com.spotify.Client VS spot

There is nothing "unsafe" about flatpak. In fact for every package on flathub you can see exactly what the "unofficial" packagers do in the corresponding github repository. For example here is the repository for Spotify, if you look at the json manifest file you can see they are repackaging the "official" Snap with the necessary libraries and scripts to support it running as a flatpak. Everything there is open source and able to be examined.

If you click on the "Manifest" link for the package on flathub, it will take you to where the code that packages the app resides. There you can review exactly what the packager does in the json manifest. Here's the one for the Spotify client, for example, which shows where it pulls in dependencies and where it downloads the proprietary code from (in this case they base it on the snap) and what commands it executes while packaging the flatpak.

Try installing it via Flatpak

Flatpaks builds are made to be reproducible. Everything is done openly and you can check how the apps like for example Spotify where made.

Why not just use the flatpak?

Judging by the manifest, the Spotify Flatpak is built from the Spotify Snap.

https://github.com/xou816/spot

Also this one, which I've come around to quite like :)

ncspot is another amazing option if you're comfortable with the terminal.

They are back https://github.com/xou816/spot

Spotify desktop client sucks. I'm using browser or Spot as alternatives.

spot is also the Spotify client for Gnome, https://github.com/xou816/spot

Contribute to development in Spot’s GitHub repository

Hello fellow GNOME enthusiasts. I think I'm not the only one that happily uses the beautiful native Spotify client Spot.