Music Discovery Services
Arguably nothing is more satisfying than finding new music that you can appreciate, and the apps in this category make this happen. From Shazam’s ability to identify music from snippets, to Spotify’s curation of music in playlists based off of your existing music history, these apps help you discover your next favorite song or artist in natural and intuitive ways.
- 2752 likes260 Spotify alternatives
Stream millions of tracks online with genre, playlist, artist, and album browsing. Get offline listening and ad-free experience with Premium.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Kindle Fire
- Playstation
- Fire TV
- Xbox
+9Top Spotify Features
- 573 likes136 NewPipe alternatives
Lightweight and open-source app for YouTube, PeerTube, SoundCloud, and more. No Google Account needed, supports 4K and background audio streaming with downloads.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Linux
- Android
- SoundCloud
- YouTube Music
- Flathub
- Bandcamp
- YouTube
- F-Droid
- Flatpak
- PeerTube
+9 - 1660 likes200 Last.fm alternatives
Last.fm is a music community website that offers personalized internet radio, using a recommendation system called "Audioscrobbler" to build a detailed profile of users based on their music tastes and interests.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- BSD
+2Last.fm Features
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
+10Top SoundCloud Features
- 642 likes31 Shazam alternatives
Shazam gives instant satisfaction for when you want to know the name of that song playing on the radio.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Google Chrome
- Android Wear
- Apple Messages
- Online
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- 448 likes182 Deezer alternatives
Deezer is a global music-streaming platform made for multiple of devices. With many contracts with big record labels, deezer allows users to listen to over 90 million songs.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Kindle Fire
- Apple Watch
- Apple TV
+10 - 94 likes52 Spotube alternatives
A lightweight free Spotify cross-platform client which handles playback manually, streams music using YouTube & no Spotify premium account is needed 😱.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- F-Droid
+1 - 145 likes82 Funkwhale alternatives
Funkwhale is a community-driven project that lets you listen and share music and audio within a decentralized, open network. It can be self-hosted and is libre, open source software.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Self-Hosted
- F-Droid
- Kodi
+2 - 89 likes66 nuclear alternatives
nuclear is a free music streaming program that pulls content from free sources all over the internet. YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, more.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chocolatey
- Homebrew
- Snap
- Flatpak
+5 - 661 likes192 Pandora alternatives
Pandora Radio is a free (ad-supported) internet radio founded in 2000. Using the Music Genome Project, over 400 attributes of songs are analyzed in order to personalize radio stations from music you like.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Apple TV
- Kindle Fire
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- 171 likes117 Bandcamp alternatives
Bandcamp helps artists sell their music and merch directly to their fans, and helps fans discover new music and directly support those who make it.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
+6Bandcamp Features
- 175 likes14 MusicBrainz alternatives
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use...
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- Free • Open Source
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- Online
- Android
- F-Droid
Top MusicBrainz Features
- 175 likes158 YouTube Music alternatives
A new music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances and more for Android, iOS and desktop.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Apple Watch
+3Top YouTube Music Features
- 21 likes24 RiMusic alternatives
An open source and multilingual Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music, forked from ViMusic.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Android
- F-Droid
- 277 likes33 SoundHound alternatives
The world's fastest music search and discovery mobile app, with exclusive singing and humming search, one-tap sharing, and LiveLyrics.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Kindle Fire
+8SoundHound Features