SoundHound ∞ Music Discovery

1.5
41.4K reviews
5L+
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Content rating
Rated for 12+
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About this app

HEY, WHAT SONG IS THAT?
SoundHound makes it simple to discover music playing around you. It doesn’t matter if you’re at home, in your car, or anywhere else. Just open the app, hit the big orange button, and we’ll tell you exactly what song is playing!

SAVE YOUR MUSIC JOURNEY
All the songs and lyrics you discover will be kept in your own personal history, and you’ll have a Music Map to look up exactly where you heard that song you loved so much. You can also connect your Spotify account to build playlists, explore music across genres, and find new favorites—all with real-time lyrics.

SING ALONG WITH REAL-TIME LYRICS
Explore the lyrics of all your recently discovered and favorited music. Sing along, memorize all the words, and you’ll end up a karaoke master. You can also discover lyrics to the most popular songs topping the SoundHound charts across multiple genres and categories!

DISCOVER
- Tap the big orange button to discover music playing around you, including song title, artist, album, and lyrics.
- Have a song stuck in your head? Press the button, sing or hum the tune, and we’ll do the rest!
- Keep track of all your discoveries with your own personal history page
- Check out the hottest new music across Genre, Global, and Popular charts
- Find out what’s being played near you and around the world with our Music Map

PLAY
- Songs you discover can be played for free via our built-in YouTube music player
- Connect your Spotify account to stream music directly in SoundHound

CONNECT
- Automatically transfer your discovered songs into a Spotify playlist (SoundHound account and Spotify subscription required)
- Sync all of your discoveries across multiple devices

LYRICS
- View and interact with real-time lyrics with LiveLyrics®
- Type in the lyrics or use voice search, and we’ll find the song for you! Say something like…
Hey SoundHound… Show me lyrics for Thriller by Michael Jackson.
- Access the lyrics of your recently discovered and favorited music.
- Discover lyrics to songs topping the SoundHound charts

LOOK, NO HANDS!
SoundHound comes equipped with “Hey SoundHound…”, an incredibly powerful way to interact play and discover music using just your voice. Simply say “Hey SoundHound…” and follow up with something like:

“What’s that song?”
“Show me lyrics to ‘Castle on the Hill’”
“Play today’s top songs’’
“Add this song to my playlist” (Spotify only)


SHARE
Share your music discoveries via Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, messaging services and email!

FEATURED REVIEWS
- Best Music Engagement App - BILLBOARD Music App Awards
- "Genius, isn't it?" - B.B.C. World Radio
- "This is amazing... insane, right?" - David Pogue
Updated on
28 Feb 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Audio and 3 others
Data isn’t encrypted
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

1.6
40K reviews
Michelle FT (Fjorab)
21 November 2024
This used to be a great app, but unfortunately it seldom works anymore. Most of my ID requests now go into a saved queue for later, but then the app "Couldn't connect to SoundHound" to try again. Between this, Shazam, and Google Sound Search, I could usually make a solid ID. I preferred this one for the ability to save when and where I heard it, but it appears that I'm mostly down to the other two now.
56 people found this review helpful
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Austin Morgan (Stein)
14 December 2024
Have to drop my score down to one star. This app used to be amazing. It even used to recognized obscure foreign songs. Now however, it never recognizes anything. It just listens and says there were no matches, or says there's an error. I bought this app years ago because it was so good. But if they don't fix it soon, I'm moving to something else.
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Doug B.
18 November 2024
Such a degradation from original app! I bought premium version YEARS ago & app was like magic! If someone played music in a crowded auditorium, no matter the noise from the crowd, SoundHound was always 100% accurate & identified everything and anything. That was BEFORE. Now, app is TERRIBLE. I'm sitting in my car, parked, with zero outside noise, listening to "Holly Jolly Christmas" Burl Ives & app only says "your search was saved" NEVER gives a result anymore! Who doesn't know Burl Ives!?!?!?!
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What's new

With this release, we are adding support for Android 12; this means users with the newest Android hardware can be sure SoundHound will continue running as smoothly as possible. Now go out there and discover some new favorites you can listen to in SoundHound!