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Best 10 Apps for Identifying Music
Name that tune for serious music lovers! With music identifier apps, you can instantly identify songs, watch music videos, and more at the touch of a button
About Identifying Music
Musicians mix various melody, harmony, rhythm, and texture elements to help us enjoy music. Lyrics form an important component of music and that's why we love to sing along with our favorite tracks.
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Shazam: Discover songs & lyrics in seconds
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Music Recognition
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SoundHound - Music Discovery & Lyrics
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Song Finder: Identify Songs
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Song Finder & Identifier
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Musixmatch - Lyrics for your music
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Spotify: Music and Podcasts
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Amazon Music: Discover Songs
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Genius — Song Lyrics & More
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Shortcut for Google Sound Search
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Shazam: Discover songs & lyrics in seconds
Find artists, lyrics, & videos for free! Play or connect to stream music now!4.8 Ratings 5M+ Reviews 500M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh 1M+ ReviewsFree![Google Play]()
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Music Recognition
Identify which song you are listening in seconds.4.6 Ratings 207K+ Reviews 10M+ DownloadsFreeFree![Google Play]()
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SoundHound - Music Discovery & Lyrics
Music discovery, identification, & voice-controlled player with 300M+ downloads!4.4 Ratings 1M+ Reviews 100M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh 1M+ ReviewsFree![Google Play]()
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Song Finder: Identify Songs
identify music you're listening to. Song identifier and recognizer4.1 Ratings 1K+ Reviews 100K+ DownloadsFreeFree![Google Play]()
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Song Finder & Identifier
Song Identifier & Song Finder is the best way to identify music around you.4.4 Ratings 11K+ Reviews 500K+ DownloadsFree FreshFree![Google Play]()
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Musixmatch - Lyrics for your music
All the music you love with lyrics and translations4.4 Ratings 2M+ Reviews 50M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh In App Purchases 1M+ ReviewsWant more apps? Sign up for free to get all-access!
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Spotify: Music and Podcasts
Discover new music & play your favorite songs, albums, artists & podcasts4.6 Ratings 44M+ Reviews 1B+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh 1M+ Reviews -
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Amazon Music: Discover Songs
Listen to podcasts, trending playlists, hit music and your favorite songs4.5 Ratings 4M+ Reviews 100M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh 1M+ Reviews -
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Genius — Song Lyrics & More
The world's largest collection of song lyrics + crowdsourced musical knowledge4.5 Ratings 155K+ Reviews 5M+ DownloadsFree Feature RichFree![Google Play]()
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Shortcut for Google Sound Search
Quick launch Google Sound Search from anywhere4.3 Ratings 2K+ Reviews 500K+ DownloadsFreeFree![Google Play]()
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How We Choose The Best Apps
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Broad Search
Our unique algorithm scoured the App Store and Google Play Store by searching identifying songs, identify music and identify songs. From there, we retrieved a total of 526 unique apps (427 Android apps and 99 iOS apps) as potential candidates. -
Additional Review by Editorial Team
Finally, our editorial team checks all apps in our best 10 list one by one to make sure these apps are of the highest quality. -
Filter only high-quality apps
We then selected the highest quality apps from the 526 apps listed. We compared the number of stars, downloads, and reviews along with the velocity of these apps to create a list of the Best Apps for Identifying Music for both Android & iOS.
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