If you want a nice end-of-year recap, Spotify can also do better than Apple Music.Īs an Apple One subscriber and having all Apple devices integrated with Apple Music, I’m now considering switching to Spotify and I want to ask you: Are you happy with your current music streaming service? Are you planning to switch? Vote in the poll and tell me in the comment section below. If you like to combine podcasts and music in the same place, Spotify also supports that. Spotify has an Apple Watch app, a macOS app, and a browser app, but the company does not yet support HomePod integration.įor example: if you enjoy sharing and know what your friends are listening to, you can do that in real-time with Spotify. But if you’re an Apple kind of person, you may be asking if Spotify can integrate with all your devices. With any of the services, you can get a nice deal depending on your need. Currently, Spotify charges 16.99 a month for Family plans, and 5.99 a month for Student plans. UK subscribers also saw a price increase for Spotify’s Family and Student plans. On the other hand, Spotify has a free-ad-based version and a Premium Duo, for two people who live together for $12.99/month. In 2021, Spotify raised its Family plan price to 15.99 for subscribers in the US, while Apple Music retained theirs at the standard 14.99 a month. The Individual Apple One plan is $14.95 per month, while the Family plan is $19.95 per month: a really nice deal. The difference here is that Apple now offers Apple One, so it’s easier to stay with Apple Music because you can also receive iCloud, Apple Arcade, and Apple TV+ altogether. If you compare prices, they’re exactly the same: $9.99/month for an individual tier, $14.99/month for a family subscription, and $4.99/month for a student application. In the first quarter of 2021, 32 percent of music streaming subscribers worldwide had a subscription with Spotify, almost double the share who were. But I don't miss Spotify features while listening to music in AM. It works better than AM on iPhone and iPad BTW. Compare for yourself: Apple Music Spotify Let's be honest, Spotify has a lot more advantages than than apple music. I used to complain because I didn’t get Spotify’s user interface, but as I started to compare with Apple Music, now I see that they’re very similar. It also plans to launch a HiFi tier subscription this year and it recently revamped all of its applications. It added podcasts, and the early data shows this has been a success.

On the other hand, we’ve been reporting regularly on all of the changes Spotify is making on its platform. Now, Apple Music struggles to show the correct album artwork for some artists and faces some reliability bugs. Then, when some songs appeared duplicated, I also didn’t mind. Even when Apple erased a few times all my library, I didn’t care. I’ve been using Apple Music since it launched.

As the music streaming service war starts to bring podcasts and HiFi to the battlefield, are you planning to stay with your current streaming service, or are you considering switching?

In the same way people argue about iOS over Android, the debate between Apple Music vs Spotify has also grown since 2015.

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