What Is Koel Plus?

Introduction

Koel Plus is the premium version of Koel. It offers additional features and enhancements on top of the Community edition, including but not limited to:

• Multi-library Support: Each user has their own library, which they populate by uploading their own music.
• Music Sharing: By default, uploaded music is private to the user who uploaded it. However, users can choose to share their music with others by marking songs as public.
• Collaboration: Invite other users to collaborate on playlists, allowing them to add, remove, and reorder songs.
• Cloud Storage Support: Remote and cloud storage drivers like SFTP, Amazon S3 (or any S3-compatible service), and Dropbox, are supported in addition to local storage.
• Single Sign-On (SSO) Support: Log in with your existing credentials from another service like Google.
• Authentication via Proxy-Authorization Header: Seamlessly log in users already authenticated via a proxy server, allowing Koel to be used in a corporate environment.
• Media Browser: A file-explorer-like interface that allows browsing music directly at a file level, useful for libraries without proper ID3 tagging.
• White Labeling: Customize the app's branding elements (name, logo, cover) to match those of your organization's.
• Custom Themes: Create and apply your own themes.

New features are constantly planned or in active development.

Do you need Koel Plus?

Since Koel Plus's flagship feature is multi-library support, it's most useful in a multi-user environment, such as a family or an organization. If you're a single user, you might not need Koel Plus.

However, if you want to host your media files on a cloud storage service like Amazon S3 or Dropbox, or if you want some of the more-niche features above, you'll need Koel Plus. Purchasing Koel Plus is also a good way to financially support the active development of Koel.