Spotify Lite Arrives on Android With Limited Features, Data Limits

Alee of its expected launch in Bharat, Spotify has released a new 'Lite' version of its app for Android on the Play Shop. Called Spotify Lite, the app is currently in beta on Android, and offers a much-slimmed downwards version – it'southward just 15MB, every bit opposed to the massive 100MB download of the full app – and is aimed at users with slower phones and limited mobile or Wi-Fi data.

Like most other lightweight apps, Spotify Lite also has geo-restrictions, which means non all Spotify users will be able to apply it. Not only is Spotify Lite unavailable in many locations effectually the globe, and is also non available for high-terminate devices. It is also severely restricted in terms of its features every bit per reports, when compared to the total-fledged alternative.

Spotify Lite doesn't accept offline playback, at that place'south no option to re-organize the playlist, and strangely enough, no selection to choose a specific song. The controls for book levels and music quality too seem to exist absent, equally is Spotify Connect, which lets you lot stream Spotify music to external devices over Wi-Fi.

One of the new features that you will see is monthly data limits which can be configured by the user with options for 250MB, 500MB, 750MB, 1GB, 2GB, and 3GB limits.

Spotify Lite Arrives on Android With Limited Features, Data Limits

It's worth noting here that the idea of launching lightweight apps for developing markets has been tried for a long time, but with connectivity, availability, speeds, and reliability of data networks in countries similar India improving past the day, it will be interesting how many will choose the barebones 'Lite' apps over the characteristic-rich original versions.

Download Spotify Light from the Play Store (Gratuitous)