One of the defining features of the AI era is connecting services like email, calendar, documents, and notes to create a daily brief in text or audio form. Spotify is now giving in to that temptation with Studio by Spotify Labs, a standalone desktop app released as a research preview in more than 20 markets.
What Studio Does
Studio connects users’ email, calendar, and personal documents, and - because in 2026 companies must add agents - ships with an agent that can browse the web and fetch personal information to create a personal podcast. A typical request: “Create a daily audio brief for my road trip through Italy. Walk me through my day using my calendar and bookings. Recommend a memorable dinner spot near where I’ll be. And end with a podcast recommendation I’d love for the drive.” All AI-generated podcasts are saved in the user’s Spotify library, synced across devices, and are not available publicly. Spotify warned this is an early preview and AI can make mistakes and may output unreliable content.
The Availability
The app is in research preview in more than 20 markets, available to select users who are 18 years or older. That positioning signals an experimental product rather than a finished one - but it plants Spotify squarely in a growing competitive field.
Beating NotebookLM at Its Own Game
Studio takes on Google’s NotebookLM, which popularized podcast generation from selected source material a few years ago and later added Daily Listen, a daily podcast built from the Discover feed. The format has since been adopted by Adobe Acrobat, ElevenLabs, and apps like Hero and Huxe. Spotify’s differentiator is personal context: briefings grounded in your calendar and inbox rather than in documents you manually upload.
From CLI to Full App
The desktop app follows Spotify’s recent debut of a command-line tool for users of coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex to create personal podcasts and save them to their library. With Studio, non-coders get the same capability without touching a terminal. Longer term, the app could capture system audio and evolve into a Granola-style meeting notetaker, following startups like Rewind and Cluely - Spotify’s play to be involved in all things audio.