Pay yearly. Or pay once.
Serento is one application with one feature set. There is no Pro tier, no per-device fee and nothing that a larger plan unlocks · the only thing to decide is how you would rather pay for it.
Fourteen days free · no account to create · billed by Apple · Family Sharing for up to six people
Fourteen days, then your choice.
The trial is the whole application, not a reduced version of it. When it runs out nothing is deleted and nothing is uploaded anywhere · your library, your tags and your ratings stay exactly where they are while you decide.
$0 · 14 days
Everything, from the first minute
- The complete application, every feature on this page
- No account, no card, nothing to enter
- Tied to your iCloud, so a reinstall cannot restart it
- A live countdown in Settings › Membership
Starts the moment you open the app
$50 / year
About $4.17 a month
- Every feature, on iPhone, iPad and Mac
- Every update released while it runs
- Family Sharing · up to six people
- Move to Lifetime whenever you like
- Cancel from your Apple Account in two taps
Renews yearly · cancel any time
$200 · once
Four years of annual, and then nothing
- Every feature, on iPhone, iPad and Mac
- Every update, with nothing further to pay
- Family Sharing · up to six people
- Nothing to renew and nothing to cancel
- One tap to add if you started on annual
One payment · no renewal
Both plans are bought inside the app, in Settings › Membership. Apple takes the payment and we never see your card. The figures here are the US dollar list prices · your own storefront charges the equivalent in its own currency.
Four years of annual is exactly Lifetime.
Neither plan is the better deal in the abstract. It depends entirely on how long you go on using Serento, so here is the whole calculation, drawn to scale.
Year 4 · the same money
Every feature. In both plans.
This is the complete list of what Serento does: seventy-six capabilities across fourteen chapters. Not one of them is reserved for a higher tier, because there is no higher tier · and the fourteen-day trial includes all of it too.
Getting started 04
- It finds your music by itself
- Use several servers at once
- A setup guide for non-technical people
- Fourteen days free, no sign-up
Make it yours first 08
- Choose what a track tap does
- Gapless playback
- Open Now Playing on play
- The alphabetical index bar
- Album version grouping
- What shows on album tiles
- Lyrics timing, per streamer
- Each device keeps its own settings
Browse 06
- Six ways to browse
- Sort within a sort
- Filter until it's exactly right
- Fly through a huge library
- Grid or list, your call
- Other versions, tidied away
Playback 06
- Play Now
- Play Favorites
- Play Next and Add to Queue
- Shuffle anything, or everything
- Play exactly what's on screen
- The queue, laid bare
Make it yours 07
- Organize with tags
- Nested tag folders
- Turn a folder into a whole tag tree
- Bookmark any view
- Build playlists
- Favorite anything
- Do it to fifty albums at once
Discover 05
- Weekly Smart Mixes
- Similar artists and albums
- Serento Radio, endless and yours
- Recently played and Most Played
- Listen Later
Internet radio 02
- A station list hand-picked for lossless
- Add your own stations
Downloads 06
- Download for offline
- Your downloads, in one place
- A real download queue
- Set a storage limit
- Downloaded only, for the plane
- Your phone becomes the source
Every device 04
- Start on iPhone, keep listening on Mac
- See what's playing, even from another account
- Everything syncs through iCloud
- Your searches follow you
Sound quality 05
- Format badges that mean something
- The bit-perfect proof
- Send it to any hi-fi
- Play through a USB DAC
- Volume you can trust
Metadata 08
- Fix a mislabeled album
- Let Serento fill the gaps
- Refresh on your schedule, in the background
- Reviews, bios and credits
- Karaoke-style lyrics
- Never an ugly blank cover
- Use your own genres
- Use your own artist images
For classical lovers 05
- Browse the way classical works
- It knows what's classical
- Whole works, kept whole
- People, split by role
- Periods, forms and histories
Stats and ratings 05
- A Wrapped, any day of the year
- Records and a year in music
- Rate your albums
- See and filter by rating
- Share your stats
Crafted with care 05
- Living default covers
- Skeletons that look like covers
- Empty states that teach
- Haptics tuned per action
- Built for everyone
The bill stops at the app.
A control application should not arrive with a second, recurring cost attached to it. Serento has nothing to sell you after the purchase, because there is nothing running on our side to charge you for.
Nothing to sign up for
There is no Serento account, no password and no email address to hand over. The trial and the purchase are both anchored to the Apple Account you already have, and the key we store is one-way: we cannot turn it back into a name, an email or an Apple ID.
Your music never leaves the house
Serento streams from your own server to your own renderer, inside your own network. We store none of it · so there is no storage tier, no bandwidth charge, and no library size at which the price goes up.
Three platforms, six people
iPhone, iPad and Mac are one application and one purchase on the same Apple Account. Both plans are set up for Family Sharing, so a household of up to six is covered by the one you buy.
No ads, no tiers, nothing sold on
There is no advertising in Serento, no feature held back for a larger plan, and nothing about your listening is sold to anybody. What the anonymous telemetry does contain is written out in full on the privacy page.
Questions about paying.
You get a fourteen-day free trial with no account to create, tied to your iCloud so a reinstall cannot reset it. After that you choose an annual plan or a one-time Lifetime purchase, billed by Apple, with Family Sharing supported. If you start with annual, you can upgrade to Lifetime any time.
Inside the app, in Settings › Membership. There is nothing to buy on this website and no checkout here: Apple takes the payment through your Apple Account, the same way every other App Store purchase works, and we never see your card details.
Yes, at any point, from the same Membership screen. Nothing is lost in the move and there is no window in which it has to happen. If you are undecided at the end of the trial, annual is the lower-risk way to start.
Yes. Serento is one application on all three, and a purchase follows your Apple Account rather than a device, so signing in on another one restores it. Both plans are set up for Apple Family Sharing, which covers up to six people in a family group.
An annual plan is cancelled in your Apple Account subscription settings, not here, and access runs to the end of the period you have already paid for. Lifetime has nothing to cancel. Refunds are Apple's to give, through reportaproblem.apple.com · and if something is wrong, write to us first and we will try to fix it.
Serento asks you to choose a plan before it carries on playing. Nothing is deleted and nothing is uploaded: the library you synced, along with every tag, rating, playlist and bookmark, stays on your device and is exactly where you left it if you subscribe later.
Point it at your server and press play.
The trial is tied to your iCloud, so a reinstall cannot reset it - and there is nothing to sign up for either way.