Riff
The music player for your desktop.
Free and open source. For Windows, Linux and macOS.
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Dress it up.
Start with Dark, Light or other. Or adjust hue, saturation and brightness, set your own wallpaper, or even add custom CSS to completely redesign Riff.
Pick a color. It changes this whole page.
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Edit tracks right in the player.
Speed up, slow, reverb and add bass-boost, shape the sound with a 10-band equalizer. Change the tempo without changing the pitch, and add reverb or distortion as you listen.
Why switch to Riff
Streaming with no ads or telemetry.
Play from YouTube Music, YouTube and SoundCloud with no ads and no Premium account. Tracks are cached, so playback starts right away while others have a turtle speed.
Your files, untouched.
Riff reads tags and cover art and never moves or changes the originals. Plays local files lossless.
Switch easy.
Paste a public link from Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube or SoundCloud. The tracks land in your new playlists.
Discord RPC, easier.
Show the track, artist, cover art and progress on your Discord profile. No logins like in Spotify
Fast and light on memory.
One lightweight process. It opens fast and keeps playing in the background.
Download
All tools are included on Windows and Linux.
Windows
A single installer with everything bundled. Works with your media keys and taskbar controls.
Download installer Portable .zipLinux
Runs on Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and Fedora. Riff can add itself to your app launcher.
Download AppImage Download .debmacOS
Builds for M1 through M4 and for Intel Macs. They aren’t signed yet, so macOS may ask you to run the commands below.
Download for Apple silicon Download for IntelQuestions
No. Riff is free and open source under the MIT license, with no subscription or paid tier.
No. YouTube Music and SoundCloud play without ads.
No. Install Riff and press play. It doesn’t ask you to sign in and doesn’t collect usage data.
Yes. Riff plays FLAC, MP3, WAV and OGG, reads tags and album art, and lets you build playlists without touching the files.
Yes. Downloaded tracks and your local library play without a connection.
Paste the link to a public playlist. Riff turns it into a playlist in your library, including long ones with over 100 tracks.
Not an official one. Riff is built for desktop. On Android and iOS the download button takes you to a page with community forks of Riff instead.
No, they are unofficial. There are many forks of Riff that I didn’t make. The page lists only forks I trust and ones people have sent me, so it isn’t a complete list. I can’t vouch for forks that aren’t on it, so install those at your own risk.