kew is a fast, immersive music player that allows you to listen to music privately. It’s a labor of love that grew out of frustration with the trajectory of music and the music industry.

kew is designed for those who want:

✅ A clean, distraction-free experience.

✅ A focus on selecting and experiencing music.

✅ Fair compensation for artists (by supporting owned music).

Beyond the Pale - Walk the Plank.

Liminal - The Crop

Core Features

• Auto-generate playlists from the command-line (song, album or artist): ‘kew nirvana’

• Gapless playback

• Requires virtually no setup

• Private

  Visuals

• Album artwork

• Amazing visualizer

• Colors derived from covers

• Custom Themes

• Custom Layouts

• Visualizations through Chroma

Focus on selecting music

• Music library explorer
• Playlist Editing
• Search

Privacy

• No telemetry
• No ads
• No account
• Entirely offline¹

And more…

• Lyrics, synced lyrics, karaoke
• Desktop integration (media keys, notifications)
• Replay gain
• Crossfade (both automatic and on demand)
• Auto-resume
• Handles large collections well
• Available on Linux, FreeBSD, Android, macOS, Windows and others
• Free and Open-Source Software, licensed under GPLv2

Supported formats

Supported: mp3, flac, opus, ogg, m4a (including alac), raw aac, wav, webm.

With caveats, not supported:

• HE-AAC.
• E-AC-3.
• M4a with fragmented mp4’s.