How to back up your Spotify playlists (every method compared)

From your account’s privacy settings you can request a copy of your data; Spotify says it can take up to 30 days to arrive. It includes your playlists as a file, but there is no way to import that file back into Spotify — it’s a record, not a restore point.

Select all songs and “Add to other playlist” → new playlist. Free and instant, but it’s a manual snapshot inside the same account, so it shares the account’s risks (and you have to remember to do it).

Free tools such as Exportify save a playlist as a CSV file. Good for a one-off record; most can’t restore it back to Spotify, and nothing happens unless you run them again.

Services like PlaylistSafe snapshot your playlists on a schedule, keep past versions and restore any of them as a new playlist in order. Free covers 3 playlists with manual backups; Premium backs up everything daily, including Liked Songs, for €3/month or €24/year. Snapshots download as CSV or JSON too.