Open Source · v1.1.14 stable

A music player that respects what’s yours.

A modern lossless player built on Avalonia, with dynamic ambient theming, synced lyrics and a seriously capable library. Zero tracking, total control.

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1,159 downloads and counting

Windows 10/11 macOS 12+ Linux

Noctis Now Playing: a large album cover recolors the interface while synced lyrics highlight the current line.

Noctis mini player with a Lossless badge and ambient album color.

Your next listen starts here.

Fully open source with seamless updates.

Download for Windows 64-bit installer, .exe Download for macOS Apple Silicon, .dmg Download for Linux AppImage, x86_64

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Or install with a package manager

$winget install heartached.Noctis

Windows 10/11 · macOS 12+ (Intel & Apple Silicon) · Linux x64 & ARM64. Portable and other builds on the releases page.

Your whole collection in one place.

Everything you actually do with your music, finding it, fixing it, organising it, playing it, lives in one fast native app.

Every track, indexed and instant.

Songs, Albums, Artists, Folders and Favorites stay a keystroke away, with release-type sections and filter chips for Singles, EPs, Lossless and Hi-Res. Point Noctis at your folders and it keeps up automatically.

Cover Flow & grid views
Release-type aware sections
Smart, rule-based playlists

Noctis Albums library: a grid of album-art cards with filter chips and a floating playback bar.

Transitions timed to the music.

AutoMix reads each song’s key and tempo and blends one into the next, so a queue plays like a set. Prefer it simple? Switch to crossfade, and albums always play untouched.

Key + tempo-aware AutoMix
Adjustable crossfade
Gapless playback

Noctis Song Transitions settings: AutoMix selected, blending tracks by key and tempo, with a Crossfade alternative.

Smart playlists, favorites & drag-reorder
Full metadata editor: artwork, lyrics, tags
Drag-and-drop import & bulk multi-select
Duplicate finder & file organizer
Library stats, play counts & listening trends
Artist images & bios via MusicBrainz · Deezer
Last.fm + ListenBrainz scrobbling
Discord Rich Presence
In-app self-update from GitHub releases

Tuned the way you like it.

A 10-band equalizer with presets, Replay Gain so nothing jumps in volume, gapless playback and a built-in ffmpeg-backed converter. Set it once and forget it’s there.

10-band equalizer with presets
Replay Gain & loudness normalization
Gapless playback & crossfade
Audio converter, batch transcode (ffmpeg)

Noctis equalizer with frequency bands and gain sliders.

Noctis plays practically everything.

FLAC ALAC WAV AIFF

True lossless for FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, APE and WavPack, plus everyday formats too.

APE
WavPack
MP3
AAC
OGG
Opus
WMA
M4A

A player that looks the way you listen.

Custom themes and accent colors, dynamic ambient backgrounds that bleed the cover’s colors across the screen, and views that turn a collection into something worth staring at.