Spotify
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Music and podcast streaming with a large on-demand catalogue and personalized mixes.
As of Aug 11, 2026, Spotify is rated 4.8/5 on App Store (41,458,102 ratings).
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Is Spotify worth it in 2026?
A 4.8 from over 41 million iTunes ratings sounds definitive, but that number is doing heavy lifting: the free tier is a materially different product, with forced shuffle locking you out of on-demand playback, excessive ads interrupting every few songs, and hard restrictions that 9 reviewers flagged as deal-breakers, these aren't minor inconveniences, they're feature lockouts designed to make the free experience painful enough to convert you. Premium resolves the worst of it, no ads, on-demand playback, but even paying users report app crashes, unwanted songs auto-added to their curated playlists, and disorienting UI overhauls that keep moving the furniture; at a recurring monthly cost, that's a higher bar than the app consistently clears. The catalog depth and playlist and discovery tools are genuine strengths, but they're fully accessible only behind the paywall, so the real product being reviewed here is the subscription, not the app.
People who will commit to Premium from day one and want a large, well-organized catalog with strong playlist creation and music discovery tools.
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Pros
- premium removes ads6
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- I personally love this app. I have had it for over 4 years, and it’s been an app I use daily. If you are thinking about getting it, for sure get the Premium plan, no ads, endless s...
- Used to be better, has a lot of difficulties that I’ll talk about. Premium is a pretty good deal but good luck getting it, not only do you have to go to a website but the chances o...
- This app is great. It has a lot of great songs, and lyrics are available. But, again, I really don’t like this app. Ads, are one thing, but having two minutes worth of ads after on...
- large music catalog4
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- This app has so many cool songs. I love it so much. Everyone should download it in the world even from different countries. I’d love this place right friends especially the demon...
- Look, this app is amazing. It has a LOT of songs, and it’s a place to discover a bunch of new ones; but like all great things, it has its downsides. One, lyrics are locked/never w...
- okay, so first of all the good stuff. good selection of music. good selection, easy to find and pick your favorite songs. okay, here's the bad stuff. there's more of it than the g...
- playlist creation features4
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- I personally love this app. I have had it for over 4 years, and it’s been an app I use daily. If you are thinking about getting it, for sure get the Premium plan, no ads, endless s...
- I’ll start with some new(er) changes I enjoyed. I like how when i click on my profile in the top left the menu now provides a better looking UI, easier to get to my settings. Anoth...
- This app is awesome with the premium! You can make your own playlists of all the music you love, shuffle, repeat albums or one certain song and the absence of adds is awesome! You...
Cons
- forced shuffle mode10
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- 1) I can’t play JUST a playlist or JUST an album. I press play on a playlist or album and the next song doesn’t play on that album!! Why? ⭐️ MOST NEEDED FEATURE⭐️: 2) I can’t quic...
- I’ve used this app for the longest and I do love it. Never had any complaints. None. Until now. Hence the reason I took down one star. It might not be a big deal to some, but to m...
- Okay, i have been using this app for a while and have experienced lots of weird things. First i want to talk about the shuffle thing. you can shuffle songs so that it picks random...
- free version restrictions9
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- I got this app thinking it was going to be fun to finally get an free app to listen to music on, but I was obviously wrong. With premium trial everything is great and I loved it, b...
- It’s helpful because it plays while you are not in the app except the only problem with it is that it just needs premium for everything. I agree about the part when you need it to...
- This app is pretty good, but I wish you could select songs (not have to listen on shuffle every time) and listen offline without paying. It’s really annoying when you want to play...
- excessive ads7
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- …This is the #1 Music app I use but there’s too many adds and there’s song that get added to my playlists that I make I think that’s bit of a problem because there’s certain songs...
- Used to be better, has a lot of difficulties that I’ll talk about. Premium is a pretty good deal but good luck getting it, not only do you have to go to a website but the chances o...
- This app is great. It has a lot of great songs, and lyrics are available. But, again, I really don’t like this app. Ads, are one thing, but having two minutes worth of ads after on...
- constant ui changes6
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- I personally love this app. I have had it for over 4 years, and it’s been an app I use daily. If you are thinking about getting it, for sure get the Premium plan, no ads, endless s...
- Stop changing the way the queue works every single time I use this app! I swear Im this close to subscribing to apple music 👌. Just let me keep the option to play my liked songs r...
- I love the app but not so much the new update. Please give us a retro date. Also the option to go to your liked songs library and not all your playlist with out liked songs as a pl...
- app crashes and freezes4
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- …This is the #1 Music app I use but there’s too many adds and there’s song that get added to my playlists that I make I think that’s bit of a problem because there’s certain songs...
- A problem I frequently have is that when listening to my music, the songs will randomly stop playing and when I go to hit play again, the app restarts. Sometimes admittedly, it’s j...
- I’ve used this app A LOT. I remember a feature about a year ago where it showed you the lyrics on all of the songs, but it caused my app to crash every time I played a song. It wou...
- unwanted songs added4
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- …This is the #1 Music app I use but there’s too many adds and there’s song that get added to my playlists that I make I think that’s bit of a problem because there’s certain songs...
- Okay, i have been using this app for a while and have experienced lots of weird things. First i want to talk about the shuffle thing. you can shuffle songs so that it picks random...
- okay, so first of all the good stuff. good selection of music. good selection, easy to find and pick your favorite songs. okay, here's the bad stuff. there's more of it than the g...
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