Easily switch between mute and unmute with a single tap while watching videos. Perfect for YouTube shorts, Reels, and more.
F-Droid is the official and recommend way to get Floating Mute:
F-Droid takes a while to publish new versions, if you want to get latest version, you can get it from GitHub releases:
Floating Mute is also published on these platforms, updates tend to appear there faster than F-Droid in general:
There might be other sources where you can get the app, but note that they are NOT RECOMMENDED as they might have changed the code!
- Mute/Unmute your device with a single tap.
- When unmuting it restores the volume as it was before unmuting.
- Can be placed anywhere on the screen by simply dragging it.
- You can hide it by long pressing it, and tap on the notification to make it appear again.
- It saves the position of the button on the screen for each orientations, portrait and landscape.
- Automatically adjusts itself as you change the volume.
- Shows the percentage in beside the floating button.
- Tap the floating button to mute or unmute.
- Drag it to move it.
- Long press to hide it.
- The notification allows you to hide and show it at any time.
- You can also quit the app by tapping on 'exit' in the notification.
- Tap on the notification to open the app so you can change the settings.
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I appreciate the support from the tech community!
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Floating Mute was featured on Computer-WD, one of the top Arabic tech blogs:
"A clever Android tool that makes muting and unmuting videos effortless—especially useful for short-form content like YouTube Shorts and Reels."
(Translated from Arabic)
— April 11, 2025
Floating Mute is Free Software: You can use, study, share, and improve it at will. Specifically you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.