Spotifast lets you enjoy Spotify tracks while lowering RAM usage by 5x or more

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Spotifast lets you enjoy Spotify tracks while lowering RAM usage by 5x or more, according to Tom's Hardware. Spotifast lets you enjoy Spotify tracks while lowering RAM usage by 5x or more — alternative client also packs Winamp skins and Milkdrop visualizations. It's a reasonable assessment that everyone and their dog is tired of Electron-based desktop apps that pack a full web browser and waste gobs of RAM.

Spotify lovers now have a reprieve from the memory blues in the form of the Spotifast client. Spotifast is an OS-native application written in Rust, with an emphasis on lowering memory consumption and CPU (the general-purpose processor at the centre of a computer) utilization.

The author claims that the app ought to use 150-200 MB of RAM, compared to the usual 600 MB to 1 GB that the official application chews through. The alternative client also packs a bevy of add-ons, including dark, light, and custom themes, Milkdrop visualization support, and a Winamp mode that turns Spotifast's UI into the much-beloved player.