YouTube Music Alternatives

YouTube Music is described as 'Stream music and videos, get recommendations based on taste, and enjoy ad-free listening with Music Premium on any device' and is a very popular Music Streaming service in the audio & music category. There are more than 100 alternatives to YouTube Music for a variety of platforms, including Android, Web-based, Windows, iPhone and Mac apps. The best YouTube Music alternative is Spotify, which is free. Other great apps like YouTube Music are Last.fm, Spotube, AIMP and Deezer.

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YouTube Music alternatives are mainly Music Streaming Services, but if you're looking for Audio Players or Music Discovery Services you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android + Open Source, Open Source, Android + Free, Free, Android, Android + Ad-free and Windows + Free. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to YouTube Music.
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  1. KOLLEKT.FM icon

    KOLLEKT.FM

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    KOLLEKT.FM integrates existing music services such as YouTube and Soundcloud and connects that music with information harvested from Facebook (groups & pages), Reddit, blogs and Last.fm. The result is a clear overview of a user's musical sources of inspiration.

    47 KOLLEKT.FM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
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    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
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  2. Radio4000 icon

    Radio4000

     36 likes

    Radio4000 lets you discover user curated radios from around the world, manage your online music library, and share it anonymously with everyone. All free and open source.

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    • Online
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    Lots of radios with great music. And yes, you can have a gif as avatar.
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  4. Musi icon

    Musi

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    Musi lets you bookmark and organize your favourite music videos, build playlists, share with friends, and more. Musi can also stream onto any AirPlay enabled device. Best of all? IT'S FREE!

    7 Musi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  5. Joytify icon

    Joytify

     3 likes

    Stream songs and playlists at 320kbps, import from YouTube, search albums and artists, access radio stations, trending tracks, lyrics support, dark mode, sleep timer, equalizer, tag editing, favorites, queue management, backup, restore, and cache support.

    58 Joytify alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  8. Strimio icon

    Strimio

     5 likes

    Strimio, is the successor of Odio. It's a free streaming service that provides you access to tens of thousands of live streams from all over the world. Strimio was founded in 2020 and was developed and maintained by an independent developer.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Snowify icon

    Snowify

     2 likes

    A desktop music player built with Electron that streams audio from YouTube Music. Clean UI, no accounts, no ads.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    Snowify screenshot 1
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  10. Freefy icon

    Freefy

     6 likes

    Freefy allows you to stream millions of songs, for free, without ads interrupting while you're listening. You don't even need an account!

    15 Freefy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
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    Homepage
    My liked songs
    Search
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  11. Limusic icon

    Limusic

     4 likes

    Native desktop YouTube Music client. Tauri + Rust + SvelteKit, ad-free playback through libmpv, Last.fm scrobbling and Discord Rich Presence, no Electron.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Global
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  12. Maloja icon

    Maloja

     9 likes

    Simple self-hosted music scrobble database to create personal listening statistics. No recommendations, no social network, no nonsense.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Maloja screenshot 1
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  13. Borealise icon

    Borealise

     2 likes

    Invite your friends to join or create a virtual dance hall where you can play and listen to music from all over the world and make new friends. Live chat with emoji and animated GIFs helps make new connections and share emotions about the music you are listening to in real time.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Listening to music together
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