Floating Volume: a volume slider that floats above every app
Mohamad Almousli · 2026-10-05 · 1 min read
Floating Volume puts a volume slider on top of whatever app you are in, so changing the volume doesn't mean leaving it or reaching for the keys. It is the companion to Floating Mute, which handles the mute button.
What it is
A floating slider you can use from any app to set the volume. There is no account and nothing to configure before it works; the screenshots below show the slider and its settings.
How it is built
The interface is Flutter; the parts that need to talk to Android itself are native Kotlin. The two sides are connected with Pigeon, which generates typed Dart and Kotlin code from two small definition files, one for calls into Android and one for events coming back.
Get it, or build it
F-Droid is the recommended source, with the latest build on GitHub releases; it is also on Uptodown and OpenAPK. The app is meant to be a reproducible build for F-Droid: a Docker script mimics the F-Droid build environment, because the OS, the JDK version and even the source path affect the result.
It is free software under the GPL-3.0 or later.
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