Grovy

Grovy is what happened when my Spotify free trial ran out and I refused to go back to ads. Instead of paying up or dealing with interruptions every two songs, I figured I’d just… build my own music player. No accounts, no tracking, no upsells — just press play.

It’s completely open source and runs in the browser. No downloads, no sign-ups. You search for a song, it plays. That’s it. I stripped out every piece of friction I could think of because the whole point was: I just want to listen to music.

Under the hood, it pulls music from two sources — the unofficial JioSaavn API and the unofficial YouTube Music API. Between the two, you get access to basically everything — Bollywood, Western, regional, indie, whatever. No premium paywall, no region locks.