Is there a good app for transfer playlists between services?
Prime Gap: 10 apps already serve this, and 89 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 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.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to transfer playlists between services, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| import playlists | missing-feature | 1 | I would love to see support for importing playlists |
| no playlist sharing between users | missing-feature | 1 | I just wish you could be able to share playlists with each other |
| no playlist portability when switching apps | missing-feature | 1 | start my play lists and everything all over again |
| playlist not syncing across devices | bug | 1 | whenever I add something to a playlist it doesn't show up on the other device |
| lost saved playlists | reliability | 1 | I lost all of my playlists |
| cannot export playlists | missing-feature | 1 | You can’t export playlists |
| playlists gone after offloading | reliability | 1 | I offloaded the app because it wasn’t working and all of my playlists are gone |
| playlist data loss | bug | 1 | spent so many hours making playlist and they are all gone |
| existing library/playlists lost on subscribe | reliability | 1 | it made a lot of that stuff go away such as my playlist |
| update deleted saved playlists | bug | 1 | Last update screw all my lists. My saved playlist disappeared |
| playlist data loss on update | bug | 1 | the new update just deleted my playlist |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playlist Transfer for My Music | 4.4 | 7,723 | Free |
| SongShift | 4.7 | 66,336 | Free |
| Playlist Maker | 4.5 | 173,841 | Free |
| play:Sub Music Streamer | 4.5 | 420 | $4.99 |
| Playlist Maker | 4.5 | 10,967 | Free |
| UnitedMasters: Release Music | 4.8 | 32,368 | Free |
| LMP - Music Hub | 4.2 | 69 | $2.99 |
| AudioShare | 4.7 | 844 | $4.99 |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 91 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 tiny attempts, half stale and none above 4 stars — an untraction'd niche dominated by commercial services.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-Besson/playlist-transfer | active | 4 | JavaScript |
| bomberfish/Transcribe | active | 3 | TypeScript |
| elCarlosHez/From-my-playlist | stale | 2 | TypeScript |
| Olyve/SandPiper | stale | 2 | JavaScript |
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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