A sidebar
Home, Radio, Search, your pinned playlists, and your library. In landscape it takes the playing album’s colors, as on desktop, and collapses out of the way.
Lagu for iPad
A Plex music player
for iPad.
Lagu for iPad is the iPhone app laid out again for the bigger screen. Hold it upright and it works like the phone. Turn it sideways and you get a sidebar, a player bar docked along the bottom, and a Now Playing with room for the lyrics and the queue.
Open beta · TestFlight iPadOS 26 · SwiftUI Same purchase as iPhone
01 · In landscape
Laid out for
the bigger screen.
The layout follows the window, not the device. Slide Over and a narrow Split View get the phone layout, and a full-width window gets the sidebar.
Pinned playlists
Pin the playlists you play most. Drag them into order, swipe to unpin, or long-press for Move to Top.
A docked player bar
Transport in the middle, the artwork and title on one side, and the seek bar with elapsed and remaining time, always in reach.
Now Playing with room
In landscape, the seek bar, clocks, and volume get their own column beside the artwork, with lyrics and Up Next panels that fit the screen.
Pages that fit
Album grids sized to the width, lists at a comfortable measure, and album art beside the details. Select many songs and the actions sit above the player.
Portrait stays familiar
Upright, the iPad uses the tab bar and mini-player you know from the iPhone.
02 · Everything from the iPhone
The same app,
the same purchase.
Lossless, gapless, leveled
Direct-play FLAC, the format on Now Playing, no gaps between album tracks, and loudness leveling that measures what your server hasn’t.
Ten-band EQ
Preamp, twelve presets, presets of your own, and AutoEq profiles for about 2,900 headphones.
Downloads
Albums, playlists, artists, and songs for a flight, at Original quality or a bitrate you pick.
Visualizers and waveform seek
Seven visualizers in the album’s colors, and an optional waveform seek bar that shows the loud and quiet passages.
Siri and AirPlay
Ask for a song or playlist by name, and send playback to AirPlay speakers.
A remote for the room
Control Lagu on a computer, Apple TV, or Android TV from the iPad with Lagu Remote, at home or through Lagu Relay from anywhere else.
Artist pages
A full-width artist photo, ten popular songs, your own plays and most played albums, then About and Similar artists. With Plex Pass on the server, Sounds like too.
On screen
Lagu on iPad,
screen by screen.
NOW PLAYING
Lyrics beside the cover, in landscape.
Turn the iPad sideways and Now Playing splits in two. The artwork, seek bar, clocks, and volume take one column, and synced lyrics or Up Next take the other, sized to the screen. Tap a line to jump to it, or switch the cover for a visualizer and keep the lyrics running beside it.
What it doesn’t do
The gaps,
listed.
Where the iPad app stands. The platform table has every feature, cell by cell.
A little polish left
Landscape and portrait run on real iPads. A few settings still say iPhone, and some spacing on Home is being tidied. A report from yours helps.
No keyboard shortcuts yet
A keyboard types in search, but play, pause, and skip have no shortcuts of their own.
No DLNA speakers
Network speakers are on Android and desktop. The iPad has AirPlay.
A remote, not a host
The iPad controls other screens, but other devices cannot control Lagu on the iPad.
Getting it
From download
to music playing.
Join on TestFlight
Install Apple’s TestFlight app, then open Lagu’s public TestFlight link from the download page on your iPhone or iPad.
Install Lagu
iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV share one TestFlight listing, so joining once covers all three.
Sign in with Plex
Tap Continue with Plex, approve it on Plex’s own page, and pick a server if you have more than one.
Questions
Asked about
this platform.
Is there a Plex music player for iPad?
Yes. Lagu is a music player for Plex, and its iPad layout adds a sidebar with pinned playlists, a docked player bar, and a landscape Now Playing with lyrics and the queue. It plays lossless and gapless, with downloads and a ten-band EQ.
Does Lagu use the whole iPad screen?
Yes, in landscape. It switches to a sidebar layout with wider grids and a docked player. In portrait, Slide Over, or a narrow Split View window, it uses the phone layout.
Do I pay separately for the iPad?
No. Lagu is free during the beta. At launch, one $1.99 App Store purchase covers iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV together, and Family Sharing works.
Does Lagu for iPad need Plex Pass?
No. Playback, downloads, the EQ, and playlists work without it. Sonic radio, moods, and Plex-fetched lyrics rely on Plex Pass on the server, as they do in any Plex client.
Can I use the iPad as a remote for Lagu on my TV or computer?
Yes. Lagu Remote pairs the iPad with Lagu on a Mac, Windows or Linux PC, Apple TV, or Android TV over your own Wi-Fi, or through Lagu Relay from another network, to browse, queue, and seek on that screen.
Lagu on other screens: iPhone · Apple Watch · Apple TV · Android · Android TV · macOS · Windows · Linux · every feature
Bring your library along.
The open beta is here. Desktop is free, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV are free while the beta runs, and Android is $1.99 once on Google Play.
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