Spotify’s Free Experience Just Got a Major Glow Up

Manal Saleh

Riyadh, KSA – 17 September 2025: From today, Spotify is rolling out updates to its Free experience globally, giving listeners more freedom to play, explore, and share the music and podcasts they love.

Every day, millions of people around the world turn to Spotify to enjoy the audio they love. With these enhancements, Free users now have more control over their listening journeys, whether they’re discovering new tracks, diving into editorial playlists curated by Spotify’s global experts, or connecting with friends through shared music moments.

Here’s what’s new on Spotify’s Free Experience:

●       Pick & Play: Got a nagging earworm? Hit play in the Spotify app, and you can pick and play any song you want.

●       Search & Play: Type in your favorite track and start listening instantly.

●       Share & Play: Love sharing your favorite tracks with friends? Has an artist shared a new track on social that you want to hear? Tap to listen right away.

How to Make the Most of Spotify’s Free Experience

Discover the power of playlists

You can listen to songs you love for free via personalized playlists, through editorial playlists curated by our in-house music experts, or by making your own. And the best part: The more music and podcasts you enjoy, and the more Spotify can personalize recommendations to help you discover even more songs, artists, and podcasts.

Soundtrack your daily mood with daylist

As you develop daily listening habits on Spotify, daylist, a one-of-a-kind playlist understands and reflects what types of music you like to listen to during particular moments in the day, or on specific days of the week. Users on our free experience around the world will find their daylists regularly updating with different songs and titles. If, for example, you’re looking for songs that match your mood from sunup to sundown, daylist has you covered.

Pro tip: When you love a specific daylist playlist, you can copy and save it by tapping the three-dot menu, scrolling down to “Add to playlist,” and tapping “New playlist.” It will be available to revisit whenever you like.

Expand your musical horizons

Discover Weekly brings you a fresh mix of personalized recommendations every week based on what you've been listening to, and the more you use Spotify, the better we get at finding the right tracks for you.

Lyrics: Your listening session copilot

With lyrics, you can connect to the song you’re listening to on a deeper level and explore the meaning behind each song. When listening to a song with available lyrics, you can swipe up from the bottom of the Now Playing View in the Spotify mobile app to display the track’s lyrics, which scroll line by line in real time as the song plays.

Pro tip: See lyrics you want to share? You can send them straight from the app to friends on Instagram, WhatsApp, and more. It’s a simple way to share how you’re feeling through the music.