Spotify Pie Chart: How to Make One and Is It Safe?

The “Spotify Pie” chart is that circular graph of your top genres you keep seeing on people’s Instagram stories. It is not an official Spotify feature. It is a free third-party tool that logs into your account, reads your recent listening, and slices it into a genre pie. Here is how to make one, what it can and cannot see, and whether logging in is actually safe.

What the Spotify Pie chart is

Spotify Pie was built by Darren Huang, a developer who made it while a student at UCLA. The tool pulls your top artists from roughly the last month, groups them by genre, and draws a pie chart where each slice is a genre and the size of the slice reflects how much you listened. Hover or tap a slice and you see the artists that put you in that genre.

It went viral because the result is oddly specific. Instead of a vague “you like pop,” you get slices like “bedroom pop,” “escape room,” or “chamber psych,” which are the granular genre tags Spotify assigns behind the scenes. That specificity is the whole appeal, and it is why the spotify genre pie chart spread so fast on social media.

There is no official pie chart inside the Spotify app, by the way. Spotify Wrapped gives you a year-end summary each December, and the app has a “Your Top Songs” and top-artists view, but the genre pie is entirely a fan-made add-on. If you go looking for it in Settings, you will not find it.

How to get your Spotify Pie chart

The process takes under a minute:

1. Go to the tool at huangdarren1106.github.io on your phone or computer.
2. Tap the green Login To Spotify button.
3. Sign in through Spotify’s own login screen and approve the permission request.
4. Your pie chart generates right away. Pick the time range if the tool offers one (recent, six months, or all time).
5. Screenshot it to share, since there is no built-in save-to-story button.

You do not need Spotify Premium for this. It works on free accounts too, because it only reads your listening data, not your subscription. One catch: brand-new accounts or very light listeners sometimes get a thin or empty chart, simply because there is not enough history to slice up yet.

Is the Spotify Pie chart safe?

This is the question worth slowing down on, because you are handing a stranger’s website access to your account. The short version: the tool itself has a good reputation and does not ask for anything dangerous, but you should still understand what “login” means here.

It uses Spotify’s official OAuth, not your password. When you tap login, you are sent to Spotify’s own page. Spotify Pie never sees or stores your password. It receives a limited access token instead. This is the same mechanism Instafest, Receiptify, and stats.fm use, and it is the standard, safer way for third-party apps to connect.

The permissions are read-only listening data. The tool asks to read things like your top artists and recent plays. It does not get access to your payment info, and it cannot post, delete playlists, or change your account. On the Spotify Community forum, users discussing exactly this kind of stats tool in the thread “Is it safe to login to third party apps/websites that show you your stats” generally land on the same conclusion: the risk is low as long as the app uses Spotify’s official login and you only grant read access.

That said, a few sensible habits:

• Read the permission screen before you approve it. If a stats tool asks to modify playlists or follow accounts, that is a red flag for something that only needs to read your listening.
• You can revoke access anytime. Go to your Spotify account page at spotify.com, open Account then Apps (also called “Manage apps”), and remove any third-party app you no longer use. Doing this after you grab your screenshot is a clean habit.
• Stick to the real URL. Because the tool is popular, copycat and ad-heavy clone sites exist. The original is Darren Huang’s GitHub page. Be wary of lookalikes asking for extra permissions or a payment.

So, is spotify pie chart safe? For the genuine tool, yes, with normal caution. It is read-only, it uses OAuth, and you can pull access at any time.

Similar tools worth trying

If you like the pie, you will probably like these. All of them use the same OAuth login and read-only approach:

• Receiptify turns your top tracks into a printed-receipt graphic. Great for stories.
• Instafest styles your top artists as a music-festival poster lineup.
• stats.fm (formerly Spotistats) is the most full-featured, with long-term tracking, minutes listened, and deeper history if you connect it over time.
• Trackify and various “music pie chart” sites offer their own spins on the genre breakdown.

Each one asks for the same category of read access, so the same safety logic applies: check the permission screen, keep to the official site, and revoke access when you are done.

How to read your genre slices

The fun of the chart is in the weird labels, so it helps to know where they come from. Spotify tags artists with micro-genres, not broad buckets. That is why your pie can show “escape room,” “pov: indie,” “chamber psych,” or “bedroom pop” instead of a plain “rock” or “pop.” These tags come from Spotify’s own data, mostly from an internal genre system (built on the old Every Noise at Once project) that maps thousands of niche styles.

A couple of things to keep in mind when you look at yours:

• Slice size reflects listening weight, not song count. A genre you played on repeat can dominate the pie even if it is only one or two artists.
• The time range changes everything. A recent-month chart captures a phase you are in; an all-time chart smooths that out. If your pie looks nothing like you, check which range the tool used.
• One artist can land in several genres. Spotify assigns multiple tags per artist, so a single favorite band might feed two or three slices at once.

If your chart feels off, it usually is not broken. It just means your recent listening was dominated by one artist or one mood, which is normal after a new album drops or a single song takes over your week.

Why there is no official pie inside Spotify

People assume Spotify hides this feature, but it genuinely does not exist in the app. Spotify has the genre data (it is what powers these tools through the API), it just has not shipped a native genre-pie view. Wrapped is the closest official product, and it only lands once a year. Until Spotify builds one in, third-party tools are the only way to see your listening sliced this way.

We are exploring a stats visualizer here at SC Utility Hub so you can see this kind of breakdown without hopping between random sites. If you are more interested in the money side of Spotify than the listening side, our Spotify royalty calculator breaks down what streams actually pay, and artists looking to make their tracks pop visually should read up on Spotify Canvas. Curious how the platform stacks up against the alternative for creators? Our SoundCloud vs Spotify comparison covers that. For the rest of the set, see all our Spotify tools and guides.

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Sources

• TechRadar: Spotify Pie, what is it and how to make your own genre chart
• MakeUseOf: How to create a Spotify Pie chart based on your listening stats
• Spotify Community: Is it safe to login to third party apps that show your stats
• Spotify Pie tool by Darren Huang
• AOL: Spotify Pie chart, how to see the feature showing your top genres