Mobile app · Media players & centers
Spotube
Lightweight & resource friendly music client.
- Free, with trade-offs
- Windows and Android
- Open source
- No account
Overview
Features described in its Winget manifest, in its F-Droid listing and in its GitHub repository: API for automation and integration, lyrics display, playlists.
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
- “It utilizes the power of Spotify & Youtube's public API & creates a hazardless, performant & resource friendly User Experience” — Winget, 10 November 2026
- “Time synced lyrics” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Bring your own music metadata/playlist/audio-source with plugins created by community or by yourself.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
At a glance
Spotube is free, with trade-offs: it relies on a non-free online service.
Its licence (BSD-4-Clause) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.
Strengths
- Open source code
- No account needed
- No advertising
- Commercial use allowed
Weaknesses
- Flagged by F-Droid: relies on a non-free online service
Sources and checks
- Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
- Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
- Last technical check: 6 November 2026
- Description from F-Droid — F-Droid (citation courte)
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