Spotify's new design looks like TikTok

Spotify announced a redesign of its app recently with a new Home feed and automation features, and it may look familiar to some users.

The company unveiled the new design on Wednesday, calling it its most significant evolution yet. The company says that it was built to facilitate more meaningful interactions between fans and artists and deeper content discovery.

"The world today pulls us in a million different directions," said Co-President and Chief Product & Technology Officer Gustav Soderstrom. "So the most important thing we, at Spotify, can do for creators is to reduce the distance between their art and the people who love it...or who would love it as soon as they discovered it."

Styled similar to TikTok, and not that much different from Apple Music Connect, the new Home feed lets users swipe through video and audio previews for music, podcasts, and audiobooks and includes new video feeds for discovery in the Search section. Spotify also highlighted DJ, Smart Shuffle, and Autoplay for Podcasts.

DJ is a new personalized AI guide recently launched in beta for Premium users in the US and Canada. It learns from users' musical tastes to choose what to play for them.

Next, Smart Shuffle is a new experience to keep listening sessions "fresh" with personalized recommendations to match the sound of a user-created playlist. It can shuffle tracks and add new, tailored suggestions.

Finally, Spotify has added Autoplay for podcasts that can automatically play episodes from other podcasts similar to the previous one. The app is available to download for free from the App Store and requires iOS and iPadOS 14.0 or later, and tvOS 13.0 or later.

8 Comments

montrosemacs 118 comments · 17 Years

About 1 year ago

Would dearly love to see a redesign of the Apple Music app. It’s the #1 reason I prefer Spotify (well, that, and a better algorithm that finds music I like). Haven’t seen Spotify’s new design yet, I hope they didn’t “fix” what wasn’t broken…

Appleish 714 comments · 8 Years

Finally they released HiFi!

Oh, wait. No. Because Spotify's audience is mainly kids who don't care about sound quality. Just want the jams in a TikToky wrapper.

Apple Music wins again.

Japhey 1772 comments · 6 Years

Appleish said:

Finally they released HiFi!

Oh, wait. No. Because Spotify's audience is mainly kids who don't care about sound quality. Just want the jams in a TikToky wrapper.

Apple Music wins again.

I’m sure most people would agree that they were the exact same way when they were kids. But yay Apple! They offer something that, according to you, a huge section of their target audience doesn’t even care about.

Weird brag.

Personally, I’m glad to have streaming options to choose from because it would suck if they were all the same. And while this update does sound pretty awful, I’ll probably wait until it’s actually out before I pass judgement.

montrosemacs said:

Would dearly love to see a redesign of the Apple Music app. It’s the #1 reason I prefer Spotify (well, that, and a better algorithm that finds music I like). Haven’t seen Spotify’s new design yet, I hope they didn’t “fix” what wasn’t broken…

100%

ihatescreennames 1971 comments · 19 Years

Appleish said:

Finally they released HiFi!

Oh, wait. No. Because Spotify's audience is mainly kids who don't care about sound quality. Just want the jams in a TikToky wrapper.

It isn’t just kids that don’t care about sound quality. A couple I’m friends with who are retired have some kind of Echo Dot thing. It’s unlike any other I’ve seen before as it plugs directly into the outlet with no cord (similar to the old AirPort Express). It sounds awful. They mostly use it for music but also the occasional timer and weather. When I mentioned the terrible sound they told me sound quality isn’t a priority to them. Yeah, obviously. I completely don’t understand choosing to listen to music and not caring AT ALL about sound quality. I can’t describe how badly it sounds but I’ve had better sound out of shitty Bluetooth connections before.