How to Make a Playlist on iPhone With Any Song (Free) — 2026
Build a playlist on your iPhone with any song you want — free, no subscription, no import limits. Step-by-step: create it, add any track, reorder, make it collaborative, and keep it growing.
The Short Answer
You can build a playlist on your iPhone with any song you want — free, no subscription, and no limit on how many playlists or tracks you save. Most apps make you either pay or stay inside one catalog; this one doesn't.
The fastest way: install Trending Music free, find a song, tap the ••• menu on it, and choose Add to Playlist → New Playlist. Name it, and you're done. Every song you add after that is one tap.
Make Your First Playlist (Step by Step)
- Open Trending Music and search for any song, artist, or album.
- Tap the ••• (more) button next to the track.
- Choose Add to Playlist.
- Tap New Playlist, give it a name ("Gym," "Late Night," "Road Trip"), and save.
That's the whole setup. The playlist now lives in your Library, and you can open it any time to play, shuffle, or keep adding to it. There's no cap on the number of playlists — make one for every mood, workout, and season if you want.
Add Any Song — Not Just One Library
The thing that trips people up on other apps: you can only add songs that live inside that service. If a track isn't in their catalog, you're stuck.
Here it's the opposite — you can search nearly any song and drop it straight into a playlist. Found the exact live version, the remix, or the deep cut you were after? Tap ••• → Add to Playlist and it's in. Same one-tap flow whether you're on the Home feed, in search results, on an artist page, or in the player itself.
Reorder, Rename, and Clean It Up
A playlist is never right on the first pass. Open it from your Library and you can:
- Reorder — press and drag any track to move it. The opener and the closer matter more than people admit; put the song that sets the tone first.
- Remove a track you're tired of without rebuilding the whole thing.
- Rename the playlist as it takes on a personality.
Edits save instantly, so you can tune a playlist over weeks until it's exactly the run of songs you want.
Make It Collaborative
Some of the best playlists aren't built by one person. You can make a playlist collaborative and let friends add to it — a shared road-trip queue, a party list everyone contributes to, or a group's running favorites.
Each person's additions show up in the list, so it grows on its own between the people who share it. It's the easiest way to find new music: you get everyone's taste in one place without anyone having to text links back and forth.
Keep It Growing: Favorites, Song Radio, and the Car
A playlist doesn't have to be finished to be useful. A few habits keep it fresh:
- Keep a running list. While you listen, tap ••• on anything you love and choose Add to Playlist to drop it into one catch-all playlist you can raid later when another playlist needs a new song.
- Start song radio from a track that fits the mood, then add the best of what comes up next. It's the quickest way to find the songs you didn't know to search for.
- Take it with you — the same playlists show up in CarPlay and on Apple Watch, so the road-trip list is ready when you are.
Your playlists, Favorites, and the rest of your library live in one place, so everything's in one spot.
Free, With No Playlist Limits
No subscription wall, no "you've reached your playlist limit," no import fees. Make as many playlists as you like, put any song in them, reorder and share them — all free, supported by ads.
If you've been rebuilding the same playlists across apps every time one changes its rules, this is the one that just lets you keep them.
Get it here: Get Trending Music free on the App Store