# Retro Music (open-source music player)

> Retro Music is a free, open-source music player for Android. Material You Design Music player for Android. It has 5,338 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0-only license, and you can install it from F-Droid and Google Play.

Retro Music Player Included Features Base 3 themes (Clearly White, Kinda Dark and Just Black) Material You support on Android 12+ Gapless playback Crossfade playback Choose from 10+ now playing themes Android auto support Wallpaper accent picker on Android 8.1+ Home screen widgets Lock screen playback controls Sleep timer Easy drag to sort playlist & play queue Tag editor Create, edit and import playlists Browse and play your music by songs, albums, artists, playlists and genre Smart Auto Playlists - Recently played, most played and history

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/RetroMusicPlayer/RetroMusicPlayer |
| Platforms | Android |
| Built with | Jetpack Compose |
| GitHub stars | 5,338 |
| License | GPL-3.0-only (open source) |
| F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/packages/code.name.monkey.retromusic/ (package code.name.monkey.retromusic) |
| F-Droid anti-features | Relies on a non-free network service |
| Google Play | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=code.name.monkey.retromusic |
| App Store | not linked |
| Website | https://retromusic.app/ |
| Official | no |
| Category | Music players |
| Latest release | v7.0.3 (Aug 13, 2026) |
| Last commit | Sep 29, 2026 |

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

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