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How to download Spotify

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When you want to listen to music, Spotify's a great selection, whether you're taking advantage of the free offer or paying upward for a subscription. Just are you sure that you've downloaded every version of Spotify that you need?

Spotify is available as a mobile app, of course, so that your favorite music and podcasts follow y'all wherever y'all go. Simply there'southward as well version of Spotify that y'all can download for your desktop so that the music doesn't take to stop when yous're dorsum at home.

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Here's a quick guide to how y'all tin download Spotify for iPhone, Android or any desktop platform you happen to be using. Nosotros'll likewise help you find whether y'all need the premium subscription or whether gratuitous Spotify delivers enough for you.

Where to download Spotify

Chances are, you'll want Spotify on your smartphone, every bit having the app installed on mobile devices means that you can stream music from anywhere. (Simply make certain you've got an unlimited information plan or that y'all're managing your allotment of information in your cell telephone plan wisely.) To find Spotify for iPhone or Android, just head to the appropriate mobile app store.

Spotify for Android: Google Play (opens in new tab)
Spotify for iOS and iPhone: iOS App Store (opens in new tab)

But what if you're using a laptop or PC? You can alway use the browser-based version of Spotify, but downloading an app congenital for that platform may deliver a smoother feel. Spotify has a downloads page (opens in new tab) where you'll detect versions of the music streaming app for macOS, (including Bone X 10.5), Windows, Linux and Chromebook.

What y'all can do with Spotify

Spotify lets you stream music from a library of more than xl one thousand thousand songs. In recent years, Spotify has likewise built out its podcast library and it offers audiobooks as well.

If yous don't mind ads, you can utilize the free version of Spotify, provided yous have an online connection. If you want to access Spotify when you're offline — in other words, if you lot desire to download your playlists — yous'll demand to pay a $9.99 per calendar month subscription.

There are other reasons to subscribe to Spotify Premium. Artists can at present hold dorsum new releases for two weeks from the complimentary tier. Premium subscribers also relish unlimited skips.

Spotify has added lyrics to both the mobile and desktop versions of its app, thanks to the Musicxmatch service. And Spotify is continually looking for way to challenge rival streaming music services like Apple Music, which is also bachelor for $9.99 per month.

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Philip Michaels is a Managing Editor at Tom'southward Guide. He'due south been covering personal technology since 1999 and was in the building when Steve Jobs showed off the iPhone for the first fourth dimension. He'southward been evaluating smartphones since that kickoff iPhone debuted in 2007, and he's been post-obit phone carriers and smartphone plans since 2015. He has strong opinions about Apple, the Oakland Athletics, old movies and proper butchery techniques. Follow him at @PhilipMichaels.