Is there a good app for share playlists?
Prime Gap: 31 apps already serve this, and 144 data points mined from real user reviews across 3 sources show where they fall short. Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
Data refreshed July 20, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
Spotify and Apple Music expose APIs for playlists and song data (never the audio itself), which is a real lane for playlist managers and stats tools — indie devs already do this (stats.fm, Receiptify). Caution: Spotify quietly cut off several of its richest data endpoints for new apps in Nov 2024, so treat the API as borrowed access.
The way in: Playlist managers and 'your year in music' stats tools on the Spotify & Apple Music APIs (metadata + playlist endpoints).
Moat: the licensed catalog is the product · platform risk: medium · why: Spotify Web API exposes playlists/metadata, not audio · stats.fm / Receiptify built on it · Spotify culled endpoints for new apps Nov 2024 = platform risk
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 |
| repetitive song recommendations | missing-feature | 2 | Play the same music over and over |
| no playlist sharing between users | missing-feature | 1 | I just wish you could be able to share playlists with each other |
| import playlists | missing-feature | 1 | I would love to see support for importing playlists |
| collaborative playlist song sync | bug | 1 | I added more songs...those songs I added earlier are not on the list. I asked my collaborator to add them… I still can't see them |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| cannot export playlists | missing-feature | 1 | You can’t export playlists |
| shuffle playlist playback | missing-feature | 1 | wish it I could random listen playlists |
| duplicate playlist entries | ux | 1 | doesn't stop you from putting it in twice, so there are some duplicates |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spotify: Music and Podcasts | 4.8 | 41,041,643 | Free |
| Playlist Transfer for My Music | 4.4 | 7,723 | Free |
| Playlist Maker | 4.5 | 173,841 | Free |
| Miximum: Smart Playlist Maker | 4.5 | 517 | $2.99 |
| Playlist Maker | 4.5 | 10,967 | Free |
| Playback Music | 0.0 | 0 | $5.99 |
| Playlist Creator for YouTube | 4.7 | 9,618 | Free |
| Youtify - Music & Playlists | 4.6 | 19,775 | 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.
Who has tried building this
4 attempts but 3 already dead; the survivor sits at 130 stars, signaling weak retention and no breakout winner.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| ltguillaume/music-folder-player | active | 130 | JavaScript |
| feross/Instant.fm | abandoned | 108 | JavaScript |
| Lytes/sound-tunnel | stale | 88 | Python |
| marcio199226/ytd | stale | 78 | Go |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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