YouTube Music alternatives

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] YouTube Music 1/5 · US Skipping: For some Reason every song skips like a CD. I restarted my phone, I’m apart of a plan that doesn’t affect others music, I cleared the cached I’m not sure what else to do
2. [R4] YouTube Music 1/5 · US Gapless never work properly: Trash. Gapless playback never work properly on ios with a premium account
3. [R9] YouTube Music 3/5 · US Laggy: very laggy but i alr have all my music here
4. [R17] YouTube Music 4/5 · US Bugs: In general.
5. [R2] YouTube Music 5/5 · US Pretty good but..: This app is a lot more less confusing then Spotify or really any other platform for music but the thing is that we have to pay to have music playing in the background that’s all I have to say other then that this app is lovely.
6. [R10] YouTube Music 1/5 · US Long ads. I’m Switching back to Spotify: Ads are longer than the songs I want to hear. Ads shouldnt be longer than 1 minute, and should not be a whole history lesson or TurboTax lecture.
7. [R15] YouTube Music 3/5 · US In the middle huh.: You gave me an AD in the MIDDLE of a SONG, does that make ANY SENSE‽ if you’re gonna give me an ad at least make it at the end or beginning of a song. And if you’re gonna give an ad, don’t make it two un-skipable 15 second ads. That’s just ONE un-skipable 30 second ad.
8. [R27] YouTube Music 3/5 · US Look this….: It's not very friendly to people who want to listen to music for free. Although I felt good about the one-month free Music Premium, on the first day after the month was over, I felt it wasn't so good for me anymore because I couldn't play music in the background.but it still good if u have premium
9. [R7] YouTube Music 1/5 · US The recommendation sucks: Why keep recommending random uninteresting songs despite I explicitly skip them?
10. [R13] YouTube Music 1/5 · US Keeps changing my music: The algorythim keeps changing the songs in my playlist!! So annoying!! Sometimes I add a specific alternate version of a song to my playlists and the app keeps changing it to the original version of that song instead.. Please stop this! I want the exact songs on my playlist that I chose, not whatever the algorythim thinks is better
11. [R28] YouTube Music 1/5 · US Poor functioning app: The premium is over priced for the service, and the speed dial option does not clear clear the artist you said don’t recommend. Making the speed dial useless
12. [R30] YouTube Music 3/5 · US I enjoy it: I used this for years and it works. My biggest issue is: If you hit shuffle, then skip a song, it sends you back to the top of the unshuffled playlist. No matter what you do you end up hearing the same 6 songs over and over again.
13. [R3] YouTube Music 3/5 · US Letra: La letra de la música siempre la ponen mal, cambian las palabras. No ponen la letra original. A veces ponen palabras que ni existen
14. [R6] YouTube Music 3/5 · US Ok: It’s OK but like, No lyrics, Ads, and you can’t upload your own playlist pictures. So yeah. (I use Apple Music)
15. [R8] YouTube Music 4/5 · US It’s needs one more feature: It’s good but I think it’s should have a feature like this app Shazam from Apple maybe you could create one but instead google
16. [R12] YouTube Music 3/5 · US Transferring Playlists: I’m sure I will be able to edit this review after an update happens but right now there is no way to transfer over playlists from other music apps like apple music or iTunes or spotify etc. this is a really important feature that needs to happen. Even Apple music has this feature!
17. [R18] YouTube Music 3/5 · US Ive been a paid Premium user for over 10 years, i dont like the most recent update.: This latest update has removed my most used feature, the "Related" tab that would automatically pull up a mix of the artist i was listening to as well as similar songs i had listened to and some new, related songs i hadnt. You have removed that in favor of JUST a queue option that i have to open, minimize the albu
18. [R25] YouTube Music 1/5 · US Disappointing Update: Recently the there was an update that removed the “Explore” button. This button gave you newly released music each week (seemingly based on your algo and preferred music tastes) Great feature. Loved it! NOW…. you have to dig for new releases and it’s almost all AI created trash, slop, whatever. Just put it back or at least stop pushing me garbage, fake, BS. creations. I’ve
19. [R36] YouTube Music 3/5 · US Bring back related tab: I have loved YouTube music for years now. I pay for Apple Music AND YouTube premium. The related tab is what truly set YouTube music apart from its competitors… I love that feature. Please bring it back. BRING IT BACK IT WAS A DEFINING COMPETITIVE FEATURE. You guys had it for so long and I used the heck out of that feature.
20. [R37] YouTube Music 1/5 · US STOP MOVING THE SEARCH BUTTON: STOP MOVING THE SEARCH BUTTON
21. [R40] YouTube Music 1/5 · US Glitchy ui: Ui is just glitchy and stupid. Spotify is better
22. [R42] YouTube Music 3/5 · GB Good but…: It’s a good app but the fact the comments section keeps disappearing when you open it is mega annoying. I am constantly having to close and reopen the app to view the comments sections.
23. [R48] YouTube Music 3/5 · GB User Interface Could Be Better: Making and editing playlists isn’t very user-friendly. For one, it sometimes just randomly jumps to the top of the playlist or some random in the middle. It would also be good to be able to move songs in the order without having to go all the way to the top to click edit to then scroll back to the song (Spotify has the option to move songs without having to click ed
24. [R51] YouTube 1/5 · US Crashing on launch: At least 1-2 times a day the app crashes on launch and requires a re-install to work again. Leaving 1 star review until fixed
25. [R52] YouTube 5/5 · US Wonderful video: This video was straightforward and very, very, very helpful. I didn’t even know this filter existed. It’s true you learned something new every day.
26. [R53] YouTube 3/5 · US MiniPlayer: Mini players been acting up for a while now what’s the point of all these updates if the app is just getting worst
27. [R54] YouTube 1/5 · US Disappointed: I don’t know what’s going on with this app as of late.?! I’ve had to delete & upload this app 6 times inside of 3days because it keeps crashing & wont open.?! If there’s a bug or needs an update.?! Please update it. For those of you that have this app & having issues..? Please let me know what other app is out there likes YouTube, so I can go elsewhere to get information & DIY info
28. [R65] Spotify 1/5 · US Stop asking for me to rate: Title
29. [R66] Spotify 5/5 · US so good: I like it
30. [R67] Spotify 3/5 · US Spam: Not cool with the advent of pushing videos when I only listen to music. “Pushing” as in no simple delete tile, but trips me into watching part of a video that I didn’t ask for. I thought my $10.99 a month was enough. WTF
31. [R68] Spotify 1/5 · US Doesn’t work at all anymore: I used Spotify nearly daily and now for about a month it just won’t open.
32. [R79] TikTok 2/5 · US TikTok: The app is so good and stuff but a lot of times that I go to open the app it stays on the logo and then kicks me off the app and mind you I have a 200 day streak I have to keep up with and I can’t keep up with it if I’m constantly getting kicked off the app
33. [R80] TikTok 4/5 · US Several Things: So, there are a few things I would like to point out. For one thing, I think the reporting system needs to be reworked in a few areas. For one, I think we should have the option to report stolen content for other people rather than just yourself or celebrities. Second, I think some deeper diving needs to be done when analyzing reports, maybe let some of them be done by a human bec
34. [R81] TikTok 3/5 · US What??? Please fix!!: Idk but it just stopped working for me??? I deleted and redownloaded but it keeps crashing when I open the app?? It was fine until today???
35. [R82] TikTok 2/5 · US WHERE DID THE STICKERS AND PHOTOS GO?!: I’ve been having a really frustrating issue with TikTok. One day, my ability to use stickers in comments completely disappeared for no reason. I tried everything I could think of to fix it, but instead of getting my stickers back my option to comment photos disappeared too. Photos and stickers are a huge part of how I express myself in comment sections, and
36. [R93] Pandora 1/5 · US Zip code really: Why do you need my zip code that should be optional not a requirement just the fact I have to share my location is enough to make me barely tolerate this app
37. [R94] Pandora 5/5 · US Easy to get and overall what you’re looking for in a music-mostly app: Likes feel like they actually affect your listening experience and once you find out abound certain workarounds to ads it’s pretty much free premium.
38. [R95] Pandora 3/5 · US It’s ok I guess: It malfunctions a lot, and it’s annoying that I can’t listen to whatever I want without haveing to watch and add, also just because I make a station out of a song doesn’t mean I like that artist so that’s kind of annoying to
39. [R96] Pandora 1/5 · US Not enough skips: I wish it had at least 10 skips!
40. [R107] Google 1/5 · US Too intrusive: The app started displaying sports scores on my screen constantly. Deleted it.
41. [R108] Google 5/5 · US Best: I love this app because it just has everything
42. [R109] Google 3/5 · US Nice: Totally skibidi. The most sigma thing ever. Definitely recommend for new rizzlers
43. [R110] Google 2/5 · US Not as good as the Chrome browser: I feel like the Chrome app leaves tabs open for as long as you want, this one battles between AI answers and regular browser search if it answers via AI it uses an active tab(in use). Not as intuitive. Additionally, notifications..lots of them now. Scores pinned to home screen sometime appear sometimes not, and if I try to pin it, it says it is already set, but
44. [R32] YouTube Music 5/5 · US New Update is Nice: the new update has made the app cleaner and smoother. i would seriously recommended getting a youtube music subscription over spotify or apple music, heres why: 1. comes with youtube premium. watching ads is so obnoxious on youtube to me now. i got spoiled by premium. 2. sleeper algo. youtube music cooks with its suggestions. dont sleep on its algo. 3. you can put youtube video
45. [R35] YouTube Music 5/5 · US Better than Spotify: The quality of this platform is just amazing. Great recommendations, great taste, great ui, and great platform. Deserves way more hype for how good it is and you should def get it