Spotify is competing with Google’s NotebookLM with its new app

One common feature that companies must build in the age of AI is to connect services such as email, calendar, documents, and notes to create a daily summary in text or audio format. Spotify is also giving in to this temptation and launching a new standalone desktop app called Studio by Spotify Labs for this purpose.

Today, the company released the ability for users to explore a topic by creating a podcast about it. Spotify also adds personal context to this podcast creation tool. And because companies in 2026 won’t be able to refrain from adding agents to their apps, the new Studio app has an agent that can browse the web and fetch personal information to create a personal podcast.

For example, the tool can create a daily summary or podcast based on your email and schedule. Users can also submit a multi-step request such as “Create a daily audio summary of my road trip through Italy. Walk me through my day using my calendar and reservations. Recommend a memorable dinner spot near where I’ll be. Conclude with a podcast recommendation I’d like to drive” to create a podcast.

All of these AI-generated podcasts are saved to your Spotify library for personal consumption and synced across devices. It is not available to the public.

The audio company warned that this is an early preview of the app, and that the AI ​​can make mistakes and may produce unreliable content all the time.

The company is launching this app in research preview for over 20 markets. She said the app will be available to select users who are 18 or older.

The tool will compete with Google’s NotebookLM, which is just starting to catch on Podcast creation based on selected source material from a few years ago. And in true Google fashion, the company has also released another separate feature to create A daily podcast based on the Discover feed. Since then, the format of creating a podcast to explore a topic or get daily summaries has been adopted by companies such as Adobe and Eleven laboratories And applications such as hero and silence.

Spotify’s launch of a desktop app comes on the heels of its recent debut of a A command line tool for users of programming tools such as Claude Code or Codex To create personal podcasts and save them to their Spotify library. And with the new Studio app and personal podcast feature, non-programmers can now also take advantage of this offer.

The launch is another example of how Spotify wants to get involved in all things audio. And with its desktop app, Spotify could offer more podcast creation integrations in the future. Plus, he can use the new app to capture system audio and become a Granola-style note taker. While this is just speculation, we have seen startups like it Rewind Cluely has become a meeting note taker, so it could become another area of ​​interest for the company in the future.