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Offline Music Player - NoBars

Your music. Your device. Nobody else’s business.

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Inside NoBars

NoBars is an offline player for the audio and video files you already own. It has no catalogue, no recommendations and no account — it plays what you put in it, from storage on your own device, whether or not there is a signal. Everything below is free, with no in-app purchases.

Getting files in is the part most players get wrong, so NoBars offers eight ways: a direct download link, the Files app, a computer over your own Wi-Fi, the Music app on the device, and your own Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or WebDAV storage — Nextcloud, Synology, QNAP and TrueNAS included. Files are copied down to the device and played from there, so the library keeps working on a plane, on the underground, or with the network switched off entirely.

NoBars — Works everywhere, even with no signal

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Works everywhere, even with no signal

No sign-up, no subscription and no catalogue to rent. NoBars opens straight into your own collection and plays it from the device, with playback speed that preserves pitch and a favourite button always within reach.

  • No account
  • No subscription
  • Speed · pitch kept
NoBars — Your computer, your cloud, your devices

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Your computer, your cloud, your devices

Paste a direct link and the file lands in your library. Import from the Files app, drag files in from a browser on the same Wi-Fi, or pull tracks you already own out of the Music app. Connect your Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or WebDAV storage, browse it, and copy down only what you want. Every connection is read-only.

  • URL · Files · Wi-Fi
  • Dropbox · Google Drive
  • OneDrive · WebDAV
NoBars — Organize your music your way

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Organize your music your way

Favourites, recently played, recently added and never played keep themselves up to date beside the playlists you build by hand. Browse by album, artist or the folder structure you already organised, with search across title, artist, album and filename.

  • Smart playlists
  • Albums · artists · folders
  • Instant search
NoBars — Control playback from your lock screen

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Control playback from your lock screen

Artwork, scrubbing and transport controls on the lock screen and in Control Centre, so the app keeps working while it is in your pocket — and keeps playing when you switch to something else.

  • Lock-screen controls
  • Background playback
  • AirPlay output
NoBars — Lyrics, audiobooks and podcasts too

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Lyrics, audiobooks and podcasts too

Lyrics read from the file itself and follow along as the track plays, with a timing offset for when they drift. A Bookshelf gathers audiobooks and podcasts on its own and remembers where you stopped.

  • Synced lyrics
  • Timing offset
  • Bookshelf · resume
NoBars — Play until you fall asleep

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Play until you fall asleep

Set the sleep timer from five to ninety minutes, or let it stop at the end of the current track. Playback fades out over three seconds rather than cutting off mid-bar.

  • 5–90 minutes
  • End of track
  • 3-second fade
NoBars — Music and video in one player

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Music and video in one player

One library for both. Lossless and lossy audio — MP3, M4A, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, OGG, OPUS, WMA, APE, DSF and M4B — alongside MP4, M4V, MKV, AVI, MOV, WEBM and 3GP video, with full-screen playback a tap away.

  • FLAC · ALAC · APE · DSF
  • MP4 · MKV · AVI · MOV
  • Full screen

Support

Questions about NoBars, a bug to report or a data request — one address reaches us, and we reply within two business days.

Publisher

XCELL TECH

Privacy & data handling How NoBars treats the music you put into it, and the accounts you connect to it
  • NoBars is offline-first: your audio and video files, tags, artwork, playlists, play counts and listening positions are stored locally on your device. There is no account and no library upload.
  • Playing files, browsing the library, making playlists, importing files and using the trash involve no network requests at all — a build-time check fails the release if that code ever touches the network.
  • Offline Lock is one switch that refuses every outbound request the app can make, cloud connections and URL downloads included. The badge stays on screen so you can check rather than trust.
  • Cloud and network drives are optional, always started by you, and read-only. The app has no capability to upload, modify, rename, move or delete anything on Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or a WebDAV server.
  • Sign-in happens in an isolated system browser, so NoBars never sees your password for any of those services. Access tokens are held in the device Keychain and can be disconnected at any time from inside the app.
  • Files you download go straight from the service to your device. They do not pass through, and are never stored on, any server operated by us.
  • Each service is asked for the narrowest permission that lets you browse and download. On Google Drive that is the drive.file scope, which reaches only the files and folders you pick in Google’s own chooser — NoBars cannot see, list or search the rest of your Drive, and has no way to request that ability. Our use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.
  • Usage statistics are counts only and can be turned off, deleted items sit in a trash for 30 days, and nothing from your library ever leaves the device.
  • No advertisements, no advertising SDKs, no advertising identifier, and nothing sold to anyone.

Published policies: Privacy Policy · Terms of Service · questions to service@oxcellion.com.