Minimalist MP3 music player with a retro style

If you grew up with MP3 players like Winamp or Sonique, you know the feeling: a simple window, your local offline library, hit play.

Desktop MP3 brings an even more minimalist, no-bells-and-whistles, retro-styled MP3 player experience to today's desktop.

Download Desktop MP3

macOS $9.99 via Mac App Store

Windows Free¹ during early access via Microsoft Store

Linux Free¹ during early access (appimage, deb, tar.gz)

Desktop MP3

Play your local offline collection of MP3s

Use the Discover New Music² button to explore new music for your library.

Play your offline music. Your way

Offline & Private

Play your local MP3s offline on your local desktop. No streaming necessary. No account setup needed. No personal info required.

Desktop App

Features you expect from a minimalist, retro-styled desktop music player such as repeat, playlist, and integration with the Windows, macOS, and Linux control center.

Keeping It Simple

Intuitive playback controls with an easy-to-use and uncluttered playlist. No bells-and-whistles to get in the way. Collapse the playlist for an even more compact experience.

Simple. Local. Your Music.

If you grew up with MP3 music players like Winamp or Sonique, you know the feeling: a simple window, your library, hit play. Desktop MP3 brings a minimalist retro-styled MP3 player experience to today's desktop.

Install Desktop MP3 on your Mac, Windows or Linux desktop, point it at your MP3 folder, and you're done. No subscriptions, no algorithms, just offline playback and a UI that puts your music first. No account setup, no cloud streaming. Just your music on your machine.

Step 1

Download

Install Desktop MP3 on your Mac, Windows or Linux desktop.

Step 2

Add your music

Point to your MP3 music folder.

Step 3

Hit play, next, previous

Navigate your tracks without the clutter.

No bells-and-whistles

Desktop MP3 features a free-form user interface design, a style which fans of early desktop MP3 music players such as Winamp and Sonique will feel at home with.

In the spirit of minimalism, Desktop MP3 does not have the full feature set of the mainstream players of yesteryear or even modern services. It does not support features such as visualizations, audio effects, equalizer, skins, ID3 tag editing, online radio, cross-fade, balance, multiple file formats, scrobbling, etc. Album art is limited to displaying in the operating system's now-playing center.

Features are limited to the bare minimum in order to keep the app simple and focused on playing your music. Desktop MP3 is not meant to be a full-featured clone of early MP3 players. It is meant to be a minimalist, retro-styled app for audio enthusiasts who want to play their own local offline MP3 library. No streaming, no accounts, no cloud. No frills.

If the minimalist experience of Desktop MP3 is the right fit for you, welcome aboard!

If you are looking for a more feature-rich experience, we are currently working on a new app separate from Desktop MP3 which is still under wraps. Contact us to be added to the waitlist. Until then, many other amazing MP3 players are only a quick Internet search away.

Frequently asked. Worth a listen

How does Desktop MP3 handle privacy?

Desktop MP3 is designed to be a privacy-first music player. It collects basic analytics usage data such as features used, launch times, playlist length, and other basic metrics such as operating system and version to help us improve the app and understand how it is being used.

Does Desktop MP3 play cloud-based music or other audio formats such as OGG?

Desktop MP3 does not play online or cloud-based music. It plays offline MP3 files that are saved to your desktop. Support for other audio file formats is yet to be determined.

How much does Desktop MP3 cost?

The macOS version is battle-tested and is available for a modest price through the Mac App Store. The cross-platform Electron version for Windows and Linux is still in early access and is currently available for free.

What is unique about Desktop MP3's user interface?

The app is based on a free-form user interface design. Fans of early desktop MP3 music players such as Winamp and Sonique will feel at home with Desktop MP3's user interface.

Are there any more screenshots of Desktop MP3?

Screenshots of the cross-platform version can be found on the Cross-Platform Screenshots page. Screenshots of the macOS native version can be found at the Mac App Store.

What technology stack was used to build Desktop MP3?

The macOS version was built using native Cocoa/AppKit, Storyboards and Objective-C. The cross-platform version was built using Electron. Head over to the Technical Backstory page to learn more.

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