The Retro Music Player for Android
BimAmp brings back the tactile joy of 90s desktop media players to your pocket. No streaming subscriptions, no online tracking, and zero ads. Just you, your offline music library, and a beautiful retro interface.
Every feature engineered to put your music back in your control.
No internet connection required. No data usage. Your music stays local to your device, and ready to play anywhere you go.
Customise the look and feel with unique player skins. Bring back the look and feel of classic digital players, with future plans for a 'skin store' and 'skin creator' to make the app your own.
No account logins. No diagnostic tracking. No background server queries. We respect your storage and your peace of mind.
Transition seamlessly between audio tracks. Adjust sound signatures to match your headphones with built-in equalizer preset profiles.
Yes. BimAmp is free, and will remain free. There are no paywalls, locked features, or upgrade prompts. Optional donations through Ko-fi are always welcome to support future development.
BimAmp supports common local formats including MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, M4A, and OGG Vorbis.
We believe streaming platforms have made music discovery rich but listening fragile. BimAmp is for the files you own and care about, your personal music collection, and so you areguaranteed access offline.
BimAmp for Android — last updated 8 September 2026
The short version: BimAmp collects nothing, sends nothing, and has no servers. It plays audio files which are already on your device. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no network requests of any kind.
BimAmp is developed by Harlequin Labs. For any question about this policy, contact [email protected].
None. BimAmp does not collect, store, transmit, or share any personal data. We operate no servers and no backend service, so there is nowhere for your data to be sent even in principle.
To function as a music player, BimAmp keeps a local database on your device. This never leaves your phone and is removed when you uninstall the app. It contains:
BimAmp reads audio only from folders you pick yourself using the Android system folder picker. The app has no ability to browse your wider storage, and it never modifies or deletes your files.
Used solely to display playback controls while music is playing. We send no promotional or marketing notifications.
BimAmp declares the microphone permission, and we want to be completely clear about why, because the label is misleading in this case.
BimAmp never records audio and never accesses your microphone input. The permission is required by Android's Visualizer system component, which reads BimAmp's own audio output in order to draw the spectrum analyser. Android classifies this as a microphone permission even though no microphone data is involved.
This permission is entirely optional. The visualiser is switched off by default, and the permission is only ever requested if you turn it on yourself in Settings. Decline it, or never enable the visualiser, and BimAmp works normally. No audio is captured, stored, or transmitted under any circumstance.
BimAmp is not directed at children and collects no data from users of any age.
Because we hold no data about you, there is nothing for us to disclose, correct, or delete. All app data lives on your device and is fully removed when you uninstall BimAmp.
If this policy changes, the revised version will be published on this page with an updated date. Should a future release ever alter what data is handled, we will say so plainly before that release ships.