SoundHound AlternativesTop Music Recognition Apps & Music Discovery Services like SoundHound

SoundHound is described as 'The world's fastest music search and discovery mobile app, with exclusive singing and humming search, one-tap sharing, and LiveLyrics' and is a very popular music recognition app in the audio & music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to SoundHound for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, iPhone, iPad and Mac apps. The best SoundHound alternative is Shazam. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Shazam or Audire. Other great apps like SoundHound are Musixmatch, tynlau, Mousai and AudioTag.

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  1. Shazam icon

    Shazam

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    Instantly recognizes music and TV soundtracks from audio sources, integrates with Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube for song previews, displays lyrics, and offers social sharing. Discover new releases, follow charts, use visual Shazam, and explore with QR codes and concert tickets.

    31 Shazam alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Google Chrome
    • Android Wear
    • Messages
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    More popular product. Work faster

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    • Most users think Shazam is a great SoundHound alternative.

    • Shazam is the most popular Web-based, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to SoundHound.

    • Shazam is the most popular free alternative to SoundHound.

    • Shazam is Free Personal and ProprietarySoundHound is Freemium 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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    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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    • Audire is the most popular Open Source alternative to SoundHound.

    • Audire is Free and Open SourceSoundHound is Freemium 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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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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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.

    45 Musixmatch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Wear
    • Spotify
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
    • Online
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    Poor editing. Not accurate.

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    • Some users think Musixmatch is a great SoundHound alternative, some don't.

    • Musixmatch is Freemium and ProprietarySoundHound is also Freemium and Proprietary
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    tynlau

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    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

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    • Mac
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    Mousai

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    Mousai is a simple application that can identify songs similar to Shazam. Just click the listen button, and then wait a few seconds. It will magically return the title and artist of that song!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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    • Mousai is the most popular Linux alternative to SoundHound.

    • Mousai is Free and Open SourceSoundHound is Freemium and Proprietary
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    AudioTag

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    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...

    21 AudioTag alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    FlairMax

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    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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • FlairMax is the most popular Windows alternative to SoundHound.

    • FlairMax is Free and ProprietarySoundHound is Freemium and Proprietary
    • FlairMax is Lightweight and Privacy focusedSoundHound is not according to our users
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    AHA Music

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    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.

    19 AHA Music alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Xbox
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    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

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
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    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
     
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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 SoundHound.

    • AudD is Paid and ProprietarySoundHound is Freemium and Proprietary
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    TuneFind

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    Have you ever heard a great new song on your favorite TV show and wondered what it was? The amazing users at TuneFind have your answer. Dedicated TV viewers enter and verify the music heard on all your favorite TV shows, making it easy for you to find, listen to, and download...

    9 TuneFind alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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