Ariami is a small server you run at home, plus apps for your phone, desktop and TV. Together they turn the music you already own into your own private streaming service with full quality, no ads, no monthly bill, and nothing that can ever disappear from your library.
Free & open source. Setup takes about two minutes. If your music folder is ready, so are you.
Every device signed into your server shares one playback session. It's the crown jewel of Ariami, and it follows you everywhere your server reaches.
Queue an album from the couch with the TV remote and your phone is already showing what's playing. Head out the door, tap your phone, and the song carries on from the exact second.
Live demo: it hands off on its own, or tap a device to move playback.
And here's what that looks like for real. Every shot below was taken at the same moment on all three devices, so check the timestamps: same track, same second, three screens.
Everything runs on your hardware, and your files never leave your network unless you say so.
Install Ariami on a desktop, or run the CLI on a headless box like a Raspberry Pi. Pick your music folder and it scans everything: FLAC, MP3, the lot. Art and metadata included.
Open the app on your phone and scan the pairing code on your server's dashboard. Devices on your network find the server on their own, no IP addresses to memorize.
Phone, desktop, TV, Chromecast. Your whole library, full quality, on all of them. Away from home? Tailscale support means your server comes with you.
A full music platform: playlists, downloads, casting, stats, multiple users, the lot.
Play your files exactly as you ripped or bought them, lossless included. The Sonic transcoder steps quality down automatically when your connection can't keep up.
Take albums and playlists with you. Downloads survive app restarts and dropped connections, and offline mode keeps everything playable with no server in sight.
Everyone gets their own account, playlists, and listening stats. Invite people with a QR code or invite token. Nobody can wreck anyone else's queue.
A Raspberry Pi handles a whole family's listening. The headless CLI server starts on boot and stays out of your way.
Hardened auth, per-device stream tickets, invite-only registration. Never phones home.
Listening stats, playlist export, library backups. Everything lives on your disk.
One server, one account, and a first-class app for every screen in the house, plus a headless CLI for the Raspberry Pi in the drawer.
iOS & Android. Downloads, Chromecast, offline mode, and a player that feels first-party.
macOS, Windows & Linux. Server and full player in one app. Host and listen from the same place.
Android TV client that finds your server on its own. Album art looks great at 65 inches.
Headless server with a web dashboard. Perfect for a Raspberry Pi or that NAS in the closet.
Drag sideways for more. All real screenshots, nothing mocked up.
Ariami's core is free and open source. You can read every line that touches your library, your accounts, and your network. Or just build it yourself from scratch.
The premium desktop and TV clients are how this project pays its bills. You pay once, you own them, done. There isn't a subscription anywhere in Ariami and there never will be.
If you can install an app and pick a folder, you can run Ariami. The desktop app walks you through setup, and your phone joins by scanning a QR code. The command line is optional, for people who like that sort of thing.
Almost anything made in the last decade. A Raspberry Pi 4 comfortably streams to a whole household; a Pi 5 or any desktop won't even notice. Your music lives on whatever drive you already keep it on.
Yes. Ariami works with Tailscale, so your devices reach your server from anywhere without opening ports or renting a cloud server. On the road with no signal? Downloads and offline mode have you covered.
Your library as-is: FLAC, MP3, AAC, and friends. Full quality on your own network, and automatic transcoding when bandwidth gets tight. You never have to convert anything yourself.
Same idea, one big difference: the thing coordinating your devices is your server, in your house. You get the exact-second handoff, every screen mirroring playback, and any device acting as a remote, but no audio or listening data ever passes through anyone else's computer.
The core of Ariami (server, CLI and mobile app) is free and open source, forever. There's a premium desktop client with extra polish that helps fund development. Either way, you pay once.
Grab Ariami, point it at your library, and press play. It was yours all along.
One payment, never a subscription. Download anything free and add a key when you're ready.