osu!

osu! is a free rhythm game by ppy in which you tap, hold and spin in time with music on levels, called beatmaps, made by its players. This is osu!(lazer), the rewritten version that runs on computers and phones alike. Its README calls it “A free-to-win rhythm game”, and it has no ads.

The game on Android

• Four modes: osu!, the default, where you “tap circles, hold sliders, and spin spinners to the beat of the music”; osu!taiko with drums; osu!catch, where you “collect fruits falling to the beat”; and osu!mania, “a vertical scrolling rhythm game”. Each has its own touch controls.
• Touch play counts for rankings. In osu! mode, scores played by touch get the Touch Device mod automatically, which adjusts their difficulty rating.
• Phones play in landscape; tablets can rotate freely. Beatmap, skin and replay files can be imported by opening them with osu!.
• Online, with a free account: score submission and leaderboards, multiplayer, ranked play, playlists, the daily challenge and chat. The last full release added a setting to block invites and private messages from people who aren’t your friends.

Beatmaps and copyright

Beatmaps are made and uploaded by players. ppy is open about what that means: “All game levels (beatmaps) are created and uploaded by community members, often without correctly obtaining permission from relevant copyright holders.” It removes infringing beatmaps on request under the US DMCA, and runs the Featured Artist program, whose songs are licensed for use in osu!. You find beatmaps in the game’s own listing or on osu.ppy.sh.

What goes online

From the code of this version:

• ppy’s servers, for your account, scores, leaderboards, multiplayer, chat and beatmap downloads.
• Crash reports to ppy’s own error-tracking server, with your username and user ID when you are signed in. They are on in the official build, and the only way to turn them off is an environment variable, which you can’t set on Android.
• GitHub, at every start, to check for a new release.

The privacy policy adds that the game sends an identifier derived from your hardware and software configuration, submits your scores with replay data, and “contains executable code that is used to detect the usage of cheat software.” In its words, “All analytics are hosted in-house.”

About this file

• This is the official GitHub release 2026.1005.0, from 5 October 2026, matching the SHA-256 hash GitHub publishes and signed by ppy (Dean Herbert, ppy Pty Ltd). ppy calls it a security hotfix and points to 2026.920.0, two weeks earlier, for the last full list of changes; on Android, those included more attempts to fix invisible sliders and to reduce display latency.
• The 513.2 MB file is large because it carries the whole game, about 130 megabytes of its resources, three times: once each for 64-bit ARM, 32-bit ARM and 32-bit x86. Beatmaps take more space as you download them. It runs on Android 5.0 and later and declares 5 permissions: internet, keeping the screen awake, and two system permissions, for battery information and the frame buffer, that Android doesn’t grant to ordinary apps, plus one AndroidX adds for internal use.
• Our tracker scan matches Sentry, the crash-reporting library described above.
• osu!’s code is licensed under the MIT licence. The game resources come under CC BY-NC 4.0, and the README adds that the licence “does not cover the usage of the “osu!” or “ppy” branding”, which “is protected by trademark law”. ppy has around 30 open Android issues on GitHub, such as the game not starting on some devices because of a MIDI error.
• There are no official Android screenshots, so this page has none.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017); armeabi-v7a (32-bit ARM, older and budget phones); x86 (32-bit Intel, emulators).