Top 5 Spotify Alternatives

Spotify is indisputably one of the top-shelf online music streaming services. Boasting with 50 million songs in its extensive music library, Spotify now has more than 320 million monthly users all around the world. You might be one of them, and most of your friends might be Spotify users too. But is Spotify the best? Are there any alternatives to Spotify that can compete with this giant?

In the following parts, I'm going to show you 5 of the best Spotify alternatives that you can use to enjoy music.

Best Alternatives to Spotify

1. Apple Music

Apple Music is no doubt the biggest competitor to Spotify. It's been a great success for Apple when they first launched iTunes to provide digital music. As the successor to iTunes, Apple Music provide more than 60 million tracks which is well over Spotify.

For $9.99 per month, users can stream songs from Apple Music on MacOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, Windows and even on Android devices. Before you decide to pay for Apple Music, you can try it first for free. Apple Music provides 3-month free trial for each newcomer to access all the content within its service.

2. YouTube Music (Google Play Music)

Google Play Music was launched in 2011, and will be displaced by YouTube Music by December, 2020. And YouTube Music has been available in the USA since May 2018.

Similar to Spotify, YouTube Music is an subscription based app. It also provides streaming availability for free users, but with some interruptions. When you're using the free version, it will stop the music for ads or the prompt to force you to upgrade to Premium. And the upgrade will cost you $9.99 on a monthly subscription.

Benefit from its video content, YouTube Music provides expansive video options which Spotify can't really catch up with at this time. When you search for a song, YouTube Music will offer you a vast library of official and unofficial music videos populate search results alongside audio files.

3. Amazon Music

What can you imagine to get from Amazon other than tons of products with discounts and benefits? The Amazon Music is probably the unfound perk you could have dug.

With more than 70 million songs in its library, you can find almost everything about music you want on it. But Amazon Music doesn't let you listen to songs on-demand for free. As a subscription-based app, Amazon Music offer the industry-standard $9.99 per month premium plan for individual users. If you already are a Prime user, you can enjoy subscribe Amazon Music Unlimited for $7.99.

4. Deezer

Deezer is an alternative to Spotify that provides music for even free users with 43 million songs. But they can only be streamed at 128kbps. If you're looking for a feature that Spotify doesn't have, there really is one. Deezer users are able to view the lyrics inside the app, you can sing along with your favorite songs. But this feature is only available after you've paid for the subscription.

Best Free Spotify Alternative

You can get all these Spotify alternatives listed above if you've already gotten bored with Spotify. But the downside of all these apps is that you'll have to pay for the subscription to get the best music quality. If you only care about the music quality and want the best quality from online streaming platform. Spotify is probably one of the best ones. So how you can get the best quality songs from Spotify without paying for the Premium plan?

With ViWizard Spotify Music Converter, you can directly download all your Spotify songs to your computer without Premium. Then you can play these songs on any media player like Windows Media Player. Without an subscription, you can get the best out of Spotify in just a few steps.

ViWizard Spotify Music Converter is designed to convert Spotify audio files into 6 different formats such as MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, WAV and FLAC. Almost 100% of the original song quality will be kept after converting process. With 5X faster speed, it only takes few seconds to download each song from Spotify.

1Launch ViWizard and Import Songs from Spotify

Open ViWizard software and the Spotify will be launched simultaneously. Then drag and drop tracks from Spotify into the ViWizard interface.

2 Set Up Output Parameters

After adding music tracks from Spotify to ViWizard, you can choose the output audio format. There're six options including MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, WAV and FLAC. And then you can adjust the audio quality by selecting the output channel, bit rate, and sample rate.

3 Start the Conversion

Once all the setting is finished, click the "Convert" button to start loading Spotify music tracks. After the conversion, all the files will be saved to your specified folder. You could browse all the converted songs by clicking "Converted" and navigate to the output folder.

4Play Spotify Songs Offlie without Premium Subscription

After download Spotify songs to your computer, you can access them on your file manager. And you can play them without the Spotify app with the default media player.The ViWizard Spotify Music Converter is no doubt the best Spotify alternative to download and play Spotify songs offline without the Premium subscription.

Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of ViWizard who is obsessed about tech, movie and software.