No third-party scripts
No ad networks, no analytics SDKs, no session recorders, no tag managers. If we ever need usage numbers, they will come from server logs that hold no personal data.
About
About SpotiDown
A small tool with a narrow purpose, built because every other free option in this category was worse than it needed to be.
Why this exists
SpotiDown started in 2024 out of ordinary frustration. Every free Spotify downloader we tried did the same three things wrong. Files arrived with no tags and no artwork, so a library turned into a folder of unknown artists. The batch download button was paywalled, which meant the one feature that mattered for a playlist was the one you had to pay for. And the pages themselves were slow, ad-heavy and covered in fake download buttons.
None of those are hard problems. Reading Spotify's public metadata and writing it into a file is a solved task. Serving a ZIP is a solved task. Not loading eleven ad networks is a decision, not an engineering challenge. The gap between what these tools could be and what they were seemed worth closing.
The rules we build against
These are constraints rather than features. They are what we say no to.
No paywalled core features
Batch downloads, ZIP output and lossless formats are the reasons people come here. Charging for them would make the tool worse than the ones we set out to improve on.
No accounts, no history
Nothing to sign up for means nothing to leak. There is no user table here because there are no users, only visitors.
Metadata is not optional
A download that arrives untagged is a job half done. Every file gets full tags and artwork, on every page, in every format.
Every language gets the real site
All 21 languages get the full content, correctly signposted with hreflang, rather than a translated menu bar sitting on English body copy.
Maintained, visibly
The changelog on the home page is there so you can tell whether anyone still works on this. Tools in this category rot quickly when nobody does.
What we are not
We are not affiliated with Spotify AB in any way, and nothing here is endorsed by them. Spotify is their trademark and we use the name only to describe what the tool works with.
We are not a music library. Nothing is hosted, stored or indexed here. There is no catalogue to browse, no search over songs, and no archive of anything anyone has ever converted. Files exist on our servers for the length of one job and are then deleted.
We are not neutral about how this gets used. Personal format-shifting is a reasonable thing to want. Redistribution is not, and the terms of service say so directly.
How it is built
Every page on this site is static HTML generated ahead of time. There is no framework hydrating in the background, no client-side router, and no runtime rendering. That is why pages arrive quickly on a slow connection, and it is a large part of why the site is cheap enough to run without advertising.
The only JavaScript that ships is a small file handling the theme toggle, the menus and the converter itself. It has no dependencies. The stylesheet is hand-written rather than generated from a utility framework, which keeps it small enough to inline the critical portion.
The conversion service runs separately from the website. It receives a Spotify ID, resolves the metadata, produces the audio, writes tags, and returns a download URL that expires. It keeps no persistent store of jobs.
Getting in touch
Bug reports, broken links, translation corrections and rights-holder notices all go through the contact page. Translation fixes in particular are welcome. Twenty-one languages is a lot of surface area, and a native speaker spotting an awkward phrase is more useful than any amount of internal review.