Android · Native Kotlin · MIT

YouTube music, without the premium.

Pineapple is a lightweight, native Android music player built on YouTube Music. Search, play, save. Instant playback. No ads. No free-software tax. Your library lives on your phone.

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Android 8.0+ · 2.2 MB APK · MIT License · made by one guy

Instant playbackTap any result and audio starts within seconds — a mix builds in the background.
Catalogue built-inArtist and album pages with releases, top songs, videos, and related artists.
Offline-tolerantCached results stay visible; reconnect banner without a silent fake request.
Lock-screen controlsNotification & lockscreen tray via Media3 — play, pause, skip forward/back.

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Album page
Portishead · 1994 · 11 songs

Portishead

Artist page
7.77M monthly audience

Discovery

Discovery
Trending + new releases + new videos

Library

Library
Liked · recents · search history

Drop real Android screenshots into assets/screen/ and update each figure's markup to <img src="assets/screen/...">. Each tile is sized for a 1080 × 2340 phone screenshot.

What it can do

Browse deeplyArtist pages (releases, singles, videos, related, bios) and album pages (cover, year, tracks).

Instant searchSongs, artists, albums — debounced, cancel-safe, no network request per keystroke.

Reach the playerMini-player everywhere; full-player with art, scrubber, queue sheet; notification controls & lockscreen.

Forgives bad networksOffline states, reconnect banner, cached recents, retry that doesn't silently refetch.

Library on-deviceLikes, recents, search history live in the app storage — no signup, no cloud.

Token economyZero icon libraries (bundled vectors only). No ads. No telemetry. Android 8.0+.

YouTube music, without the premium.

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What it can do

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