Lossless & hi-res
Direct-play FLAC, with codec, bit depth, and sample rate named right on Now Playing.
Features
Everything Lagu does,
screen by screen.
Lagu plays lossless, gapless audio from your Plex library, with color drawn from whatever album is on. Around the player: discovery from your own collection, downloads for the road, and a remote for the room.
01 · Sound
Hear every detail
you ripped it for.
Direct-play from your server, gapless between tracks, and a readout of exactly what is playing. On desktop and Android phone, the output can be a DLNA speaker on your network, even when the Plex server is somewhere else.
Gapless playback
Live albums, classical works, and DJ mixes flow exactly as sequenced, with no hiccup between tracks.
Crossfade & Smart Fades
Equal-power fades from 1 to 12 seconds. Smart Fades starts the fade where the song fades and gives an abrupt ending a short fade instead of a hard cut, reading the track’s loudness from your server or from Lagu’s own measurement. Songs from the same album still run gaplessly.
Loudness leveling
Quiet tracks come up, loud tracks come down, using your server’s loudness analysis. Tracks it hasn’t analyzed are measured on the device on desktop, iPhone, iPad, and Android, and their first play starts at a safe level. Your files are never touched.
10-band EQ
Preamp, twelve presets, presets of your own, and AutoEq profiles for about 2,900 headphones, running in the local audio engine on iPhone, iPad, Android, and desktop.
Streaming quality
The original file, or a server transcode from 320 down to 128 kbps, with separate Wi-Fi and mobile settings on phones. A change lands on the next track.
Waveform seek
See quiet passages and peaks before you jump. Drawn from your server’s analysis or Lagu’s own measurement, with the rainbow seek for a track that has neither yet.
02 · Discovery
Rediscover what
you already own.
Stations and mixes, all from your own library. Guest DJ and Sonic Adventure lean on Plex’s sonic analysis, a Plex Pass feature on the server; Deep Cuts and genre, decade, or library radio run on any server. What needs Plex Pass, and what doesn’t.
Radio for everything
Start a station from a track, artist, album, genre, mood, decade — or the whole library at once.
Deep Cuts
Your favorite artists’ least-played tracks, blended and cached locally. The songs you forgot you owned.
Artist Mix Builder
Pick two to eight artists and Lagu interleaves a balanced station from their top tracks. Recent mixes stick around.
Guest DJ
Five personas that top up the queue as it runs low. DJ Gemini walks a sonic path on your server — it is not a cloud AI.
Sonic Adventure
Pick a starting track and a destination; Lagu orders the sonic path between them, on iPhone, iPad, Android, desktop, and Apple TV. Arrive, or drift onward.
Smart playlists
Build Plex smart playlists with live match counts. If Lagu can’t read a rule, it leaves the playlist alone.
Autoplay
When a finite queue ends, Lagu keeps playing music that sounds like the last few tracks you queued, and Up Next marks where your queue ended. Off by default, on every platform, and anything you queue yourself outranks it.
03 · The player
Built around
your queue.
On iPhone and Android the queue survives a restart: it comes back paused where you left it, and nothing streams until you press Play, in the app or on your headphones, the car, or the lock screen.
Queue guard
Built a queue by hand? A stray tap asks before it throws your work away, so an hour of queueing survives a misclick.
Played history
Only tracks that played, remembered across relaunches and queue changes, right inside Up Next. Any of them can be queued again with Play Next or Add to Queue.
Synced lyrics
Center-locked lines you can tap to seek, full-screen, beside the artwork, or beside a visualizer. Lyrics come from your server — Plex fetches them with Plex Pass, and sideloaded .lrc files work too. Downloads keep their lyrics for offline, and a few lines can be shared as a card.
Half-star ratings
Drag across the stars, watch the preview, feel the haptic. Writes straight to your Plex library.
Listening stats
Top artists, albums, and tracks over 4 weeks, 6 months, or all time, counted across every device you use.
Sleep timer
Fades out before it pauses, so the next play isn’t silent. End of track or end of queue, your call.
Scrobbling
Send plays to Last.fm or ListenBrainz: sign in once in Settings, on any platform. Offline plays queue and send when the network returns.
Select many
Pick songs on an album, a playlist, or Songs, or select them all, then Play Next, Add to Queue, Add to Playlist, or Download in one go. On desktop, iPhone, and iPad.
The computer, from the lock screen
While an iPhone or Android phone controls Lagu on a computer or TV, the phone’s lock screen and your headphone buttons drive it too. On by default, in Settings, Remote.
The remote, away from home
Lagu Remote reaches your computer or TV from another network through Lagu Relay, encrypted end to end so the relay can’t read it. Free, with no account. How Lagu Relay works.
Artist pages
A full-width artist photo, or a fan of their covers when your server has none, then ten popular songs, your own plays, your most played albums, About, and Similar artists. On every screen but the watch.
Swipe to queue
On iPhone and Android, swipe a song right to Play Next or left to Add to Queue. A full swipe does it at once.
04 · Bloom
Your album art
colors the room.
Dynamic color
Lagu samples the artwork of whatever’s playing and tints the glow and the accent to match, cross-fading from album to album.
Seven visualizers
Spectrum, Radial, Tide, Orbit, Cover Flow, Oscilloscope, and Trackprint, drawn in the colors of the record that is playing and still when you pause. Apple TV and Android TV run six of them fullscreen, edge to edge, with synced lyrics beside them if you like, and the mode, lyrics, and seeking on the remote.
Bloom or Mono, light or dark
Bloom glows with the album’s colors. Mono is flat and calm, built from a Primary colour you pick, true-black OLED included. Either look runs dark, light, or with your device, and the accent can follow the cover or stay on a color of yours. On desktop, and on iPad in landscape, Bloom tints the whole window.
Built for each screen
SwiftUI on Apple platforms, Kotlin and Compose on Android phones, tablets, and TVs, a dedicated desktop shell. One identity across all of them.
At home on the desktop
Press ? for every keyboard shortcut. The Mac gets a Dock menu and an optional Menu bar player, Windows gets taskbar buttons, and with the visualizer off Now Playing shows a large cover.
On the wrist
Apple Watch complications for Now Playing and Lagu Remote, Keep on Watch for playlists that stay downloaded and current, and Up Next, Artists, and Stations on the watch.
05 · Offline
Take the library
off the network.
iPhone & iPad
Albums, playlists, artists, and tracks, with kept-synced playlists that follow server changes.
Desktop
The same downloads, plus read-through playback and storage management that names what each container costs.
Apple Watch
Playlist and album downloads for phone-free runs, through AirPods or the watch’s own speaker, at original quality or a bitrate you pick.
Android
Albums, playlists, artists, and tracks, kept-synced included — Wi-Fi-only by default, cellular if you allow it, and an SD card if the device has one.
Downloads as a hub
A Recently Downloaded shelf and one counted row each for Playlists, Artists, Albums, and Songs, each with its own sort. iPhone, Android, and desktop.
Downloads know your artists
Three albums by one artist used to mean three unrelated rows. The Artists section shows the artist’s photo, their albums, and every downloaded song of theirs on the device.
Download quality
Keep the original file, or store a smaller one at a bitrate you pick. Each download’s caption names the quality it was stored at.
Offline search
All Songs lists every downloaded track, A–Z or by what came down most recently, searchable with the network off. Per-container sizes and a free-space guard sit behind it.
06 · Sources
Every library,
in one list.
If your server keeps music in more than one library, Lagu reads them all at once. Other Plex clients ask you to switch between libraries; Lagu shows them together, and any library you would rather leave out has a toggle.
Libraries, merged
Artists, albums, and songs arrive as one A–Z, ordered the way your server orders them. Home shelves name the library each row came from.
Server switching
Pick which of the Plex servers on your account you are browsing. Every app can make the switch, and the TVs no longer need a sign-out to do it.
Plex Collections
Library, Collections lists the collections on your server. On desktop, iPhone, iPad, Android, and Apple TV each one opens with Play and Shuffle, and Android TV browses them too.
CarPlay, Android Auto & Siri
Home, Library, Search, and Downloads on the car screen, from the iPhone or Android app, with playlists and Up Next on Android Auto and playback resuming when the car’s Bluetooth reconnects. Ask Siri for a song or a playlist by name and it plays in Lagu.
Home, arranged by you
Show, hide, and reorder Home’s shelves and Library’s rows, pin playlists to Home, and save a Radio mix as a playlist. A hidden shelf isn’t loaded at all. On iPhone, iPad, Android, and desktop.
07 · Platform by platform
What runs where.
Feature depth varies by platform, so here it is drawn out cell by cell. This table reflects the current build, 0.16.0.
Available In verification Built, device pass under way — Not on this platform
| Feature | iPhone & iPad | Android | Desktop | Apple TV | Android TV | Watch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lossless FLAC & gaplessDirect play from your server | ||||||
| Streaming qualityOriginal, or 128–320 kbps | One setting, not split by network | One setting | One setting | Capped at 192 kbps | ||
| Crossfade & loudness levelingSmart Fades time the crossfade to the song · tracks your server hasn’t analyzed are measured on the device, and the TVs start them 8 dB down | — | |||||
| AutoplayKeeps going when a queue ends · off by default | — | |||||
| 10-band EQ & preampAndroid 9 and up | — | — | — | |||
| AutoEq headphone profilesAbout 2,900 headphones · plus your own saved presets | — | — | — | |||
| Waveform seekFrom your server’s analysis or Lagu’s own measurement | — | — | — | |||
| Synced lyricsUses your server’s lyrics data · saved with downloads | — | |||||
| VisualizersSpectrum, Radial, Tide, Orbit, Cover Flow, Oscilloscope, Trackprint | Six, fullscreen, without Cover Flow | Six, fullscreen, without Cover Flow | — | |||
| Offline downloadsOriginal quality, or a bitrate you pick · Downloads hub with an Artists section | — | — | ||||
| Kept-synced playlistsDownloads follow server edits | — | — | Keep on Watch | |||
| Queue survives a restartBack paused where you left it | — | — | — | |||
| Radio, Deep Cuts & Guest DJ | — | |||||
| Sonic AdventureA-to-B sonic paths | Start it from a phone | — | ||||
| Sort & filterYear, format, bitrate, random · Newly Released shelf | — | |||||
| Year filterAlbums and Songs from one year | — | |||||
| Plex CollectionsYour server’s collections, in Library · Play and Shuffle | Browse only | — | ||||
| Smart-playlist builderRules include Album Year and Album Decade | — | — | — | |||
| Listening statsCross-device history | — | — | — | |||
| ScrobblingLast.fm & ListenBrainz · offline plays queue and send later | ||||||
| Sleep timer | — | — | — | |||
| Artist pagesArtist photo, popular songs, your plays, Similar artists | — | |||||
| Home & Library your wayHide and reorder shelves and rows · pinned playlists | — | — | — | |||
| Swipe to queueRight for Play Next, left for Add to Queue | — | — | — | — | ||
| Select manyQueue, add, or download several songs at once | — | — | — | — | ||
| LooksBloom or Mono · Dark, Light, or System · Primary colour, OLED, and Accent | Bloom or Mono · Primary colour | Bloom or Mono · Primary colour | Bloom | |||
| Lock screen & media controlsNotification, headset, Bluetooth | — | TV remote | System remote | |||
| Home & lock screen widgetsNow Playing, Quick Play, This Week | Home screen | — | — | — | Complications | |
| Lagu RemoteAny controller, any host · at home, or away through Lagu Relay · from the phone’s lock screen too | Controller | Controller | Host | Host while open | Host | System remote |
| Network speakersDLNA · off by default · works with a remote server · seek and set volume while casting | — | Experimental | — | — | — | |
| Google CastChromecast, Google TV, Nest speakers · experimental, off by default | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Every library, every serverMerged A–Z, per-library toggles, server switching | Follows the phone | |||||
| AirPlay | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Siri & Shortcuts“Shuffle my Liked Tracks on Lagu” | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Google Assistant & Gemini“Play … on Lagu,” on the phone and in the car | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Discord Rich PresenceOff by default · album art on the card | — | — | — | — | — | |
| CarPlay & Android AutoHome, Library, Search, Downloads | In verification | — | — | — | — |
Lagu Remote works across platforms: any controller pairs with any host over your own Wi-Fi, and through Lagu Relay when the phone is away from home. CarPlay comes with the iPhone app and Android Auto with the Android app; both follow the car’s template rules, including the shorter lists a car shows while it is moving. Android Auto has been verified on a desktop head unit and is waiting on a pass in a car. The Android TV app also runs on Fire TV, and the phone app on Fire tablets, through Amazon’s test.
More on one screen: iPhone · iPad · Apple Watch · Apple TV · Android · Android TV · macOS · Windows · Linux
Try it while it’s free.
The open beta is here. Desktop stays free forever, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV are free while the beta runs, and Android is $1.99 once.
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