The market is full of music-streaming platforms that are offering their services. For the best listening experience, choose from the top four apps available.
Spotify is one of the famous music streaming platforms in the world. However, there are other platforms for music streaming too. Today, you will get to know the top four alternatives to Spotify for listening to music.
- AMAZON MUSIC – Amazon Music is one of the well-known services and a great alternative to Spotify. Amazon Music offers three different tiers of music. The plans are discussed below:
- Amazon Music Free – It allows users to access the service’s playlists and radio stations. The main factor in this free plan is that the maximum quality of audio will be limited to SD. Users will not be able to select their specific albums or songs in this plan.
- Amazon Music Prime – Amazon music prime comes with all the prime facilities of shopping, prime video, etc. This plan also offers users with audio of SD quality only, but here they are having the option to choose from 2 million songs and is ad-free.
- Amazon Music Unlimited – It is the best package a user can get as it lets them choose from 75 million songs in all qualities – SD, HD, Ultra HD, and Spatial Audio. The plan starts from 7.99$ a month which lets an individual enjoy the services and the family plan lets six accounts be added with a charge of 14.99$ a month.
2. APPLE MUSIC – Apple music services come in handy when you are already having buy-in to the Apple ecosystem. The platform consists of 90 million songs to choose from. The air pods from apple make it, even more, enhancing for listeners as it includes immersive sound with dynamic head tracking. It also comes with the feature of viewing the lyrics. Plans from Apple music are as follows:
- Apple Music Individual – This is the standard plan and it starts from 9.99$ a month and gives users access to Apple’s music library and playlists. The plan includes lossless audio along with Spatial audio with Dolby Atmos. The virtual assistant of Apple’s Siri lets users choose their specific songs and albums. The option for downloading songs is also available.
- Apple Music (Family Plan) – It starts with a monthly charge of 14.99$ and provides all the features mentioned in the individual plan.
- Budget Plans – With a monthly charge of just 4.99$, Apple Music Voice offers their services which is only limited to Apple devices and does not provide the option for downloading tracks. A student can enjoy the same benefits in the individual plan by opting for the student plan which comes for 4.99$ a month.
3. YOUTUBE MUSIC – After Google decided to discontinue the app of Google Play Music, it came up with YouTube Music as its official music streaming app. YouTube music comes with many benefits in the free plan itself. They offer users the choice of selecting individual albums and songs. The app offers more than 50 million songs for users. Although YouTube Music comes with many benefits in their frees service, it does come with many ads. Listening to music on this app is quite handy on a PC but if you are listening to music on a phone, you will not be able to lock your screen, as the music will stop. The music will stop even if you switch to other apps on your phone. Plans of YouTube Music are discussed below:
- Music Premium – With a 9.99$ monthly plan, users can get an ad-free experience along with the pauses. The plan also lets users download the songs offline. There is also an annual plan, which comes for 99.99$. Users, who have already subscribed to YouTube Premium, which comes for 11.99$ a month, can enjoy the services of YouTube music.
- Budget Plans – YouTube Music also comes with a family plan of 14.99$ which lets users add up to five members. On the other hand, the student plan also offers premium services at a rate of 4.99$ a month.
4. TIDAL – Tidal is also a great alternative to Spotify as it offers users three tiers of music. Tidal focuses on high-quality audio and thus offers Normal (AAC quality, 160Kbps), Hi-Fi (lossless quality, 1411Kbps), and Master (Hi-Res quality, 2304-9216Kbps). All three tiers come with their respective prices. Tidal does not offer podcasts. Plans are discussed below in detail:
- Free Plan – The free plan of Tidal offers listeners a music quality of 160kbps with minimum interruptions.
- Hi-Fi – This plan from tidal offers all the premium features and adds a fidelity sound feature. The plan comes at a rate of 14.99$ a month.
- Family Plan – This plan offers to add six premium individual accounts and comes with a rate of 14.99$ a month.
If you are looking for the best music listening experience, go for the services from the apps discussed above.