Nudge the timing when a lyrics file runs early or late against your copy of the track, and keep the screen awake while you read.
- Switch languages, or show two at once — the lyric and its translation on the same line, which is the whole point if you are learning the language.
- Extra-large type for reading across a room, with the edges fading so only the lines that matter are on screen.
Speaks your language
Fully translated, and switchable inside the app without touching iOS Settings.
Free where it matters
sPlayer is a complete player before you pay anything. Pro is a one-time purchase that adds depth — never a subscription, because there is no server behind this app to pay for.
Free
- Every audio format, no limits
- Unlimited Wi-Fi transfers
- CarPlay and Siri
- Synced lyrics everywhere — in the app, CarPlay, the Lock Screen
- Multiple lyric languages, side by side, in extra-large type
- Shortcuts, AirPlay and the TV display
- Folder playlists, queue, sleep timer, search
- Three playlists of your own
Pro — one payment
- Playback speed from 0.5× to 3×
- Lyrics tuning — line repeat and timing correction
- Audiobook tools — resume per playlist, intro and outro skip, stop at the end of a track, hide folders from your library
- Home Screen widgets
- Unlimited playlists
The specifics
| Requires | iPhone running iOS 15 or later |
|---|---|
| Audio formats | MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, AIFC, CAF, MP4 |
| Lyrics formats | LRC and WebVTT, including language-tagged files such as
song.ja.lrc. Several languages per song, shown one at a time
or two together. |
| Getting music in | Wi-Fi transfer from a browser, the Files app, or AirDrop straight to sPlayer |
| Integrations | CarPlay, Siri, Shortcuts, AirPlay, Lock Screen, Home Screen widgets and quick actions |
| Account required | None. There is no sign-in and no subscription. |
| Pricing | Free to use. sPlayer Pro is an optional one-time in-app purchase, and supports Family Sharing. |
| Data collected | None — see the privacy policy |
Bring your own music.
sPlayer stays out of the way and just plays it.