The original post: /r/piracy by /u/AuDHDMDD on 2025-03-08 17:45:05.
I understand that long time Spotify users may be hesitant to migrate apps. The UI is familiar and there are hundreds-thousands of songs you may have on their.
However, if they are aggressively hunting down, I don't expect them to stop anytime soon. If you are okay with dealing with a constantly breaking app, that's fine.
However, as a long time Spotify user (over 10+ years), I found that the adjustment to YTMusic was easy, and the features are competitive to Spotify. And yes, you can download locally straight from the app.
For Android: Revanced (the .app website is the official or find it on GitHub). Traditionally, Revanced was used to provide ad-free YouTube with SponsorBlock, but it also provides premium YT Music. You can also patch reddit, and other apps.
It does NOT work with xapks, so you will need to split the app. However, i recommend downloading an APK from APKMirror. You don't have to split anything. Put it in Revanced, press patch, and you have premium YT and YTMusic.
Migrate your songs and playlist with whatever flavor of program you prefer.
For iOS and Spotify (Free): use sideloadly (/r/sideloaded) and find EeveeSpotify. It is updated almost daily and is iOSs "official" Spotify crack. /r/sideloadly is free, but you can only do 3 apps. When I used it, it was EeveeSpotify, YTLitePlus, and Apollo for Reddit (yes, still works).
For iOS and any cracked app you want (paid): If you want to sideload more than three apps and straight from your device, I recommend Kravasign as it's cheap enough. Most of iOS stuff is in Telegram channels, but there are many repos that reupload (SwaggyP3600 on GitHub is one of the main ones used)
For iOS and YTMusic. If you do wish to migrate to YTMusic, the iOS app is YTMusicUnlimited. You can find it in most repos on GitHub like SwaggyP3600.
Local download users: Outertune looks like a solid replacement