Apple Music or Spotify?: Twitter user spikes up a whole discussion about music apps and the snarky answers and comments are quick to follow along

Giuliana Tiscioni • Writer

Sep 10, 2026 11:30 AM EDT

Twitter is the place where the weirdest and most unexpected debates happen…

It turns out, now we're debating over which music app is better: Spotify or Apple Music. I had no idea this was a thing, or that it was even something people cared about or thought about. I use Spotify because I have a family plan, I don't have any Apple devices, and I had no idea that something like Apple Music even existed. Yeah, I'm not a tech person at all. I'm the kind of person who gets asked "what kind of phone do you have?" and I answer "a smartphone?" When my computer acts out, I ask for help from my dad, a 50-year-old man… Yes, a 50-year-old man knows tech better than I do. I failed as a millenial/gen z, my sincerest apologies.

Anyway, back to Twitter. An X user spiked the argument "I still don't understand how people choose Spotify over Apple Music" and a photo of both apps' designs, claiming that Apple was prettier. People started answering in some pretty creative ways soon after that. Some arguments were about listening to music, not seeing it, or the fact that they already had a Spotify family plan, that Spotify was free, that Apple was expensive, and there were even one or two who simply said that they use YouTube Music. Yes, some people agreed with the original comment saying that Apple Music had a better design and even better sound quality, which I can't be sure is true, but the others replied that Spotify has a lot more different functions, playlists, and such. So, the debate was not settled, but at least we can entertain ourselves with people's responses and sarcasm.

At this point, you're going to have to tell me what you prefer. Is it true that Apple's sound is better? Is it a valid reason to say you choose an app because its interface looks prettier? What exactly is a pretty interface? Would you pay extra for Apple Music? Now I have a lot of questions and no answers, but at least there are still these tweets to laugh at.