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phiola

phiola is a music player, available on Android: playlists and command-line use.

  • Completely free
  • Android
  • Open source

Overview

phiola is a music player, available on Android.

Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: playlists and command-line use.

File formats mentioned: MP3, FLAC, OGG, OPUS, WAV, AAC, MP4, MKV, WEBM and AVI.

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
  • “Fast audio player, recorder, converter” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “Manage your playlists and audio files” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
  • “It can play audio files from your device or a remote server, record audio from your microphone or an internet radio stream, and convert audio into various formats.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “You can control phiola via CLI, TUI, GUI, IPC socket (UNIX socket / named pipe), or its API (C / Java).” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (BSD-2-Clause) 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

  • 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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