Phonograph Plus vs Vanilla Music
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Phonograph Plus
An independent fork of Phonograph in development Phonograph is a light-weighted material designed local music player for Android. Phonograph Plus is an independent fork of Phonograph since it is no longer maintained, and has been in maintenance and development since 2021. Phonograph Plus inherits all features from Phonograph: - Light weight - Offline, AD-free and privacy - Classic Material Design 2 - Night mode (Light, Dark, Black) supporting automatically switching - Customizable theme color (primary, accent) with Monet support - Foundational audio playing function (including speed control, sleep timer and equalizer externally provided by system) - Flexible queue management (shuffle, repeat, freely rearrange by dragging, queue snapshots) - Lyrics support (both synchronized .lrc lyrics and text lyrics, embed or external) - Flexible playback notifications that are highly customizable - Flexible music organization, organised by songs, artist, albums, genres and folders (flatten or treed), ordered by various orders, with multiple selection support, viewed in grid or list with various layout style - Flexible main player user interface that are highly customizable - Android Auto support - Highly customizable behaviours for clicking - Path filter (excluded mode or included mode) - Search support - Favorite songs support - File Playlist support (viewing and basic editing; also pin-able) - Internal Database Playlist support - Play history and frequency record, and last added songs by flexible time intervals - Enhanced audio metadata viewer and tag editor - App shortcut and widgets - Multiple source of artwork - Backup support of settings and data - In-app language switch - ... Visit project homepage ob GitHub to learn more. Phonograph Plus is available on GitHub Releases (Stable Channel and Preview Channel) and F-Droid (Stable Channel)
Vanilla Music
Music player with a simple interface similar to the stock music player. Supports browsing by folder, queueing, shake-to-skip and more. Supports the same audio formats as the stock music player since the system media APIs are used. This is a fork of https://f-droid.org/packages/org.kreed.vanilla which is no longer being developed by its author. We keep that in the repo as it supports Android versions below 4.0.3.
| Feature | Phonograph Plus | Vanilla Music |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | MusicMedia PlayerVideo | MusicMedia PlayerVideo |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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