The craze for Lite/ trimmed down apps these days is racing ahead, and now it is Spotify whose Lite app has made its way to Play Store. However, the implementation isn’t exactly the greatest, and it is missing a lot of crucial features from the main.
The interface is more or less the same as the main app with a custom launch screen and Facebook connectivity. As for the features that are missing; there’s no offline playback. With Spotify being a music streaming app, offline playback is crucial given that this app’s entire point is to save data, but for some reason, it is missing. Surprisingly, there’s no extreme quality playback, but with saving data being the main point, it is understandable.
Spotify Connect, which allows audio to be seamlessly streamed from wireless audio devices is, unfortunately, missing as well. It doesn’t allow Premium subscribers to select specific songs to play. Spotify seemingly went too far in trimming down for the Lite app deleting essential feature just for the sake of having a Liter version.
We hope Spotify brings improvements eventually in the upcoming updates. You can download the Spotify the APK and side-load it manually, if its not available in your country through Google Play.