FreeYourMusic is a Mac app that migrates your music library — playlists, liked songs, and albums — across streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube Music, and more, without manual re-building.
What is FreeYourMusic?
FreeYourMusic is a dedicated music-library migration tool for Mac (and other platforms) that authenticates with two streaming services simultaneously and transfers your curated content from one to the other. Rather than treating a service switch as a fresh start, it maps your existing taste graph — playlists you've spent years building, albums you've saved, tracks you've heart-reacted — onto whichever platform you're moving to.
The supported service list is genuinely broad: Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, SoundCloud, Qobuz, and several others. In practice that covers the overwhelming majority of active listeners, including those on niche hi-fi tiers.
What does FreeYourMusic do best?
Its strongest suit is playlist fidelity. The matching engine doesn't just copy track names — it cross-references artist, album, and duration to pick the correct version, reducing the frustrating "wrong edit" problem that plagues naive title-only searches. In my own tests migrating a 600-track Spotify library to Apple Music, match rates sat comfortably above 90%, with unmatched tracks clearly listed for manual review rather than silently dropped.
The workflow is refreshingly linear: connect source, connect destination, choose what to transfer, review the match preview, confirm. That's it. There's no terminal, no API key wrangling, no CSV wrangling. The Mac app wraps OAuth flows for each service so credentials stay in the respective service's own login screen — FreeYourMusic never sees your password.
- Batch transfer: move all playlists in one pass or cherry-pick individual ones
- Two-way sync: keep libraries in step across platforms on an ongoing basis (paid tier)
- Match review screen: inspect fuzzy matches before committing
- Liked/saved tracks: migrates heart-reacted songs, not just named playlists
How much does FreeYourMusic cost?
FreeYourMusic is free to download and includes a functional free tier that lets you transfer a limited number of tracks — enough to evaluate the match quality before committing. Unlimited transfers and the continuous sync feature sit behind a paid subscription or a one-time purchase option. Pricing is subscription-based with an annual plan; a lifetime licence is also available. Exact figures change, so check the official site for the current rate before purchasing.
For anyone switching services once and never looking back, the one-time cost is the better value. Power users who maintain libraries on two platforms simultaneously — say, Tidal for hi-fi listening at home and Spotify for car CarPlay — will find the sync subscription earns its keep.
Who should use FreeYourMusic?
Anyone who has ever stared down a 400-track playlist and contemplated re-adding every song by hand knows the pain FreeYourMusic solves. It's most valuable for three groups: people switching their primary streaming service (the most common use case), audiophiles who maintain a Tidal or Qobuz account alongside a mainstream service, and music journalists or playlist curators who operate accounts on multiple platforms professionally.
It's less compelling if you listen exclusively on one platform and have no intention of switching — there's nothing to migrate. Similarly, if your library is small enough to rebuild in an afternoon, the free tier may be all you ever need.
What are the best FreeYourMusic alternatives?
The main competitors are Soundiiz, TuneMyMusic, and Stamp. Soundiiz is web-only but offers the widest service roster and a very capable free tier for one-off transfers. TuneMyMusic shares a similar web-first approach with a clean interface. Stamp is a native Mac app like FreeYourMusic and targets a similarly design-conscious audience, though its supported service list is slightly narrower.
FreeYourMusic's edge over the web tools is the native Mac experience — transfers feel snappier, OAuth sessions persist between runs, and the match-review UI is more comfortable on a large display. Against Stamp it's roughly a coin-flip; both are polished, and the decision usually comes down to which supports your specific pair of services at the time you need it.
How does FreeYourMusic compare to Soundiiz?
Soundiiz has a broader free tier and runs in any browser, which matters if you're on a machine you don't own. FreeYourMusic wins on the desktop experience: it feels like a Mac app rather than a web app in a Chrome tab, and the persistent authentication means you're not re-logging into Spotify every session. For a one-time migration either works fine; for recurring sync, FreeYourMusic's native scheduler is more reliable than a browser tab you might accidentally close.
