Your music server, natively.

Reef is a music player for people who keep their own library. Point it at your Jellyfin server and your albums, artists, playlists and favourites appear in a fast, native app built for iOS 26.

Coming soon to the App Store See what it does

Free of accounts, subscriptions, analytics and advertising. Requires a Jellyfin server you run or have an account on.

Reef's Now Playing screen: album artwork over a soft glass card with playback controls

Built around the way music should sound.

Every part of Reef plays from complete local files, talks only to your own server, and looks at home on an iPhone.

Sounds right

Gapless playback, never a mid-track buffer
Lossless and original quality, or transcoding at the bitrate you choose for Wi-Fi, cellular and downloads
Ten-band equaliser with presets, volume normalisation from your server's ReplayGain data
Lyrics, instant mixes and endless artist stations

Take it with you

Download albums and playlists for offline listening; downloads are never removed for you
A smart cache keeps your most-played music on device and tidies itself under storage pressure
Background audio, lock screen and Control Center controls
Siri and Shortcuts: "Play my favourites", "Shuffle my library", skip, pause

Play on your speakers

AirPlay and Bluetooth, always
WiiM and other Linkplay speakers, with a queue that lives on the speaker and keeps playing while your phone sleeps
Sonos and other DLNA/UPnP renderers
A Dynamic Island card while you play to a speaker

Discover, without leaving your library

Rediscover shelves built from what you already own: decades, genres, forgotten favourites
Sound search and song-to-song journeys with the optional AudioMuse analyser on your server
New releases from your artists, previews, a wishlist, and a link to buy. Reef sells nothing.
Internet radio: tens of thousands of stations by name, genre or country

At home on every Apple device

iPhone and iPad, with a sidebar layout on larger screens
Full Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency support
A living reef behind your library, sunlit by day and moonlit at night
A pet jellyfish that grows with your listening, on the Home Screen as a widget

Private by design

No Reef account, no Reef cloud, nothing to subscribe to
No analytics, no advertising identifiers, no third-party SDKs that phone home
Your server address and sign-in live in the iOS Keychain and go only to your own server
Read the whole policy. It is short.

A quick look.

Home shelves, the library, and Now Playing on an iPhone.

Reef Home tab with Ride the Current, Recently Added and On Heavy Rotation shelves — Home

Reef Library tab listing albums with artwork — Library

Reef Now Playing with artwork, scrubber and transport controls — Now Playing

What you need

A Jellyfin server (10.9 or later recommended) that you run or have an account on, reachable from your phone over Wi-Fi, the internet or a VPN such as Tailscale. Reef does not include any music.

Need a hand?

The support page covers connecting to your server, finding speakers, downloads and offline use, and how to reach us.