Is there a good app for share playlists?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
95
Opportunity /100
96
Demand /100
81
Competition /100
96
Execution gap /100
9
Apps serving it
62
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to share playlists, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| no collaborative playlists | missing-feature | 2 | They need to add a way to invite friends to playlists and let them also add/remove songs |
| no playlist sharing between users | missing-feature | 1 | I just wish you could be able to share playlists with each other |
| hard to transfer playlists to other services | missing-feature | 1 | they keep me sucked in by making it so hard to transfer playlists over to Apple Music |
| add playlists to profile | missing-feature | 1 | If you could add playlists to your profile |
| no collaborative playlists with friends | missing-feature | 1 | if they added collaborated playlists with friends |
| no shared/collaborative playlist | missing-feature | 1 | it is missing useful features, like a shared play list |
| shared playlists slow to load/update | performance | 1 | i have added playlists from other people and its taking forever to load and update them |
| no easy way to play from a playlist | missing-feature | 1 | There’s no easy way to play episodes from a playlist you create |
| unorganized playlists | ux | 1 | Unorganized Playlists |
| own playlists locked behind subscription | price | 1 | it prevents me to listen to my own playlist so I can pay $11.99 |
| no offline playlist playback | missing-feature | 1 | I would like to listen to my playlists offline to if that would be possible |
| can't create playlists without paying | price | 1 | you cannot create playlists without paying for an Apple Music subscription |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pandora: Music & Podcasts | 4.8★ | 11,207,196 | Free |
| Spotify: Music and Podcasts | 4.8★ | 40,260,341 | Free |
| Apple Podcasts | 4.9★ | 2,071,522 | Free |
| Spotify for Creators | 4.8★ | 117,625 | Free |
| Podcast App | 4.8★ | 304,625 | Free |
| Trending Music Player | 4.6★ | 307,478 | Free |
| TREBEL Music - Download Songs | 4.7★ | 182,173 | Free |
| Hoopla: Your Library Anywhere | 4.8★ | 1,349,622 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 95 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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