Spotify
18 projects shared since May 2026 were built for Spotify.
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Summary
Builders made 18 add-ons, companions or plugins for Spotify since May 2026, 11 of them in the last 12 weeks. The most-discussed project of the last 4 weeks is AudioPaper (13 comments). It changes the Mac desktop wallpaper to match the currently playing track's album art and related images from Apple Music or Spotify. Most projects built for it are Music discovery and sharing apps, Local music and radio players and Music practice and creation tools. 21 projects were pitched as alternatives to it.
Projects built with it
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Share of stated stacks, last 4 weeks
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Adjusted trend, last 4 weeks vs previous 8 weeks
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Add-ons built for it
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Share of stated stacks, each week
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Latest add-ons built for Spotify
- anyPWA — Opens websites fullscreen in a native wrapper with built-in ad blocking and background playback.“anyPWA - Ad-free YouTube, YouTube Music and Spotify on iPhone, iPad and macOS without sideloading”
- Square — Plays Spotify Premium and YouTube Music on Android with audio effects, synced lyrics, offline downloads and Android Auto control.“[Android] Square - Spotify & YouTube Music in Liquid Glass”
- Spotverlay — Shows a non-focus-stealing popup with the current track and cover art from OS media players.“I got sick of alt-tabbing to check what song is playing, so I built a tiny overlay.”
- I made an unnecessarily complex… — Controls Spotify playback from a Bluetooth keychain remote.“I made an unnecessarily complex Bluetooth remote control 🤣”
- Outcue — Announces the title and optionally artist of the currently playing song out loud on Android.“My friend asked Spotify for a feature that announces song names. Nothing happened, so I built it for all Android music apps”
- AudioPaper — Changes the Mac desktop wallpaper to match the currently playing track's album art and related images from Apple Music or Spotify.“AudioPaper: Wallpapers based on the current track in Apple Music and Spotify”
- Resurface — Builds a Spotify playlist of liked songs ordered by how long ago each was last played, using Spotify's recent-listens data to track plays.“Resurface - Find the songs that you forgot you had.”
- Albums Vault — Manages a user's saved Spotify albums by showing genres and tracking which albums have been listened to.“I have always been frustrated with album management in Spotify, so I built my own”
- I wanted a way to auto-link… — Automatically links songs on Spotify that are meant to go together.“I wanted a way to auto-link songs on Spotify that should go together”
- Subify — Shows Spotify song lyrics in a floating window over other apps while music plays.“Spotify did not give an option, so i made one for myself”
- KeyTunes — Controls Spotify playback and volume via passive global hotkeys and a mini player from a Windows tray app.“KeyTunes - A lightweight Windows tray app for passive Spotify hotkeys and zero-lag volume control.”
- Spotify Taskbar Widget — Shows Spotify playback controls, track info, and volume inside the Windows 11 taskbar.“I made a free widget that puts your Spotify controls right inside the Windows 11 taskbar”
- Companion For Spotify — Manages followed artists and playlists on Spotify by surfacing new releases, detecting playlist updates, merging and swapping playlist tracks, and finding playlists containing a given song.“I made this....app for discovering new music and generating listening content on Spotfy”
- sunnify-spotify-downloader — Downloads Spotify playlists as local audio files with embedded metadata and cover art, sourcing audio from YouTube.“I built an open-source desktop app for archiving Spotify playlists with full metadata”
- SkipIfFake — Watches the music app currently playing and labels each artist as probably human, probably AI, or couldn't tell, then optionally skips tracks by probable AI artists.“SkipIfFake - flags AI-generated artists in whatever music app you're already using”
Pitched as alternatives to Spotify
- Starplayer — Plays locally stored music files with playlists and rating-based filtering, without ads or data collection.“Starplayer: ad-free, private, and beautiful music player”
- Melodex — Plays a user's local music collection and lets them steer what plays next, with visual album browsing and rediscovery of forgotten tracks.“I got tired of Shuffle, so I built a music player that lets you steer what comes next”
- SpotLight — Plays Spotify music natively through a lightweight desktop client with synced lyrics and system media controls.“I got tired of Spotify eating 1GB of RAM in the background, so I built a native, ultra-lightweight client in Rust (uses ~60MB RAM)”
- Sonora — Plays music from Spotify, YouTube Music, Subsonic and local files in a native cross-platform desktop player with synced lyrics.“Sonora: native, crossplatform music player with first-class Spotify/YTMusic support”
- Skywave Radio — Lets users discover and listen to internet radio stations from around the world.“I ditched Spotify and built an underground radio station discovery app (appreciate your feedback!)”
- DeepSpace — Plays podcasts with downloads, queues, and saved progress, storing data locally on the device without an account.“I'm building DeepSpace, a local-first podcast app”
- Deck — Downloads YouTube audio matched to Deezer metadata into a personal library that can be played from devices on a home network.“I built myself a self-hosted Spotify that downloads from YouTube instead of streaming”
- Luma Lyrics — Displays song lyrics with animations that react to the music.“I built a lyric app with animations that react to the song”
- Tiny Office — Plays NPR Tiny Desk concert videos as an audio-first music queue with talking between songs trimmed out, plus social features for fans.“Tiny Desk concert and Live Music fans! A kinda letterboxd + spotify app”
- PC Recap — Summarizes a computer's usage history into stats such as game history, late-night activity trends and average bedtime.“I made an app that recaps your entire computer history.”
- spotifree-player — Streams and downloads music from a self-hosted server and recommends similar tracks.“Free Spotify Alternative”
- Rifting Wrapped — Generates a year-in-review recap of a League of Legends player's games, stats, and champion usage from their Riot ID.“I built a 'Spotify Wrapped' for League of Legends over the past few years. It's already got 200+ users, now I need help stress testing it further”
- omaTUNES — Plays local audio files offline and visualizes spectrum and syncs its theme with the system palette.“omaTUNES - Vibecoded Linux Music Player”
- GitReplay — Generates an animated, shareable video recap of a user's GitHub activity over the year.“Built a tool that turns your GitHub stats into a Spotify Wrapped-style video... I would love brutal feedback before I can even charge for it”
- Calm Corner: Deep Work — Provides ambient and lo-fi background music without vocals for focused work sessions.“POV: It's 2am, your code finally compiles, and you realize you've had the same lo-fi playlist on loop since the Clinton administration”