Top 5 Free Spotify Playlist Downloader for Online/Mac/Windows/Android

Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming service that offers millions of songs, playlists and podcasts. Both free and premium users can enjoy loads of playlists created by Spotify, artists and other listeners worldwide. However, Spotify only allows premium users to download the playlists for offline playback. Free users can only stream the playlists when there is internet connection, which is very inconvenient. Luckily, there are some tools allowing to download Spotify playlists with free account. We will introduce them in this article.

How to download Spotify playlists with Premium?

Run Spotify app on your mobile, tablet or desktop, find the Spotify playlist you want to download and then toggle the "Download" button on to begin downloading the playlist. You'll know this option is enabled because the switch will turn green. 

How to download Spotify playlists without Premium?

If you don't have Spotify premium but want to download Spotify playlists for offline playback, there are seceral third-party Spotify playlist downloader tools that allows you to download Spotify playlists to MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC, and AIFF with either free or premium account.

We have tested most of the Spotify playlist downloader tools on the internet and chosen 5 of them that we suggest you have a try.

Part 1. Free Online Spotify Playlist Downloader

https://spotify-downloader.com

https://spotify-downloader.com is a free online tool that allows you to download songs, albums, and playlists from Spotify. Just enter the URL of the song, album, or playlist you want to download, and Spotify Downloader will do the rest. It can detect Spotify playlist url and download all song in a zip. Note that it actually downloads songs from YouTube in 128kbps. Sometimes you may get music video audio with extra sound effects.

Pros: Easy to use.
ID3 tags preserved.
Cons: Many wrong downloads.
Download Spotify music from online libraries. Can't download some albums and playlists.
Download in 128kbps MP3

SpotifyDown

SpotifyDown(https://spotifydown.com) online tool allows you to save your Spotify playlists as local files on your computer for offline listening. Best of all, it's free and easy to use! It supports downloading whole playlists with lots of tracks in it. Enter the URL of the song, album, or playlist you want to download. The website downloads at most 100 tracks and serves the user a .zip file with all the content.You can then save the songs to your computer or mobile device for offline playback.

How to use SpotifyDown?

1. Open Spotify App or web player(https://open.spotify.com/).
2. Find the song / album you'd like to download.
3. Click on the "3 dots" button.
4. Click "Share" and then "Copy Link" button.
5. Open https://spotifydown.com.
6. Paste copied link to the search field and press "Download"
7. Wait for the processing to finish and click "Download" button

Pros: Free
Cons: Downloading many tracks may or may not cause a lag on your device.
Fetch only 100 songs at one time.

 

3. spotisongdownloader.com

spotisongdownloader.com(https://spotisongdownloader.com) allows you to convert Spotify songs & playlists to MP3 format from 64kbps to 320Kbps. Compatible with popular browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, and all Chromium-based browsers. However, you can't one-click download a whole playlist for free. To download entire playlist in one go, you need to purchase a license: $9.99/year, $14.99 for Lifetime or $4.99/month.

Pros:
Download Spotify to MP3 in 320kbps.

Cons:
Not free

How to use spotisongdownloader.com to download playlists from Spotify?

1. Navigate to https://open.spotify.com/ or open Spotify app. Log in your account and copy the playlist link you want to download.

2. Open https://spotisongdownloader.com and paste the playlist link. Then click Download.

3. On the following page, click Download ZIP to download the entire playlist. Or click "Generate Download Links" to download individual songs.

Other online Spotify music downloader tools such as spotifymate.com, spotidown.com, spotifyplaylistdownloader.com, etc. can only detect Spotify playlist link and list all songs in the playlist, however, there isn’t a button to download the whole playlist. You need to download songs one by one. 

Although the above 3 Spotify downloader tools allow you to download Spotify playlists to MP3, they all have a limit of 100 songs. If you want a Spotify downloader that doesn't have a limit, try Ondesoft Spotify Converter.

Part 2. Spotify Playlist Downloader for Mac/Windows

Ondesoft Spotify Converter

For Mac, Windows 

Ondesoft Spotify Downloader is the most professional Spotify playlist downloader for both Mac&Windows users to download Spotify songs, albums and playlists to MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC, and AIFF. Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter downloads Spotify playlists directly from Spotify and save them to popular formats at high speed. It can preserve 100% original quality and metadata of the downloaded songs. All you need to do is select Spotify playlist you want to download in the built-in Spotify web player and then click 'Convert'. Batch conversion is supported. Ondesoft Spotify Converter also allows you to uncheck the songs you don't want to download from any playlist. Other Spotify playlist downloader only supports downloading the whole playlist.
Tutorial: How to download Spotify playlists with Ondesoft Spotify Converter?

Pros: Fast and easy-to-use.
Download as many songs&playlists as you like simultaneously.
Preserve original ID3 tags.
100% original quality, up to 320kbps.
Rip a whole playlist at once.
Built-in Spotify web player.

Spotube

For Mac, Windows and Android 

Spotube is a lightweight & efficient Open Source Spotify Music Client for Mac, Windows and Android. You can stream and download all your Spotify tracks & playlists here. It requires you to add your Spotify credentials to fetch and download playlists. However, if you batch download all the tracks in a playlist, your IP may be blocked by Youtube due to too many download requests. An IP block means that you won't be able to use YouTube on that IP device for at least 2-3 months (even if you're logged in). Spotube is not responsible if this happens.

Pros : free
Keep ID3 tags.
Cons : Spotify account may be banned.
May download wrong songs.

spotDL

For Windows and Linux 

spotDL is a free and open source tool that finds Spotify songs from YouTube and downloads them - along with album art, lyrics and metadata. spotDL downloads music from YouTube in 128 kbps for regular users and 256 kbps for YouTube Music premium users. As it sources the audio from YouTube, sometimes it may choose the wrong version of the song, for example a live version, or a one hour or even 10 hour version of the song, then you will have to manually delete and redownload it.

The Installation is complicated and requires some technical knowledge.

Pros : free
Keep ID3 tags.
Cons :
May download wrong songs.

Part 3. Spotify Playlist Downloader for Android

Fildo

For Android 

Fildo is an Android music streaming and downloading app that allowed users to search for and stream music from various sources on the internet. It will match your Spotify playlist from YouTube and download the songs there.  Fildo uses the first reference tt gets and doesn't search further. If 2 bands share name, you only get the most succesful one. So you may get many wrong downlods. Fildo is just an userinterface to third party search engines.

Pros: No need to copy&paste Spotify playlist url.
Cons: Many ads
May download wrong songs.

 

Spotify downloader that we don't recommend

Below results often appear when you google Spotify playlist downloader, but we don't recommend them for below reasons.

1 GitHub - ritiek/spotify-downloader

• Spotify-Downloader downloads songs from YouTube in an MP3 format by using Spotify's HTTP link. It's not an app or a website with user-friendly interface. You need to be a technical professional and know how to code to use it.

2. Spotify Downloader for Android

There is an Android app called Spotify Downloader, which allows you to download Spotify songs on Android devices for free. You can download the apk from Aptoide or GetJar . You just need to enter your spotify user account name (or any account name), click on the playlist, then select the tracks and click on 'Start'. You don't need to use your password or authenticate. Seems pretty easy, hah? But the user ratings for this Spotify Downloader is only 3.21. Many users complain that it often says there is a problem with internet connection and couldn't download anything. Besides, it downloads songs from YouTube, not Spotify. Sometimes it doesn't download the entire song, sometimes only a minute and a half of it.

3. www.playlist-converter.net/

Actually it's not a Spotify playlist downloader at all. It only allows you to convert your Spotify playlists to free text, Deezer, SoundCloud, CSV and link.