PMDA
Raphael Vael Music iPhoneiPadiPod touch
PMDA is a free Music app for iPhone and iPad by Raphael Vael. Requires iOS 16.4. Updated September 30, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 82 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 30
- 2026 · v2.0.0
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About PMDA
PMDA (pronounced "pimda") is one music lover's take on building the music library of his dreams — and now yours. Point the app at your own self-hosted PMDA server and enjoy your entire collection, beautifully organized, anywhere you go. WHY PMDA Most music apps lock you into a subscription and their catalog, or leave your carefully-built library a mess of mismatched tags and missing covers. PMDA is different: 100% self-hosted, private, and it actually understands your music. WHAT YOU GET • Your whole library, everywhere — browse artists, albums, genres and labels, with rich, clickable artist pages. • Real listening — gapless playback, history, cross-user recommendations, synced lyrics and waveforms. • Lossless, your way — stream bit-perfect FLAC or save data with smart transcoding; download albums for offline, even on a plane. • Clean and yours — your files, your server, your rules. No cloud lock-in, no ads, no tracking, no AI. HOW IT WORKS PMDA mobile is a companion to the PMDA server (a free, self-hosted music library app you run on your own machine or NAS). Enter your server's address, sign in, and your library is in your pocket. Nothing is stored on our servers — the app talks only to the server you point it at. Built for people who are in love with music. Welcome.
What’s new
Version 2.0.0 · Updated September 30, 2026
PMDA 2.0 is a new app, rebuilt natively for iPhone and iPad. - A magazine-style home, album, artist, label and genre pages, with reviews, biographies, credits and editions up front. - iPad gets its own layouts: a two-column home, album and artist pages side by side, a wider player; it turns with you. - A player in the album page's style. On iPhone, Queue, Lyrics, Explore and Output open full screen from the bottom; on iPad they take over the right-hand pane while the cover stays put. - CarPlay: browse and play your library from the car, with thumbs-up, shuffle and repeat. - Thumbs-up likes everywhere, and sharing with the other listeners on your server. - Faster, steadier, and it follows your phone's light or dark setting.
App privacy
The developer, Raphael Vael, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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| App | Rating | Price | Last updated | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PMDA | – | Free | September 30, 2026 | |
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