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Gaana is the oldest home-grown music streaming service in India, launched in 2010 by Times Internet (part of The Times Group). Its own Google Play listing states a catalogue of more than 30 million songs spanning Bollywood film soundtracks, Hindi pop, regional Indian music in 30+ languages (Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and more), plus international English, K-pop, and devotional content. Gaana's core strength is its Bollywood and Hindi catalog depth — it has long-term licensing with T-Series, Saregama, Sony Music India, Zee Music, and YRF Music, often carrying regional and older soundtracks that Spotify and Apple Music are missing. It also surfaces Bollywood-adjacent content like movie dialogues, podcasts, and radio stations built around film stars and directors.It unlocks ad-free streaming, unlimited downloads for offline play, higher-quality 320kbps audio, and unlimited song skips. The free tier is ad-supported and allows unlimited streaming but caps song skips and audio quality. Gaana is ideal for Bollywood-first listeners, families looking for regional Indian language music, and budget-conscious users who want Spotify-like features at a fraction of the cost. International or indie music listeners may find the non-Indian catalog thinner than Spotify's, and the app's recommendation engine is generally considered weaker than Spotify's and Apple Music's. Ownership and current state matter here more than with most apps on this site. Gaana was built by Times Internet and was, for years, the default Indian music app. It was sold to Entertainment Network India Ltd — the Times Group company behind Radio Mirchi — in a 2023 transaction widely reported as a distress sale, at a small fraction of its peak valuation. The app is still actively maintained: the Play Store shows an update in August 2026. But its commercial posture has changed. As of 24 August 2026, gaana.com's own homepage leads with "Welcome Offer: Trial @ ₹1" and its closing copy pitches "the ₹1 music trial" for uninterrupted listening. It advertises no free tier, and gaana.com/plus returns a 404 — there is no publicly reachable page stating what Gaana Plus costs after the trial. Multiple press reports say the free ad-supported tier was withdrawn in 2022 and never restored; we could not confirm that first-party either way, so what we can state is narrower and checkable: Gaana today markets a paid trial, not free listening, and publishes no price. If you are choosing between Indian music apps on price, that absence is itself the most useful fact about it.
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Not in the way it once was. As of 24 August 2026, gaana.com's own homepage leads with "Welcome Offer: Trial @ ₹1" and its own closing copy pitches "the ₹1 music trial" for uninterrupted listening — there is no free-listening offer anywhere on the page. Press reporting from 2022 onwards says Gaana withdrew its free ad-supported tier and never restored it; we could not confirm that first-party either way, so we will not state it as fact. What we can state, having checked the site directly, is that Gaana today markets a paid trial rather than free streaming. If free ad-supported music is what you want, JioSaavn openly describes itself as a free music app and is the safer choice.
Gaana does not publish it. We checked on 24 August 2026: gaana.com/plus returns a 404, and the only rupee figure anywhere on gaana.com is the ₹1 welcome trial. The Play Store discloses only a broad in-app purchase range of ₹10 to ₹4,300 per item, which tells you almost nothing about the subscription. Third-party blogs quote figures around ₹599 a year, tied to reporting about the 2024 relaunch under new ownership, but none of that is confirmable against Gaana's own site today, so we are not repeating it as a price. If you start the ₹1 trial, read the renewal amount on the payment screen before you confirm — that is currently the only reliable way to find out what it costs.
JioSaavn, for most people. The decisive difference is what each one offers a new listener: JioSaavn's own Play Store listing calls it "India's leading FREE music app" and states 8 crore+ songs across 16 languages with a 30-day Pro trial, while Gaana's own site offers a ₹1 paid trial, states 30M+ songs, and publishes no price for what comes after. The Indian Play Store ratings run the same direction — JioSaavn 4.4 from about 8.9 million ratings, Gaana 4.0 from about 5.1 million. Backing differs too: JioSaavn is Jio-owned and updated constantly, while Gaana was sold to Entertainment Network India Ltd in 2023 in a widely reported distress sale. Gaana's real remaining case is legacy Bollywood and older-soundtrack catalogue depth and long familiarity. Both are Indian-owned, so this is not a swadeshi trade-off — it is simply which Indian app is the better product right now, and that is JioSaavn.
Entertainment Network India Ltd (ENIL), the Times Group company that operates Radio Mirchi. Gaana was launched and built by Times Internet in 2010 and transferred to ENIL in a 2023 transaction that business press reported as a distress sale at a very small fraction of its peak valuation. It remains an Indian-owned, India-operated service — the change is one of scale and investment appetite, not of nationality. That matters for what to expect from the product: a much smaller parent company means slower development than a Jio-backed rival.
The ₹1 trial is a subscription, not a one-off purchase, so cancel it in whichever system took the payment. If you subscribed through Google Play, go to Play Store → profile → Payments and subscriptions → Subscriptions and cancel Gaana there. If you authorised a UPI AutoPay mandate in GPay, PhonePe or Paytm, you must separately revoke that mandate inside the payment app, under Autopay or Mandates. Doing one does not do the other. This is worth taking seriously: unauthorised or unexpected AutoPay charges and unanswered refund requests are the single most common Gaana complaint on consumer-review sites.
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