Shazam Alternatives for Android

There are many alternatives to Shazam for Android if you are looking for a replacement. The best Android alternative is SoundHound, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Shazam and 12 are available for Android so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Android alternatives to Shazam are Audile, Audire, WatZatSong and Beatfind.

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Shazam alternatives are mainly Music Recognition Apps, but if you're looking for Music Discovery Services you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Online, Open Source, Android, Windows, Kindle Fire, Linux and iPhone. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Shazam.
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  1. SoundHound icon

    SoundHound

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    The world's fastest music search and discovery mobile app, with exclusive singing and humming search, one-tap sharing, and LiveLyrics.

    30 SoundHound alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Kindle Fire
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    • Almost everyone thinks SoundHound is a great Shazam alternative.

    • SoundHound is the most popular Android, iPhone & iPad alternative to Shazam.

    • SoundHound is the most popular free alternative to Shazam.

    • SoundHound is Freemium and ProprietaryShazam is Free Personal and Proprietary
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    Audile

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    Audile is an open-source music recognition application, that can help you quickly and accurately recognize a music track playing nearby you. This application uses AudD and ACRCloud services to perform song identification and Odesli service to retrieve additional...

    30 Audile alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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    We need alternatives to data harvesting Big Tech. This application is a great alternative.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Audile is a great Shazam alternative.

    • Audile is the most popular Open Source alternative to Shazam.

    • Audile is Free and Open SourceShazam is Free Personal and Proprietary
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    Audire

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    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...

    31 Audire alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  5. WatZatSong icon

    WatZatSong

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    WatZatSong is a community of music enthusiasts who can identify most songs and tracks. So visit the site, create an account, and record the song.

    22 WatZatSong alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
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    Beatfind

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    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

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    • Android
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    Musixmatch

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

    46 Musixmatch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Wear
    • Spotify
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
    • Online
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    I doesn't do what shazam does obviously

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    It doesn't identify the song by listening to it.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Musixmatch gives lyrics while Shazam identifies songs

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Some users think Musixmatch is a great Shazam alternative, some don't.

    • Musixmatch is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to Shazam.

    • Musixmatch is Freemium and ProprietaryShazam is Free Personal and Proprietary
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    AudD

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    Recognize any music from any website in your browser Just click on the AudD® extension icon to start recognizing the playing song.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • Google Chrome
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    • AudD is the most popular commercial alternative to Shazam.

    • AudD is Paid and ProprietaryShazam is Free Personal and Proprietary
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    Musera

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    Musera is a music social media and helps you recognize songs, listen to song preview, rate for songs, chat with users and more...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
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  12. ACRCloud icon

    ACRCloud

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    ACRCloud provides best audio fingerprinting cloud services with its 40m music database for audio recognition, query by humming, broadcast monitoring ( music / ads ) , live TV channel detection, copyright detection and customised content recognition.

    25 ACRCloud alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
     
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    ACRCloud provide app developers the ability to build Shazam-like functionality into their apps and services - ACRCloud doesn't provide their own standalone music identification app itself.

    Shazam is a standalone app that identifies songs playing using microphone.

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    ACRCloud provides the best audio fingerprinting service for companies and developers to build Shazam-like apps. It has 40 million music databases to ensure the recognition rate and a super fast response time to get excellent user experience.

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    • Most users think ACRCloud is a great Shazam alternative.

    • ACRCloud is Freemium and ProprietaryShazam is Free Personal and Proprietary
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    Vollou

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    Vollou is a mobile app for parties and music where users can identify songs, upload photos and videos and share their memories with their friends.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
    • iPhone
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  14. Musica icon

    Musica

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    We all been in a situation where we wonder about what song or music is being played to add it to our play list.

    25 Musica alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
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