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Lotus

Lotus is a music player, available on Android: themes and dark mode, playlists, lyrics display.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

Lotus is a music player, available on Android.

Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: themes and dark mode, playlists, lyrics display.

File formats mentioned: MP3, FLAC, OGG and WAV.

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 designed with Material You” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Music player designed with Material You” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Easily browse tracks, albums, artists, and genres, and create custom playlists” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Enhance your listening experience with synchronized lyrics from LRCLIB” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Lotus 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
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Few recent updates

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Listing written automatically from verified facts.

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