# mpv-android (open-source video player)

> mpv-android is a free, open-source video player for Android. Listen to music and watch videos. It has 3,608 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license, and you can install it from F-Droid and Google Play.

mpv-android is a video player for Android based on libmpv. Features: * Hardware and software video decoding * Gesture-based seeking, volume/brightness control and more * libass support for styled subtitles * Secondary (or dual) subtitle support * Advanced video settings (interpolation, debanding, scalers, ...) * Play network streams with the "Open URL" function * Background playback, Picture-in-Picture, keyboard input supported

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android |
| Platforms | Android |
| Built with | Kotlin |
| GitHub stars | 3,608 |
| License | MIT (open source) |
| F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/packages/is.xyz.mpv/ (package is.xyz.mpv) |
| F-Droid anti-features | none flagged |
| Google Play | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=is.xyz.mpv |
| App Store | not linked |
| Website | none listed |
| Official | no |
| Category | Video players |
| Latest release | 2026-09-17 (Sep 17, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 7, 2026 |

F-Droid builds its apps from source and flags anti-features: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/

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