If you love listening to music, a good offline music player is essential to enhance your listening experience. A good offline music player not only offers an attractive user interface, but it also allows you to easily categorize and access your music. It also supports all the major musical file formats and allows you to adjust the equalization minutely so that your music sounds best to your ears. There are hundreds of both free and paid music players on Android but not all of them fulfill the above criteria. We know that because in the past few weeks apart from our own personal favorite music apps we tried and tested a lot of them and as a result we are bringing you the list of the 17 best offline music apps for Android:
- Best Offline Music Apps for Local Music
- Best Music Streaming Apps Which Let You Download Music for Offline Listening
Best Offline Music Apps for Local Music
1. PowerAmp Music Player
No offline music player list for Android can be complete without the PowerAmp Music Player as it is one of the best and most popular offline music players you can find on the Play Store. I am a fan of PowerAmp Music Player just for the plethora of features that it offers. Its exceptional audio enhancement features like, 10 bands optimized graphical equalizer, separate bass, and treble adjustment, stereo expansion, gapless playback, mono mixing, dynamic queue, and more allow me to set the music exactly to my liking.
Install: (Free trial, $3.99)
Pulsar Music Player has been a popular offline music player on Android for a long time thanks to its beautiful user interface which doesn’t feature any ads even though the app is completely free to use. The app also brings a ton of features to the table including gapless playback, lyrics display, crossfade, play speed adjustment, tag editing, last.fm scrobbling, Chromecast support, voice command, Android Auto support, and more. I also love that Pulsar Music Player comes with a built-in sleep timer which allows you to set it to automatically stop playing music after a certain time.
Install: (Free)
Musicolet Music Player is not something many of you may have heard of before, however, I can assure you that it’s one of the best music players for playing offline music that you can find on the Play Store. One of the best features of this app is that it doesn’t ask for internet permissions which is not something we have seen in many apps. With Musicolet, you can be sure that the app is not connecting to the internet in the background. That means no promotions and no ads, rather, a simple music player app which is good at what it is supposed to do. However, that also means that unlike other apps, it won’t be able to download the album artworks from the internet, so keep that in mind.
Another favorite music player of mine is the BlackPlayer Music Player. The app features a modern and minimalistic design which looks best on AMOLED displays thanks to the use of deep blacks all over the UI. The app brings a powerful 5 band equalizer with bass boost, 3D surround sound virtualizer and amplifier. Other features of this app include gapless playback, album cover management, support for Android Auto and Wear OS, sleep timer, and more. The only drawback of this app is that it is supported by ads and while the ads are not too distracting, they are there. Other than that, I don’t have any problems with this app.
5. GoneMad Player
Just like the PowerAmp music player, the GoneMad Player is also very popular and feature rich. The app features a powerful equalizer with 16 built-in presets which allows you to manage bass boost, balance, tempo, virtualizer, and limiter among other things. Other features of the app include gapless playback, sleep timer, crossfade, cue-sheet, tag editing, smart playlists, and more.
6. Canaree (Music Player)
Canaree is one of the most unique offline music players on this list and I have fallen in love with it over the past few days. First of all, the app offers a beautiful user interface which seems to be inspired by both iOS and Android’s Material Design Language. When it comes to features, the app brings 5-band equalizer, cross-fade and gapless playback, support for colorful widgets and dark mode, support for Android Auto and Wear OS, and more.
7. Stellio Player
One of my favorite music apps for offline listening on this list is the Stellio Player which I discovered while researching for this topic. I just love its now playing interface which is by far my favorite on this list. I mean look at the picture below. It just looks so clean despite providing you with all the controls that you need to access. I also love that the app allows you to access the equalizer directly from the now-playing screen with just one tap.
8. Pi Music Player
Pi Music Player is a very popular music app for Android which is great for people who want a simple and easy to use music app. The app supports Google’s Material Design language and fits right in with Android’s UI. When it comes to features, the app offers built-in 5-band equalizer with bass boost, 3D reverb effects, virtualizer along with 10 presets. Apart from the music files, the app also supports podcasts and audiobooks which is great for people who enjoy stories along with their music.
9. Retro Music Player
Retro Music Player is a good looking music app that works without an internet connection and brings a design language which is an amalgamation of Google’s Material Design and Apple’s iOS design. The app basically keeps the interactive elements of Material Design while the look and feel are inspired by iOS. This combination is quite good and makes using this app a joy. Users can also choose between white, dark, and black themes, the last being perfect for phones with AMOLED displays.
10. Shuttle Music Player
If you are looking for an open-source, fast, and easy to use music player, look no further than the Shuttle Music Player. The app sports a modern and minimalistic Material Design look which is both easy to navigate and beautiful to look at. The app also brings a 6-band equalizer with an extra bass boost. Other features include gapless playback, support for embedded lyrics, automatic artwork downloading, theming options, sleep timer, customizable widgets, and more. I love the Shuttle Music Player for its no-frills user interface and suggest it to anyone who is looking for a lightweight and feature-rich music player.
Phonograph is one of the few apps which totally adheres to the Google’s Material Design and hence it looks really beautiful. That also means that the user interface is very clean with no overblown menus to over-complicate the features. The app also integrates with Last.fm and automatically downloads additional information about songs and artists such as their images or biographies. One unique feature of Phonograph that I adore is the upcoming songs list which lets me easily see the next song in a playlist and skip it with just one tap.
The last music app on our list is the Music Player – MP3 Player which is meant for people who prefer colorful UI. The app supports all the audio formats and has a gorgeous equalizer which is very powerful with added effects including bass effects, reverb, and more. It’s theming engine is powerful and allows you to fully customize the look and feel of the app. Other than that it has all the usual features and you will be happy with it. That said, it does run ads and you will have to unlock the pro-version to get rid of them.
Supported File Formats: mp3, midi, wav, flac, aac, ape, and more.
Most of the streaming music services now allow users to download music if you are a paying member. This option is great for people who don’t want to spend time managing their music library but still want to have access to all the music in the world. Here are some of the best music streaming apps which allow you to take your music offline:
For Android users in India, probably the best music streaming service to use is Google Play Music. I mean, the app already comes pre-installed on your device and the service offers a collection of over 40 million songs from all over the world. The app is free to use with ads, however, if you want the offline music feature, you will have to pay a monthly fee. My favorite thing about Google Play Music is that not only it gives me access to songs but it also allows me to access podcasts and more than 50,000 radio stations around the world. The UI, although a little crowded, is still decent enough, and I have no qualms in recommending this service to you.
While I don’t recommend Apple Music to any Android user, it is a good option if you own a Mac or an iPhone in addition to your Android device. Apple Music offers one of the largest collection of songs of any music streaming service out there and often offers exclusives which make the service more valuable. The reason I don’t want to recommend it to Android users is that I hate its app’s design on Android. Apart from that, I believe that Apple Music offers more bang for your buck even though it’s a little more costly. As I said, if you are a part of Apple’s ecosystem, you should definitely try it out.
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