SimpMusic
A simple, open-source music app
Stream, download and enjoy your music — ad-free inside the app. Available on Android, Windows, macOS and Linux.
Read on to learn what's new, how to install, and pick your platform below
What's new in v2.0.0
Released 2 days agoFull changlogs here: https://www.simpmusic.org/blogs/new-update-simpmusic-v200
Read user-guide: https://www.simpmusic.org/docs
New
- Listen Together — listen in sync with friends in shared rooms, compatible with Metrolist clients.
- Three Now Playing styles — pick Classic, Material 3 Expressive or Apple Music in Settings.
- Apple Music lyrics — word-by-word glow with depth blur, on Android 12+ and Desktop.
- Lyrics romanization — read lyrics from 12 languages in Latin script, shown under the original line.
- Share lyrics as an image — pick your favorite lines and share them as a picture.
- SimpMusic Wrapped — a year-in-review built from your local listening, plus monthly recap playlists in Library.
- Ten-band equalizer — draggable curve, presets and AutoEq import with ~8,850 headphone profiles, on both platforms.
- Analytics tab — step back through weeks, months and years, with a listening clock and your listening fingerprint.
- New widgets — turntable, playlists and listening insights, resizable.
- Liquid glass UI — rebuilt bottom bar and glass surfaces across Android and Desktop.
- More reliable streaming — YouTube ciphers decoded on-device, extraction source shown in song info.
Improvements
- High-quality audio in your choice of Opus or AAC.
- Auto-download songs when you like them.
- Keep radio queues audio-only (optional).
- Sleep timer fades out; crossfade can keep albums continuous.
- Search inside playlists and multi-select songs.
- Paste a YouTube link into search to play it.
- Follow an artist to also subscribe to their YouTube channel.
- Clear listening history in one tap.
- Mix for you is now its own tab.
- Desktop: floating capsule player, landscape headers, pitch control and native download notifications.
Fixes
- Signed-in radios no longer lose most of their tracks.
- No loading spinner over playing audio, no NA:NA time at track end, and play restarts the queue at its end.
- Mini player no longer flashes on start; the Apple Music player plays exactly the queue row you tap.
- Widgets render at the launcher's real size instead of being squashed.
- Unfollowing an artist cleans up its notifications; queue position restores correctly after restart.
- Desktop volume reaches precached players, and Linux opens external links reliably again.
What's Changed
- feat(listen-together): listen in sync with friends in Metrolist-compatible rooms by @maxrave-dev in https://github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic/pull/2391
- fix(desktop): stop bundling glib in the Linux libmpv slice by @chrisdebian in https://github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic/pull/2359
- v2.0.0: New update by @maxrave-dev in https://github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic/pull/2412
- docs(fastlane): add the v2.0.0 changelog for build 57 by @maxrave-dev in https://github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic/pull/2413
New Contributors
- @chrisdebian made their first contribution in https://github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic/pull/2359
Full Changelog: https://github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic/compare/v1.7.0...v2.0.0
How to install
Pick your platform — clear steps with what to tap and what to allow
Choosing the right Android APK
Each release ships several APK files split by CPU architecture (ABI splits) and by build flavour. Per-architecture APKs are smaller and install faster, while the universal APK works on every device but is the largest. If you are unsure, pick arm64-v8a — it covers virtually every Android phone released since 2017.
Two build flavours per ABI:
- full — the standard build with every feature. Recommended for most users. This is what the download picker highlights by default.
- foss — strict free / open-source build with all proprietary dependencies stripped. Used for F-Droid distribution and by users who avoid closed-source libraries.
arm64-v8aRecommended
64-bit ARM. Used by virtually every modern Android phone (almost all flagships and mid-range devices since 2017).
armeabi-v7a
32-bit ARM. Pick this only on older or low-end phones, typically released before 2017.
x86_64
64-bit Intel/AMD. Mainly for Android emulators, ChromeOS, and a few Intel-powered tablets.
universal
Bundles every architecture. Largest file — choose this only if you do not know your phone's CPU.
Not sure which one to pick? On your phone open Settings → About phone and check the chipset, or install a free tool like Droid Hardware Info and look at the Instruction Sets field. If it lists arm64-v8a, take the arm64 build.
System requirements
- Android 8.0 (API 26) or newer, including Android Auto
- Windows 10 or newer (64-bit)
- macOS 15 (Sequoia) or newer · Apple Silicon and Intel
- Modern Linux distributions (AppImage, x86_64)
- Approximately 150 MB of free disk space
- An active internet connection
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about installing, using and trusting SimpMusic
Stable or Nightly?
Two release tracks for two kinds of users
Stable
Tagged releases that have been manually tested before publication. Recommended for everyday use — fewer surprises, slower update cadence.
- Manually QA'd
- Update notes per release
- Sync with F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid
↓ Use the platform picker below to grab the latest stable build
Nightly
Built automatically by GitHub Actions from the latest commit on main. You get new features first — and the occasional rough edge.
- Always the latest changes
- May contain bugs or missing translations
- Great for testers and contributors
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