Apollo vs Rhythm

Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives

Apollo

The Apollo is a modern, intuitive, and customizable player. Apollo is a fork from CyanogenMod's Apollo music player for Android 5.0+

Rhythm

Your Music, Your Rhythm Open-source Material You music player with audiophile-grade audio, zero tracking, and zero ads. šŸ”Š Sound That Moves You • Bit Perfect Playback — pure audio sent direct to your hardware • 10-Band Equalizer + 6,000+ AutoEQ device presets • Gapless playback, EAC3-JOC/Dolby Atmos codec support • FLAC, ALAC, MP3, AAC, Opus, WAV, OGG & more šŸŽØ Design That Delights • Material 3 Expressive — adaptive shapes, fluid motion • Material You dynamic colors from your wallpaper (Android 12+) • Album-art-driven player colors & immersive lyrics view • Home screen widgets with responsive Material 3 layouts šŸ“š Library Power • Multi-select batch actions — queue, share, delete at once • Shuffle whole albums in correct track order • Full-scan media scanner — reliable, no songs missed • Songs, Albums, Artists, Genres, Playlists, Folders šŸŽ¤ Lyrics & Metadata • Synced lyrics via LRCLib with word-by-word highlighting • Local lyrics editor for custom offsets and edits • Full metadata editor with artwork support āš™ļø Power Features • Sleep timer, queue management, M3U import/export • Settings search, playback stats, Android Auto • Deezer & YouTube Music artwork integration • In-app auto-updates from GitHub šŸ”’ Privacy First No ads. No analytics. No accounts. 100% offline-capable. GPL v3. šŸ“„ Get it on GitHub, F-Droid & IzzyOnDroid — Google Play coming soon —

FeatureApolloRhythm
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-laterGPL-3.0-only
Install sources
F-DroidIzzyOnDroid
F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid
Categories
MusicMedia PlayerVideo
MusicMedia PlayerVideo
Features
Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking
Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking
Platforms
Android
Android
Website
Source code