One of the common features that companies must build in the age of artificial intelligence is to connect services such as email, calendar, documents and notes to create a daily summary in text or audio format. Spotify is also succumbing to this temptation and releasing a new standalone desktop app called Studio by Spotify Labs for this purpose.
Today, the company launched the ability for users to explore a topic by creating a podcast about it. Spotify also adds personal context to this podcast creator. And, because in 2026 companies can’t help but add agents to their apps, the new Studio app has an agent that can browse the web and retrieve personal information to create a personal podcast.
For example, the tool can create a daily update or a 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 in Italy. Walk through my day using my calendar and reservations. Suggest a memorable place for dinner near where I’ll be. And finish with a podcast suggestion I’d love about the car” to create a podcast.
All of these AI-generated podcasts are stored in your Spotify library for personal consumption and synced across devices. They are not publicly available.
The audio company warned that this is an early preview of the app, and the artificial intelligence can make mistakes and can produce unreliable content all the time.
The company is releasing this app in research preview in more than 20 markets. He said the app will be available to select users aged 18 and over.
The tool will compete with Google’s NotebookLM, which started popularizing podcast creation based on curated source material a few years ago. And in true Google fashion, the company also rolled out another separate feature for creating a daily podcast based on the Discover feed. Since then, the format of creating a podcast to explore a topic or get daily updates has been adopted by companies like Adobe and ElevenLabs and apps like Hero and Huxe.
Spotify’s release of the desktop app follows the company’s recent debut of a command-line tool for users of coding tools like Claude Code or Codex to create personal podcasts and save them to their Spotify library. With the new Studio app and personal podcast feature, non-coders can now take advantage of this offer.
The release is another example of how Spotify wants to be involved in all things audio. With its desktop app, Spotify could offer more integrations for podcasting in the future. Additionally, he could use the new app to record system audio to become a Granola-style note-taker. While this is speculation, we’ve seen startups like Rewind and Cluely become meeting notes, so it could become another area of interest for the company down the line.
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