Under ‘Listen Now’ you’ll first find your ‘Top Picks’ from the app, after which you will see your ‘Recently Played’. When opening Apple Music, there are five tabs at the bottom: ‘Listen Now’, ‘Browse’, ‘Radio’, ‘Library’, and ‘Search’. Apple Music’s layout is formatted a bit differently. You can then move over to your library, where you will find your personal playlists along with your liked playlists, liked songs, and podcasts, along with the profiles of artists you follow. There is then the search section which showcases different genres, radio stations, curated playlists, charts, podcasts, audiobooks, live events, etc. Only after you scroll past those sections do you get further recommendations from the app’s pre-made playlists.

Whether it be you ‘Recently Played’, your ‘Top Mixes’, or the ‘Made For’ section, which curates music to your own listening activity. The home screen greets you with content centered around yourself, the user. When you open the Spotify app, there are three tabs at the bottom: ‘Home’, ‘Search’, and ‘Your Library’. While the layout may be considered too subjective to compare the two, I believe that it can make or break an app. All in all pricing-wise, because they have a wider variety of payment plans, I believe that Spotify wins this round. Additionally, Spotify’s student plan is one dollar cheaper than Apple Music’s $4.99 per month vs $5.99 per month respectively.Īpple Music, however, does offer a family plan for $14.99 for 6 accounts while Spotify offers the same deal for $15.99. Spotify also offers a joint “Duo” subscription plan for $12.99 per month for two accounts, a plan that Apple Music does not offer. And while the features of Spotify’s free version are far more limited, the option is available.

But Spotify also offers a free version whereas Apple Music does not. Starting with pricing, both Apple Music and Spotify Premium have the same price of $9.99 per month, making them equally priced for ad-free listening. So that begs the question: which app is the better option? Soundcloud, Amazon Music, and even Pandora are all apps that provide a well-rounded selection of music, but the two most popular in my mind are Spotify and Apple Music. In this day and age, pretty much the only way to listen to music is through streaming apps.

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