Shazam

- September 23, 2016

Teen

Music & Audio

( 2,965,866)

Top Developer

Description

Shazam is one of the world’s most popular apps, used by hundreds of millions of people each month to instantly identify music that’s playing and see what others are discovering. All for free.

And that’s just the beginning: One-tap access to video clips, song lyrics, related tracks and streaming services, where you can listen to your Shazams in full or buy them.

Top artists like Adele, Kendrick Lamar, Demi Lovato, are using Shazam to find new music, and you can follow them to share in the thrill of discovery. Their Shazams will appear automatically in your newsfeed - plus you’ll stay up-to-date on new music, videos and more.

MUSIC DISCOVERY

• Identify music with one tap
• Simply log in to sync all your Shazams across all devices
• Shazam Offline: Identify music even when you’re not connected!*
• Sing along to songs with real-time music lyrics, or watch their videos
• Follow your favorite artists to see what they’re Shazaming
• Preview songs and add them to Spotify playlists**
• Launch Pandora radio based on artists you Shazam**

IN-APP FEATURES

• Buy your Shazamed songs in Google Play Music with just one tap
• Stay in the loop with Shazam’s real-time charts
• Check out recommended tracks to find new music
• Find out what’s popular locally and around the world in the Explore tap
• Ask the Google app to Shazam for you! Just say, “Ok Google, Shazam this song”
• Quick links to Google Play and Amazon stores

CONNECT & SHARE

• See what your friends are Shazaming when you connect your Facebook account
• Share your discoveries through Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Google+ and more…

MORE THAN MEETS THE EAR

• Shazam visual recognition: Tap the camera icon to Shazam posters, magazines, books and so much more! Use it anywhere where you see the Shazam camera logo
• Visual recognition also works as a QR code reader
• Find your past Shazams in Google Now
• Launch Shazam on your Android Wear smartwatch to see the artist and song appear

OTHER INFO

• Previewing and buying music requires the Google Play music store in your country
• MIPS devices are not supported
• Why does Shazam need these app permissions? https://support.shazam.com/hc/en-us/articles/205139787-App-Permissions
• Shazam may share collected location data for interest based advertising, allowing advertisers
to infer interests and serve ads to users based on their activity and location over time
• For more information on Shazam’s privacy practices, please read the Privacy Policy, available at http://www.shazam.com/terms#privacy_policy
• Don’t want the advertising? Upgrade to Shazam Encore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shazam.encore.android

*Song names will appear in your My Shazam tab once connection is restored
**Some features are dependent on location, device and app version

Any questions or feedback? Check out: https://support.shazam.com/hc/en-us/categories/200239877-Android

Reviews

4.4

2,965,866 total

5 1,906,234

4 467,613

3 180,149

2 79,156

1 164,626

kevin field

Great app Luving the way it catches the music u like,when u don't know who the artist is or title of the song.

Henrico Cijster

Older version please. Not picking up the music

Great'app Most easy and its too good

Ravi Barla

plz add one download option for searched song plz....

Josefina Jimenez

Music🎼🎶🎵🎷🎹🎻🎸🎺🎤🎧 Awesome! !!

Stupid app

User reviews

kevin field September 23, 2016

Great app Luving the way it catches the music u like,when u don't know who the artist is or title of the song.

Henrico Cijster September 24, 2016

Older version please. Not picking up the music

September 23, 2016

Great'app Most easy and its too good

Ravi Barla September 25, 2016

plz add one download option for searched song plz....

Josefina Jimenez September 25, 2016

Music🎼🎶🎵🎷🎹🎻🎸🎺🎤🎧 Awesome! !!

September 23, 2016

Stupid app

Joe Ohagan September 24, 2016

Love it

Herbert Price September 25, 2016

Good music Nice

Raul Paniagua September 20, 2016

MUSICIAN/RADIO PERSONALITY I like this app BUT!!!! Ah! Genres are kinda tricky huh? You almost have them all covered. I also understand that the song/artist may be an unknown. Either way, there will be a day that you WILL USE IT. hint: (work on Tejano music for people in Texas)

Bill Santana September 18, 2016

Does not work well anymore! This new version fails to recognize many songs. On a popular country song playing in the closing titles of a movie, the app failed to recognize the popular song. This isn't the first time. It has occured many times. The app is accompanied with many interrupting pop ads. Maybe Shazam should consider going back to the first version. I am deleting it from my phone.

Federico Errica August 29, 2016

NO PRIVACY, it's dangerous It keeps the microphone listening also before you start pushing the main button, even if Auto Shazam is off. I also contacted the support service which has stopped answering my emails. Fix this, you're not supposed to listen to us when we don't want to.

K Darden August 25, 2016

GREAT This is wonderful. This app is helping me build up my music library. It stores the music I've inquired about and I am able to send the song to my email account. It can filter through a lot of background noise to pick up a song like in a restaurant and even on TV. It does depend on the noise level but I'm very happy that it can catch what it does. I also love the fact that if it doesn't know the song straightaway that it will send you an email once it does identify it! Comes with lyrics & videos too.

Ильгиз Галеев August 17, 2016

I wish I hadn't updated. I had last updated quite a few months ago, so my Shazam now is a bit larger than before the update. And there's nothing really new I could be interested in. The interface is messy as usual. Still, it does its main function good enough to give it 4*

Zenith Rendezvous August 17, 2016

Unneccessary When i first downloaded it, i thought Shazam works by making you hum- or something- a song in you head that isnt playing. For example, that song on the radio you heard half an hour ago. THAT would be a lifesaver. But it turned out to be quite different, and besides, Siri already has an option (not sure about samsung helper though) that allows you to do the same thing when you ask her "what is this tune?". So its like the new youtube vevo app- not neccessary, but quirky and cool.

August 20, 2016

Eh it's bad for me I've been trying to fund his song I love but I don't know what it's called. I found someone that used this app on a video and so I tried to find this fricken song on this app. It doesn't work no matter how LOUD I FRICKEN SING!! It just keeps saying to try again and sing into the sound hole thing and it doesn't work.. imma keep trying tho. This could be an amazing and useful app 😊

Mohit Aggarwal August 27, 2016

Good work but musixmatch is better... It's a good app. If you want to identify lyrics fast this is the app for you. But if you want lyrics on your screen when you are playing music then musixmatch is better. With the floating lyrics musixmatch does slow job and sometimes cannot identify lyrics which are a little unclear. But Shazam identifies lyrics fast and even a music which is far off. Hope Shazam add the floating lyrics and the readers understand the difference.

Andre Steyn August 12, 2016

Weak app After downloading this app and it perform well I expected it to keep performing. Not so. It I'd Billy Ocean correctly except for the fact it called it Caribbean Queen, not African Queen. A small mistake, until you consider this mistake entailed 7000kms. Then it made another mistake, I forgot what happened.

Dick Head September 7, 2016

ALL OF MY SHAZAMS ARE GONE What the hell is wrong with you people? Thanks for losing everything I've collected over the years. Your website login still remains dead after how long? Seriously I only want to know where my shazams are.

Boris Iv August 17, 2016

There are a lot of annoying ads/spam. Not going to buy anything from advertized companies ever, shame on them. There is a ton of unnecessary content. Actually, everything is totally useless, ugly and annoying except music recognition. I'd rate it 0, but 1 is for music recognition which is mostly correct in my case..

Jade McEvoy September 23, 2016

Update after update, failure after failure Initally this app worked really well, no problems with recognition or "not quite catching that", you didn't need to have the internet on to open it and you could use the app right away - basically there was nothing wrong with it. Now after countless updates the devs to have seemed to depart from the reason the app exists in the first place and it has become barely useable, for the first time in about 5-6 years I will be not using shazam.

L. Whit September 8, 2016

Used to love this app for years But I recently got a new phone and I logged in and all my music was gone. EVERYTHING IVE EVER SHAZAMED. Two years ago, I got a new phone but I never had this problem. Im really annoyed. I tried contacting "customer service" explaining the issue, and no one ever responded to me. If my account cant be restored somehow, I will just uninstall.

Scisco Beats August 13, 2016

Would rate less Would rate less if i could i shazamed 2 songs in a row i also have a spotify premium account while i found the songs on shazam with ease i got the option to get the song via spotify. Needless to say spotify didnt have the remixes in their library this really frustrated me shouldnt shazam know that spotify wouldn't have the song i mean shazam and spotify are in collaboration with each other enough to link you to their apps but yet im still songless even though i have a premium spotify acc

Michael John August 12, 2016

Succeeded where SoundHound failed I've had a far more higher success rate with Shazam than I have with SoundHound. What's even more impressive is Shazams ability to recognise snippets of songs even while a person talks over it (eg. YouTube tutorials). Uninstalled SoundHound with no regrets. Great app.

Dominick Fechser August 31, 2016

App is trash I would give Shazam zero stars if I could. There was a video with acoustic music playing and I wanted to figure out what that song was. When shazam decided to work, it gave me 3 different techno songs when I played the same video. Absolute garbage

Carlito Diego Gavin August 15, 2016

Does what it is designed to do well I like this app and it does what it is designed to do well but I have two issues with it... One is that they are killing the app with all of the social media integration... Secondly no app for the Samsung Gear S2... It's a pity they don't have an app built for Tizen as they do for Android Wear... I would use this app more often and upgrade to Encore if there was an app for the Gear S2...

KaiLing Tee August 17, 2016

Bad Not specific. It is flamboyantly praise and advertised when enter into this page then downloaded in and nothing. Can't even download a single song and what has this app got to do with Spotify? Rubbish. Don't download this app. It does nothing but pisses you off.

C Ne August 16, 2016

Always inaccurate. I always keep receiving Spanish or Latin music whenever there are acoustic guitars playing in the source music. And the song results don't even have the same melody. Unless it's a mainstream song, I'll never know what it is without lengthy research.

Josh B September 21, 2016

Won't work Since the last update it won't read any song, keeps saying we can't catch that move your device closer. When the device is close and music is loud enough as well. Needs to be fixed

August 23, 2016

I Love It! Just Hit Shazammmm! Name Of Song And Artists Become Available... Some Times You Have To Hit It Due It Over, But Not Often.. Good app. Had It For A Few Years Now! It's My Most Go To app. For Every Phone I Get👌👌

Meredith U August 18, 2016

Eh Shazam used to be good but recently I would play a song and it wouldn't be able to identify it. It would always say "movr clodeI to the sound source" when it was super close and the volume was up on full blast. Today I was in the car and I was told to "move closer to the sound source." So I did and it said the same thing. I then turned the volume up ALOT and it said the same thing. Also I realized it sometimes would identify the wrong song. I'm probably going to uninstall this app.

AARTA Akita Advocates September 8, 2016

Was better, now a PITA to use for lyrics. Just updated and am very disappointed. I use for lyrics and now you have to scroll way down to see lyrics rather than the simple box on the right side with previous version. I simply I won't be using it as much:/

Joey Verville August 14, 2016

Broken or scripted Shazam has fallen off over the years. Testing it a few minutes ago on a song I already know. The information should match up then right? Nope... Each of the three tests gave me different results and none of them were correct. Or even sounded close! What happened to the old Shazam, where you could hold it up to your cars drivers side speaker with the windows down going 70mph. It would nail the correct song almost every time. I'm more inclined to think results are scripted now. How sad!

Jennifer Trujillo August 24, 2016

No video 📹 play ▶ Shazam upgrade is a total disappointment. Song recognition is capable, but when it comes to playing the videos it's a digital disaster. Can not view any video to a song I am looking for. Can you please fix this update. I haven't had any issues like this with past updates.

Alexakis Otinane August 28, 2016

Ops, it doesnt get it. So thiss used to be a great app. Now holding phone right next to speaker even and still get error of "Ops, didnt quit get that, music needs to louder & phone closer to speaker". Tried other app to test if my phone has an issue and worked in a sec. Tried unistal/install still same issue. Its not working any more for me

Michael Farber August 13, 2016

Doesn't work anymore A while ago, it worked just fine and was super useful. Now, even after several updates, the app refuses to turn on and I can't use it anymore. Please fix it, this is a great app and very convenient to have when it works.

Jason Frierson August 15, 2016

Doesn't work anymore App doesn't tag songs like it used to before the update. It always says unable to catch the song when I'm in front of the speaker with the volume up. Tried even with the volume down in front of the speaker behind the speaker everything.... I'm better off just using Google top tag songs

J Noise September 9, 2016

This app is trash on 75% of phones Unless your phone is super nice and reasonably new, this app will not work, it requires quality mics to recognize and song, if you have any phone damage whatsoever, don't even bother with this app. However, if you do have a nice phone, then you might want to get it, the is a chance it will work if you are lucky and the music is blasting.

Ray Calandra August 14, 2016

Not too Good! Doesn't recognize many songs. Used this app. 3 years ago, and was not impressed. Got a new phone, Galaxy S7. Thought I would give the app a new try. Same results. Definitely not the phone. Guess I'll have to uninstall.

thethiny Main August 10, 2016

Less worries Everyday in my life I used to constantly think about the planets and stars, and everything revolving around space. But thanks to this update I don't have to worry about space anymore :D #LifeSaver

Lawrence Kedz August 24, 2016

Shazam Why do you consider my "Galaxy S5 (G900T)" an older version? I'm old and now, VERY sensitive about that word. Especially when it's used to maliciously malign me & my 11 month old phone.(lol)

What's New

Running low on storage space on your phone? Great news: Shazam went on a diet, and we're now 6MB lighter! Keep discovering music, artists, videos and so much more, without having to worry about space.