Goodbye Spotify: This app is the alternative of the moment, it's completely free, has no ads, and offers an almost identical service.

Music piracy was a huge problem a few years ago, costing the industry billions. But with the arrival of music streaming platforms that offered the vast majority of artists and bands available just a couple of clicks away at a reasonable price, the problem was almost eradicated.

Without a doubt, and although it's not the only platform of its kind, Spotify is a benchmark and the go-to app for music listening. The company has just announced a price increase, increasing the individual plan from €10.99 to €11.99 and the family plan from €17.99 to €20.99.

This has led to many users looking for other alternatives, and if they're free, even better.

This is the case with the RiMusic app, an alternative to Spotify that offers several advantages, the main one being that it's completely free to use and ad-free. The name may sound familiar, as this platform is an extension of ViMusic, a music app for Android Auto.

In the case of RiMusic, it is a platform only available for Android users , and can only be downloaded on smartphones, although it will then work on television or Android Auto as well.

As far as content is concerned, RiMusic uses the YouTube Music catalogue , a point in its favour, as it offers practically all the songs, artists and groups you can imagine ; specifically, the catalogue has more than 100 million tracks.

The interface of this app is quite simple, but really, you don't want anything else to listen to music. It has a search engine and different sections so you can find 'Songs', 'Albums', 'Artists', 'Videos', and 'Playlists'.

As expected, you can listen to music with the app running in the background or with your phone locked, and unlike Spotify's free options, you can download songs or even playlists to listen to later when you're offline.

The thing is, this app isn't available in the Google Play Store, but downloading it is still very simple. Just visit its website and choose your preferred download options—from F-Android, OpenApk, or GitHub, among others—and allow your device to install apps from unknown sources.