Music & audio
Listening can mean discovering a new artist, managing a collection or recognizing a song. Compare the role of each app before comparing subscriptions.
Spotify: Music and Podcasts
Spotify combines music, podcasts, and audiobooks.
Deezer: Music & Podcast Player
Deezer combines a conventional music library with Flow recommendations and tools for adjusting discovery.
TuneIn Radio: Music & Sports
TuneIn combines live radio, news, sports, and spoken audio.
YouTube Music
YouTube Music combines conventional music listening with live performances, covers, remixes, and video.
SoundCloud: Music & Playlists
A discovery-focused music service for following emerging artists, remixes and DJ sets, with important differences between finding new music and maintaining a dependable listening library.
Audible: Audiobooks & Podcasts
An audiobook service best judged by specific editions, sustainable listening time, playback organization and the access rules attached to the titles you choose.
Shazam: Find Music & Concerts
A music-identification tool that becomes most useful when discoveries flow into an organized listening collection and the recognized recording matches the version you wanted.
Amazon Music
A music and spoken-audio service whose usefulness depends on your specific plan, desired catalog and whether the included listening benefits fit your routine.
How to choose in this category
Choose the listening situation first. A commute with unreliable reception, a quiet session with an album and discovery through short recommendations place different demands on an app. A local file player and a licensed catalog service may both play music while solving quite different problems.
Before subscribing, check the current official details for the content and account you want. A familiar title, an offline feature or a spoken-audio benefit may have conditions. Keep a small list of the artists, programs or files that matter to you and compare those needs rather than the size of a provider's advertised catalog.