Music Recognition Apps

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  1. Shazam icon
     650 likes

    Recognizes music and TV soundtracks, integrates with Apple Music for song previews, and allows sharing on social media for easy music discovery.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Google Chrome
    • Android Wear
    • Messages
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  2. Audire icon
     41 likes

    Audire identifies the music playing near you and shows you details on its title – including lyrics (where available), album details, and linking you to Spotify/Youtube for it. The app also saves a history of songs it identified for you in the past, so you can look up all songs...

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  3. Audile icon
     37 likes

    Open-source Android app recognizing music via AudD and ACRCloud, storing results with full metadata, lyrics, and links, supporting offline use and robust library management.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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    30 alternatives
  4. Musixmatch icon
     86 likes

    Musixmatch is the world’s largest lyrics catalog, giving you synchronized song lyrics with multilingual translations for all your music.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Wear
    • Spotify
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
    • Online
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  5. tynlau icon
     5 likes

    Identify any song in seconds with tynlau ("listen" in Tatar), a lightweight music recognition app for macOS. Whether you're streaming music, watching videos, or hearing something in the background, tynlau provides a seamless way to discover and identify tracks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. AudioTag icon
     20 likes

    AudioTag.info — is a free music-recognition service. It allows you to identify almost any unknown piece of music quickly and easily. Its use is very simple: you upload a short audio fragment (even 15 seconds are enough) or an entire song, the robot analyzes it and provides you...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. FlairMax icon
     4 likes

    FlairMax is a music recognition Windows app that gives you some information on the recognized track like title, duration, genres, artist, release date, album, recognized part time offset, synced lyrics, music links and more...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. AHA Music icon
     7 likes

    AHA Music is a browser extension that recognize what song is playing on your browser tab with links to stream them on Spotify, Deezer and YouTube links.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Xbox
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  9. OneTagger icon
     7 likes

    Cross-platform music tagger written in Rust, Vue.js and Quasar. It can fetch metadata from Beatport, Traxsource, Juno Download and Discogs. It is also able to fetch Spotify's Audio Features based on ISRC & exact match.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. SongGuesser icon
     2 likes

    Got a song stuck in your head? Tap the rhythm of its melody here to identify it. A search for classical and non-classical music is available.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Main page
    Tapping the rhythm
    Guessing results
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  11. PlayScore icon
     1 like

    PlayScore uses advanced optical character recognition (OCR) to let you scan sheet music and play it on your phone or convert to MIDI or MusicXML.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Windows
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  12. Musipedia icon
     5 likes

    A search engine for tunes and musical themes and a collaborative music encyclopedia. Only the melody needs to be known to search Musipedia or the Web. The melody can be played on a keyboard or whistled or sung to the computer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
    • Adobe Flash Professional
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  13. Pex icon
     4 likes

    Pex is a leading content identification platform featuring automatic recognition for audio and video, and cover song identification, facilitating copyright compliance and licensing at Internet scale.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  14. Beatfind icon
     6 likes

    Beatfind can visualize and recognize songs that are playing around you. For a better party experience press the lightning button and prepare for a flashing strobe light effect in sync with the beats of music.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
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  15. Gracenote icon
     11 likes

    Gracenote, Inc., formerly called CDDB (Compact Disc Data Base), is a company that maintains and licenses an Internet-accessible database containing information about the contents of audio compact discs and vinyl records.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    9 alternatives