Hi everyone,
I’m the developer behind Levyra, a free and open-source music player for Android and Windows that I’ve been building independently.
I started the project because I wanted an app that could handle both streaming and local music in one place, without user accounts, telemetry, or ads. It’s grown quite a bit since the initial prototype.
Here is an overview of what the app currently covers:
- Streaming and local files: search tracks, albums, and artists, stream online, or play your local audio collection within the same library.
- Offline downloads: downloads songs as standard audio files with metadata and artwork included.
- Audio and tuning: gapless playback, crossfade, source matching with automatic fallbacks, a 10-band equalizer, AutoEQ headphone correction profiles, and custom EQ preset import.
- Synchronized lyrics: real-time lyrics with manual timing offset, line-by-line seeking, and romanization.
- Music discovery and video: charts, new releases, recommendations, radio stations, and a toggle between audio-only and video playback with SponsorBlock support.
- Practical tools: multiple playback queues, listening statistics, ambient and internal song recognition, and full backup/restore for your library, playlists, and settings.
- Customization: motion artwork, customizable player interfaces, dark themes, and translations in 37 languages.
- Platform integration: Android Auto, Bluetooth controls, lock screen playback, and system media controls.
On the technical side, the Android app is written in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose and Media3. The Windows desktop version is built with Compose Multiplatform and libVLC.
The whole project is licensed under GPL-3.0 on GitHub. There are no subscriptions, paywalls, donations, or trackers. Levyra queries external endpoints to resolve streams, but it does not host or distribute media itself.
I recently put out version 2.6.5 for Android, which updates the interface to Material 3 Expressive, expands AutoEQ compatibility, and includes several playback bug fixes.
Since I’m maintaining this solo, honest feedback and bug reports are very welcome.
GitHub repository: https://github.com/LUC4N3X/Levyra-deepsound
Latest Android release: https://github.com/LUC4N3X/Levyra-deepsound/releases/latest
Hey, nice looking app. I’m definitely going to give it a try. Please ignore all the doomers who have nothing nice to say. AI is here to stay, no matter how much they complain.
At this point, it’s just a trend and a contrarian opinion “oh look at me, I hate AI”. I’ve vibe coded so many personal projects, and even vibe coding is actually fucking hard work. You can’t just tell a model “build this” and it builds it. You have to work with it for hours upon hours to get things the way you want them.
AI is here to stay. It’ll never go away, and some people need to make piece with this idea and move on with their lives.
Edit: this is probably a very long shot, but it would be fantastic if you made an iOS version of this.
Nope.
Super easy to not use it. Mad easy. Mind blowingly easy.
And the benefit is, much like art, I can feel good about the software I’m using. I can connect to the developer when I read their code and try and think of what they wanted to accomplish, line by line.
No such satisfaction with the slop-factory. Just joyless masturbation.
Thank you for the kind words and for giving my app a chance. It’s refreshing to hear from someone who understands that using AI doesn’t mean you can just press a button and have a finished app. There’s still a lot of work involved, and I’ve spent countless hours getting things the way I want them. As for iOS, it’s definitely something I’d like to explore in the future, but I’m working on everything alone, so I can’t promise anything yet. For now, I’m focusing on Android and Windows. Thanks again for the support, and I’d love to hear your thoughts once you’ve tried it
Bro, holy fucking shit! This app is fantastic. Wow. I’m now using it over my own app. Lmao. I’ll keep using it and report any issues on GitHub. Great work. Keep it up.