SoundHound ∞ Music Discovery

1.3
41.4K reviews
500K+
Downloads
Content rating
Teen
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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
30 Apr 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

1.3
40K reviews
Michelle FT (Fjorab)
8 May 2025
SoundHound is back! It struggled with a lack of updates and failed connectivity for a couple of years, but the most recent update has it working for me again, nice and fast! With this and a couple other song recognition apps to cross-check, I can usually get a solid ID on whatever is coming over the speakers or sung from my earworms.
64 people found this review helpful
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nandez4
19 July 2025
Bought this app years ago because it is an awesome app. but for the last 3 or so years, it became buggy. I notified the developers about it, but they don't care anymore. The playlist goes missing, doesn't recognize songs anymore. Really sad. I've been using Soundhound since the days it used to tell you what music ppl around you we're listening too. That was a great feature. Anyways, don't waste money on this app, not worth it anymore.
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Troy Hughes
17 November 2024
Horrible. Won't search at all. When typing in a search query I receive "Sorry, there was an error". When searching for audio, it never finds anything, then when I play the clip back that was recorded, it is muffled, like I have the phone covered up, no matter if the phone is right next to the speaker, or several feet away. Not sure what happened to this app. It used to be amazing. I purchased it several years ago, and have tons of recognized and favorited songs...but now. Absolute garbage.
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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!