A revived classic material designed local music player for Android
About this app
An independent fork of Phonograph in development
Phonograph is a light-weighted material designed local music player for Android. Phonograph Plus is an independent fork of Phonograph since it is no longer maintained, and has been in maintenance and development since 2021.
Phonograph Plus inherits all features from Phonograph:
- Light weight - Offline, AD-free and privacy - Classic Material Design 2 - Night mode (Light, Dark, Black) supporting automatically switching - Customizable theme color (primary, accent) with Monet support - Foundational audio playing function (including speed control, sleep timer and equalizer externally provided by system) - Flexible queue management (shuffle, repeat, freely rearrange by dragging, queue snapshots) - Lyrics support (both synchronized .lrc lyrics and text lyrics, embed or external) - Flexible playback notifications that are highly customizable - Flexible music organization, organised by songs, artist, albums, genres and folders (flatten or treed), ordered by various orders, with multiple selection support, viewed in grid or list with various layout style - Flexible main player user interface that are highly customizable - Android Auto support - Highly customizable behaviours for clicking - Path filter (excluded mode or included mode) - Search support - Favorite songs support - File Playlist support (viewing and basic editing; also pin-able) - Internal Database Playlist support - Play history and frequency record, and last added songs by flexible time intervals - Enhanced audio metadata viewer and tag editor - App shortcut and widgets - Multiple source of artwork - Backup support of settings and data - In-app language switch - ...
Visit project homepage ob GitHub to learn more.
Phonograph Plus is available on GitHub Releases (Stable Channel and Preview Channel) and F-Droid (Stable Channel)
Licensed under GPL-3.0-only, by chr_56.
What's New in v1.12.1
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- 1.12.1(1121) 2026.03.26
- - Improve: search input debouncing for better responsiveness
- - Improve: merging and throttling error notifications about background metadata extraction
- - Development: upgrade Kotlin to 2.3.20, update dependencies
Version history
Mar 27, 2026 · 5.4 MB · Android API 24–35 · code 1121
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- 1.12.1(1121) 2026.03.26
- - Improve: search input debouncing for better responsiveness
- - Improve: merging and throttling error notifications about background metadata extraction
- - Development: upgrade Kotlin to 2.3.20, update dependencies
SHA-256 54d9e39694d8e3ea65a40c211b7f31f5274263007d757d3f351d2cd5060a58ff
Mar 12, 2026 · 5.4 MB · Android API 24–35 · code 1120
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- 1.12.0(1120) 2026.03.11
- - Fix: incorrect album artist extraction
- - Improve: sync initial search tab with the current tab
- - Improve: slightly faster search response
- - Improve: genre search support
- - Improve: support adjusting lyrics fonts size and alignment
SHA-256 5a71a3d7231514989c6e419a0f091795df050d8d4d99ea420e4137414ad8d52f
Feb 10, 2026 · 5.8 MB · Android API 24–35 · code 1115
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- 1.11.5(1114) 2026.02.05
- - Fix: glitchy Monet colors (since v1.11.3)
- - Fix: inverted text color on some dialogs in non-auto theme
- - Improve: support resetting Path Filter settings
- - New: add the shortcut of 'Scan Media' if no items to display
- - Development: build with JDK 21
SHA-256 72eeda90f5619dbb2e87a4777bb350a1cd0cc71b8457912aa16aba93cfba9a9c
Will it run on your device?
92%
- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
- Multiple CPU architectures are covered.
- Aligned with the latest Android target SDK expectations.
Installation Guide
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Enable "Allow from this source" for your browser or file manager
Open the downloaded APK file from your Downloads folder
Tap "Install" and wait for installation to complete
Launch the app from your home screen
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