crabhands

Name: crabhands
Rating: 3.8 (50 reviews)
Author: David Underwood

By: David Underwood App

New music notifications

Overview

Version:

3.07

Last updated: 2025-06-18

Ranking

#213,635 ▼ 6,803

Overall

Features & Capabilities

Let us track your favourite artists and send you notification alerts when they release new music on Spotify, or when we discover any upcoming releases for them!

To set up a new account, just hit the Sign Up button, follow the instructions and then login to your Spotify account. We will scan for the artists that you follow. A list of the latest new releases will then be available in the app. If we find any upcoming releases for them we will also display these in the app.

If you've enabled push notifications then we'll notify you when we find new and upcoming releases for your artists.

New music releases are by default added to a playlist which we create within your Spotify account so that you have one easy place to listen to new music. You can change this option at any time from the Settings screen.

We sync the artists you follow on Spotify before we check for new releases, so if you have followed new artists then they'll get included when we scan for new releases.

Please note: you cannot listen to the releases within the app - you do this within Spotify as usual.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

David Underwood

Rating:

3.80

(50)

Version:

3.07 Last updated: 2025-06-18

Version code:

875661079

Creation date:

2017-09-15

Compatible devices:

Size:

219.22MB

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-20

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 213,635 ▼ 6,803

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Developed by:

David Underwood

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crabhands/id1277138090

User Reviews

Crabhands excels at tracking and notifying about new Spotify releases and auto-creating/updating a releases playlist. Users value its niche utility and find it worth paying for. However, repeated post-update login/connectivity problems, reliability bugs, and a controversial move to a paid subscription are common complaints, along with occasional notification delays. Overall, the idea is strong, but stability and pricing are the main pain points.

Pros

Notifies me of new Spotify releases from followed artists.
Automatically creates and updates a dedicated playlist of those releases.
Very useful and considered worth the subscription for this niche.

Cons

Login/Spotify connection issues after updates, often requiring re-login or password resets.
Reliability problems such as the app getting stuck on loading or failing to open.
Shift to a paid subscription; many users feel the price is not worth it or too high.

Recent reviews

This is a paid app now, which is fine, it's by far the best for what I need it to do, but for some reason since the newest update, literally every time I open the app I have to re-login with my spotify, which requires me to get a code from my email.... it's just a big waste of time. I put up with it because the app still works, but it's a big annoyance every time I want to use it. I'm on an iphone 12.