Best Methods to Transfer Spotify Playlists to Apple Music

When it comes to music apps, most of the talk are about the two on-demand music streaming services -- Spotify and Apple Music. Although Spotify came much earlier than Apple Music with a large portion of fans supported, the newer music service has quickly won the popularity. And more and more Spotify users are trying to figure out the best way to export their playlists from Spotify to Apple Music. Unfortunately, there’s no easy solution for this dilemma, but don’t worry — you won’t have to manually recreate every single playlist if you don’t want to.

After comparing and contrasting various methods, we've found there are two fairly reliable third-party tools that could save lots of your hours if you have dozens of playlists that need to be moved. One is called Sidify Music Converter, and the other is called Move to Apple Music.

Best Methods to Move Spotify Playlist to Apple Music

Option 1: Sidify Music Converter

Price: Free for limited use, $14.95/ month for Professional Version

Apple Music allows you to create new playlist to enjoy your favorite music, but it cannot directly import playlists from Spotify. Just like most streaming services, Spotify music also adds a DRM (Digital Rights Management) layer to its streaming music. If you have any music in Spotify that are not available in Apple Music and you would like to add them on your Apple Music playlist, Sidify Music Converter is an application that can help you download Spotify Playlist to plain formats on your computer and then transfer playlists from Spotify music to Apple Music.

Step 1. Choose Conversion Mode

Step 2. Open your Spotify and log in with your Spotify account.

Step 3. Drag & drop playlist from Spotify to Sidify Music converter.

Step 4. Adjust output format, conversion speed and output path, etc.

Step 5. Click the "CONVERT" button to start conversion.

Step 6. Manually Import converted Spotify playlist to iTunes library: Open iTunes, go to Menu bar and find "File -> Library -> Import Playlist" to import the Spotify playlists strored on your local computer.

Option 2: FreeYourMusic

Price: Free for limited use, $4.17 for Premium, $249 for Lifetime

The second method is a manual process to transfer your songs from Spotify to Apple Music– Stamp. Stamp is the most feature-packed service to use if you want to transfer your playlists and songs from one streaming service to another. You can use it on both desktop platforms and iOS, but we would suggest the desktop app since the iOS app causes more headaches than it’s worth.

Step 1. Before you begin, export your Spotify playlists as .csv filed using Exportify

Step 2. Click on Get Started.

Step 3. Log in or Sign up for Spotify to export your playlists as .csv files.

Step 4. Next, go to the STAMP website and download the app

Step 5. Open STAMP App and select the .csv file you want to import

Step 6. Click parse and wait for the application to finish importing

Step 7. Click “Next” and then it would start transfering your Spotify playlist. It will take time to detect and transfer songs and you may experience slowness on your Mac during this process.