4.76★ from 59,864,592 ratings · 153 negative reviews read in 4 storefronts · 4 complaints
Too many advertisements
16of the 153 read·10%
Free version has excessive ads that interrupt listening constantly and make the app annoying.
France 5 · United States 4 · Britain 4 · Germany 3 · joined from 4 wordings
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“Werbung viel zu viel Werbund — Ich wollte deshalb auch schon Spotify löschen, weil die Werbung einfach nervt. Werbung ist ja an sich okay aber so viel finde ich nicht gut” — ★☆☆☆☆“Werbung — Es sind zu viele Werbungen!” — ★☆☆☆☆“ZU LAUTE WERBUNG — Werbung im Bezahlabo, OK. Begrenzte Hördauer bei Hörbüchern im Bezahlabo, OK. Aber jetzt plötzlich Werbung mitten im Podcast bei ungefähr doppelter Lautstärke: habt ihr noch alle Latten am Zaun??? Wenn das nicht zügig aufhört, ist das mein letzter bezahlter Monat. Die Konkurrenz hat gute Angebote!” — ★☆☆☆☆“Horror — Never download it at first it seems wonderful but then you can't switch the music yourself and every song has ads popping up the app is terrible! Fed up with premium ads it's just disgusting!” — ★☆☆☆☆ · Russian
Subscription pricing too high
4of the 153 read·3%
Multiple reviewers say Spotify's subscription costs are unreasonably expensive and not worth the money.
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“Viel zu teuer — Einfach zu teuer” — ★☆☆☆☆“Expensive — It got incredibly expensive and even cut out audio books out of the program again. Furthermore they don’t pay musicians properly.” — ★☆☆☆☆“Awful — The app is so overloaded right now. Why can't you just keep it simple? New releases also aren't showing up at 12am anymore which is complete and utter bs. I feel like the app is getting worse with every update which is shocking at this price.” — ★☆☆☆☆
Free tier limits song selection after six tracks
3of the 153 read·2%
Without premium, users cannot choose what to listen to after six songs for 24 hours, which reviewers find frustrating.
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“Ohne premium entscheidet man nicht was man hört — Ohne das Spotify Premium Abo (dass 10€ im Monat kostet) kann man nach 6 Songs für 24 Stunden nicht entscheiden was man hört was auf Dauer sehr nervig ist” — ★☆☆☆☆“Warum zahlen so viele für Musik? — Eine Frechheit, all diese Einschränkungen. Vorallem: „Bezahle, wenn du entscheiden möchtest, was du hörst.“?! Gehts noch??? Das sollte der absolute STANDARD sein in jeder guten Musikapp! Und dann noch all die, die dafür tatsächlich zahlen - Ein Rätsel für mich. Es gibt die selbe Musik auch komplett kostenlos…!” — ★☆☆☆☆“Выбор музыки — Я в шоке что в этой програме ты даже трек выбрать не можешь нормально, пока не купишь подписку, создателям этой параши привет ! Надеюсь они даже сходит посрать не смогут пока не заплатят а я луче в SoundCloud буду музыку слушать” — ★☆☆☆☆
Unable to control song playback
3of the 153 read·2%
Users cannot manually skip, pause, or forward songs; playback control features are restricted.
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“Horror — Never download it at first it seems wonderful but then you can't switch the music yourself and every song has ads popping up the app is terrible! Fed up with premium ads it's just disgusting!” — ★☆☆☆☆ · Russian“Poor service — Prohibition in enjoying music I meet some difficulties like preving a song or forwading some seconds” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“They keep changing the rules every time you open the app — Sometimes you get to choose whatever you want to play. Sometime you don’t. Sometimes they say “you’ll get to choose again tomorrow”. Sometimes you get unlimited skips. Some times you 6 skips. Sometimes you get 0 skips. Sometimes you’ll use your 6 skips and they’ll say you’ll get more in an hour. It’s been 5 hours since I used all my skips and they’re still…” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English
Reviews are grouped one storefront at a time, so each storefront words its complaints separately. Two are added together here when they carry the same name, or when their wordings share half their meaningful words — one fixed rule, applied the same way to every app, and the reviews under each complaint are there to check it against. Where it is close but not certain the two stay apart, so this under-joins rather than over-joins.
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Germany
4.70★ from 5,773,678 ratings · version 9.1.88 · 67 of the last 210 written reviews are one or two stars
Subscription pricing too high
4of the 67 read·6%
Multiple reviewers say Spotify's subscription costs are unreasonably expensive and not worth the money.
›read 3 of these reviews
“Viel zu teuer — Einfach zu teuer” — ★☆☆☆☆“Expensive — It got incredibly expensive and even cut out audio books out of the program again. Furthermore they don’t pay musicians properly.” — ★☆☆☆☆“Awful — The app is so overloaded right now. Why can't you just keep it simple? New releases also aren't showing up at 12am anymore which is complete and utter bs. I feel like the app is getting worse with every update which is shocking at this price.” — ★☆☆☆☆
Free tier limits song selection after six tracks
3of the 67 read·4%
Without premium, users cannot choose what to listen to after six songs for 24 hours, which reviewers find frustrating.
›read 3 of these reviews
“Ohne premium entscheidet man nicht was man hört — Ohne das Spotify Premium Abo (dass 10€ im Monat kostet) kann man nach 6 Songs für 24 Stunden nicht entscheiden was man hört was auf Dauer sehr nervig ist” — ★☆☆☆☆“Warum zahlen so viele für Musik? — Eine Frechheit, all diese Einschränkungen. Vorallem: „Bezahle, wenn du entscheiden möchtest, was du hörst.“?! Gehts noch??? Das sollte der absolute STANDARD sein in jeder guten Musikapp! Und dann noch all die, die dafür tatsächlich zahlen - Ein Rätsel für mich. Es gibt die selbe Musik auch komplett kostenlos…!” — ★☆☆☆☆“Выбор музыки — Я в шоке что в этой програме ты даже трек выбрать не можешь нормально, пока не купишь подписку, создателям этой параши привет ! Надеюсь они даже сходит посрать не смогут пока не заплатят а я луче в SoundCloud буду музыку слушать” — ★☆☆☆☆
Too many ads in free version
3of the 67 read·4%
Free tier has excessive advertising that annoys reviewers and makes the app frustrating to use.
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“Werbung viel zu viel Werbund — Ich wollte deshalb auch schon Spotify löschen, weil die Werbung einfach nervt. Werbung ist ja an sich okay aber so viel finde ich nicht gut” — ★☆☆☆☆“Werbung — Es sind zu viele Werbungen!” — ★☆☆☆☆“ZU LAUTE WERBUNG — Werbung im Bezahlabo, OK. Begrenzte Hördauer bei Hörbüchern im Bezahlabo, OK. Aber jetzt plötzlich Werbung mitten im Podcast bei ungefähr doppelter Lautstärke: habt ihr noch alle Latten am Zaun??? Wenn das nicht zügig aufhört, ist das mein letzter bezahlter Monat. Die Konkurrenz hat gute Angebote!” — ★☆☆☆☆
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 67 most recent negative ones. Newest review 2 days ago (30.09.2026), last collected yesterday.
United States
4.77★ from 42,362,510 ratings · version 9.1.86 · 41 of the last 250 written reviews are one or two stars
Excessive advertisements in free version
4of the 41 read·10%
Too many ads playing, especially in the free version; users paying premium still see ads.
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“Horror — Never download it at first it seems wonderful but then you can't switch the music yourself and every song has ads popping up the app is terrible! Fed up with premium ads it's just disgusting!” — ★☆☆☆☆ · Russian“Advertisements — A lot of Advertisements” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“Not AD free — I’m paying for it and why is it playing AD’s. Pls HELP!” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English
Unable to control song playback
3of the 41 read·7%
Users cannot manually skip, pause, or forward songs; playback control features are restricted.
›read 3 of these reviews
“Horror — Never download it at first it seems wonderful but then you can't switch the music yourself and every song has ads popping up the app is terrible! Fed up with premium ads it's just disgusting!” — ★☆☆☆☆ · Russian“Poor service — Prohibition in enjoying music I meet some difficulties like preving a song or forwading some seconds” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English“They keep changing the rules every time you open the app — Sometimes you get to choose whatever you want to play. Sometime you don’t. Sometimes they say “you’ll get to choose again tomorrow”. Sometimes you get unlimited skips. Some times you 6 skips. Sometimes you get 0 skips. Sometimes you’ll use your 6 skips and they’ll say you’ll get more in an hour. It’s been 5 hours since I used all my skips and they’re still…” — ★☆☆☆☆ · English
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 41 most recent negative ones. Newest review yesterday (30.09.2026), last collected today.
France
4.71★ from 4,749,982 ratings · version 9.1.86 · 27 of the last 217 written reviews are one or two stars
Too many advertisements
5of the 27 read·19%
Free version has excessive ads that interrupt listening constantly and make the app annoying.
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“Morals and ads are so bad — So many adverts it’s crazy and they’re is ai music which I don’t understand why it’s authorised and they also barely pay the artists…” — ★☆☆☆☆“C’est chiant — Car il ya trop de pub” — ★★☆☆☆“Plainte — Trop de publicité” — ★☆☆☆☆
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 27 most recent negative ones. Newest review 24 days ago (07.09.2026), last collected 23 days ago.
Britain
4.74★ from 6,978,422 ratings · version 9.1.86 · 18 of the last 150 written reviews are one or two stars
Excessive ads on free tier
4of the 18 read·22%
Free users face too many unskippable ads between songs, making the app unusable without paying for premium.
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“Ads — Way too many ads and I don’t want to pay for premium. You would get WAY more people downloading if there were less ads and you don’t have to pay” — ★★☆☆☆“Too many ads — The apps has far too many ads, ik you wanna push Spotify premium but if its at the cost of your regular users i think its just greedy, its basically unusable, i cant listen to more than two songs without 7 ads in between, and they are not even short, they long as hell” — ★☆☆☆☆“Too many adverts — Free access now has too many interruptions, usually only a Spotify advert and seem to be increasing in frequency. And as the paid version is stupidly expensive that’s not an option.” — ★★☆☆☆
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 18 most recent negative ones. Newest review 23 days ago (08.09.2026), last collected 22 days ago.