Spotify Alternatives

The best alternative to Spotify is Spotube, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Spotify and loads of them match your filters so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to Spotify are AntennaPod, Deezer, Funkwhale and TIDAL.

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  1. Alien Pirate Radio is a macOS desktop music player for local music libraries. It scans a user-selected music folder, plays supported audio files, reads optional RSS news bulletins, and uses locally installed AI tools such as Ollama and Kokoro to generate spoken radio-style DJ...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. Lark Player is a stylish and free offline music player and video player for Android, it supports to play all major formats of offline music and videos.

    48 Lark Player alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Since 2025

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    • Android
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    A modern open-source music player for Android & Windows, focused on immersive playback, smart discovery, synced lyrics and rich artwork 🎶.

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    • New

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Obtainium
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  4. Raazi icon
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    Stream, play & download music. Sync. No ads.

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    • Since 2026

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    • Android
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  5. A sleek, lightweight desktop audio player built with C# and Avalonia UI. Stream music seamlessly from YouTube Music with a modern Spotify-inspired dark │ interface, playlist management, and native LibVLC audio.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • New

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. Melarka icon
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    Melarka is a free, open-source music server you run at home (one Docker container). Songs come from your own music folders, which it never modifies, or from YouTube: search, download a song or a whole playlist, or follow channels and let new episodes download by themselves.

    19 Melarka alternatives

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    • New

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Docker
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  7. PPPlayer icon
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    PPPlayer is a beautiful, free, and open-source cross-platform music player designed to give you the ultimate listening experience. Built with a modern, dynamic UI featuring ambient blur effects and fluid animations, PPPlayer seamlessly combines the power of cloud streaming with...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • New

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  8. Nuotit icon
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    A private iOS podcast player that unifies your audiobooks, voice memos, and local music into one library — with on-device transcripts and a professional audio engine.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

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    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  9. Tmusic icon
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    Tmusic is a lightweight, open-source desktop music player and downloader for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Highly optimized for gamers and power users, it consumes less than 50MB of RAM, making it the perfect background player.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • New

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  10. Vynody icon
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    Cross-platform local music player for desktop and mobile, with folder scanning, incremental library updates, playlists, native playback, synced and AI-timed lyrics, translation, metadata lookup, spectrum and waveform visualizations, plus Navidrome, Jellyfin, WebDAV, SMB, and local-network sharing.

    56 Vynody alternatives

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    • New

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
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