Mobile app · Media players & centers
Soul Searching
A complete and powerful music player for Android.
- Completely free
- Android
- Open source
Overview
Soul Searching is a music player, available on Android.
Features described in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: playlists, statistics and charts, lyrics display, self-hosting on your own server, multi-user support.
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 complete and powerful music player for Android.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Playlist creation” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Listening statistics (by months, year, globally)” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Synchronized lyrics (from the audio file or an external source)” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Soul Searching is a comprehensive, powerful, and customizable music app for listening to your local or remote (on a self-hosted cloud) music on the following platforms:” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
- “managing multiple users” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
At a glance
All of Soul Searching is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.
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
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