Everyone loves Spotify wrapped, but it only comes out once a year. With Airbuds, you can enjoy weekly insights into your listening habits.
Airbuds is an app that tracks your listening habits and lets you connect with friends through music. By adding friends, you can see what they’re listening to and discover shared music tastes. As music has become a central part of this generation, Airbuds helps users find new connections through common interests.
Airbuds was released in September 2022 and is rated the ninth most downloaded music app in the app store. It has a 4.8 out of 5 rating. It has been growing in popularity since being released. The app itself, and everything it has to offer is free, making it even more user-friendly.
WHS junior Sophie Santelice said, “[Airbuds] makes me realize how much I relate to others with music. I think it’s really interesting because if I didn’t have Airbuds I wouldn’t know that I have such similar listening compatibility with others.”
Airbuds allow users to connect with their friends through the common love of music. “When you add people, you realize that you have such similar listening habits to a random person,” Santelice said.
Airbuds has many details users can use to enhance their experience using the app. The reaction feature lets users use emojis, like a fire or heart to react to their friends’ songs based on how it makes them feel. This feature gives a personal touch to share opinions of what your friends are listening to.
The message and question feature lets users directly message their friends and personally comment on what they are listening to. WHS junior Tegan Hegarty said, “I like asking questions on Airbuds because I love seeing different people’s responses and perspectives they have based on what music they listen to”
Airbuds’ Product Marketing Manager Brit Collier said, “Airbuds is a way to show who you are without trying. All you have to do is listen to music and it shows up on your friends’ feed. It makes the app authentic and unique.”
The main feature and selling point of the app is the weekly recap. The recap collects how many minutes a user listened to music, what their top artists were, and their most repeated tracks. Airbuds also gives the option to share one’s weekly recap on social media, allowing users to relate with their followers outside of the friends they have on the app. Collier said, ”I feel like it’s the core of the app.”
Airbuds is a great way to discover new artists or songs. Airbuds Ambassador Sarah Newton said, “Every time I go on the app and I don’t know the first song I see, I give it a listen. I found a ton of new recommendations off of that.”
Hegarty said, “It directly shows you what everyone is listening to and it adds a link to the song, so I can easily click the link and find a new song.”
Music is a central part of this generation’s culture; With Airbuds, users can stay connected with their friends through the universal interest of music. Collier said, “[Airbuds] is another way to bring people closer together. This is the core of the app. We wanted people to share more things that they love.”