Most music shortcuts pick one streaming service and stop there, usually Spotify, and leave Apple Music people out in the cold. SpotiCut takes the other road. It launches your saved playlists, albums, and tracks across both Spotify and Apple Music straight from Shortcuts, with no extra subscription and no detour through a separate app.
Inside the shortcut
SpotiCut is a music launcher. You save the playlists, albums, and tracks you reach for most, and it keeps them one tap away instead of buried somewhere in the streaming app. The clever part is how it handles Spotify. When you paste a playlist link, SpotiCut rewrites the start of the URL (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/) into a Spotify URI (spotify:playlist:), which is the internal address Spotify uses to jump straight to a location in the app. Apple Music gets there through the built-in Shortcuts music actions, no URL surgery needed. A recent addition called TruShuffle reworks shuffle so it plays back closer to genuinely random.
How to install
- Make sure Spotify or Apple Music is installed, since you need at least one of them on the device.
- Install the free helper apps it leans on: Scriptable and Actions from the App Store.
- Tap Add Shortcut on this page to open SpotiCut in the Shortcuts app.
- Scroll to the bottom of the preview and tap Add Shortcut.
How to use it
Run the shortcut and it walks you through saving your music. For Spotify, grab the share link to a playlist or album, paste it in, and SpotiCut converts it into a URI it can store and reopen later. With Apple Music you just pick the playlist and it plays through the built-in actions. Once something is saved, opening it again is a single tap from the shortcut, which is the whole point: less scrolling, fewer distractions, music playing faster. You can keep adding to your saved list as your rotation changes.
Common questions
Do I need both Spotify and Apple Music?
One is enough. SpotiCut works with whichever service you already use, and having both installed just means you can save from either side.
Why does it ask for Scriptable and Actions?
Those two free apps add the extra Shortcuts actions SpotiCut depends on for the URI handling and a few of its advanced steps. Install them before the first run or some actions will show up as missing.
Where do the full release notes live?
The author keeps a running changelog at spoticut.changecrab.com, which is also where you report bugs through the Suggestions tab. Version 2.51 was the latest at the time of writing, and it merged the two earlier SpotiCut builds into one.
