Listen to Spotify on Android without hearing audio ads.
Get media notification controls, lock screen support, and Wear OS support for Spotify's web player.
Use a pure black dark theme while listening to music.
Build a customized Spotify client from source using Gradle.
| lyssadev/spotilol | yukioooooo0/qingzai | ahxn00/owntv | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 42 | 43 | 39 |
| Language | Kotlin | Kotlin | Kotlin |
| Setup difficulty | moderate | moderate | easy |
| Complexity | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Audience | general | general | general |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Requires installing a locally generated CA certificate on the device and enabling install from unknown sources for the APK.
Spotilol is a small Android app that wraps Spotify's web player inside the app and adds a built-in ad blocker, so it plays music without audio ads interrupting it. It is a fork of an earlier project called Spotifuck, rewritten from a low-level format called smali into cleaner Kotlin code. The app works by running a small local proxy on your own phone with a custom security certificate, which stops Spotify's website from detecting that it's being loaded inside an embedded browser view rather than a real browser or the official app. Everything else about how Spotify normally works passes through unchanged. Beyond blocking ads, the app adds several extras on top of the plain web player: a media notification with play, pause, skip, seek, and like buttons, support for lock screen controls, Bluetooth, and Wear OS devices, a few different autoplay modes, a pure black dark theme, an option to keep the screen on while listening, and the ability to browse your Spotify library through Spotify's own API. To use it, you need Android 8.0 or newer and a Spotify account, either free or premium. Setup involves installing a locally generated security certificate on your device, a step the app walks you through directly. The project can also be built from source using Gradle, and the developer describes it as free and fully open source.
An Android app that wraps Spotify's web player with a built-in ad blocker and extra playback features.
Mainly Kotlin. The stack also includes Kotlin, Android, Gradle.
The README does not state a license.
Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.
Mainly general.
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