Meelo vs Navidrome

Comparing two open source alternatives to Spotify. Use the comparison below to decide which one fits your needs.

Meelo

GPL-3.0

Self-hosted music server focused on metadata integration and UI, with music videos as first-class citizens and mobile apps for Android and iOS.

GPL-3.0

Modern, lightweight self-hosted music server compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic clients — stream your music everywhere.

	Meelo	Navidrome
License	GPL-3.0	GPL-3.0
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	1,436	23,933
Forks	42	1,735
Open Issues	61	283
Last Commit	Oct 1, 2026	Oct 2, 2026
First Released	May 5, 2022	Feb 24, 2016
Categories	Music Player	Collaboration & Communication Tools
Tags	#audio #media-server #mobile	#streaming #self hosted

Meelo1,436

Navidrome

Cross-platform lossless music player with rich library management, synced lyrics, and gapless playback for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

A self-hosted, cross-platform podcast management system with a modern Rust and Python stack.

Android music app that plays YouTube Music, Gaana and Saavn plus your local files through one ad-free interface.

A free, open-source cross-platform music player for Navidrome, Jellyfin, Plex and other Subsonic-compatible servers.

Self-hosted podcast server that uses AI to automatically remove ads from episodes before you hit play.

A self-hosted podcast manager/downloader/archiver tool to download podcast episodes as soon as they become live with an integrated player.