SongCatcher
Every song, where you heard it
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Quieter rooms, sharper catches. SongCatcher listens through a whole evening, counts the songs that come back around, and remembers where each one found you.
SongCatcher — catch the songs playing around you.
Hear a song you love in a café, a bar, or a friend's playlist? Tap once and SongCatcher tells you what it is. It keeps listening, so it catches every song in a session — not just the first — and remembers where and when you caught each one.
• Instant recognition — powered by ShazamKit with a second recognition engine as backup, so more songs get caught.
• Catch a whole night — leave it running and it identifies song after song, building a timeline of your evening.
• A map of your music — every catch is saved with the place and the moment, so your history reads like a diary of where the music found you.
• Lyrics, with translations — read along, and see an English translation for songs in other languages.
• Open in Apple Music — jump straight to any catch to hear it in full.
No account. No sign-up. Open it and start catching. Your history stays on your device, and SongCatcher only listens when you tell it to.
Ratings & Reviews
Sharper recognition, and more control over what you've caught.
• Quiet rooms no longer produce phantom songs. SongCatcher now checks that something is actually playing before it spends a lookup, so radio chatter, audiobooks and comedy sets stop landing in your history as music.
• That also means a silent room no longer eats into your daily lookup limit.
• Weak matches are turned away rather than written down — and a strong match that came back second in the list is no longer discarded along with the first.
• Hear a song twice in one session and it returns to the top of Caught with a ×2 badge, a brief flare so you can see why it moved, and a gentler tap than a fresh catch — instead of being quietly skipped.
• Reduce Motion is respected: the row still lights up to show it moved, just without the movement.
• The listening drawer now tells you what it's doing: which engine is working, and what the last few attempts turned up.
• Places read as neighbourhood and city — "Ballard, Seattle". Songs you caught earlier are relabelled to match.
• Remove an entire artist from Caught in one tap, or clear the whole library from Settings. Saved songs and the notes you wrote on them survive both.
The developer, Guy Merin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Guy Merin
- Size
- 3 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Micro G
