Spotify Alternatives

Spotify is described as 'Stream millions of tracks online with genre, playlist, artist, and album browsing. Get offline listening and ad-free experience with Premium' and is a leading Music Streaming service in the audio & music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Spotify for a variety of platforms, including Android, Web-based, iPhone, Windows and Mac apps. The best Spotify alternative is Deezer, which is free. Other great apps like Spotify are SoundCloud, YouTube Music, Funkwhale and Apple Music.

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Spotify alternatives are mainly Music Streaming Services, but if you're looking for Audio Players or Music Discovery Services you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android + Open Source. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Spotify.
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Spotify alternatives page was last updated May 9, 2025
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  1. muffon icon
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    muffon is a cross-platform music streaming client for desktop, which helps you listen to, discover and organize music in an advanced way.

    62 muffon alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight
    3.  Support for Themes
    4.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Streaming
    4.  No registration required
    5.  Music Library
    6.  Playlists
    7.  Works Offline
    8.  No Tracking
    9.  Personalized Recommendations
    10.  Portable
    11.  Stream audio
    12.  Support for Lyrics

    muffon VS Spotify

     
  2. Ampache icon
     58 likes
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    Ampache is a web based audio streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device.

    98 Ampache alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron

    Ampache Features

    1.  Subsonic API
    2.  Self-hosted music
    3.  Streaming
    4.  Support for MPD
    5.  WebDAV Support
    6.  Web-Based
    7.  Based on Laravel

    Ampache VS Spotify

     
  3. SpotX icon
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    A versatile ad-blocker designed for the Spotify desktop application on Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms.

    30 SpotX alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    SpotX VS Spotify

     
  4. MusicUp icon
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    Is a streaming platform, here you can create your own room and collaborative playlist with online users, the participants choose by voting the following songs in queue.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Discontinued

    web.getmusicup.com is down.

    MusicUp Features

    1.  Collaborative Playlists
    2.  Talk radio
    3.  Download YouTube Playlist
    4.  Music Library
    5.  Automatic album art download
    6.  No download
    7.  Streaming

    MusicUp VS Spotify

     
    Comments about MusicUp as an Alternative to Spotify
    Top Positive Comment
    dpar
    May 12, 2017
    4

    Amazing function: Karaoke, colaborative.

    Top Negative Comment
    Guest
    Feb 8, 2019
    5

    Search only by playlist, not by song title or album. Songs can be found only when creating a playlist.

    Most Recent Comment
    vqqs
    Positive May 18, 2017
    0

    Similary list of spotify. ;)

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    • Almost everyone thinks MusicUp is a great Spotify alternative.

    • MusicUp is Free and ProprietarySpotify is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Anytime Podcast Player is a free and open-source podcast player that's designed to be simple and easy to use. Anytime is Podcasting 2.0 ready and will support more features as the app is developed.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Import/Export OPML Feeds
    4.  Dark Mode
    5.  Works Offline
    6.  Sleep Timer

    Anytime Podcast Player VS Spotify

     
  6. Harmony Music icon
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    An app for music streaming made with Flutter. Currently support Android, Windows, Linux. It play song from YouTube/YouTube Music.

    106 Harmony Music alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • F-Droid

    Top Harmony Music Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  MP3 Downloader
    5.  No Tracking
    6.  No registration required
    7.  Cloud Sync
    8.  Works Offline
    9.  Background Music
    10.  Playlists
    11.  Support for Lyrics

    Harmony Music VS Spotify

     
  7. Moosync icon
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    A simple music player capable of playing local audio or from Youtube, Spotify more. Possible via Invidious or Piped for YouTube. Moosync has a customizable clean interface.

    75 Moosync alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1. Spotify icon  Spotify integration
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  Dark Mode
    6.  Music Looper
    7.  Portable
    8. YouTube icon  Youtube integration
    9.  Electron based

    Moosync VS Spotify

     
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