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Gapless

Gapless is a music player, available on Linux: themes and dark mode.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Gapless is a music player, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing: themes and dark mode.

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
  • “A light weight music player written in GTK4, with a fluent adaptive user interface.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Gaussian blurred cover as background, follows GNOME light/dark mode.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Supports creating and editing playlists, drag cover to change order or add to another playlist.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Gapless is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-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
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Gapless (AKA: G4Music) is a light weight music player written in GTK4, focuses on large music collection. Features Supports most music file types, Samba and any other remote protocols (depends on GIO and GStreamer). Fast loading and parsing thousands of music files in very few seconds, monitor local changes. Low memory usage for large music collection with album covers (embedded and external), no thumbnail caches to store. Group and sorts by album/artist/title, shuffle list, full-text searching. Fluent adaptive user interface for different screen (Desktop, Tablet, Mobile). Gaussian blurred cover as background, follows GNOME light/dark mode. Supports creating and editing playlists, drag cover to change order or add to another playlist. Supports drag and drop with other apps. Supports audio peaks visualizer. Supports gapless playback. Supports normalizing volume with ReplayGain. Supports specified audio sink. Supports MPRIS control.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

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

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