An open source, cross-platform Spotify client compatible across multiple platformsutilizing Spotify's data API and YouTube, Piped.video or JioSaavn as an audio source,
eliminating the need for Spotify Premium Btw it's not just another Electron app 😉
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🌃 Features
- 🚫 No ads, thanks to the use of public & free Spotify and YT Music APIs¹
- ⬇️ Freely downloadable tracks
- 🖥️ 📱 Cross-platform support
- 🪶 Small size & less data usage
- 🕵️ Anonymous/guest login
- 🕒 Time synced lyrics
- ✋ No telemetry, diagnostics or user data collection
- 🚀 Native performance
- 📖 Open source/libre software
- 🔉 Playback control is done locally, not on the server
¹ It is still recommended to support creators by engaging with their YouTube channels/Spotify tracks (or preferably by buying their merch/concert tickets/physical media).
❌ Unsupported features
- 🗣️ Spotify Shows & Podcasts: Shows and Podcasts will never be supported because the audio tracks are only available on Spotify and accessing them would require Spotify Premium.
- 🎧 Spotify Listen Along: Coming soon!
📜 ⬇️ Installation guide
New versions usually release every 3-4 months.
This handy table lists all the methods you can use to install Spotube:
| Platform | Package/Installation Method |
|---|---|
| Windows |
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| MacOS |
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| Android |
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| Flatpak |
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| AppImage | AppImage's lacking stability led to it's temporal removal. More information at https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/issues/1082 |
| Debian/Ubuntu |
Then run: |
| Arch/Manjaro |
With pamac: With yay: |
| Fedora/OpenSuse |
For Fedora: For OpenSuse: |
| Linux (tarball) |
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| Macos - Homebrew |
brew tap krtirtho/apps
brew install --cask spotube
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| Windows - Chocolatey |
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| Windows - Scoop |
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| Windows - WinGet |
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🔄 Nightly Builds
Grab the latest nightly builds of Spotube from the GitHub Releases.
🕳️ Building from source
You can compile Spotube's source code by following these instructions.
👥 The Spotube team
- Kingkor Roy Tirtho - The Founder, Maintainer and Lead Developer
- RaptaG - The GitHub Moderator and Community Manager
- Owen Connor - The Cool Discord Moderator
- Meenbeese - The Android Developer
- Piotr Rogowski - The MacOS Developer
- Rusty Apple - The Mysterious Unknown Guy
💼 License
Spotube is open source and licensed under the BSD-4-Clause License.
If you are concerned, you can read the reason of choosing this license.
[Click to show] 🙏 Services/Package/Plugin Credits
### Services
1. [Flutter](https://flutter.dev) - Flutter transforms the app development process. Build, test, and deploy beautiful mobile, web, desktop, and embedded apps from a single codebase
1. [Spotify API](https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api) - The Spotify Web API is a RESTful API that provides access to Spotify data
1. [Piped](https://piped-docs.kavin.rocks/) - Piped is a privacy friendly alternative YouTube frontend, which is efficient and scalable by design.
1. [YouTube](https://youtube.com/) - YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005
1. [JioSaavn](https://www.jiosaavn.com) - JioSaavn is an Indian online music streaming service and a digital distributor of Bollywood, English and other regional Indian music across the world. Since it was founded in 2007 as Saavn, the company has acquired rights to over 5 crore (50 million) music tracks in 15 languages
1. [SongLink](https://song.link) - SongLink is a free smart link service that helps you share music with your audience. It's a one-stop-shop for creating smart links for music, podcasts, and other audio content
1. [LRCLib](https://lrclib.net/) - A public synced lyric API
1. [Linux](https://www.linux.org) - Linux is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution
1. [AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org) - AUR stands for Arch User Repository. It is a community-driven repository for Arch-based Linux distributions users
1. [Flatpak](https://flatpak.org) - Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux
1. [SponsorBlock](https://sponsor.ajay.app) - SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos.
1. [Inno Setup](https://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) - Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs by Jordan Russell and Martijn Laan
1. [F-Droid](https://f-droid.org) - F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device
1. [LastFM](https://last.fm) - Last.fm is a music streaming and discovery platform that helps users discover and share new music. It tracks users' music listening habits across many devices and platforms.
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1. [audio_service_mpris](https://github.com/bdrazhzhov/audio-service-mpris) - audio_service platform interface supporting Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification.
1. [audio_service](https://pub.dev/packages/audio_service) - Flutter plugin to play audio in the background while the screen is off.
1. [audio_session](https://github.com/ryanheise/audio_session) - Sets the iOS audio session category and Android audio attributes for your app, and manages your app's audio focus, mixing and ducking behaviour.
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1. [dart_discord_rpc](https://github.com/alexmercerind/dart_discord_rpc) - Discord Rich Presence for Flutter & Dart apps & games.
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1. [dio](https://github.com/cfug/dio) - A powerful HTTP networking package,supports Interceptors,Aborting and canceling a request,Custom adapters, Transformers, etc.
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1. [envied](https://github.com/petercinibulk/envied) - Explicitly reads environment variables into a dart file from a .env file for more security and faster start up times.
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1. [freezed](https://pub.dev/packages/freezed) - Code generation for immutable classes that has a simple syntax/API without compromising on the features.
1. [fuzzywuzzy](https://github.com/sphericalkat/dart-fuzzywuzzy) - An implementation of the popular fuzzywuzzy package in Dart, to suit all your fuzzy string matching/searching needs!
1. [gap](https://github.com/letsar/gap) - Flutter widgets for easily adding gaps inside Flex widgets such as Columns and Rows or scrolling views.
1. [go_router](https://pub.dev/packages/go_router) - A declarative router for Flutter based on Navigation 2 supporting deep linking, data-driven routes and more
1. [google_fonts](https://pub.dev/packages/google_fonts) - A Flutter package to use fonts from fonts.google.com. Supports HTTP fetching, caching, and asset bundling.
1. [hive_flutter](https://github.com/hivedb/hive/tree/master/hive_flutter) - Extension for Hive. Makes it easier to use Hive in Flutter apps.
1. [hive_generator](https://github.com/hivedb/hive/tree/master/hive_generator) - Extension for Hive. Automatically generates TypeAdapters to store any class.
1. [hive](https://github.com/hivedb/hive/tree/master/hive) - Lightweight and blazing fast key-value database written in pure Dart. Strongly encrypted using AES-256.
1. [hooks_riverpod](https://riverpod.dev) - A reactive caching and data-binding framework. Riverpod makes working with asynchronous code a breeze.
1. [html_unescape](https://github.com/filiph/html_unescape) - A small library for un-escaping HTML. Supports all Named Character References, Decimal Character References and Hexadecimal Character References.
1. [html](https://pub.dev/packages/html) - APIs for parsing and manipulating HTML content outside the browser.
1. [http](https://pub.dev/packages/http) - A composable, multi-platform, Future-based API for HTTP requests.
1. [image_picker](https://pub.dev/packages/image_picker) - Flutter plugin for selecting images from the Android and iOS image library, and taking new pictures with the camera.
1. [intl](https://pub.dev/packages/intl) - Contains code to deal with internationalized/localized messages, date and number formatting and parsing, bi-directional text, and other internationalization issues.
1. [introduction_screen](https://pub.dev/packages/introduction_screen) - Introduction/Onboarding package for flutter app with some customizations possibilities
1. [io](https://pub.dev/packages/io) - Utilities for the Dart VM Runtime including support for ANSI colors, file copying, and standard exit code values.
1. [jiosaavn](https://github.com/KRTirtho/jiosaavn) - Unofficial API client for jiosaavn.com
1. [json_annotation](https://pub.dev/packages/json_annotation) - Classes and helper functions that support JSON code generation via the `json_serializable` package.
1. [json_serializable](https://pub.dev/packages/json_serializable) - Automatically generate code for converting to and from JSON by annotating Dart classes.
1. [local_notifier](https://github.com/leanflutter/local_notifier) - This plugin allows Flutter desktop apps to displaying local notifications.
1. [logger](https://pub.dev/packages/logger) - Small, easy to use and extensible logger which prints beautiful logs.
1. [lrc](https://pub.dev/packages/lrc) - A Dart-only package that creates, parses, and handles LRC, which is a format that stores song lyrics.
1. [media_kit_libs_audio](https://github.com/media-kit/media-kit.git) - package:media_kit audio (only) playback native libraries for all platforms.
1. [media_kit](https://github.com/media-kit/media-kit) - A cross-platform video player & audio player for Flutter & Dart. Performant, stable, feature-proof & modular.
1. [metadata_god](https://github.com/KRTirtho/metadata_god) - Plugin for retrieving and writing audio tags/metadata from audio files
1. [mime](https://pub.dev/packages/mime) - Utilities for handling media (MIME) types, including determining a type from a file extension and file contents.
1. [package_info_plus](https://plus.fluttercommunity.dev/) - Flutter plugin for querying information about the application package, such as CFBundleVersion on iOS or versionCode on Android.
1. [palette_generator](https://pub.dev/packages/palette_generator) - Flutter package for generating palette colors from a source image.
1. [path_provider](https://pub.dev/packages/path_provider) - Flutter plugin for getting commonly used locations on host platform file systems, such as the temp and app data directories.
1. [path](https://pub.dev/packages/path) - A string-based path manipulation library. All of the path operations you know and love, with solid support for Windows, POSIX (Linux and Mac OS X), and the web.
1. [permission_handler](https://pub.dev/packages/permission_handler) - Permission plugin for Flutter. This plugin provides a cross-platform (iOS, Android) API to request and check permissions.
1. [piped_client](https://github.com/KRTirtho/piped_client) - API Client for piped.video
1. [popover](https://github.com/minikin/popover) - A popover is a transient view that appears above other content onscreen when you tap a control or in an area.
1. [process_run](https://github.com/tekartik/process_run.dart/blob/master/packages/process_run) - Process run helpers for Linux/Win/Mac and which like feature for finding executables.
1. [pub_api_client](https://github.com/leoafarias/pub_api_client) - An API Client for Pub to interact with public package information.
1. [pubspec_parse](https://pub.dev/packages/pubspec_parse) - Simple package for parsing pubspec.yaml files with a type-safe API and rich error reporting.
1. [riverpod_lint](https://riverpod.dev) - Riverpod_lint is a developer tool for users of Riverpod, designed to help stop common issues and simplify repetitive tasks.
1. [scrobblenaut](https://github.com/Nebulino/Scrobblenaut) - A deadly simple LastFM API Wrapper for Dart. So deadly simple that it's gonna hit the mark.
1. [scroll_to_index](https://github.com/quire-io/scroll-to-index) - Scroll to a specific child of any scrollable widget in Flutter
1. [shared_preferences](https://pub.dev/packages/shared_preferences) - Flutter plugin for reading and writing simple key-value pairs. Wraps NSUserDefaults on iOS and SharedPreferences on Android.
1. [shelf_router](https://pub.dev/packages/shelf_router) - A convenient request router for the shelf web-framework, with support for URL-parameters, nested routers and routers generated from source annotations.
1. [shelf_web_socket](https://pub.dev/packages/shelf_web_socket) - A shelf handler that wires up a listener for every connection.
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1. [simple_icons](https://teavelopment.com/) - The Simple Icon pack available as Flutter Icons. Provides over 1500 Free SVG icons for popular brands.
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1. [smtc_windows](https://github.com/KRTirtho/smtc_windows) - Windows `SystemMediaTransportControls` implementation for Flutter giving access to Windows OS Media Control applet.
1. [spotify](https://github.com/rinukkusu/spotify-dart) - An incomplete dart library for interfacing with the Spotify Web API.
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[Click to show] 🙏 Services/Package/Plugin Credits