The Best Free Spotify AlternativesTop Music Streaming & Music Discovery Services like Spotify

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1. 

   

   Deezer

    471 likes

   Deezer is an excellent option since its user experience is quite similar to Spotify, but it also has approximately 70 million songs available, about 30 million more than its competitor. It also has a feature similar to the Shazam called SongCatcher, which you can use to identify the name of the songs that are playing. Flow is another cool feature missing on Spotify, with recommendations created exclusively for you and songs that you no longer remember so you can enjoy long hours of music. The free version of Deezer works similar to Spotify (although with less advertising between songs), but you can always get the premium version from $10 USD.

   184 Deezer alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application types

   • Music Streaming
   • Audio Player

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Online
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • Android Tablet
   • iPad
   • Apple Watch
   • Apple TV
   • Kindle Fire
   • HUAWEI AppGallery
   • Samsung Galaxy Store

   

   

   

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   Top Positive Comment

   Douze

   Feb 3, 2022

   19

   Deezer roughly pays the artists 40% more money per stream than Spotify ($0.0064 instead of $0.00437, according to dittomusic.com). It doesn't seem like much, but to me it's an fairly important point, which led me to use Deezer over Spotify.

   Sam Lander

   Negative comment•Jun 24, 2023

   -10

   With Deezer you can only listen to 30 seconds of a song unless you pay.

   mulang

   Positive comment•Jan 26, 2023

   8

   It's a nice and easy to use ui

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   • Deezer is Freemium and ProprietarySpotify is also Freemium and Proprietary
   • Deezer is LightweightSpotify is not according to our users
2. 

   

   SoundCloud

    650 likes

   Soundcloud is known for having an impressive music and audio library. We are talking about more than 200 million files between songs and podcasts. This is mainly because it is the preferred music streaming platform for new indie artists, those that you probably couldn't find on Spotify (shoutouts to electronic music lovers). The main disadvantage with SoundCloud is that you won't find a lot of well-known established artists.

   It also works as a kind of music social network where you can share, like, and comment on entries; highlight parts of songs; create your own lists and podcasts; and follow your favorite artists. All this means that you can find an impressive variety of content compared to Spotify. Soundcloud has a free version with ads, but you can subscribe to one of their premium memberships from as little as $5 USD per month.

   166 SoundCloud alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application types

   • Music Streaming
   • Audio Player

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Online
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • Android Tablet
   • iPad
   • Android Auto
   • Apple Car Play
   • Apple Watch
   • Android Wear

   

   

   

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   Top Positive Comment

   Jonathan Jewell

   Jan 7, 2023

   8

   It is far more concerned with individual and small musicians and has way less of a sense of corporate obsession and political interference with it. I do think that Spotify, thanks to its influence, can basically draw anything to its collection and make or break a major artist, but for smaller artists, Soundcloud offers hope that there is a route into the industry.

   Top Negative Comment

   Harvey Williams

   Nov 23, 2018

   25

   SoundCloud generally allows small artists to share their music, where as Spotify rarely has small time artists and instead focuses on artists which have full albums or have been signed.

   Guest

   Positive comment•Apr 7, 2024

   0

   Because Spotify is paid it spoil the entrainment because of repeting of same ads

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

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   • SoundCloud is Freemium and ProprietarySpotify is also Freemium and Proprietary
4. 

   

   YouTube Music

    195 likes

   YouTube Music has an important advantage over Spotify, in addition to its extensive music catalog, it includes millions of videos and uses the extremely intelligent and powerful YouTube search engine, which means that you just have to type or say some word that identifies a song or part of the lyrics and you will surely find it.

   Its interface is really easy and familiar to navigate, on its main page you will find different playlists according to your mood. Thus, if you need more energy, need to focus, or need to relax or cheer up, you can use them to forget about looking for specific genres or songs.

   But beyond the content, there are two main advantages: you can have your music offline or watch videos without having to be connected to WiFi or mobile data. In addition, you can have YouTube videos in the background and continue using other applications without the music being cut until you decide. You can purchase YouTube Music Premium from $10 USD.

   169 YouTube Music alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application types

   • Music Streaming
   • Audio Player

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Online
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • Android Tablet
   • iPad
   • Apple Watch
   • Android Auto

   

   

   

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   Top Positive Comment

   Irina Manets

   Aug 6, 2020

   3

   Free, included in YouTube premium

   Top Negative Comment

   choudharipremchand505

   Nov 13, 2023

   4

   YouTube music is good but you can't listen to it if you are on some other app or your phone is off, unless you pay.

   tbmcqueen

   Positive comment•Jan 15, 2026

   0

   I have found this easier to use than Spotify, but it has plenty of drawbacks. I recommend digging up an older APK for it, though, because it got overall laggier and buggier in 2025. I believe mine is from Oct, 2024. Playlists don't have good tools to manage and won't load in their entirety without a lot of scrolling – and then their UI gets laggy once hundreds of tracks are shown. It doesn't come up often, but if you need to delete something from the end of a long playlist, expect it to take at least several minutes. Shuffle play works fine as long as you remember to actually "Shuffle Play" rather than hitting play and turning shuffle on, although in some circumstances involving stopping and restarting a shuffled playlist it can un-shuffle. Ethically, it looks like YTM pays out a similar amount to Spotify (very little), and then of course there's the fact that it's owned by Alphabet. Does that make it worse than Spotify? I don't know, but they're in similar territory, IMO.

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   • YouTube Music is Freemium and ProprietarySpotify is also Freemium and Proprietary
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   Funkwhale

    183 likes

   Funkwhale is one of the most popular options when it comes to Open Source and Self-Hosted alternatives to Spotify. You can have control over your personal music library without worrying about it ever disappearing from the platform for any external reason. Unlike Spotify, Funkwhale consists of several independent websites or "pods" (sometimes called "servers" or "instances") where you can upload your personal library to be streamed to mobile devices or shared with friends. Funkwhale is completely free, giving the user an experience free of tracking and ads.

   91 Funkwhale alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

   Application types

   • Music Streaming
   • Music Discovery

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Online
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • F-Droid
   • Kodi
   • Self-Hosted
   • Cloudron

   

   

   

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   Top Positive Comment

   loziniak

   May 13, 2021

   6

   It's open and distributed.

   Top Negative Comment

   szpijon

   Aug 19, 2024

   4

   Not a streaming service like spotify, only a self-hosted music library

   kaldrenon

   Negative comment•Aug 7, 2025

   0

   Spotify is a streaming service which provides a library of music that it licenses for streaming. Funkwhale is a streaming server which relies on users providing the library of music. Someone seeking an app that does what Spotify does will not find it in Funkwhale.

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   • Funkwhale is Free and Open SourceSpotify is Freemium and Proprietary
   • Funkwhale is Decentralized, Lightweight and Privacy focusedSpotify is not according to our users
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   Bandcamp

    199 likes

   It is an excellent option for independent musicians that combines many features from a social network where you can display your music, with an ecommerce function that lets you sell your merchandise. Unlike Spotify, Bandcamp allows users to stream your music or buy your discography in physical or digital formats (with a commission of 10 to 15%). 

   If you are a musician, the premium version offers you several extra benefits such as: Sending private messages to your fans, seeing the location of your buyers and how they have reached you, batch uploading audio to the platform, adding videos to your music and related merchandise, sending VIP songs through private links, the ability to configure a custom domain, connecting your profile with Google Analytics, and disable some songs so that cannot be listened for whatever reason.

   126 Bandcamp alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application types

   • Music Streaming
   • Music Discovery

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Online
   • Android
   • iPhone

   

   

   

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   MaterialFuture

   Positive comment•May 13, 2022

   6

   Bandcamp allows you to support artists directly and without having to use an app and with less fees. It has a lower barrier to entry than Spotify so you'll find more independent artists. The merch feature is great and allows you to buy merch (digital/physical) and music all in one place.

   szpijon

   Positive comment•Aug 19, 2024

   0

   Allows you to actually own the songs you pay for. Vast majority (if not all) of the money you pay goes directly to the artist. It also supports Lossless audio. And you can also order some cool merch

   Guest

   Positive comment•Nov 24, 2025

   0

   Really a good alternative also main music player of all devices. (It grants artists their rights.)

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   

   

   • Bandcamp is Freemium and ProprietarySpotify is also Freemium and Proprietary
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   Spotube

    153 likes

   Cross-platform client for desktop and mobile enabling manual playback, free streaming via YouTube without a Spotify Premium account, playlist creation, auto-generation, time-synced lyrics, music download, dark theme, integration with Piped and Sponsorblock, and multi-language support.

   72 Spotube alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application types

   • Music Streaming
   • Audio Player

   Origin

   • Bangladesh

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Online
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • Android Tablet
   • Flathub
   • F-Droid
   • Flatpak
   • Homebrew
   • Chocolatey

   

   

   

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   Myrano

   Positive comment•Apr 18, 2024

   1

   Free, open-source, ad-free and privacy-friendly. A bit slow sometimes.

   dudubo

   Positive comment•Jul 15, 2023

   4

   Thank you so much guys !!!!

   

   

   • Spotube is Free and Open SourceSpotify is Freemium and Proprietary
   • Spotube is Lightweight and Privacy focusedSpotify is not according to our users
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   AntennaPod

    210 likes

   A free and open source podcastmanager for Android, allowing you to subscribe to podcasts (via iTunes database & OPML), automatically download episodes using powerful mechanisms and listen to them the way you like (speed, balance adjustments, etc).

   78 AntennaPod alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application types

   • Podcast Player
   • Podcast Manager

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Android
   • Android Tablet
   • F-Droid
   • Android Auto

   

   

   

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   Top Positive Comment

   Frexode

   Dec 17, 2023

   0

   AntennaPod is great for podcasts. Has all the necessary features minus the tracking and ads. You wont find the spotify exclusive podcasts though. So if you listen to some of those, then Spotify might be your only option.

   collorfrisie

   Positive comment•Aug 16, 2024

   0

   much easier to sort podcasts and downloads are always available

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   Guest

   Positive comment•Mar 2, 2024

   0

   It is a easy to use, nice looking, privacy friendly and OpenSource all in one solution for Podcasts. Probably the best podcast app there is. Only thing that is missing is being able to comment or see comments on ActivityPub Podcasts' feeds

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   • AntennaPod is Free and Open SourceSpotify is Freemium and Proprietary
   • AntennaPod is Privacy focused, Lightweight and CustomizableSpotify is not according to our users
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    Audius Music

     52 likes

    Audius is a streaming platform built for all musicians, not just those signed to labels. Build a fanbase, share your works in progress, and then publish your completed tracks for all the world to hear. Create, grow, and monetize, all without the need to graduate off the platform...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

    Application types

    • Music Streaming
    • Audio Player

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone

    

    

    

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    LucaFinizio

    Positive comment•Apr 19, 2022

    2

    It worksin a very similar way and has a similar interface. You probably won't find some artists here, but listening music from Audius is 100% legal and open source

    SleipnirTheHorse

    Comment•Jan 12, 2026

    0

    Has a large library which allows me to listen to any sort of music I want, probably I will find a better service if it keeps going down hill.

    But where's the guarantee that the next one won't go down hill?

    

    

    • Audius Music is Free and Open SourceSpotify is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Audius Music is DecentralizedSpotify is not according to our users
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    iTunes

     1050 likes

    Serves as a media player and library for music, videos, and playlists, streams Internet radio, imports CDs, syncs content and manages iPhone or iPad, offers purchasing and downloading of music, TV shows, movies, supports podcasts, audiobooks, and works on macOS or Windows.

    240 iTunes alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    • Audio Player
    • Internet Radio

    Origin

    • United States

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad

    

    

    

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    Guest

    Negative comment•Jan 7, 2018

    3

    you are buying music instead of just listening it

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    • iTunes is Free and ProprietarySpotify is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Pandora

     665 likes

    Pandora offers a free, ad-supported internet radio, analyzing over 400 song attributes through the Music Genome Project. Customize your listening with Pandora One for $4.99/month, featuring high-quality streaming, unlimited skips, no ads, and enhanced user interaction across desktop applications.

    201 Pandora alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    • Music Streaming
    • Internet Radio

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Apple TV
    • Kindle Fire
    • Android Auto
    • Apple Car Play

    

    

    

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    khunphraew

    Negative comment•Oct 20, 2023

    1

    I know people can listen to the radio, but isn't spotify a multimedia player? (It's not)

    Guest

    Negative comment•Apr 21, 2017

    4

    This is a radio, spotify is a media player.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.

    Guest

    Negative comment•Jan 26, 2017

    8

    Pandora is an internet radio that chooses the songs for you while Spotify lets you decide which song to play

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    Pocket Casts

     244 likes

    Podcast player supporting streaming and downloads, advanced search, cross-device 'Up Next', improved discovery, playback effects, and offline listening essentials.

    132 Pocket Casts alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MPL-2.0)

    Application types

    • Podcast Player
    • Podcast Manager

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Android Auto
    • Android Wear
    • Apple Car Play

    

    

    

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    Top Positive Comment

    sedeti

    Apr 15, 2022

    1

    That's just a podcast player

    Top Negative Comment

    Guest

    Jul 10, 2020

    10

    Pocket Casts is a podcast player not a streaming music service.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.

    Benjamin Brooks

    Negative comment•Apr 14, 2025

    0

    its solely for podcast and would be a waste of time for spotify users

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    • Pocket Casts is Freemium and Open SourceSpotify is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Jango

     81 likes

    While Spotify mainly focuses on music and podcasts, Jango works more like a free custom internet radio and social network. You can create your own radio stations based on artists or bands and customize them through ratings or adding more artists that will determine what is the best type of content for your radio station. You can also browse the recommended catalog or refine other users' stations.

    135 Jango alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    • Internet Radio
    • Music Streaming

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad

    

    

    

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    Guest

    Positive comment•Jun 20, 2017

    5

    The mix of the stations is always good and surprising - love it

    Review by a new / low-activity user.

    Guest

    Positive comment•Jul 12, 2019

    4

    Jango allows for unlimited skips and it plays the exact song that you enter in the search query, not a similar song or similar artist, and its FREE!!!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.

    kolorafa

    Positive comment•Nov 2, 2017

    2

    The same 'radio' feature as Spotify that will play songs based on songs.

    

    

    • Jango is Free and ProprietarySpotify is Freemium and Proprietary