Listenry: Offline Music Player

Listenry plays the music you already own — and gives it something to play on.

Point it at the files on your phone and it turns them into a library you can live in: albums, artists, playlists and every song, on a player that looks like the real thing. Every file stays on your device.

A PLAYER WORTH WATCHING Choose what the screen shows while a song plays: a turntable whose arm sets down when you press play, a cassette with turning reels, a reel-to-reel deck, VU meters, a valve radio with a glowing magic eye, a CD transport, a gramophone, a music box, a snow globe and more — thirteen in all. They move with the sound itself, so a quiet song sways and a loud one swings. Turn your phone on its side and the player goes wide.

YOUR MUSIC, PROPERLY Albums, artists, genres and favourites, sorted the way you like, with play counts. Make playlists, line up what plays next, and hear albums gapless — no gap between the tracks of a live record. Songs show their lyrics, from an .lrc file beside the song or from its own tags, scrolling with the music; tap a line to play from there.

AUDIOBOOKS, TOO Add a book and an Audiobooks tab appears. Listenry remembers where you stopped in each book down to the second, at the speed you set for that book, and steps back a few seconds when you resume. M4B files keep their chapters, a book's intro and outro can be skipped, and there is a sleep timer.

GETTING FILES IN Import from Files a folder at a time — including cloud drives and a NAS you have connected in the Files app — or hand files over with AirDrop. Listenry reads the tags and keeps each album together.

IN THE CAR AND ON IPAD CarPlay shows your albums, playlists and books on the car screen. On iPad, Listenry has a sidebar, wide layouts, a full-screen player, keyboard shortcuts and drag and drop.

WHAT IT DOESN'T DO There is no store, no streaming and no subscription. Listenry does not download or sell anything, and it cannot open DRM-protected files such as Audible .aax.

FREE, AND WHAT PRO ADDS Free: the whole library and every way of importing, playlists, lyrics, gapless playback, search, smart lists, audiobook progress, the sleep timer, backup and restore, CarPlay, and the turntable and cover players.

Listenry Pro is one payment, once — no subscription, no account: • Eleven more players, from the cassette to the snow globe • Equalizer and sound presets • Wi-Fi transfer, so a browser on your computer can send a whole folder straight to the phone

FORMATS MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF.

PRIVACY No account, no ads, and your audio is never uploaded — there is no server that holds it. The one thing that can leave your device is optional crash and usage diagnostics, which stay off unless you turn them on in Settings.

https://listenry.gaiya.cc/privacy