Decoupled

As someone who collects a lot of music, I wanted to find an app where I could bring my music with me everywhere. I came across several but many of them had a ton of frustrations such as not playing files correctly, intrusive ads, or frustrating file management. This app was one I came across and decided to give a try. So far, this is the best sounding music player I have tried, and plays all my files properly, however it is very barebones. Things such as playlists, shuffle and repeat do not exist. While I normally don’t utilize these features as I just listen to albums, they’re something that would be nice to have and I know it’ll be a dealbreaker for some. The one thing that annoys me though is the lack of a metadata editor. This is something that is very helpful and the lack of it is jarring and a little frustrating. This being said, this is still the best flac player on the app store and i can put up with the absence of those features as it is the best app to play flac files. If an update adds those features in, I’ll change my rating.

Let me start this off by saying this is hands down the best local file player I’ve used. I’ve gone through a lot of them trying to find something that would work right, and not only is Decoupled functional, but it works exactly how I need it to… Except for one issue. When I have an album where the tracks have varying bitrates (I.e. Death Grips EP), the individual tracks are split up into separate albums by bitrate. Since they all have the same album metadata, they should all show up together on the same album. Instead, they are separated and out of order, making me unable to listen to the albums in full. If the developer could fix this one issue where no matter the bitrate, all songs would be on the same, correct album, this app would be perfect!

I am slowly transitioning away from streaming services and moving towards mostly purchasing CDs and digital music. I hated many of the extra features and recommendations that streaming services provide and wanted a minimalistic app so much that I was going to try to write my own—however, now I don’t need to because I found this app! The user interface is gorgeous and I like that it can play many types of files and that it is completely separate from Apple Music. When I initially started using it, I noticed that it would not play ALAC files, so I reached out to the developer who responded to me and fixed the bug within 2 hours!!! I definitely recommend this app to anyone who owns music and/or is feeling tired of streaming services and their “features”. Thank you Tamás for making this available for free!

This isn’t an app for everyone. But if you are one of the people it appeals to, you will see it instantly. This app lets you play your audio files (in a variety of formats) stored locally on your device. It’s a simple premise, but so many apps would bungle the experience by pestering you to sign up for their streaming service, serving you up advertisements constantly, etc. On top of that the app is free and it doesn’t track any user data. I poked around online and saw that Tamas didn’t want to monetize the app, that he would just be happy to see it get used. Beautiful. There’s a level of power user that will demand a finer level of control over their library that may need to look elsewhere, but if you just have a basic library structure, I found the experience to be very user-friendly. Decoupled is now my favorite app on my phone.

There are so few non-subscription offline music apps in the App Store, which tells me that their creators didn’t remotely understand the point of tediously gathering a whole music collection. The whole point is that you buy something and then it’s yours and you don’t have to pay a stupid monthly or yearly fee to retain access to it. The creator of this app seems to of understood that very well. The interface is beautiful and it works very well. I love the way that album artwork is displayed, and the FTP transfer option made moving my music collection from my computer to my phone a breeze. My only complaint would be that it doesn’t seem to have any iPad version of the app, which is a shame because the iOS app is really good!

This player has an FTP server built in in order for easy music uploading to your device. It also plays opus files, which is great since that opus has the performance for its file size and I haven’t found another player on iOS that does that. However, this app has two pretty glaring issues: - The shuffle is missing which is a huge bust since that I like to listen to my whole library casually. I usually listen by album, but I like the option to shuffle. - No playlists. This isn’t as big of a deal for me personally, but I wouldn’t mind creating a dedicated playlist just for working out or chilling out. Overall great app design and wonderful layout, just missing a couple of features that would make it “complete.”

I am very grateful to the developer. If you’ve been paying attention over the last 20 years or so, you’ve noticed how all your rights and freedoms have been taken away from you, via various forms of trickery, tracking, psychological manipulation, removal of functionality under the auspices of “upgrades”, forced changes in legal terms of use, etc. This application lets you listen to your music, your way, in private, with no tricks, traps, exploitation, etc. I hope the developer eventually provides better organizational options, but I recognize this player is a huge gift, without comparison, and I mostly hope he just keeps it working through future OS changes.

This is the perfect music player. It is the only app I have ever found—music player or otherwise—that has NOTHING extra. No bells, no whistles, no ads, no subscriptions, no “upgrades”, no pop-ups, nothing that isn’t absolutely necessary and working exactly as advertised. It plays locally stored files, reads tags, displays album art, has a graphic EQ, and looks/feels more like a native iOS app than some actual native iOS apps. Decoupled does the things you want it to do and doesn’t do the things you don’t want it to do. Period. I cannot stress this enough: if you need a music player that Just Works, this is the one. You found it. Stop looking, stop reading. Get after it. 👍

I love this app but there's a few bug such as even though it's paused it will stay play music or the pause button doesn't update and the album cover doesn't show if the file is m4a (unless I make a folder and add the album cover separately). I hope in the future webm audio and wav 32bit float gets added then this app will be perfect. Please update this app it's the best audio player available right now.

This app is great, it does exactly what it advertises, and collects no data. However, it lacks modern options like custom playlists, and shuffle. Also, while it is straightforward to share music to the app, it would be nice to have an option within the app to add local files without switching back and forth between safari. Other than that, it is an amazing app, just with some wasted possibilities.

I’ve been using Decoupled daily for about three months. Now and then I’ll search for an app that better suits me; I’ve found nothing yet. The one issue that I’d like the developer to resolve is the apparent limit on the cover flow view: it seems that it’s limited to about 100 covers. This is a minor point, as all tracks are available from other views. But I’d still really like to see all of my albums in the cover flow view.

(iPhone 11 Pro/iOS 15.6.1) This app literally has no settings. No options to sort, hide or order things like albums, artists, genre. Files embedded with cover art and/or with the image file in the same folder do not appear. UI is drab and boring. I think app developers should be paid for their work, but I think developers that make apps like this when they lack less features, or offer nothing significantly different than the stock app should be explicitly forthcoming in the description about what their app doesn’t do as much as what it does. I mean, it plays files the stock app won’t. This is literally all the app is capable of on my phone.

Perfect and uncomplicated. I have been using Neutron Player up to this point and am happy with it’s performance however you need a PHD to look at the settings. Decoupled is everything I need if you would only add repeat and shuffle. If you do that please add a donation version that doesn’t offer anything other than a chance for me to pay you for your efforts through the Apple Store.

Simple UI, extremely easy to use, no nonsense, and just works. I was getting so frustrated trying to find a music player to upload the music files from my PC which I have collected over the years… Every other app I tried was a complete dumpster fire. This one is the best. Look no further. And it’s free which is crazy. I would absolutely pay a one time fee to use this app.

This app is pretty fantastic for those who want to rip music from CDs and enjoy their own music library without a streaming service. However, it does crucially lack a tablet-optimized interface, so you’re forced into using it in both portrait and at iPhone size (or scaled up). It also lacks support for cloud storage providers such as Google Drive, PCloud, Mega, etc.

I really wanted to give this app 5 stars as it is far superior than the stock music app with all of its bloat and force feeding of new content.. but this app lacks a few key features that I just can’t live without! If repeat, shuffle, and playlist can make it on the app I will come back and give this 5 stars! It would be a shame to stop just short of perfection!

I didn't expect to find a music player so perfect on the App Store, and without in-app purchases at that. I just downloaded it a few minutes ago and loaded an album with FTP. Perfect. I wanted a more functional music player app, since the stock one doesn't support flac, that I know of. I'll never use the built-in app again.

It’s so frustrating to find a real music player on iOS that doesn’t force streaming or useless things. This is an amazing app, but I hope the developers add playlists artist image, shuffle and repeat buttons, and more customization options for the user.

I’ve been using Apple’s native player for a bit now. It’s okay, but there’s just junk I don’t need in it. So I found Decoupled and feel right at home, especially since it’s all drag and drop on my music library. My only nitpick is not having a “control bar” on the bottom to control playback while looking through my library.

Now that the iPhone 15 will recognize an external drive is there a way to playback from the external drive rather than importing the audio files to the phone? I’m trying not to fill up my iPhone and still be able to play however many songs will fit on my usb-c drive. I can’t really rate it honestly until I see if that’s a feature I can use.

This app meets most of my needs for a standalone music app, but I have my library organized by album artists, and have artists featured on the album listed with the main artist. It breaks these songs into different albums rather than grouping them together. If you can fix that or give the option to sort by album artists, it would be 5 stars

For some reason it can’t read the Genre correctly from all of my music library. A bunch are tagged with parentheses with a number, (20) for example. Even standard Genres like Jazz. Doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason. UPDATE: It is unable to play Apple Lossless even though it states in the app description that it can.

This would be a five star review if: you could play DSD files, be able to shuffle your whole library, and create your own custom playlists with artwork. But overall, a fantastic app nonetheless.

I strongly appreciate how simple and elegant this is compared to literally every other ios flac player I’ve found, so especially for free it’s a no-brainer. I would really love to see an enlarged version for iPad as that’s where I do 90% of my listening — I’d gladly pay for that too.

The best offline music player for iOS, hands down. Simple, stable, good looking, well designed and best of all free. The only real competitor is Neutron, but with its complicated interface it's not for everyone and it's a paid app. Decoupled plays a vast array of formats, and does it with flying colors. No need to look elsewhere, highly recommended.

This is a very nice music player that has replaced Apple Music for my uses. I transferred more than 10gb of FLAC files via iTunes file transfer on an old Mac and was very quickly up and running. Very clean simple and functional design and it’s free! Awesome app.

Simple, and that’s all that it needs to be. It plays my audio files, keeps them organized in a clean ui, quickly. What else can you ask for?

legitimately one of the only good music players for local files. not trying to sell any service, has 0 ads, perfect for people not trying to pay more money to listen to their own music.

It would be nice to have a shuffle and repeat button and be able to make playlists

Couldn’t ask for more from a no-nonsense audiophile-grade music player. Clean UX, beautifully designed album cover section, wireless transfer capabilities... it’s a joy to use. Now if only it plays DSD files... nonetheless, great job!

Does exactly what I need and nothing more. It’s simplicity is its beauty. Brings me back to the good days of managing my own collection of music. Nothing but lossless files in my library. Love it. Thank you app developer!

I have been testing out all of the lights. Blackouts on the App Store, and this one is my favorite! I love the EQ and gain section, and the ability to long press on albums and remove tracks that you don’t want is great!

This app is the perfect simple music player. No frills, just the basics in a simple, streamlined interface. The only thing missing is shuffle.

It’s the best music player I can find for offline music playing, but I wish I could shuffle and/ or play all my offline music without having to add it to playback queue.

there’s some issues with the app like it crashed and when i tried to open again it wouldn’t and the album art for M4A files doesn’t show up but other wise it’s everything i’ve been looking for

The app is really awesome But please make a good delete icon and make sharing files possible I really like the app and the ui

Please just add a song section, where all the songs are available.

I really enjoy using this app!! Simply amazing I would love to be able to select all tracks in my library and shuffle

Free w/ no in app purchases, dead simple, a clean interface and auto dark mode. I’ve probably downloaded 20 apps for my FLAC library and this is the best.

I have a bunch of songs divided into albums which I sadly cannot shuffle. Please add a shuffle button.

Amazing app that would be perfect with the above features

Great app, but the fact that I can’t search a song but it’s titles is a deal breaker for me :/

Love it pity it crashes on some files but no others.

Awesome app, just missing CarPlay integration to make all other music apps irrelevant

Almost perfect local music app! Just needs a repeat option, shuffle option, and playlist support. Once these are implemented this definitely competes with any player in the App Store free or paid! Hopefully these ideas are considered for implementation. 🤞

This app is seriously awesome for those like me who have a TON of CD’s and love listening to music locally but I wish it had the capability to scrobble to last.fm! Other than that amazing

Good player but you can’t make custom playlists.

After an epic epic fail by 🍎🎶 I just wanted something simple to play the 30 or so albums that aren’t available to stream on any service. This app was SO EASY. I’m not a technical person in any way but the interface was a breeze, FTP upload was super simple, adding cover art with a simple “folder.jpg” file was a bonus, and wow. Seriously great app.