Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

DistroKid is a music distribution platform that enables musicians to upload their songs to major streaming services including Spotify and iTunes. Launched in 2013, the service simplifies the process of getting… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Today I launched DistroKid to help musicians upload to Spotify, iTunes launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   DistroKid▲171

   Easiest way for artists to get music on iTunes, Spotify, etc

   2015 · distrokid.com · its alternatives →

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   PLYLST▲500

   Smart playlists for Spotify

   2020 · plylst.app · its alternatives →

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   After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue▲647

   It's been a long slow hog and I almost gave up a few times (more than a few) but when covid hit this year it gave me some time to really focus on my product. There were stupid user journey things that I knew needed fixed. There were some features I knew needed added. And I knew the pricing was wrong. I spent some hardcore time working on these things back in March / April and since then my MRR has continued to grow. My product is SongBox (https://songbox.rocks) - it's an alternative to things like bandcamp and soundcloud for creators who need to share audio files privately.…

   2020 · its alternatives →

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   Spotify for Independent Music▲114

   2013 · musicfellas.com · its alternatives →

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   Spotify Now▲316

   Video, podcasts, smart playlists & more (pre-launch)

   2015 · spotify.com · its alternatives →

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   Spotify AI Playlist▲341

   Turn your most creative ideas into playlists

   2024 · newsroom.spotify.com · its alternatives →

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   Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS▲202

   I have a large collection of music files gathered over the years, so I was sorely missing a decent offline music player that can serve as a frontend for the collection. I tried several Mac apps over the years, but since streaming music is mainstream now, there aren't good offline music players that meet my needs. So I spent the last 3 months building Petrichor! The idea is to solve my problem and learn Swift UI development along the way, while giving back to the community with this open-source project! Here's a list of features it has, with more getting added in future; - Everything you'd…

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Tired of the non-portability of my playlists, I wrote my own format▲144

   2017 · universalplaylist.stavros.io · its alternatives →

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   A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town▲346

   2018 · nextweeksplaylist.com · its alternatives →

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    DaftCloud for macOS▲269

    The Unofficial SoundCloud App for macOS

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain▲295

    2022 · playlists.dags.dev · its alternatives →

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    We're building a better music distribution platform▲27

    2012 · mvsic.co · its alternatives →

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    Daft Music▲276

    Some time ago I moved from Spotify to Apple Music for a few reasons. As someone who builds iOS and macOS apps, I quickly noticed how rough the Apple Music experience felt on Mac. It just wasn’t fun to use. So I decided to challenge myself and see if it was possible to build a full, complex, and performant Apple Music client using SwiftUI. At first, it went surprisingly well. SwiftUI made it easy to build out the main structure and experiment quickly. The UI came together nicely, and it was exciting to see how modern and flexible the framework could be. But the deeper I went, the more cracks…

    2025 · daftmusic.app · its alternatives →

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    Plink▲227

    A multiplayer music experience

    2014 · dinahmoelabs.com · its alternatives →

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    MusicSource▲106

    An open source desktop music player.

    2022 · music.creasource.app · its alternatives →

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    Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free▲58

    Mar 2026 · yoinkify.com · its alternatives →

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    Echoes for Music Discovery▲70

    Discover your personal music streaming stats and new music

    2021 · melaverde.io · its alternatives →

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    My weekend project using the Soundcloud API▲178

    2012 · getworkdonemusic.com · its alternatives →

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    Slaps▲107

    Social network for music

    2020 · slaps.com · its alternatives →

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    The Upload▲178

    SoundCloud's answer to Spotify's Discover Weekly

    2017 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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    SpotiApp▲160

    Export music to Spotify from any musical services

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Distrolytics▲9

    Make sense of your music revenue

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    longplay.in▲67

    Curated indie music from Bandcamp

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    I made an app to create Spotify playlists from music festival posters▲37

    Hey HN, I'm Brett and I'm an iOS developer. LineupSupply uses Apple's Vision framework to read text from an image and then the Spotify API to create a playlist using that text. So if you provide a music festival poster, it will grab the artist names from the lineup and make a playlist for that music festival. Often when going to a music festival I want a playlist to listen to the artists that will be performing. I couldn't find any other service that automates this, so I made one myself. The app is free to create as many playlists as you want, but does have a one time in-app purchase of…

    2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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