# Fastpotify

47 Hacker News commenters recommended Fastpotify and 35 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a fast Spotify client with a Winamp mode and classic skins that feels snappier than the official app. Common caveats are high memory and CPU use and dependence on Spotify's service.

## Why people recommend it

- Winamp mode and classic skins (5 comments): "Love the Winamp feature - but more so that it comes with milkdrop! That is next level." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49520132)) "If it can transform into Winamp I don't care if the code is LLM generated" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519571)) "this one with its Winamp mode is what I was looking for" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523098))
- Faster than the official client (4 comments): "it works pretty well and is noticeably faster than the official app" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526641)) "The UI feels a lot less sluggish than the official client" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519476)) "It's working way better than original client." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521081))
- Reliable for daily use (2 comments): "It's mostly fine, and I've been using it nearly every day for years." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49520779)) "I never experienced any bugs or slowness." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521414))

## What people warn about

- Code and docs look LLM-generated (7 comments): "I can't get over my doubts of LLM code quality" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521452)) "Not running code from someone who has so little self awareness that they publish documentation like this tbh." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519800)) "The docs also smell of LLM output, for example describing the app as native despite using egui/wgpu." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519305))
- High memory and CPU usage (5 comments): "200 MB memory usage is a lot without providing source code as a proof." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523080)) "That's an improvement for sure, but 280MB also seems like a lot." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49520139)) "the problem with such immediate mode GUI apps is that they constantly burn 1-2% of CPU when the app is idle" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527623))
- Depends on Spotify, free work for Spotify (2 comments): "My worry with this, like all Spotify clients really, is its dependance on Spotify's" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522663)) "This looks amazing but unfortunately this project is doing free work for Spotify" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529080))
- Slow with large playlists (2 comments): "Looks good, but ran into loading spinners fairly quickly, large playlists kill this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49520166)) "Fastpotify uses ~500mb playing the same song while being substantially slower when navigating music" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49520581))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Finamp](https://hackerapproved.com/p/finamp.md): 10 recommend
- [Feishin](https://hackerapproved.com/p/feishin.md): 8 recommend
- [Gelly](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gelly.md): 7 recommend
- [Spotifast](https://hackerapproved.com/p/spotifast.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Fastpotify", https://hackerapproved.com/p/fastpotify/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).