Best Free Music Streaming & Downloading Apps
Music fans have a wide variety of streaming options. Depending on which you choose and how much you want to pay, the best music app offers appealing features, such as expansive libraries, curated recommendations based on your taste, and high-quality uncompressed files.
But you have free options as well. Even if you’re already paying for another song downloading app, there are some free services with niche features that could be great additions to your music listening arsenal.
There are a number of options to choose from, presented here in reverse alphabetical order, partly because Amazon's "free" music streaming service technically isn't free. We also have recommendations on headphones and speakers to help the music come alive.
Airtel’s pet music streaming service is Wynk and Wynk Premium is available at ₹99 per month. There’s an extensive library offers popular music in 12 genres and 15 languages.
Plus, last week Airtel announced All 40 million songs from Wynk Music’s library will now be available to eligible Airtel mobile customers as ‘Hello Tunes’ without the monthly subscription charge of ₹36. This exclusive benefit will be available to all mobile customers on prepaid bundles or postpaid plans of ₹129 and above. Yes, there’s a lot of fine print for this one.
Spotify is a dominant player in the music streaming industry, rivaled only by Apple Music. One thing that sets it ahead: a free tier, which Apple Music lacks. Like most of the services on this list, Spotify makes you put up with ads, but it has an appealing option where you can play a longer ad to get 30 minutes of uninterrupted listening.
The company is famous for its music recommendation engine, and free users can take full advantage of it. The app learns what kind of music you like as you listen and recommends daily and weekly playlists based on your tastes. Spotify invested heavily in podcasts over the past few years as well, so it can work as a hub for both kinds of audio, and you’ll get access to some exclusive content.
JioSaavn, which was earlier known as Saavn before Reliance Jio acquired it, offers ad-supported music streaming. And it is our top pick due to various reasons. First of all, it has access to millions (over 55 million) of songs, including English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, Urdu, Haryanvi, Rajasthani, Oriya, and Assamese.
JioSaavn offers free music streaming via an ad-supported tier. Plus, if you are a Jio user, you get complimentary access to JioSaavn Pro for three months.
Jio offer many other apps which you can check on official website and get a free subscription with a simple recharge.