[Reviews] Top 3 Best Spotify Downloader of 2018

If you use Spotify, you should know that only premium users are able to download the streaming music with high quality for offline listening. Free users can only listen to the songs online with random ads occurring during playback. Luckily, as the demand of downloading Spotify music grows rapidly among free users, many Spotify downloaders have been developed and released through the internet, including free and paid solutions. However, since not all of them work as advertised, in order to save your time and energy, we took your job and made a top list of the 3 best Spotify playlist downloaders of 2018 that are 100% working, in consideration of software security, ease of use, performance, quality and more.

No 1. TunesKit Spotify Music Downloader (Mac & Windows)

TunesKit Music Downloader for Spotify is one of the best music downloader and manager for Spotify. It’s able to help any Spotify user, both free and premium to download any track, album, artist and playlist from Spotify for offline playback. By saving the downloaded Spotify songs as MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC and other popular formats with lossless quality, it enables you enjoy Spotify music on any MP3 player as you want. Only with one click, you can download any ads-free Spotify track or playlist with original ID3 tags preserved at 5X speed. You are also allowed to edit the output music quality by setting audio codec, bit rate, sample rate according to your own requirements.

Pros:

• Exclusive lossless Spotify music downloader;
• Directly download Spotify playlists in one click;
• Save Spotify music in MP3, AAC, FLAV, WAV, M4A, M4B;
• Keep ID3 tags;
• No extra hardware required, very easy to use.

Cons:

• Only English UI available.

See also: How to Download Spotify Music as MP3 with TunesKit.

No 2. KeepVid Music

KeepVid Music, also known as iMusic, is a comprehensive streaming music downloader that works not only with Spotify, but also downloads playlists from over 3,000 music sites such as Pandora, Deezer, Tidal, Google Play Music, etc. It’s also serving as an all-in-one music manager, allowing you easily download, manage and share Spotify playlists in high quality. In addition to downloading Spotify music, it can also record any song play through your computer. If you have any need to transfer media between iDevices without iTunes, KeepVid Music will immediately get it done for you.

Pros:

• Support direct downloading as well as recording;
• Download Spotify and other 3000+ streaming music sources;
• Transfer downloaded Spotify songs to iOS devices easily;
• Fix ID3 tags.

Cons:

• Support MP3 output only.

No 3. Spotiload (formerly called Spotify VK Downloader)

Formerly known as Spotify VK Downloader, Spotiload is actually a chrome extension which uses vk.com social network to download songs from any Spotify playlist and save them in MP3 format. It can be easily found in extension section on Chrome browser. Once installed, it will require you to log into a vk.com account. Then you can simply create an account and go to Spotify to browse the playlists you want to download offline. From the Spotiload toolbox, you can select the tracks and click the “Download” button to get the songs.

Pros:

• Easy to install;
• Free of charge.

Cons:

• Using vk.com is illegal and not allowed in some countries;
• Only download Spotify songs available on vk.com;
• Unstable when downloading Spotify songs with multiple artists;
• Output music quality is lossy.

Conclusion & Suggestion

To sum up, if you care much about the downloading speed and quality of Spotify songs, TunesKit Spotify Music Converter could be the best option with an affordable price. If you want to download not only Spotify music, but also other streaming tracks, KeepVid Music is the top priority. If you however considering a free solution, you can go for Spotiload. If you know any other efficient Spotify playlist downloader, please don’t be hesitate to leave you comments below.

How to Stream Spotify Songs to Apple Watch

Obsessing the world’s largest music library, Spotify is one of the favorite music streaming services with more than 60 million paying subscribers so far. Although it spends its efforts in exploring working out fields these years, there’s still no official Spotify app available on smart watches yet. For many Apple Watch users, they’ve been expecting built-in Spotify app on Apple Watch for year. However, Spotify made no statement yet on when it will release the Spotify support to the watchOS. Therefore, currently most Apple Watch users need to use iPhone to sync their Spotify tracks to Apple Watch when doing exercises. But it’s too inconvenient. So is there any possibility to listen to Spotify music on Apple Watch without iPhone nearby? The answer is “yes”. Fortunately, you still get means to sync your Spotify playlists to Apple Watch even without iPhone.

What Tool You’ll Need to Play Spotify on Apple Watch

Firstly, you should thank Apple Music that allows you add local music directly to the device with maximum music storage of 2GB. Because that’s the key point which we can take advantage from. In other words, if we can figure out a way to load the Spotify offline songs to Apple Watch, we’ll be able to go out running and listen to Spotify playlists while leaving the phone at home. However, since Spotify music are protected by DRM copyright technology, only Premium users can download and save Spotify songs offline. Even so, they are not allowed to sync those downloaded tracks to smartwatch OS but only to smartphones.

In this case, a smart Spotify DRM removal tool is needed to convert Spotify songs to Apple Watch compatible formats, such as MP3. Then you meet TunesKit Spotify Music Converter. It’s an excellent Spotify music downloader and extractor, which can not only download any track from Spotify, but also remove DRM from Spotify music and convert them to MP3, AAC, FLAC or WAV, etc. with 100% original quality kept. With this solution, even if you are using the free Spotify account, you can easily download any Spotify music to listen on any Apple Watch series.

Complete Guide to Stream Spotify Music to Apple Watch

Step 1. Open TunesKit Spotify Converter and you’ll notice the Spotify app is loaded automatically. Then login your Spotify account with your user name and password. Browse the store to find the songs or playlists you want to download and convert to Apple Watch. Simply drag the tracks from Spotify to TunesKit conversion window. You can also copy and paste the URL of the songs to the search box in TunesKit. Then wait for the songs to load into TunesKit.

Step 2. Click the top menu > Preferences. There you will be allowed to set the output audio format, bit rate, sample rate, etc. according to your own needs. In order to make the songs playable by Apple Watch, you are suggested to choose the MP3 as output format. For a stable conversion, you are suggested to check the 1X conversion speed option.

Step 3. When finish customizing, simply click “Convert” button to start extracting and converting the Spotify music songs. Once converted, you can click the “converted” icon to load the DRM-free Spotify tracks.

Step 4. Now you can transfer the converted Spotify playlists to your iPhone. Then launch the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. Tap on Music > Synced Playlist, choose the Spotify playlists to sync. Once the sync’s over, you can access them on your Apple Watch without carrying iPhone together.