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Elisa

Play local music and listen to online radio.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, Linux and Android
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Elisa is a music player, available on Windows, Linux and Android.

Features described in its Flathub listing, on its official website and in its Winget manifest: playlists and lyrics display.

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
  • “Music Player” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “With Elisa, you can browse your local music collection by genre, artist, album, or track, listen to online radio, create and manage playlists, display lyrics, and more.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “With Elisa, you can browse your local music collection by genre, artist, album, or track, listen to online radio, create and manage playlists, display lyrics, and more.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Elisa is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (LGPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

The Elisa music player is developed by the KDE community and strives to be simple and pleasant to use. With Elisa, you can browse your local music collection by genre, artist, album, or track, listen to online radio, create and manage playlists, display lyrics, and more. Elisa supports your full KDE color scheme when used on the Plasma desktop, or else the standard light and dark modes. Chill out with Party Mode, which puts your music's album art front and center.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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