Mobile app · Media players & centers
Retro Music
Material You Design Music player for Android.
- Free, with trade-offs
- Android
- Open source
Overview
Retro Music is a music player, available on Android.
Features described in its F-Droid listing, in its GitHub repository and on its official website: themes and dark mode, playlists, 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
- “Material You Design Music player for Android” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Retro Music Player - The best Material design offline music player for Android.” — official website, 10 November 2026
- “Home screen widgets” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Easy drag to sort playlist & play queue” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Lyrics Support” — official website, 10 November 2026
At a glance
Retro Music is free, with trade-offs: it relies on a non-free online service.
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
- Flagged by F-Droid: relies on a non-free online service
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