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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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