About
Local music deserves a great player
Streaming apps treat your own files as an afterthought. Trove is built for the people who still keep their music — collectors, audiophiles, and anyone with a NAS full of albums.
Why we're building Trove
Desktops used to have great local music players. Today the classics are aging: some are macOS-only and rarely updated, others never felt native, and almost none of them follow you off the desk to your phone. Meanwhile your library — the FLAC rips, the purchases, the albums on your NAS — deserves better than being sideloaded into an app built for streaming.
Trove is our answer. It is on the App Store today for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, built with SwiftUI, and it treats local and network libraries as first-class citizens. A Mac app is being built from the same codebase — it has not shipped yet, and we will say so here until it does.
What we're focused on
Trove does a few things exceptionally well: it plays every format you own, it reaches your music wherever it lives — folders, WebDAV, SMB, NAS — and it feels truly native on both the desktop and the phone. We'd rather do these essentials right than do everything halfway.
Our principles
- Local-first. Your files never pass through our servers. No account, no tracking, no cloud middleman.
- No subscriptions. The core player is free; Pro is a one-time purchase you make once and own forever.
- Native or nothing. Real SwiftUI apps that respect each platform — Siri, background playback and AirPlay on iPhone and iPad, and an Apple Watch app that plays without the phone.
Trove Player is independently built, and version 1.0 is on the App Store now. If that resonates, it is a free download — and if you are waiting on the Mac app, leave your email and we'll tell you when it ships.