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Soul Searching

A complete and powerful music player for Android.
Soul Searching is a comprehensive, powerful, and customizable music app for listening to your local music.

A complete application:
- Playlist creation
- Support for multiple played lists
- Played list management (play mode, adding, deleting, etc.)
- Quick access system
- Listening statistics (by months, year, globally)
- Synchronized lyrics (from the audio file or an external source)
- Editing albums, artists, and songs (writing to audio file metadata)
- Support for multiple artists for the same song
- Search and sorting
- Folder management
- Adjusting the player volume
- Android Auto support

A high-performance application:
- Supports a large number of music while remaining fluid
- Optimized logic for quickly performing complex tasks

An application that reflects your style:
- Several default color themes
- Option to force a dark or light theme
- Dynamic theme, based on the album art color of the song being played
- Option to customize the application of the dynamic theme across all screens
- Choice of the seed used to generate the dynamic theme
- Customization of the player (swipe to change tracks, progress displayed in minimized mode, etc.)
- Home page customization (tab to open at startup, visible tabs, display style, etc.)

Cloud support:
Beware, Cloudy was recently introduced and is still in an alpha mode.

With Cloudy, store your songs on a self-hosted cloud system, specially made for Soul Searching!
Access your songs across multiple platforms like Desktop, Web and Android.
Cloudy also offers others features like:
- managing multiple users
- launching shared played list with multiple users, like Spotify

Versions

Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.

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  • Version 0.17.2 (42) suggested Added on Oct 27, 2026

    arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • run foreground service
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
    • run foreground service with the type "dataSync"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "dataSync"
    • run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • read the contents of your shared storage
      Allows the app to read the contents of your shared storage.
    • read audio files from shared storage
      Allows the app to read audio files from your shared storage.
    • run at startup
      Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.
    • prevent phone from sleeping
      Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
    • modify or delete the contents of your shared storage
      Allows the app to write the contents of your shared storage.
    • com.github.enteraname74.soulsearching.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 14 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • Version 0.16.0 (39) - Added on Oct 12, 2026

    arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • run foreground service
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
    • run foreground service with the type "dataSync"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "dataSync"
    • run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • read the contents of your shared storage
      Allows the app to read the contents of your shared storage.
    • read audio files from shared storage
      Allows the app to read audio files from your shared storage.
    • run at startup
      Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.
    • prevent phone from sleeping
      Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
    • modify or delete the contents of your shared storage
      Allows the app to write the contents of your shared storage.
    • com.github.enteraname74.soulsearching.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 14 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • Version 0.15.2 (38) - Added on Jul 28, 2026

    arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • run foreground service
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
    • run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • read the contents of your shared storage
      Allows the app to read the contents of your shared storage.
    • read audio files from shared storage
      Allows the app to read audio files from your shared storage.
    • prevent phone from sleeping
      Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
    • modify or delete the contents of your shared storage
      Allows the app to write the contents of your shared storage.
    • com.github.enteraname74.soulsearching.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 13 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log