# YouTube Music alternatives for Android

As of 19 Oct 2026, 12 Android apps can take over from YouTube Music. The files on the phone stay. Start with Poweramp.

## What you keep

| Feature | YouTube Music | Poweramp | Retro Music | Symfonium | Fossify Music Player |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Play files on the phone | Downloads | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Equalizer | Limited | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| NAS, Plex or Jellyfin | — | — | — | ✓ | — |
| Synced lyrics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Works without an account | Google account | ✓ | ✓ | Optional | ✓ |

## Apps

- [Poweramp](https://getunstock.com/apps/poweramp) — A music player with deep sound tuning
- [Auxio](https://getunstock.com/apps/auxio) — A simple, rational music player
- [Booming Music](https://getunstock.com/apps/booming-music) — A music player with word-level synced lyrics
- [Chocola](https://getunstock.com/apps/chocola) — Chocola is a cute and powerful offline music player app for Android!
- [Fossify Music Player](https://getunstock.com/apps/fossify-music-player) — A simple offline music player
- [Gramophone](https://getunstock.com/apps/gramophone) — A Material You music player for the files on your phone
- [Lune](https://getunstock.com/apps/lune) — Modern local music player for Android
- [MA Music](https://getunstock.com/apps/ma-music) — A basic M3Y music player app
- [Musicolet](https://getunstock.com/apps/musicolet) — A local music player with multiple queues
- [PixelPlayerOSS](https://getunstock.com/apps/pixelplayeross) — Local-first Android music player for offline and self-hosted libraries
- [Retro Music](https://getunstock.com/apps/retro-music) — A music player with rich Now Playing themes
- [Symfonium](https://getunstock.com/apps/symfonium) — One library for your phone, NAS, Plex, Jellyfin and cloud drives

[Switching, in three steps.](https://getunstock.com/guides/change-your-default-apps)