PlaylistAI
PlaylistAI turns a plain-language prompt, a festival poster photo or a video into a ready-made playlist inside your Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music or Deezer account, from the web, an iPhone app or ChatGPT.
What is PlaylistAI?
PlaylistAI is an AI playlist maker built by Brett Bauman, an independent iOS developer. The idea is deliberately narrow: you describe what you want to hear, and the tool assembles a playlist and writes it straight into the streaming account you have connected. Sample prompts on the homepage run from the ordinary, Early 2000's pop music or Lo-fi study music, to the situational, Playing board games on a rainy day and Music similar to Taylor Swift and Joji. Text is only one way in. Photograph a music festival poster and PlaylistAI returns a playlist of the artists on the bill, the feature the product was originally built around when it was still called LineupSupply. Hand it a video, a TikTok for instance, and it identifies the songs playing in it. Point it at your own listening history and it assembles your top tracks and artists over the past four weeks, six months or all time. Elsewhere you can blend up to five genres with a BPM range filter, or pick an artist and let the model surface its friends. Where you use it matters. The web app connects to Spotify only. The iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision app adds Apple Music, Amazon Music and Deezer, and the privacy policy also describes a Google sign-in for YouTube Music. A third route runs inside ChatGPT as a dedicated GPT, though that one assumes a ChatGPT Plus subscription. Generation leans on OpenAI: the developer has publicly linked ChatGPT outages to slowdowns in the app. The app first shipped in August 2022 and became PlaylistAI in January 2023. It holds a 4.3 rating from 767 reviews on the US App Store, is rated 13+, ships in English only and requires iOS 16. The homepage claims more than 100,000 users and points to coverage in Fast Company and TechCrunch. It downloads for free, carries no advertising, and sells in-app purchases labelled Unlock all features. PlaylistAI states it is not affiliated with any music service.
What it does
- Turn a written prompt into a playlist inside your streaming account
- Photograph a festival line-up poster and get a playlist of the artists playing
- Build a playlist from your own listening history over four weeks, six months or all time
- Scan a video such as a TikTok to identify the songs it uses and add similar music around them
- Blend up to five genres at once and filter the result by BPM range
- Pick an artist and let the model find its "friends" to fill a playlist
- Accept a ready-made suggestion tuned to the time of day and the day of the week
When to use PlaylistAI / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if PlaylistAI is the right fit.
When to use PlaylistAI
- Spotify and Apple Music listeners who want a themed playlist in seconds rather than building one track by track
- Festival-goers who want a line-up poster turned into a playlist of the artists actually on the bill
- Gym-goers and fitness coaches after workout mixes, one of the site's own sample prompts being "Working out at the gym, rap"
- Students who queue up background music while revising, with prompts such as "Lo-fi study music"
- Curious listeners chasing discovery through artist "friends", five-genre blends with a BPM range, or their own top tracks from the past four weeks, six months or all time
When not to use PlaylistAI
- Anyone without a Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music or Deezer account, since connecting a streaming service is the first and mandatory step
- Android users: the app ships for iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision only, with nothing on Google Play
- Browser users who are not on Spotify, because the web version connects to Spotify alone and sends everyone else to the iOS app
- Developers looking for an API, as none is documented or offered
- Organisations with GDPR or procurement requirements, given the absence of public terms, of a DPA, of any GDPR wording and of a published company name or address
How to use PlaylistAI
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open playlistai.app and choose Log in, which leads straight to the playlist creation screen
- Create an account through the sign-up form
- Authorise Spotify from the Connect Spotify Account button, the web app supporting Spotify and nothing else
- For Apple Music, Amazon Music or Deezer, download the iOS app instead, linked from the site and reachable through the QR code in the footer
- Connect your streaming service inside the app
- Type what you want to hear, or accept one of the suggestions the app proposes for the current time of day
- Or use another input: upload a festival poster, supply a video, pick an artist for its "friends", choose up to five genres with a BPM range, or select a history window of four weeks, six months or all time
- Let the playlist be written into the connected streaming account, then open it there to listen
- With a ChatGPT Plus subscription, open the PlaylistAI GPT and ask for a playlist in conversation instead
- Manage or cancel a subscription through the Stripe customer portal if you subscribed on the web, or through the iOS Settings app if you subscribed on the iPhone
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Four streaming services covered on iOS, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Deezer, plus YouTube Music through a Google account
- Input methods few rivals offer: a festival poster photo, a video, or your own listening history
- Playlists land directly in the connected streaming account, with no manual export step
- Free to download and free of advertising
- Three places to use it, browser, iPhone app and a GPT inside ChatGPT
- A short, readable privacy policy that names its third-party providers and rules out both selling data and training models on it
- A reachable developer, who signs public replies to App Store reviews from the same address the site publishes
Cons
- The iOS app has shipped no update since version 2.34 in October 2024
- No Android app at all, and the browser version is limited to Spotify
- No public pricing page: the only visible amounts are App Store in-app purchases, listed without any billing period
- No publicly readable terms of service, the /terms route redirecting to the login page
- No GDPR wording, no data processing agreement, no Article 27 representative and no published retention period
- No company name and no postal address anywhere on the site
- Recurring App Store complaints about slowness, errors, duplicate tracks and results that drift from the prompt
Pricing & Plans
PlaylistAI is free to download and free of advertising, the App Store listing it as Free with In-App Purchases. A free tier therefore exists and is metered in playlists, the developer having publicly offered to credit users with additional ones. Paid access is sold under a single label, Unlock all features, at seven price points ranging from 3.99 USD to 69.99 USD. No billing period is attached to any of them on the App Store listing, and the site publishes no pricing page, so the cheapest paid entry point is 3.99 USD with no stated duration. Subscriptions taken on the web are billed through Stripe, those taken on the iPhone through the App Store.
- the app downloads for free
- carries no advertising
- and meters playlist creation
- seven App Store in-app purchase price points
- 3.99
- 4.99
- 14.99
- 29.99
- 39.99
- 49.99 and 69.99 USD
- No commercial plan name and no billing period is published for any of those amounts
- Billing runs through Stripe for web subscriptions and through the App Store for iOS subscriptions
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how PlaylistAI handles your data.
GDPR overview
There is no mention of the GDPR anywhere. A full-text search across every page collected, homepage and privacy policy included, returns no occurrence of the GDPR, the CCPA or any equivalent framework. No data processing agreement is published or offered, no EU representative under Article 27 is designated, no data protection officer is named, and no legal basis, retention period or data subject right is set out. The privacy policy carries neither an effective date nor a version number. What does exist is narrower: a commitment to the Google API Services User Data Policy, Limited Use requirements included, for the YouTube Music connection, a single contact address, and account deletion as the only stated way to stop data sharing. The publisher is a US-based independent developer with no declared EU presence.
Who owns the data?
No terms of service are publicly readable, the /terms route sitting behind the login wall, so ownership is described only in the privacy policy, itself hosted as a Notion page. PlaylistAI states it neither sells nor rents user data. Authenticating a streaming account gives it access to a user ID and an email address, used, in its own words, for bare minimum functionality and to contact the user. Usage data may sit with three named third parties: Mixpanel, RevenueCat and Vercel. The playlists themselves are written into the listener's own streaming account, and PlaylistAI describes its apps as third-party clients built on those services' APIs, claiming no affiliation with any of them.
Reuse rights
With no public terms of service, nothing in writing sets out what a user may do with what the tool produces. In practice the output is a playlist of existing tracks written straight into the listener's own streaming account, so it falls under Spotify's, Apple Music's, Amazon Music's or Deezer's rules rather than PlaylistAI's. The App Store listing advertises sharing features, including browsing playlists made by other people and sharing a custom festival line-up built from your top artists, which implies re-use is expected rather than restricted. The only withdrawal mechanism documented anywhere is deleting the PlaylistAI account, which the privacy policy says stops any further transfer of data to OpenAI.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
No hosting jurisdiction is published. The privacy policy names three providers that may hold user data, Mixpanel for analytics, RevenueCat for subscriptions and Vercel for the application itself, and links to each of their own policies, but says nothing about the country or region the data sits in. OpenAI is named separately as the recipient of data used to generate playlists. There is no international transfer clause, no standard contractual clauses and no localisation commitment of any kind. What can be observed technically rather than read: the domain resolves to 76.76.21.21, a Vercel anycast address geolocated in the United States, and the publisher is a US-based independent developer. That is network evidence, not a vendor statement, and it should not be treated as a hosting guarantee. Anyone with a data residency requirement will find nothing here to rely on.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting PlaylistAI.
- Connecting the tool grants OAuth access to a personal streaming account: it reads your listening history and writes into your library
- On Apple Music, generated tracks are added to your library by default, and the switch lives in iOS Settings rather than in the app
- With no public terms of service, you accept a service whose conditions you cannot read before signing up
- Prompts are processed through OpenAI, and the only documented way to stop that transfer is to delete your PlaylistAI account
- In-app purchases run up to 69.99 USD with no billing period shown, which makes an unintended renewal easy to miss
- Lyrics are not filtered: Apple rates the app 13+ and flags infrequent mild profanity and sexual content
- Letting a model choose your listening narrows discovery, several reviewers describing the results as predictable and mainstream
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. Nothing to install on a server, no API key, no code. On the web it takes two screens: create an account, then authorise Spotify. On the iPhone it is a download from the App Store followed by the same authorisation, with Apple Music, Amazon Music and Deezer also available there. The ChatGPT route assumes an existing ChatGPT Plus subscription. The only real friction is knowing that the browser version handles Spotify alone, and finding the Apple Music setting that controls whether tracks join your library.
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Behind PlaylistAI
Resources
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Frequently asked questions
Which streaming services does PlaylistAI work with?
Is there an Android app?
What does PlaylistAI cost?
How do I manage or cancel my subscription?
Is my data used to train AI models?
Which third parties handle my data?
How do I stop playlist songs being added to my Apple Music library?
Is PlaylistAI affiliated with Spotify or Apple Music?
Is there an API for developers?
Who is behind PlaylistAI?
Should you pick PlaylistAI?
PlaylistAI does one thing, and it does it from more angles than most: it turns an idea into a playlist that lands directly in the streaming account you already use. The range of inputs is what sets it apart, a written prompt, a festival poster, a video, five blended genres with a BPM filter, or your own listening history. On the iPhone it reaches Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Deezer; in the browser it reaches Spotify alone; and a GPT inside ChatGPT covers a third route for Plus subscribers. It is also, plainly, a solo project. Brett Bauman is named as seller and copyright holder on the App Store, and no company, address or terms of service appear anywhere. The privacy policy is a ten-paragraph Notion page, honest and readable, with no data selling and no model training on user data, but silent on retention, on the GDPR, on a processing agreement and on where data is hosted. Anyone with compliance or procurement requirements should read that as a hard stop. Two other reservations deserve a mention. Pricing is opaque: the App Store shows seven in-app purchase amounts from 3.99 to 69.99 USD under a single label, none carrying a billing period, and no pricing page exists to clarify it. And the iOS app has shipped no update since October 2024, while reviewers report slowness, duplicates and playlists that drift from the request. For a listener who wants a festival line-up or a workout mix without curating it by hand, PlaylistAI is a fair, low-commitment proposition: free to download, no advertising, easy to walk away from. For anything organisational, the missing legal and pricing groundwork weighs heavier than the features.
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