retro_player.mp3
Retro MP3 & offline music
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Your MP3s, like it's 2003. A dot-matrix player for the music you own, now with Hi-Fi, Warm and Club sound. Offline, no account, no ads.
retro_player.mp3 plays the music you already own, the way a player from 1983 would have if it had been designed in Germany and shipped in 2003.
DOT-MATRIX DISPLAY
Your music drives a square LED panel, unlit dots and all. Six display styles: Bars with red peak caps, Mirror, Scope, Pulse, Warp and Rain. Pick yours in Settings or tap the display, and the dots fly over to the new one. Turn on Auto VJ and now and then the panel moves on by itself, with a transition: a swirl, a burst, a dissolve or a CRT wipe.
AUTOMIX
Turn it on and every track crossfades into the next. retro_player trims the silence at the end of one song and the start of the next, so the mix lands on the music. Choose 4, 8 or 12 seconds.
PIXEL COVER ART
Every track gets its own generated LED cover: invaders, synthwave suns, rings, skylines. It's on the lock screen and in Control Center.
NAMES LIKE IT'S 2003
Show titles clean, as the raw file name, or in full Y2K style: xX~sOnG_nAmE~Xx.mp3.
YOUR FILES, YOUR LISTS
Import MP3, M4A, WAV and AIFF from the Files app, or drop them into Files › On My iPhone › retro_player. Make lists, reorder them, play them.
MADE FOR IPHONE DUO
Open it and the player sits on one side with your lists on the other, the fold between them.
NOTHING ELSE
No account. No streaming. No ads. No tracking. Works offline.
Black, white and one red. Less, but better.
SOUND: choose HI-FI, WARM or CLUB. EQ, compression and a limiter shape the music as it plays; your files never change.
SEARCH: find any track by title or artist.
REPEAT: repeat one track or the whole list.
A better seek: the red dot grows as you drag it, with a tick of haptics for every step.
And retro_player.mp3 is now on the Mac.
The developer, False Peak, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- False Peak
- Size
- 9.3 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 False Peak
