Editorial review

Deezer: Music & Podcast Player

Name: Deezer: Music & Podcast Player
Rating: 4.3 (4000000 reviews)
Author: Deezer Mobile

4.3

4.3Rating 100M+Download 4.3 / 5 starsRanking

CategoryMusic & Audio

Download100M+

Ranking4.3 / 5 stars

RatedTeen

RequiresAndroid 7.0+

DeveloperDeezer Mobile

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About this app

Deezer: Music & Podcast Player is worth considering when your priority is Lossless listening on one subscription. Premium includes 16-bit FLAC streaming at no extra charge, so audiophiles with wired headphones or a home setup get CD quality without a dedicated hi-fi add-on. That pricing decision alone wins Deezer a segment of deliberate switchers.

Start with Flow personalised stream: Flow mixes your favourites, forgotten replays, and new recommendations into one continuous feed, with mood and genre variants to steer it. It rewards feedback quickly; a few sessions of likes and skips noticeably reshape what it serves.

Lossless listening on one subscription

Premium includes 16-bit FLAC streaming at no extra charge, so audiophiles with wired headphones or a home setup get CD quality without a dedicated hi-fi add-on. That pricing decision alone wins Deezer a segment of deliberate switchers.

Letting the app choose for you

Tap Flow and playback simply continues indefinitely, tuned to your history and adjustable by mood — chill, party, focus, melancholy. For people who find playlist maintenance a chore, it turns the service into a personal radio station that learns.

A European alternative to the US giants

Listeners who prefer a Europe-based service, whether for data-protection reasons or catalogue strength in French, Latin, and other regional music, get a mature platform with strong local editorial rather than an afterthought market.

Flow personalised stream

Flow mixes your favourites, forgotten replays, and new recommendations into one continuous feed, with mood and genre variants to steer it. It rewards feedback quickly; a few sessions of likes and skips noticeably reshape what it serves.

FLAC audio in the standard plan

High-fidelity streaming is part of ordinary Premium rather than a pricier tier. On Bluetooth you will not hear the full benefit, but wired or over a network amplifier the difference from compressed streams can be audible on good equipment.

SongCatcher recognition

A built-in Shazam-style identifier listens to whatever is playing around you and adds matches straight into your favourites or playlists. Having recognition inside the streaming app closes a loop competitors leave to a separate download.

Free tier with real limits

The ad-supported tier allows shuffle-based mobile listening with restricted skips and no offline mode, closer to Spotify's free mobile experience than to full access. It works as an extended trial more than a long-term way to listen.

Privacy & Data Safety

As a French company, Deezer operates under GDPR by default rather than as a bolt-on, and its data collection is standard for the category: listening history, searches, device data, and ad identifiers on the free tier. Worth knowing: in late 2022 a dataset tied to a 2019 incident at a former third-party partner circulated online, containing basic profile information (names, emails, birthdates) for a large number of accounts — passwords and payment data were not part of it.

The 2019-era partner exposure that surfaced in 2022 involved profile data such as emails and names; if you had an old account, changing the password and enabling unique credentials is sensible hygiene.
Free-tier listening is ad-funded and uses advertising identifiers; Premium removes ads and most advertising-related processing.
Listening behaviour powers Flow and recommendations; there is no way to use the service meaningfully without that profiling, though history can be managed in settings.
Accounts need only an email or a Google, Facebook, or Apple login — no phone number — and EU users get full GDPR access and deletion rights.

Advantages

CD-quality FLAC included in standard Premium
Flow is one of the best personalised streams in any music app
Strong European and francophone catalogue and editorial
Built-in SongCatcher track identification

Updates

Deezer ships Android updates on a steady cadence of every week or two, and the past few years have brought more visible change than usual: a company-wide rebrand, a refreshed interface, and continued investment in personalisation and AI-assisted features. Server-side experiments mean features like new Flow moods or home layouts can appear between app updates, so version numbers only tell part of the story.

Interface refresh following the rebrand, with a reorganised home and library
AI-assisted playlist creation and expanded Flow personalisation
Labelling and managing AI-generated music in the catalogue, an area where Deezer has been unusually public

Editor's Assessment

Our verdict

Deezer is the streaming service for people who picked their platform deliberately rather than by default. The core product — catalogue, Flow, lossless-included pricing — matches or beats Spotify for pure music listening, and choosing it mostly costs you network effects: fewer friends to share with, fewer podcasts, fewer integrations. If podcasts are half your listening, stay away. If music is the point and you own decent headphones, a Premium trial is genuinely worth a month of your attention.

What works

CD-quality FLAC included in standard Premium
Flow is one of the best personalised streams in any music app
Strong European and francophone catalogue and editorial
Built-in SongCatcher track identification

What to know

Podcast selection is clearly thinner than Spotify's
Smaller user base makes playlist sharing and social features feel empty
Free mobile tier is shuffle-limited and ad-heavy
Fewer third-party integrations and connected-device partners than the market leaders

FAQ

Is Deezer's audio quality better than Spotify's?

Premium streams in 16-bit FLAC, which is lossless CD quality and technically superior to the compressed formats Spotify has historically offered as standard. Whether you hear the difference depends on your equipment: over ordinary Bluetooth earbuds, largely no; through wired headphones or a proper amplifier, quite possibly. The point is that Deezer bundles it without a separate hi-fi fee.

What exactly is Flow?

Flow is a continuous personalised stream that starts from one tap and mixes songs you love with fresh recommendations, adapting to skips and likes over time. Mood and genre editions let you bias it toward focus, workouts, chill, or specific styles. It is closer to a self-tuning radio station than a playlist, and it improves the more you use it.

Can I use Deezer for free?

Yes, with real restrictions on mobile: ad breaks, shuffle-oriented playback with limited skips, and no offline downloads. The free tier is fine for sampling the catalogue and testing Flow, but daily listeners will hit its walls quickly. Premium removes ads, unlocks on-demand playback and downloads, and includes the lossless option.

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