crabhands vs Playlisty for Spotify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
crabhands
Stay updated on your favorite artists' new music releases with instant notifications. Connect your Spotify account to track followed artists and discover upcoming tracks. New music is automatically added to a dedicated Spotify playlist for easy listening.
- Artist tracking
- New music notifications
- Upcoming release alerts
- Spotify integration
- Automatic playlist creation
- Push notifications
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Let us track your favourite artists and send you notification alerts when they release new music on Spotify, or when we discover any upcoming releases for them! To set up a new account, just hit the Sign Up button, follow the instructions and then login to your Spotify account. We will scan for the artists that you follow. A list of the latest new releases will then be available in the app. If we find any upcoming releases for them we will also display these in the app. If you've enabled push notifications then we'll notify you when we find new and upcoming releases for your artists. New music releases are by default added to a playlist which we create within your Spotify account so that you have one easy place to listen to new music. You can change this option at any time from the Settings screen. We sync the artists you follow on Spotify before we check for new releases, so if you have followed new artists then they'll get included when we scan for new releases. Please note: you cannot listen to the releases within the app - you do this within Spotify as usual.
Playlisty for Spotify
Easily transfer your music playlists between streaming services. This tool helps you find exact matches for your songs and allows you to preview and edit playlists before saving them. It supports importing from various sources and offers background syncing with Siri Shortcuts.
- Copy Apple Music library to Spotify
- Fast and accurate track matching
- Preview and amend playlists
- Direct play feature
- Import from various file formats
- Siri Shortcuts integration
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Don't put up with bad matches and missing tracks - use the tool that gives you control over your playlist transfers. Important: You'll need a Spotify account - either free or premium - to use "Playlisty for Spotify". Features: • Copy your entire Apple Music library to Spotify in just a few taps • Fast & accurate: uses advanced search strategies to find the RIGHT Spotify tracks • NO SUBSCRIPTION – just a small one-off fee to unlock “Pro” features¹ • Lets you preview & amend matched playlists before saving results to Spotify • Unique "direct play" feature² - browse and play playlists without having to save them • Copy your library playlists, including your liked songs, from services such as YouTube • Use Siri Shortcuts to automatically sync playlists in the background • Discover new curators, artists & genres on some of the world's best music sites • Paste web links from Apple Music into Playlisty to get the Spotify equivalent • Import or copy/paste playlists from hundreds of different file formats & web-pages ¹ The free version of Playlisty allows you to import an unlimited number of playlists, but playlists from certain sources (e.g. Apple Music & YouTube) are capped at 20 tracks. Our low-cost "Pro" upgrade unlocks playlists of unlimited length regardless of source. ² Note: Not all features are available on Spotify "free" accounts. Please note that Playlisty for Spotify transfers playlists *into* Spotify, not out. If you are looking to transfer playlists from Spotify to Apple Music please look at our other app: Playlisty for Apple Music (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/playlisty-for-apple-music/id1459275972) which goes the other way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Playlisty for Spotify at 4.6 against crabhands's 3.8. crabhands's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Playlisty for Spotify sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. crabhands asks for nothing beyond the download.
Playlisty for Spotify holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 50 and 99 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of crabhands's written reviews are positive against 68% of Playlisty for Spotify's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | crabhands | Playlisty for Spotify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (50 ratings) | 4.6 (99 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.4% of reviews | 67.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 50 | 99 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 219 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | David Underwood | Obdura |
Customer experience
crabhands
Playlisty for Spotify
Bugs and requests
crabhands
Reported bugs
15 issues- Re-login required every time the app is opened
- Incessant sign-ins after app revamp
- Login is broken after new update
- App is completely outdated (3 years)
- App freezes on iPhone 12 and iOS 16.2
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- Switched Spotify account, now uses Login with Apple ID, doesn't retrieve followed artists
- App crashes on iOS 14.2
- App gets stuck on initial loading screen
- Can't connect to Spotify
- Redirects to reset Spotify password when trying to log in
- Login issues with recaptcha on Spotify
- Doesn't show all releases from Spotify
- Some releases arrive with delay
- Notifications shown, but tapping doesn't load content
- Stopped adding new songs to the Crabhands Spotify playlist
Requested features
7 requests- More filtering options
- Option to filter by followed artists only
- In-app payment option (Apple ID)
- Donate option
- Apple Music integration
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- Browser experience
- Refined artist adding section
Playlisty for Spotify
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
crabhands
No in-app purchases
Playlisty for Spotify
- Playlisty Pro for Spotify$3.99
Questions
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