Spotify faces a strong competitor in Apple Music. Both services are leaders in the crowded music-streaming arena. We reviewed each service's pricing, music selection, user experience, and other features to help you decide which streaming music service is best for you.
Spotify and Apple Music, both giants in the music streaming business, are available for iPhones and Android phones and tablets, as well as iPads, iPod touch devices, and Macs and PCs. Apple Music is also available on Apple TV, Apple Watch, and in cars with CarPlay. Spotify is also available on game consoles, speakers, TVs, smartwatches, and in many cars. The prices of the two services are similar, and their music libraries are both vast.
Spotify Premium and Apple Music are both ad-free and have similar pricing structures. Both offer a free one-month trial period. Apple also offers six months free if you purchase AirPods or another eligible audio product. Spotify has a three-month free trial offer if you sign up with PayPal. Spotify also offers a free tier, but it plays ads every few songs. Apple Music doesn't have a free tier. Notably, Apple offers a $99 per-year Apple Music Individual Plan option, which brings the plan cost down to $8.25 per month if you're willing to pay for a year upfront. You can also purchase an Apple One bundle that includes Music, Apple TV+, Arcade, and varying amounts of iCloud storage. Prices range from $14.95 per month to $29.95 per month.
You want your music service to have a broad availability and selection of songs to stream. The size of a service's music library is crucial when comparing services. Both Spotify and Apple Music provide similar catalogs and offer content exclusive to their subscribers. Apple reports its catalog holds about 90 million songs, while Spotify claims more than 82 million songs. Major artists are represented on both music services, including Taylor Swift, who feuded with Spotify for years but is back on the music service.
Along with price and music selection, consider the ease of use and overall experience of a service when making your choice. Spotify has the better user experience for now. Spotify is easier to use than Apple Music, though Apple Music has a friendly interface. You can open Spotify and listen to music quickly without much experience. Users find that Apple Music acts inconsistently across devices, and the Android experience isn't as friendly as the iOS experience. Additionally, syncing issues when using Apple Music and iCloud can result in some frustration for listeners who are used to managing the music on their devices. However, Spotify's free tier presents annoyances caused by the interruption of ads. A music service should help you discover new music you'll love. On this front, the competition is a tie. Spotify is reasonably good at presenting related artists, but some recommendations are dead ends. Apple hasn't integrated discovery as well, so finding new music on your own on a mobile device isn't as easy as it should be. However, its expert-driven recommendations from human music experts and algorithms are getting better. There are other areas where each service shines, or dims, when compared.
Apple has a huge music catalog and integrates seamlessly with other music libraries, but it's not as easy to use. Spotify is straightforward to use, has an enormous subscriber community, and delivers an excellent user experience. However, it has a slightly smaller music library, and it doesn't easily integrate with other music libraries. If you're an Apple user with lots of music in your library, Apple Music offers a great experience. If you already use Spotify and are happy, Apple Music isn't good enough to contemplate a switch. Spotify has a slight edge now, but these two premium music services are neck-and-neck in quality and value. The choice may come down to personal preference. FAQ
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Tell us why! Pocket-lint is supported by its readers. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more (Pocket-lint) - Apple Music is a single app that combines your music, a streaming service and a worldwide live radio station. Everything lives in one place, so you can stream anything choose or you can let Apple Music choose for you. Spotify meanwhile, has long been the king of music streaming, with over 180 million paying subscribers and a great feature set. It is the most widely available music streaming platform that offers a huge range of songs at a reasonable price. We've taken a deep dive and compared Apple Music and Spotify by price, availability, features, and more. Here's everything you need to know about Apple Music vs Spotify. Pocket-lint  Apple Music offers access to over 90 million songs. It's designed to combine music you have bought - such as from iTunes in the past - with music you've saved from Apple's cloud services in the Apple Music library and with ad-free streaming. The catalogue is extensive, it gives you access to music videos, along with some exclusive content from select artists. Apple Music also offers higher quality streaming with Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless, the former widely supported on devices, the latter needing more advanced equipment such as an external DAC. Apple Music also supports spatial audio, with access to Dolby Atmos mixed tracks. It also has the Apple Music 1 radio station, which is a great place to discover new music. As you would expect, Siri works with Apple Music so you can ask her to play today's hits and she will do just that, and with AirPlay 2, you can send music directly from Apple Music to a compatible AirPlay 2 speaker. Once you've started playing a song, lyrics to the song that is currently playing will appear if you swipe up in the Apple Music app. If you're using Apple Music on Android you can play music over Chromecast too. If the song you're listening to isn't in your library, you can add it, add it to a playlist, create a station of songs based around the one playing or share it with friends by tapping the three dots in the top right corner.
While it was an Apple-only deal when it first launched, Apple Music has since been rolled out to other platforms.
It's free to listen to radio without a subscription, but if you want to use any of Apple Music's other services, this is a breakdown of how much the subscription options cost:
Of course, if you're an Apple One subcriber there are bundles that include Apple Music as well. If you use some of Apple's other subscription services, that could be a good way to save money. Read more about Apple One here. You can read more about the Apple Music Family plan in our separate feature. We also have a separate feature for the Apple Music Voice Plan, which gives you access to Apple Music but only using your voice and Siri. Pocket-lint Spotify boasts over 400 million users, 180 million of which pay for the service. The rest subscribe to Spotify's free tier, which limits music quality and plays adverts every few songs. The free tier also excludes users from using other features such as being able to use it with Spotify Connect or downloading music. You can add your purchased music into Spotify using your computer, but you'll have to add them manually. You will be able to listen to tracks offline if you pay for the Premium version. More recently, Spotify has shifted over to offering more podcast content, as well as music. Spotify offers Chromecast support, as well as Spotify Connect which allows you to play the service through compatible speakers. Siri also supports Spotify and it integrated with Amazon Echo, Garmin devices and more - if you're on the Premium tier.
Spotify's strength is that it's available on practically any device you could think of, regardless of whether they have a screen or they're a smart speaker like Nest Audio or Amazon Echo.
If your TV supports casting/chromecast you'll often find you can also play music through it using Spotify Connect, which allows you to control other devices playing your Spotify account from any Spotify app logged into the same account. It's pretty clever. There is a free tier of Spotify that features adverts, though not all features are available. For all the Spotify features on offer, here is a breakdown of the subscription costs:
You can read more about Spotify Premium for Family plan in our separate feature. Both Apple Music and Spotify are relatively easy to use, priced similarly, and widely available - and they come with basic controls and plenty of options for finding songs and creating playlists. They even both offer the ability to play music when there's no service or Wi-Fi around. Spotify comes with a free, ad-supported tier, which Apple Music does not, and that makes it attractive to a lot of people. It's also universally supported and often the first service to get integration into streaming devices, so it's incredibly easy to access. Apple Music on the other hand offers access to higher quailty music and is easier to add your own music to. There are pros and cons to both services but ultimately, we use both and we enjoy the experience on both - but if you're going to be paying for it, the question is what quality of music you care about and what devices you want to access it on. |
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