BubbleUPnP

Stream your media everywhere with BubbleUPnP

BubbleUPnP is a powerful media streaming hub that brings together all your music, videos and photos and sends them seamlessly to virtually any screen or speaker in your home. It supports Chromecast devices, DLNA and Smart TVs, popular game consoles, Fire TV sticks, Hi‑Fi receivers and even playback directly on your device, turning it into both a controller and a player.

One of its biggest strengths is how many sources it can tap into. BubbleUPnP can browse UPnP/DLNA servers on your network, shared folders on PCs or NAS drives via SMB, local files stored on your device, and a selection of cloud storage providers like Dropbox, OneDrive and Box. It even integrates with WebDAV servers such as Nextcloud and ownCloud, plus music services like TIDAL and Qobuz, making it a true central point for all your media.

Chromecast support is particularly robust. The app can transcode some incompatible formats on the fly, handle subtitles with customizable appearance, and let you choose audio and video tracks when available. The playback features are equally polished: there’s a queue, editable playlists, multiple shuffle modes, scrobbling support and a sleep timer, which makes it excellent for serious listening sessions.

Advanced users will appreciate that BubbleUPnP can act as both a renderer and a DLNA media server, exposing local and cloud content to other devices on the network. Secure remote access to your home library over the internet is also available with extra configuration, extending your media beyond your living room.

The interface is dense but logically organized, and dark and light themes help it feel comfortable to use for long periods. Newcomers may need a little time to explore all the options, but the payoff is a remarkably flexible, reliable media streaming solution that can unify a very diverse setup.