Find it, hear it
Type a title and the app searches YouTube Music — tracks, albums and playlists. Before you save anything, you can listen to a snippet first.
version 1.0.0 · Android and Mac
Your music, where you are.
Listen the way you like.
Reasonable Music is an offline player for recordings you have the right to — your own music, tracks under a free license, public domain. It finds them on YouTube Music and saves them as ordinary files with cover art, artist, album and lyrics. Play them with no signal at all, here or in any other player.
Looks like you're on an Android phone or tablet — grab the first one. On an iPhone or iPad? This one won't work there — the reason is further down. Looks like you're writing from a Mac — grab the second one. There's nothing for Windows yet. The closest thing ready today is an Android phone or tablet.
- m4a files with cover art, tags and lyrics
- plays in the background, screen off
- no account, no ads, no tracking
What you get in the app
The bits that actually matter.
Files that are ready to use
Every track carries its title, artist, album, cover art and lyrics inside it. Saved as m4a, each album in its own folder — any other player can handle it.
Plays with no network
A library lined up by album and artist. It plays in the background, you drive it from the lock screen and from your headphones, and when you reopen the app it picks up where you stopped.
Your folder, your files
You choose where the music is stored. It stays there without the app — copy it, back it up, play it somewhere else.
Three steps
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1
Download
Get the file for your device and open it. The first time you run it, you pick the folder the music will go into.
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2
Find
Type what you're after — a track, an album or a playlist you have the right to. Listen first, and when it's the one, tap Download. The app saves it with the cover art and tags.
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3
Play
Open the library and play it whenever you like, airplane mode included. You drive it from the lock screen and from your headphones.
Where are you going to use it?
One app, two ways to install it. Both are free and need no account.
Android
- SystemAndroid 7.0 or newer
- How much space67 MB
- Audio formatm4a / AAC, Opus optional
- Where to get itright here, not on Google Play
- Download it from here.
- Open the downloaded file on your phone.
- When your phone asks, allow the install.
- Choose the folder where the music goes.
Mac
- SystemmacOS 12 or newer
- How much space14 MB
- Audio formatm4a / AAC, Opus optional
- Download the installer.
- Double-click it and confirm through.
- It moves itself into your Applications folder.
Your Mac won't open it the first time, because Apple hasn't verified it. Right-click the app and choose Open — from then on a normal double-click works.
Download for Mac14 MBThe questions that come up most
Is this even allowed? What is it for?
The app is a tool for listening offline to music you have the right to: your own recordings, music under Creative Commons or another free license, public domain, or anything the author has explicitly allowed you to download. You may not save someone else's protected music without their permission — that holds here as it does anywhere else, and the responsibility is yours. The app has no account and no sign-in, so it never reaches anything that is subscribers-only, and it doesn't bypass any payment.
What format is it saved in?
m4a with the AAC codec by default, usually around 128 kbps — every phone, computer and car stereo plays that without converting. In settings you can switch to the highest bitrate available, which on YouTube is typically Opus/WebM around 160 kbps. Nothing gets re-encoded, the app takes exactly the stream YouTube offers.
Will it play in another player too?
Yes, they are ordinary music files. Inside they carry the title, artist, album, position on the record, year, cover art and often lyrics, so another player or a car stereo recognizes them and lines them up into albums on its own. Each album folder also holds a cover.jpg for players that take their cover art from there.
Does a whole album or playlist download at once?
Yes. Tap an album or a tracklist and the whole thing saves, track after track, into its own folder. You watch the progress on the Downloads tab and can keep searching or listening in the meantime.
Does it play once the screen goes dark?
It does. Playback runs in the background, the notification and the lock screen give you skip and pause, and the buttons on your headphones work too. Close the app and open it again and you're back where you stopped.
Where does the music end up?
In the folder you chose. Every album gets its own subdirectory and the files are named Artist - Title. You can reach them through an ordinary file browser — they stay put even if you uninstall the app.
What does it cost?
Nothing. No subscription, no ads, no account. Nothing is sent anywhere — the app has no server of its own and only talks to YouTube Music.
I have an iPhone. Will it work?
Not yet. Shipping an iPhone build would have to go through the App Store and that isn't possible. Android and Mac are what's available.
Go on, download it
In a few minutes your recordings are sitting in a folder — cover art, tags and lyrics and all — and you can play them where there's no signal.