A modern Android music app with ad-free streaming, synced lyrics, offline playback, and an intuitive user experience.
Overview
Echo Music delivers a seamless, premium listening experience by leveraging YouTube Music's vast library — without the ads. It adds powerful extras including offline downloads, real-time synchronized lyrics, and environment-aware music recognition.
Important
In-app OTA updates have been permanently removed. Please update manually via the website. Echo Music is completely free and ad-free; the few ads shown during a manual download help support the ongoing development of this project. Please do not open issues requesting to bring this back. Thank you for your support!
- Discord: Join the Echo Music Discord server
Table of Contents
Screenshots
Home Screen
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Material Player
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Apple Style Player
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Synchronized Lyrics
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Search & Explore
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Music Library
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Features
What's New
Music DNA (New!) — Instantly uncover the backstory of any track. Echo Music queries Genius for deep track annotations, and intelligently falls back to Wikipedia API extracts for regional or obscure tracks where crowd-sourced meanings are missing.
Streaming & Playback
- Ad-Free — Stream without any interruptions.
- Data Saver Mode — Reduce data consumption when streaming on cellular networks.
- Seamless Playback — Switch effortlessly between audio-only and video modes.
- Background Playback — Listen while using other apps or with the screen off.
- Offline Mode — Download tracks, albums, and playlists via a dedicated download manager.
- Crossfade — Smooth transitions between tracks.
- Canvas Animations — Visual animations while playing music.
Discovery & Echo Find
- Echo Find — Identify songs playing around you using advanced audio recognition.
- Echo Brain — An intelligent, on-device engine that analyzes your listening momentum and auto-injects perfectly aligned tracks into your queue. Read more in the Echo Brain Documentation.
- Smart Recommendations — Personalized suggestions based on your listening history.
- Comprehensive Browsing — Explore Charts, Podcasts, Moods, and Genres.
Lyrics
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Multiple Lyric Animations — Choose from various lyric display styles.
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Word-by-Word Lyrics — Precise per-word synchronization.
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Lyrics+ — New lyrics provider for improved accuracy and coverage.
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AI Translation — Built-in Google Translate integration for lyrics in any language.
For AI lyrics translation, select API Route in the AI settings, enter your API key, and choose a model available to that key. The preset uses
https://global.api-route.com/v1/chat/completionswithclaude-fable-5-1; you can enter another exact model ID from the authenticated/v1/modelscatalog using the custom model option. Model availability depends on your key's group and permissions. See the quickstart.
Integrations
- Music Sharing via Odesli — Share songs as Song.link for cross-platform listening.
- Set as Ringtone — Directly set any song as your device ringtone.
Smart Playback
- Pause on Mute — Auto-pause when your device is muted.
- Resume on Bluetooth — Playback resumes when headphones or earbuds reconnect.
Customization
- UI Density Scale — Adjust interface spacing to your preference.
- High Refresh Rate Support — Smoother UI and animations on supported displays.
- Fluid UI & Animations — Material 3 Emphasized easing and GPU-accelerated lyrics for a silky smooth, lag-free experience.
- Hide Player Thumbnail — Keep the player minimal without album art.
- Crop Album Art — Adjust album art display to fit your style.
- Hide Video Songs — Filter out video content from your feed.
- Hide YouTube Shorts — Keep Shorts out of your music browsing.
Installation & Setup
Android Installation
Download the latest pre-compiled APK from the Releases Page.
Building from Source
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Clone the Repository
git clone https://github.com/iad1tya/Echo-Music.git cd Echo-Music -
Configure Android SDK Create a
local.propertiesfile:echo "sdk.dir=/path/to/your/android/sdk" > local.properties
(For detailed paths on Windows/macOS/Linux, refer to SETUP.md)
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Firebase Configuration (Optional) Firebase is required for analytics and crash reporting. See the instructions in SETUP.md for adding your
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Build the Application Echo Music has two build variants: FOSS (without Google Play Services / Cast) and GMS (with Cast support).
- To build the FOSS Universal Debug variant:
./gradlew assembleUniversalFossDebug
- To build the GMS Universal Debug variant:
./gradlew assembleUniversalGmsDebug
(For optimized ARM64 builds, release builds, or other options, refer to SETUP.md)
- To build the FOSS Universal Debug variant:
Support the Project
If Echo Music has been useful to you, consider supporting its development.
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Cryptocurrency Options
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| Bitcoin | bc1qcvyr7eekha8uytmffcvgzf4h7xy7shqzke35fy |
| Ethereum | 0x51bc91022E2dCef9974D5db2A0e22d57B360e700 |
| Solana | 9wjca3EQnEiqzqgy7N5iqS1JGXJiknMQv6zHgL96t94S |
Contributors
Without the support of this incredible open-source community, none of this would be possible. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Echo Music!
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Special Thanks
Echo Music stands on the shoulders of several excellent open-source projects. Sincere thanks to:
| Project | Description |
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| Metrolist & Vivi Music | Foundational inspiration and architecture reference |
| ArchiveTune | Material You UI inspiration |
| Better Lyrics | Lyrics enhancement and synchronization |
| SimpMusic | Lyrics implementation reference |
| Music Recognizer | Audio recognition (Echo Find) |
| BravePipe | Decryption handling and backup playback engine |
Legal Disclaimer & Terms of Use
1. 100% Free, Open-Source & Strictly Non-Commercial
Echo Music is a fully open-source project (FOSS) created purely for educational purposes and personal use. We do not sell this application, nor do we monetize it in any way. There are no advertisements, no premium features, no subscriptions, and no hidden fees within the app. This project has absolutely no commercial value or financial intent.
2. A Custom Browser with Content Filtering
Echo Music acts strictly as a specialized, third-party web browser and client. It simply parses the publicly available website content and APIs of YouTube and YouTube Music, rendering them in a custom user interface. The ad-free experience it provides is fundamentally no different from using a standard web browser (like Chrome, Firefox, or Brave) equipped with a common ad-blocking extension (such as uBlock Origin).
3. Support Content Creators
We deeply respect the hard work of artists, musicians, and content creators. We strongly encourage all users to subscribe to YouTube Premium. Purchasing a Premium subscription is the best way to financially support the creators you listen to and ensure the continued growth of the platform. Echo Music is built as a proof-of-concept for developers and enthusiasts, not to harm creators' revenues.
4. No Hosting of Copyrighted Material
We do not host, upload, distribute, or store any audio, video, or copyrighted media files on our own servers. All content accessed through this application is stored entirely on Google's/YouTube's servers and remains the property of their respective copyright owners. The app merely acts as a conduit to stream publicly accessible links.
5. User Responsibility & Legal Contact
The software is provided "AS IS", without warranty of any kind. The developers of Echo Music do not encourage or condone piracy. Users are solely responsible for ensuring their usage of this app complies with their local copyright laws and the Terms of Service of the platforms they access.
Because we do not host any media files, we cannot process DMCA takedown requests for audio or video content. However, if you represent a copyright holder or have legal concerns regarding the open-source code itself, please contact us via email at: hello@echomusic.fun
Licensed under GPL-3.0