The best Garmin music apps
The best music app this week is Deezer by Deezer (Free, score 7.7/10). Deezer on your watch: take your music with you and listen without your phone across every genre, with a Deezer Premium subscription.
Music, podcast and audiobook apps that put audio on your Garmin watch for listening without your phone.
Deezer
Deezer on your watch: take your music with you and listen without your phone across every genre, with a Deezer Premium subscription.
Holy Bible Audio
Listen to the Bible offline on your watch: the New Testament in the World English Bible version, up to 500 consecutive verses at a time.
YouTube Music
YouTube Music on your watch: download playlists made for you, your own playlists and the latest podcasts for offline listening on the go, from over 100 million songs.
Spotify
Spotify on your watch: download your playlists, albums and podcasts and listen anywhere without your phone, including Made for You and workout music. Requires a Spotify Premium account.
Amazon Music
Amazon Music on your watch: download your favorite tracks and podcasts and play them offline from your wrist, so you can leave your phone behind on runs and rides.
YaMusic Sync
Listen to your Yandex Music playlists from your watch without a phone: the app downloads the playlists you choose over Wi-Fi and plays them from the watch.
playrun, all podcasts on your Garmin watch
Free podcasts on your watch: choose your podcasts on the playrun website, build a playlist, sync it to your watch over Wi-Fi and listen while you run.
GCast
A standalone podcast player: search podcasts from Podcast Index and Apple Podcasts, subscribe, download episodes to the watch and listen offline in the native music player, no phone app needed.
Quran (Koran) Audio
All 114 surahs of the Quran on your watch: download them once over WiFi and listen offline without your phone, with recitations in Arabic, English and more languages.
MP3 Sync Play
Put your own MP3 files on your watch without a media server, extra app or registration: transfer them through a browser and listen with Bluetooth headphones, no phone needed.
OpenPlayer
OpenPlayer syncs music and podcasts from your Jellyfin media server to your Garmin watch. Audio Player appearance varies by model. Developed for and tested on Fenix 6S Pro. Other models tested through simulator.
Audiobooks Green (for audiobookshelf)
Audiobooks Green (for audiobookshelf). The audiobookshelf server must be accessible via the Internet on port 443 and have a valid certificate. The application does not work within a local network because it uses an intermediate (proxy) server that sends requests to your audiobookshelf server.
TRAXX
Listen to your favorite music on your watch. Download the app and enjoy VK Music/Yandex Music service during walks and workouts. To obtain an authorization token and connect Yandex Music, follow these steps.
Koda — Navidrome Music
Koda connects your Garmin watch directly to your self-hosted Navidrome music server. Browse the playlists available on your server, then download any of them straight to your watch for offline listening.
SubMusic
Synchronize playlists with songs or podcast episodes from your own music server: Nextcloud - Subsonic - Ampache - Airsonic. Browse your online playlists and podcasts. Make playlists available offline.
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