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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: Music Discovery
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Music Recognition
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SoundHound - Music Discovery & Lyrics
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Shortcut for Google Sound Search
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Music Recognition Find the name of songs & artists
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Song Finder & Identifier
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Musixmatch - Lyrics for your music
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Music Finder - Songs & Lyrics
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SoundHound ∞ - Music Discovery & Hands-Free Player
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Genius — Song Lyrics Finder
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Shazam: Music Discovery
Find artists, lyrics & videos. Play or connect to stream music now!4.8 Ratings 7M+ Reviews 500M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh 1M+ ReviewsFree![Google Play]()
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Music Recognition
Identify which song you are listening in seconds.4.7 Ratings 246K+ Reviews 10M+ DownloadsFreeFree![Google Play]()
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SoundHound - Music Discovery & Lyrics
Music discovery, identification, & voice-controlled player with 300M+ downloads!4.6 Ratings 1M+ Reviews 100M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh 1M+ ReviewsFree![Google Play]()
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Shortcut for Google Sound Search
Quick launch Google Sound Search from anywhere4.3 Ratings 3K+ Reviews 1M+ DownloadsFreeFree![Google Play]()
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Music Recognition Find the name of songs & artists
Find the name of any song and artist in seconds. Let's find your favorite songs!3.8 Ratings 736+ Reviews 100K+ DownloadsFree In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Song Finder & Identifier
Song Identifier & Song Finder is the best way to identify music around you.4.0 Ratings 15K+ Reviews 500K+ DownloadsFreeFree![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+ Reviews -
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Music Finder - Songs & Lyrics
Identify Song and Lyrics playing around you within second!3.5 Ratings 477+ Reviews 50K+ DownloadsFreeFree![Google Play]()
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SoundHound ∞ - Music Discovery & Hands-Free Player
Music discovery, identification, & voice-controlled player with 300M+ downloads!4.1 Ratings 96K+ Reviews 500K+ DownloadsFresh$5.99![Google Play]()
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Genius — Song Lyrics Finder
The world's largest collection of song lyrics + crowdsourced musical knowledge4.4 Ratings 157K+ Reviews 5M+ DownloadsFree Feature RichFree![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 557 unique apps (463 Android apps and 94 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 557 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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