Ongaku

The music player for the music you own.

Ongaku plays your local library — MP3, FLAC and hi-res audio on your phone or SD card — with no internet, no account and no streaming.

Get it on Google Play

Free on Android, with more than 10,000 downloads.

Plays every format

Ongaku ships its own FFmpeg-powered audio engine, so it plays files most players can't — with gapless playback for lossless and hi-res files. All of it in the free player.

  • FLAC
  • ALAC
  • APE
  • WavPack
  • TTA
  • TAK
  • Shorten
  • AIFF
  • WMA
  • WMA Lossless
  • DSD
  • Musepack
  • Opus
  • OGG Vorbis
  • AAC
  • MP3
  • WAV
  • AC3
  • DTS
  • MKA

See the full format list

The Ongaku player screen, with album art, a lyrics button and playback controls

Your year, worked out on your phone

Ongaku Recap is a private wrapped for your local library: top songs, artists, albums and genres, minutes listened, streaks and your listening persona, for all time or just this month. Share it as a card woven from your own album art. Nothing is uploaded, and none of it costs anything.

Ongaku Recap showing the top song of the year
A Recap card styled as a till receipt of top tracks
Till receipt
A Recap card styled as a festival poster of top artists
Festival poster
A Recap card styled as a library passport
Library passport

Free, with no catch

Install it and this is what you have. No trial, no sign-up, nothing held back behind an account.

Sound

  • The full format engine
  • Gapless playback
  • 5-band graphic equalizer
  • Bass boost and virtualizer
  • Playback speed
  • ReplayGain preamp

Your library

  • Folder browsing and playback
  • Playlists, favourites and search
  • Tag editor
  • Blacklist folders from scanning
  • Audiobooks that resume
  • Ringtone maker
  • Play history and most-played

Living with it

  • All of Ongaku Recap
  • Embedded and synced .lrc lyrics
  • Sleep timer, with fade-out
  • Home-screen widgets
  • Android Auto
  • Bluetooth and headset controls
  • Material You colour

Tune it, or leave it alone

The free equalizer is the classic 5-band set, plus bass boost and virtualizer — enough for most headphones. Ongaku Pro is for people who want to go further: a parametric EQ with draggable bands, 10, 15 and 31-band resolutions, AutoEQ headphone-correction profiles, and 3D audio, a convolution engine that puts your music in a room, hall or cathedral.

The parametric equalizer, with draggable bands and a live frequency-response curve

What Ongaku Pro adds

An unlock for the deep end of the sound engine and the finishing touches. The free player above stays exactly as it is whether you buy it or not.

  • Parametric EQ with draggable bands
  • 10, 15 and 31-band graphic EQ
  • AutoEQ headphone profiles
  • 3D audio, a convolution engine for rooms and halls
  • Crossfeed
  • Loudness normalization (EBU R128)
  • ReplayGain source modes
  • Stereo width and saturation
  • Crossfade and skip silence
  • Wind-down, night filter and smart end
  • Automatic and web lyrics
  • Multiple play queues
  • 14 more player themes
  • Extra player wallpapers

Falls asleep properly

Set a duration on the dial, stop after a number of songs, or just finish the current track — all free, and the volume fades out rather than cutting. Pro adds a longer wind-down with a night filter that softens the highs, and a smart end that waits for the nearest break instead of stopping mid-song.

The sleep timer dial

Nothing leaves the phone

Ongaku has no account to make and no library to sync. Your files stay where they are, your listening history is worked out on the device, and none of it is uploaded anywhere.

Get it on Google Play
Browsing the music library by folder