Is there a good app for download music for offline listening?
Prime Gap: 35 apps already serve this, and 133 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
Data refreshed September 7, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
The product here is the licensed music, not the software. Spotify and Apple Music pay the major labels huge guaranteed advances (and gave them equity) to carry their catalogs, and three labels control 70%+ of recorded music. A better player with no catalog is worthless, and a solo dev can't license the world's music — even well-funded Rdio died trying.
Moat: the licensed catalog is the product · why: Spotify pays ~2/3 of revenue to rights holders · 3 major labels control 70%+ of recorded music · labels took equity in Spotify for catalog access · Rdio shut down despite VC funding
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to download music for offline listening, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| daily song listening limit | price | 14 | daily limits to how many songs can be played. And now they want me to pay for premium |
| downloaded songs disappear | bug | 5 | sin motivo hoy se me borro las canciones que tenía guardadas |
| music fails to download | bug | 3 | de repente ninguna cancion podía descargar así que la desinstale |
| offline song limit too low | price | 3 | Can only listen to about 15 songs offline before they shut it off |
| offline listening limit | price | 3 | now when I have have a listening limit it’s just not it anymore offline limit is not a good add on |
| offline downloaded playback fails | reliability | 2 | It is almost impossible to play downloaded music to play offline. Even with a premium subscription |
| won't download music | bug | 2 | Doesn't download my music |
| offline downloads fail to play | reliability | 2 | My downloads never play when I don’t have service |
| offline downloads dont work | reliability | 2 | i pay for premium to have my music downloaded but it never loads when the connection is bad |
| deletes downloaded music | bug | 2 | IY KEEPS DELETING THE MUSIC YOU'VE ALREADY DOWNLOADED |
| offline music access | bug | 1 | Won't I'd music when offline. Says it is saved but never is |
| offline playback for non-downloaded songs | missing-feature | 1 | when I don't have WiFi my music doesn't work |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spotify: Music and Podcasts | 4.8 | 42,070,029 | Free |
| Amazon Music: Songs & Podcasts | 4.7 | 3,344,294 | Free |
| Apple Music | 4.9 | 3,106,058 | Free |
| Offline Music Player | 4.6 | 59,190 | Free |
| Offline Music Player, MP3 | 4.7 | 417 | Free |
| Offline Music Player,Spotubes | 4.4 | 180 | Free |
| Free Music - Music APP, Offline Music | 4.4 | 5,510 | Free |
| Offline Mp3 Player - SoundSync | 4.3 | 289 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 93 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
Who has tried building this
4 attempts, 3 stale and none above 17 stars; legally fraught niche with no traction.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| moleanmcloy/Spotiflyer-Apk | stale | 17 | |
| AkshayShineKrishna/Steamy-YT-Music-Player | stale | 7 | Dart |
| fluffy-dev/AudioHost | active | 3 | Python |
| jckimble/panrip | stale | 3 | Go |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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