Every line of it is public. You can read the source, build it yourself and check the file you downloaded against what the build produces. It contains no advertising or analytics library of any kind, and sends nothing anywhere except to the services you switch on yourself.

Why isn't Blazify on the Google Play Store?

Apps that stream audio from YouTube are removed from it, which is why no player in this category is there. It is a rule about distribution, not a judgement about the app.

What does Blazify cost?

Nothing. There is no advertising, no subscription and no paid tier. It is free software under the GPL-3.0 licence.

Blazify: a free, open source music player for Android, Windows, Linux and iPhone, with no advertisements and no tracking. An alternative to Spotify and YouTube Music that plays any song on demand, downloads for offline listening, and shows word by word synced lyrics.

No ads · Offline downloads · Background play

Stream it.

FEEL IT.

Own your

SOUND.

Millions of songs, and the words as they're sung.

A music player that streams anything, keeps what you want offline, and never asks you to sign in or sit through an advert.

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668 downloads
and counting

Word-by-word synced lyrics

Ten-band equalizer, 13 presets

Colour taken from the artwork

Listen together with friends

No ads, ever

Background playback

Offline downloads

Phone and desktop

Free and open source

Everywhere you listen

One player, built natively for each place you use it. Pick yours.

Android

Version 9.13.2 · 26 MB · Android 8+

Streaming, offline downloads, synced lyrics, equalizer, Android Auto and home-screen widgets.

Download APK

Windows

Version 1.0.5 · 164 MB · installer

The desktop player with its audio library bundled in. Installs without an administrator password.

Download for Windows

Linux

Version 1.0.5 · deb · AppImage · tar.gz

Podcasts, chapters, transcripts and media-key support. Three package shapes for any distribution.

iOS

Version 0.1.0 · 5 MB · sideload

Search, library, playlists and synced lyrics, sideloaded with SideStore or AltStore. No App Store needed.

Download IPA

See it move

Real screens, straight from the app. Colour is pulled from whatever is playing.

On the desktop

The words, as they're sung

Not a block of text scrolling past. Every word lights up on its beat. And the colour comes from the artwork, so the app looks different for every song.

Ember

Blazify demo

0:000:18

Live demo

Fair questions

You are being asked to install something from a stranger on the internet. These are the answers.

Is it safe?

Every line of it is public. You can read the source, build it yourself, and check the file you downloaded against the one the build produces. That is more than you can do with almost anything on the Play Store.

It asks for no permissions it does not use, contains no advertising or analytics library of any kind, and sends nothing anywhere except to the services you switch on yourself.

Why isn't it on the Play Store?

Apps that stream audio from YouTube are removed from it. That is why none of the players in this category are there. It is a rule about distribution, not a judgement about the app.

Why does Android warn me?

Android shows that warning for any app not installed from a store, whoever wrote it. It is telling you that nobody has vetted the file. That is true, and it is exactly why the source being public matters.

Does it need root?

No. It is an ordinary app and runs on any phone with Android 8.0 or newer.

How do I get updates?

Blazify checks for them itself and offers to download and install a new version when there is one.

If you would rather one app managed everything you sideload, Obtainium watches this project and updates it for you.

Do I have to sign in?

No. Search, playback, downloads, lyrics and the equalizer all work without an account.

Signing in with Google adds your own YouTube Music library, your playlists and history, and recommendations based on what you actually play. It is entirely optional and you can sign out at any time.

Will it drain my battery?

No more than any music player. It streams audio only, never video, so it uses less data and less battery than watching the same song on YouTube.

What does it cost?

Nothing, and there is nothing to buy inside it. No advertisements, no subscription, no paid tier. It is free software under the GPL-3.0 licence.

Everything, nothing extra

The things a music player should do, done properly. Works signed out; signs in when you want it to.

Millions of songs

Search by name or browse songs, albums, artists and playlists.

The music already on your phone

Point it at a folder and your own files play beside everything else, in the same queue, with the same equalizer. Covers are found for tracks that have none.

Synced lyrics

Word-by-word highlighting, with translation and romanisation.

Ten-band equalizer

Thirteen presets, a live response curve, bass boost and reverb.

Offline downloads

Keep anything for later, or let it hold songs as you play them.

Gapless playback

The next track is ready before the current one ends.

Your colours

Material You, or colour taken straight from the album artwork.

Listen together

Share a room code and play in sync with friends.

Backup & restore

Your whole library in one file. Move it to any device.

Sign in, if you want

Optional. Sign in with Google and the recommendations start knowing what you actually play.

Synced with YouTube Music

Your library, playlists, likes and history, the same on your phone, your desktop and the web.

Playlists that travel

Make new ones, edit them, or play the ones you already have. Changes go both ways.

Radio from anything

Start an endless station from any song, artist or album when you want it to keep going.

Next to the ones you pay for

Where Blazify wins, and where it does not. Both are worth knowing before you install anything.

	Blazify	Spotify Free	Spotify Premium	YouTube Music Premium
Price	Free	Free	Paid monthly	Paid monthly
Advertisements	None	Between tracks	None	None
Play any song on demand	Yes	Mostly shuffle on mobile	Yes	Yes
Offline downloads	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Plays with the screen off	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Synced lyrics	Word by word	Line by line	Line by line	Line by line
Equalizer	Ten bands, 13 presets	Five bands	Five bands	None
Account required	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tracking and analytics	None	Yes	Yes	Yes
Source code you can read	Yes, GPL-3.0	No	No	No
On Google Play	No, sideloaded	Yes	Yes	Yes
TV, watch and speaker apps	Android Auto only	Yes	Yes	Yes
Also on desktop and iPhone	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Why another one

There are a dozen open-source music players. Here is what is actually different about this one, including the part that is not flattering.

Almost every open-source music player that streams from YouTube is built on the same foundation, and inherits the same worst failure along with it: songs that stop partway through, or refuse to start at all, whenever YouTube changes something at their end. If you have tried one of these apps and quietly given up on it, that is almost certainly what happened.

Most of the work here has gone into that. The player was asking for audio streams it had no way to decode, which guaranteed a refusal on a step that reported no error at all. Two of the three fallback paths had been quietly returning nothing for every song, because the component they depend on was never handed anything to fetch with. Both are fixed. It is an arms race rather than a bug, so what matters is not that it works today but how quickly it gets repaired when it next breaks.

The other difference is reach. Nearly all of them run on one platform. Blazify is one project across Android, Windows, Linux and iPhone, written by one person in Kathmandu, where a dropped connection is ordinary and mobile data is not cheap. That is why the music already on your phone plays beside everything streamed, and why offline was never an afterthought.

It is GPL-3.0, so you can read every line of it. Playback is Media3, lyrics come from LrcLib among others, and it is submitted to F-Droid, whose build servers compile it from source and check the result matches the file published here.

NO ADS. NO TRACKING.

Blazify has no advertising, no analytics and no tracking libraries of any kind. Nothing is sent anywhere except to the services you turn on yourself. Signing in is optional. Almost everything works without an account.

Rajendra Pandey

Developer · Kathmandu, Nepal

I built Blazify because every music app I tried wanted my money, my attention, or my data. Usually all three. This one asks for none of it. It is written in the open, it will stay free, and every release is tested on my own phone before anyone else gets it.

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