NOBS PLAYER / ANDROID

A quiet media player for Android.

NOBS Player browses the folders you already have, plays the formats already on your phone, and remembers what you starred. One screen. Nothing in the way.

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  • Android 7.0+
  • 1.2 MB APK
  • No internet permission
NOBS Player playing Deep Field from a folder tree on Android
NOBS Playbar home-screen widget showing the current track, elapsed time and controls
NOBS PLAYER 1.0

Local files. Three ways to listen. One very small app.

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NOBS SOFTWARE/ 01

Software should do the thing, then get out of the way.

NOBS Software is a small software label for tools that respect your time and your files. No growth loops. No dashboards. Just software that is good at one thing.

NOBS Player is the first release: an Android media player built around the folders already on your device, not around a library you have to feed.

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NOBS Player Local-first media player for Android
2026
Available
WHAT'S INSIDE/ 02

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

No home feed. No recommendations. No account. Just a fast path from the folder you opened to the file you want to hear.

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Your own folder tree

Collapsible folders, file counts and durations. NOBS reads the library you already have instead of asking you to import it.

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Plays what's on your phone

MP3, OGG and Opus, WAV, FLAC, M4A and AAC, plus the other audio containers Android can handle. No conversion step.

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Favorites, not algorithms

Star a track and it stays starred. Switch the tree to favorites and the short list is the whole list. Stored on the device.

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A seeker that behaves

Drag to any point in the file. Tap the time to switch between elapsed and remaining. Stop, skip and resume exactly where you left off.

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Read next. Read once. Repeat.

Three plain ways to decide what happens at the end of a track. Auto-advance through the folder, stop cleanly, or loop the file.

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A playbar that follows

A home-screen widget with the current file, time, progress and transport. Android's system media controls take it to the lock screen.

THE WHOLE PLAYER/ 03

One screen.
Both hands free.

Portrait keeps the library and the controls together. Landscape gives the tree one side and the player the other. Same app, same state.

NOBS Player in light mode with the folder tree and playback controls
01 / LIGHT

The same one-screen player, in a warm paper palette.

NOBS Player in landscape with the folder tree on the left and playback controls on the right
02 / LANDSCAPE

Folders on the left. Seeker and transport on the right.

PLAYBAR/ 04

The player, pinned.

Keep the current file within reach without reopening the app. The NOBS Playbar widget carries the title, folder, time and progress — plus previous, play/pause and next.

NOBS Playbar widget with Deep Field, elapsed time, progress bar and transport controls
HOME SCREEN

Tap the filename, time or progress to open the app at the playing folder.

One tap back to the folder.

The playbar knows where the current file lives. Opening it from the widget expands the right folder in the tree and scrolls to the track, so the next choice is immediately in front of you.

  • Live elapsed / total time and progress
  • Previous, play/pause, next
  • Tap title, time, progress or OPEN to enter the app
  • Resizable 4×2 layout on the home screen
  • Declared for lock-screen widget hosts that support it
Android lock screen media controls for NOBS Player with track metadata, play/pause and a seek bar
LOCK SCREEN

Android's media player takes over the lock screen and notification shade, with a scrubbable seeker.

Playback that survives the app.

NOBS publishes a proper media session, so the system supplies the lock-screen player, notification controls and the seek bar. Pause, skip and scrub without opening NOBS — then tap back into the exact folder you left.

The home-screen widget shows a live progress line; the drag-to-seek scrubber is the system media control on the lock screen and in the notification shade.

THE QUIET PART/ 05

No account.
No feed.
No internet permission.

NOBS Player does not want to know what you listen to. It reads the audio files on your device, keeps your favorites and mode in local preferences, and stops there.

READS

Audio files in shared storage, through Android's media store.

KEEPS

Favorites and playback mode, in private preferences on the device.

NEVER

Accounts, analytics, ads, telemetry — or a connection to the network.

GET IT/ 06

Take it with you.

NOBS Player 1.0 for Android. Small enough to forget about, complete enough to keep.

Download APK 1.2 MB · v1.0
How to install

Download the APK, open it from your browser or file manager, and allow installs from that app if Android asks. NOBS Player is a signed sideload build, not a Play Store release. Android 7.0 or newer is required.

NOBS SOFTWARE

Small software for your own files.

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