How to install and use Spicetify on Mac/Linux/Windows[2025 Complete Guide]

Spicetify is a customization tool for the Spotify desktop application. Spicetify marketplace offers kinds of extensions, themes, snippets, apps for you to enhance your Spotify experience. This is especially useful for users who want to personalize their Spotify experience as well as get some premium features for free, such as ad-blocking.

Spicetify is easy to install and use even you knowing basically nothing about programming. Here is a quick guide.

Contents

1. How to install Spicetify on Mac/Linux?
2. How to install Spicetify on Windows?
3. How to block Spotify ads with Spicetify?
4. How to get Spotify visualizer with Spicetify?
5. How to disable Spotify updates with Spicetify?
6. How to uninstall Spicetify?
7. FAQs about Spicetify
8. How to download Spotify playlists without Premium?

1. How to install Spicetify on Mac/Linux?

1. Make sure you installed Spotify from official website, not the Microsoft Store version.
2. Open Terminal app and paste the command in.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/cli/main/install.sh | sh

3. Enter Y then click enter button when it asks you whether you want to install Spicetify Marketplace.
4. When you get below message, it means Spicetify is installed.

Now open Spotify app and you will find a cart icon on Spotify interface. Click it to browse or search extensions, themes, snippets, and apps to customize your Spotify app.

2. How to install Spicetify on Windows?

1. Make sure you installed Spotify from official website, not the Microsoft Store version. To check this, open Microsoft Store, and search for Spotify, if you see the Get button it means your Spotify is not installed Microsoft Store. If you see Open or Update it means you installed Spotify from Microsoft Store. You will need to uninstall it and install Spotify from its offcial website.
2. Open Windows PowerShell (as administrator) and paste the command in. Then click on Enter and follow the on-screen instructions.

iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spicetify/cli/main/install.ps1 | iex

3. Enter Y then click enter button when it asks you whether you want to install Spicetify Marketplace.

3. How to block Spotify ads with Spicetify?

If you want ad-free Spotify then Spicetify can help you, but it doesn't do it by default, you need to install the adblocker from the Marketplace.

1. Click the cart icon on your Spotify app and open Marketplace.
2. Enter ads in the Search Extensions enter field and you will find the results.
3. Click on the adblockify extension and click Install.
4. Once installed you can stream Spotify songs ad-free even without Premium.

4. How to get Spotify visualizer with Spicetify?

1. Click the cart icon on your Spotify app and open Marketplace.
2. Click Apps and search for visualizer.
3. Click the Visualizer created by Konsl.



4. Follow the steps to install it.
5. After installation, open Spotify app and you will find the Visualizer icon next to the Marketplace icon.
6. Play any song and then click the Visualizer icon to get the Visualizer effect.

5. How to disable Spotify updates with Spicetify?

Run Terminal on Mac or Powershell on Windows, then copy&paste below command:

spicetify spotify-updates block

To update Spicetify, run spicetify update in Terminal on Mac or Powershell on Windows.

6. How to uninstall Spicetify?

On Windows

Open Powershell, then copy&paste below command:

spicetify restore
rmdir -r -fo $env:APPDATA\spicetify
rmdir -r -fo $env:LOCALAPPDATA\spicetify

On Mac/Linux

Open Terminal, then copy&paste below command:

spicetify restore
rm -rf ~/.spicetify
rm -rf ~/.config/spicetify

7. FAQs about Spicetify

Is Spicetify safe?

It's a well known Command-line tool with 20k stars on github and it is safe.

Is Spicetify available on mobile device?

No, currently Spicetify is only compatible with Spotify desktop app.

8. Can I download Spotify playlists with Spicetify?

Unfortunately there is no extension or app in Spicetify Marketplace that allows you to download Spotify playlists or songs.

To download Spotify playlists without premium, you will need Ondesoft Spotify Covnerter, which allows you to seamlessly connect your Spotify account and one-click to download any songs, albums and playlists to MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF with all audio metadata.

With Ondesoft Spotify Converter, you can easily download all your favorite songs as MP3, M4A, AAC, etc. and listen to them offline without Premium. The program will preserve the original sound quality and ID3 tags after running 10 times faster conversion speeds. What's more, Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter has a built-in Spotify web player. You can easily download the Spotify songs you want without using the Spotify app. The converted files can be played on any media player. Follow the steps below to learn how to download and convert Spotify songs with Ondesoft Spotify Music Converter.

1. Run Ondesoft Spotify Converter

Download, install and run Ondesoft Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. Log in your Spotify account with the built-in Spotify web player, whether free or premium.

2. Choose output format (optional)

Ondesoft Spotify Converter will download Spotify songs in original format by default, mostly in M4A format. You can also change the output format to MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF.

3. Select Spotify songs, albums or playlists

Browse or search to find the songs, playlists or albums you want to download with the built-in Spotify web player. Click the red Add to list button to load all songs.

All songs in the playlist or albums will be checked by default. You can uncheck the songs you don't want to download.

4. Click Convert button

Click Convert button to start downloading Spotify music to the format you choose.

After conversion, click below folder icon to quickly locate the DRM-free Spotify songs, albums or playlists in MP3 format. You can play the songs offline anywhere ad-free even without Spotify premium.