Mobile app · Media players & centers
BlackCandy
Black Candy for Android.
- Completely free
- Android
- Open source
Overview
Features described in its F-Droid listing: self-hosting on your own server.
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
Excerpts that establish this information
- “Black Candy is an open source, self-hosted music streaming server.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
At a glance
All of BlackCandy is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.
Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.
Strengths
- Open source code
- No advertising
- Commercial use allowed
Sources and checks
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