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SimpMusic  
A FOSS YouTube Music client for Android and Desktop with many features fromSpotify, SponsorBlock, ReturnYouTubeDislike using Compose Multiplatform to develop.
 

    



 
Download  
 
 
 
 
On vivo phones, install SimpMusic-full-vivo-.apk from Releases for Origin Island and the music widget. It installs as a separate app and can't sit next to Spotify.
Nightly Build  
  
  

 SimpMusic is available on Desktop now!

 kotlin-footguns — the Kotlin, Compose Multiplatform and desktop JVM traps this project ran into the hard way. Star it if it saves you a night.


  
 Features ✨️    
- Play music from YouTube Music or YouTube for free, without ads and in the background
- Recognize the song playing near you, then find it in SimpMusic (Android) (NEW)
- Add your own synced lyrics, line by line or word by word, to songs that have none (NEW)
- Read YouTube comments in Now Playing, and post, reply or like them when signed in (NEW)
- Your library sidebar on Desktop with your playlists, albums, artists and podcasts (NEW)
- Three Now Playing styles: Classic, Material 3 Expressive and a redesigned Apple Music player with Apple Music-style lyrics (NEW)
- Ten-band equalizer with presets and AutoEq headphone profiles, plus Delay and Reverb effects, or your phone's system equalizer on Android (NEW)
- Pick the speaker, headphones or Cast device SimpMusic plays on, without moving other apps' audio (NEW)
- SimpMusic Wrapped: your year in music, plus monthly recap playlists (NEW)
- On-device listening analytics: charts, period history, listening clock and a shareable listening receipt (NEW)
- Word-by-word Apple Music-style lyrics, romanization for 12 languages, share lyrics as an image, landscape fullscreen lyrics and a timing offset (NEW)
- Home screen widgets: turntable, playlists and listening insights (NEW)
- Send your sign-ins from Android to Desktop by scanning a QR code (NEW)
- Preferred audio language for videos with several audio tracks (NEW)
- High quality up-to 256kbps stream (Opus or AAC) for YouTube Music Premium users
- Browsing Home, Charts, Podcast, Moods & Genre with YouTube Music data at high speed    
- Search everything on YouTube    
- Spotify Canvas and Animated Album Art supported (NEW)
- Power your experience with SimpMusic Chart (https://chart.simpmusic.org/)
- Play 1080p video option with subtitle    
- Play YouTube Music live stations (NEW)
- AI song suggestions and an AI reading of your music taste (NEW)
- Import playlists converted from Spotify and other apps
- Customize your playlist, synced with YouTube Music
- Notifications from followed artists    
- Caching and offline playback support, plus Smart downloads of the songs you play most (Android) (NEW)    
- Crossfade with DJ-style like Apple Music
- Customizing THEME (Light, Dark, Color, etc)
- Synced lyrics from SimpMusic Lyrics, LRCLIB, BetterLyrics, Spotify (require login) and YouTube Transcript - AI lyrics translation (BETA) (\)  
- Personalize data (\) and multi-YouTube-a

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Discussions

Latest release

Full changlogs here: https://www.simpmusic.org/blogs/new-update-simpmusic-v250
 Read user-guide: https://www.simpmusic.org/docs

 New
- Song recognition on Android: recognize the song playing near you from the empty search field or a Quick Settings tile, then find it in SimpMusic
- Add lyrics: type or paste synced lyrics, line by line or word by word, for songs no provider has, saved for offline use and shared with SimpMusic Lyrics when you help build it
 Improved
- Desktop uses far less CPU and GPU: frames capped to your display, no drawing while minimized or hidden, no video decoding