/spotube

🎧 Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile!

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An open source, cross-platform Spotify client compatible across multiple platforms
utilizing Spotify's data API and YouTube (or Piped.video or JioSaavn) as an audio source,
eliminating the need for Spotify Premium

Btw it's not another Electron app😉

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Spotube Desktop

Spotube Mobile

🌃 Features

  • 🚫 No ads, thanks to the use of public & free Spotify and YT Music APIs¹
  • ⬇️ 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 the creators by watching/liking/subscribing to the artists' YouTube channels or liking their tracks on Spotify (or purchasing a Spotify Premium subscription too).

❌ Unsupported features

  • 🗣️ Spotify Shows & Podcasts: Shows and Podcasts can 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 releases usually appear after 3-4 months.
This handy table lists all methods you can use to install Spotube:

Platform Package/Installation Method
Windows Windows Download
MacOS MacOS Download
Android Get it on Google Play
APK download
Download from F-Droid
Flatpak

flatpak install com.github.KRTirtho.Spotube

Download on Flathub
AppImage Download AppImage

Note: AppimageLauncher is required!
Debian/Ubuntu Debian/Ubuntu Download

Then run: sudo apt install ./Spotube-linux-x86_64.deb
Arch/Manjaro

With pamac: sudo pamac install spotube-bin

With yay: yay -Sy spotube-bin
Fedora/OpenSuse Fedora/OpenSuse Download

For Fedora: sudo dnf install ./Spotube-linux-x86_64.rpm

For OpenSuse: sudo zypper in ./Spotube-linux-x86_64.rpm
Linux (tarball) Tarball Download
Windows - Chocolatey

choco install spotube
Windows - Scoop

scoop bucket add extras

scoop install spotube
Windows - WinGet

winget install --id KRTirtho.Spotube

🔄 Nightly Builds

Grab the latest nightly builds of Spotube from the GitHub Releases.

🕳️ Building from source

GitHub Workflow Status

You can compile Spotube's source code by following these instructions.

👥 The Spotube team

💼 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 - Flutter transforms the app development process. Build, test, and deploy beautiful mobile, web, desktop, and embedded apps from a single codebase
  2. Spotify API - The Spotify Web API is a RESTful API that provides access to Spotify data
  3. Piped - Piped is a privacy friendly alternative YouTube frontend, which is efficient and scalable by design.
  4. YouTube - 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
  5. JioSaavn - 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
  6. Linux - 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
  7. AUR - AUR stands for Arch User Repository. It is a community-driven repository for Arch-based Linux distributions users
  8. Flatpak - Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux
  9. SponsorBlock - SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos.
  10. Inno Setup - Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs by Jordan Russell and Martijn Laan
  11. F-Droid - 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

Dependencies

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  2. async - Utility functions and classes related to the 'dart:async' library.
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  6. buttons_tabbar - A Flutter package that implements a TabBar where each label is a toggle button.
  7. cached_network_image - Flutter library to load and cache network images. Can also be used with placeholder and error widgets.
  8. catcher_2 - Plugin for error catching which provides multiple handlers for dealing with errors when they are not caught by the developer.
  9. collection - Collections and utilities functions and classes related to collections.
  10. cupertino_icons - Default icons asset for Cupertino widgets based on Apple styled icons
  11. curved_navigation_bar - Stunning Animating Curved Shape Navigation Bar. Adjustable color, background color, animation curve, animation duration.
  12. dbus - A native Dart implementation of the D-Bus message bus client. This package allows Dart applications to directly access services on the Linux desktop.
  13. device_info_plus - Flutter plugin providing detailed information about the device (make, model, etc.), and Android or iOS version the app is running on.
  14. device_preview - Approximate how your Flutter app looks and performs on another device.
  15. dio - A powerful HTTP networking package,supports Interceptors,Aborting and canceling a request,Custom adapters, Transformers, etc.
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  18. envied - Explicitly reads environment variables into a dart file from a .env file for more security and faster start up times.
  19. file_selector - Flutter plugin for opening and saving files, or selecting directories, using native file selection UI.
  20. fl_query - Asynchronous data caching, refetching & invalidation library for Flutter
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  22. fl_query_devtools - Devtools support for Fl-Query
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  26. flutter_feather_icons - Feather is a collection of simply beautiful open source icons. Each icon is designed on a 24x24 grid with an emphasis on simplicity, consistency and usability.
  27. flutter_hooks - A flutter implementation of React hooks. It adds a new kind of widget with enhanced code reuse.
  28. flutter_inappwebview - A Flutter plugin that allows you to add an inline webview, to use an headless webview, and to open an in-app browser window.
  29. flutter_native_splash - Customize Flutter's default white native splash screen with background color and splash image. Supports dark mode, full screen, and more.
  30. flutter_riverpod - A simple way to access state from anywhere in your application while robust and testable.
  31. flutter_secure_storage - Flutter Secure Storage provides API to store data in secure storage. Keychain is used in iOS, KeyStore based solution is used in Android.
  32. flutter_svg - An SVG rendering and widget library for Flutter, which allows painting and displaying Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1 files.
  33. form_validator - Simplest form validation library for flutter's form field widgets
  34. fuzzywuzzy - An implementation of the popular fuzzywuzzy package in Dart, to suit all your fuzzy string matching/searching needs!
  35. google_fonts - A Flutter package to use fonts from fonts.google.com. Supports HTTP fetching, caching, and asset bundling.
  36. go_router - A declarative router for Flutter based on Navigation 2 supporting deep linking, data-driven routes and more
  37. hive - Lightweight and blazing fast key-value database written in pure Dart. Strongly encrypted using AES-256.
  38. hive_flutter - Extension for Hive. Makes it easier to use Hive in Flutter apps.
  39. hooks_riverpod - A simple way to access state from anywhere in your application while robust and testable.
  40. html - APIs for parsing and manipulating HTML content outside the browser.
  41. http - A composable, multi-platform, Future-based API for HTTP requests.
  42. image_picker - Flutter plugin for selecting images from the Android and iOS image library, and taking new pictures with the camera.
  43. intl - Contains code to deal with internationalized/localized messages, date and number formatting and parsing, bi-directional text, and other internationalization issues.
  44. introduction_screen - Introduction/Onboarding package for flutter app with some customizations possibilities
  45. json_annotation - Classes and helper functions that support JSON code generation via the json_serializable package.
  46. logger - Small, easy to use and extensible logger which prints beautiful logs.
  47. media_kit - A cross-platform video player & audio player for Flutter & Dart. Performant, stable, feature-proof & modular.
  48. media_kit_libs_audio - package:media_kit audio (only) playback native libraries for all platforms.
  49. metadata_god - Plugin for retrieving and writing audio tags/metadata from audio files
  50. mime - Utilities for handling media (MIME) types, including determining a type from a file extension and file contents.
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  52. palette_generator - Flutter package for generating palette colors from a source image.
  53. 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.
  54. path_provider - Flutter plugin for getting commonly used locations on host platform file systems, such as the temp and app data directories.
  55. permission_handler - Permission plugin for Flutter. This plugin provides a cross-platform (iOS, Android) API to request and check permissions.
  56. piped_client - API Client for piped.video
  57. popover - A popover is a transient view that appears above other content onscreen when you tap a control or in an area.
  58. scroll_to_index - Scroll to a specific child of any scrollable widget in Flutter
  59. shared_preferences - Flutter plugin for reading and writing simple key-value pairs. Wraps NSUserDefaults on iOS and SharedPreferences on Android.
  60. sidebarx - flutter multiplatform navigation sidebar / side navigationbar / drawer widget
  61. skeleton_text - A package that provides an easy way to add skeleton text loading animation in Flutter project. This project is a part of 101Loop community.
  62. smtc_windows - Windows SystemMediaTransportControls implementation for Flutter giving access to Windows OS Media Control applet.
  63. spotify - An incomplete dart library for interfacing with the Spotify Web API.
  64. stroke_text - A Simple Flutter plugin for applying stroke (border) style to a text widget
  65. system_theme - A plugin to get the current system theme info. Supports Android, Web, Windows, Linux and macOS
  66. titlebar_buttons - A package which provides most of the titlebar buttons from windows, linux and macos.
  67. url_launcher - Flutter plugin for launching a URL. Supports web, phone, SMS, and email schemes.
  68. uuid - RFC4122 (v1, v4, v5, v6, v7, v8) UUID Generator and Parser for Dart
  69. version - Provides a simple class for parsing and comparing semantic versions as defined by http://semver.org/
  70. visibility_detector - A widget that detects the visibility of its child and notifies a callback.
  71. window_manager - This plugin allows Flutter desktop apps to resizing and repositioning the window.
  72. youtube_explode_dart - A port in dart of the youtube explode library. Supports several API functions without the need of Youtube API Key.
  73. simple_icons - The Simple Icon pack available as Flutter Icons. Provides over 1500 Free SVG icons for popular brands.
  74. audio_service_mpris - audio_service platform interface supporting Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification.
  75. file_picker - A package that allows you to use a native file explorer to pick single or multiple absolute file paths, with extension filtering support.
  76. jiosaavn - Unofficial API client for jiosaavn.com
  77. very_good_infinite_list - A library for easily displaying paginated data, created by Very Good Ventures. Great for activity feeds, news feeds, and more.
  78. gap - Flutter widgets for easily adding gaps inside Flex widgets such as Columns and Rows or scrolling views.
  79. sliver_tools - A set of useful sliver tools that are missing from the flutter framework
  80. html_unescape - A small library for un-escaping HTML. Supports all Named Character References, Decimal Character References and Hexadecimal Character References.
  81. wikipedia_api - Wikipedia API for dart and flutter
  82. build_runner - A build system for Dart code generation and modular compilation.
  83. envied_generator - Generator for the Envied package. See https://pub.dev/packages/envied.
  84. flutter_distributor - A complete tool for packaging and publishing your Flutter apps.
  85. flutter_gen_runner - The Flutter code generator for your assets, fonts, colors, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs.
  86. flutter_launcher_icons - A package which simplifies the task of updating your Flutter app's launcher icon.
  87. flutter_lints - Recommended lints for Flutter apps, packages, and plugins to encourage good coding practices.
  88. hive_generator - Extension for Hive. Automatically generates TypeAdapters to store any class.
  89. json_serializable - Automatically generate code for converting to and from JSON by annotating Dart classes.
  90. pub_api_client - An API Client for Pub to interact with public package information.
  91. pubspec_parse - Simple package for parsing pubspec.yaml files with a type-safe API and rich error reporting.
  92. flutter_desktop_tools - Essential collection of tools for flutter desktop app development
  93. scrobblenaut - A deadly simple LastFM API Wrapper for Dart. So deadly simple that it's gonna hit the mark.
  94. window_size - Allows resizing and repositioning the window containing Flutter.
  95. draggable_scrollbar - A scrollbar that can be dragged for quickly navigation through a vertical list. Additional option is showing label next to scrollthumb with information about current item.
  96. dart_discord_rpc - Discord Rich Presence for Flutter & Dart apps & games.

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