SimpMusic

A simple music app using YouTube Music for backend

New in version 1.4.0

- Fix music pausing or stopping on its own between tracks (the background-playback freeze present since 1.0.4)
- New liquid glass bottom navigation on Android, with a press-to-bulge interaction
- New Apple Music-style in Local Playlist screen
- Optimize Spotify login
- Discover podcast shows on Home and open them in a dedicated podcast screen
- Fix empty Home and search shelves, and broken playback, after YouTube API changes
- Desktop: fix a startup crash and reinstall Windows updates in place w

Not a simple music player, it's SimpMusic

Features:

- Play music from YouTube Music or YouTube for free, without ads and in the background
- Browsing Home, Charts, Podcast, Moods & Genre with YouTube Music data at high speed
- Search everything on YouTube
- Analyze your playing data, create custom playlists, and sync with YouTube Music...
- Spotify Canvas supported
- Play 1080p video option with subtitle
- AI song suggestions
- Notifications from followed artists
- Caching and offline playback support
- Synced lyrics from SimpMusic Lyrics, LRCLIB, Spotify (require login) and YouTube Transcript - AI lyrics translation (BETA) (\*)
- Personalize data (\**) and multi-YouTube-account support
- Supports SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike
- Sleep Timer
- Android Auto with online content
- And many more!

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This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service

Depends on YouTube, using Piped API (kavin.rocks) to get YouTube streams data and Spotify Web API with Spotify Lyrics (https://spotify-lyric-api.herokuapp.com/) to get lyrics.

Author: Nguyen Duc Tuan Minh
License: GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Version 1.4.0 (52) suggested Added on Jun 10, 2026

arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a 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.maxrave.simpmusic.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Download APK 48 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

New in version 1.3.0

- New offline error screen on Home with Retry and quick access to your downloaded music
- Show translated lyrics in yellow under the Canvas subtitle on the Now Playing screen
- Smoother DJ-style AutoMix: equal-power crossfade curve and front-loaded BPM ramp
- Longer Auto mode crossfade for more deliberate transitions (20-45s, fallback 30s)
- Apple Music-inspired redesign for Album, Playlist and Now Playing screens
- Cleaner home item layout: enforced 3-line max with subtle marquee on long titles

Version 1.3.0 (51) - Added on May 27, 2026

arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a 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.maxrave.simpmusic.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Download APK 48 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log
Version 1.2.1 (50) - Added on May 18, 2026

arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a 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.maxrave.simpmusic.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
Download APK 48 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

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