Free alternatives to Simply Sing
Simply Sing is song-led: it hands you a track, adapts it to your key and guides you through it. That is a genuinely good design for "sound better on songs I like", and a poor one for "stop singing flat". Which alternative suits you depends entirely on which of those you actually wanted.
What Simply Sing is actually good at
Credit where it is due, and it matters for choosing a replacement. Simply Sing comes from Smule, whose whole business is people singing along to records, and it shows: real songs, transposed to a key you can reach, with guidance over the top. If your goal is to enjoy singing a song and sound better doing it, that is the right shape of product.
Checked 20 August 2026. Simply Sing is the most actively maintained app in this comparison — its App Store listing reported a last update of 16 August 2026, four days before we looked. Free to install, with a paid tier for the full catalogue. App Store
Why people look for an alternative
- The song you want is not in the catalogue. Licensing decides the library, not you — the usual reason people go looking.
- You want to fix technique, not perform. Songs hide weak spots: you can scrape through a chorus and never find out that your fourth interval is consistently flat.
- You do not want a subscription. See singing apps without a subscription.
- You are on a browser, not a phone. Song-led apps are mobile-first.
The alternatives, by what you wanted
| If you wanted… | Try | Free? | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Any song, including yours | Vocalify melody editor | Free tier | Load your own audio, mark the hard section, loop it |
| To stop singing flat | Scored pitch drills | Free | Songs hide this; drills isolate it |
| A structured course | Yousician | Subscription | No voice-only plan — singing costs the same as guitar |
| Songs matched to your range | Singing Carrots | Tools free, course paid | Also our free alternative to it |
| Indian classical repertoire | Riyaz | Freemium | iOS listing last updated 18 Jun 2024 |
| Just to see your pitch | A vocal tuner | Free | No account, runs in the browser |
The catalogue problem, solved differently
Every song-led app has the same limit: you can practise what they have licensed. If the song you are working on is not there, no amount of features helps.
The way round it is to stop depending on a catalogue. Drop your own audio in, lay the melody over it, and practise against the real recording — including the eight bars in the middle that are the only part you actually need. That is what our melody editor is for, it is free, and the song is whatever you give it.
The honest recommendation
If you like Simply Sing and it has your songs, keep it — it is well made and, by the store dates, better maintained than most of its competitors. Add a pitch trainer next to it rather than replacing it: fifteen minutes of scored drills does the work that singing along to a record does not, and costs nothing. Most people who ask for "apps like Simply Sing" turn out to want that second thing, not a second karaoke app.
We make one of the tools on this page, so weigh that. The comparison it sits in is here, with every listing checked.
FAQ
Is Simply Sing free?
Free to install, with a paid tier for the full song catalogue — freemium in the usual shape. Its App Store listing reported a last update of 16 August 2026, making it the most actively maintained app in our comparison.
What is the best free app like Simply Sing?
There is no free app with a comparable licensed song catalogue — that catalogue is the expensive part. If what you want is to practise a particular song, the free route is a tool that takes your own audio rather than one that offers you a library.
Can I practise a song that is not in the catalogue?
Yes, with a melody editor: import the audio, place the notes, and sing against the real track. How that works.
Will singing along to songs make me a better singer?
Partly. It builds familiarity, phrasing and confidence, and it is enjoyable enough that you keep doing it — which matters. It is poor at finding faults, because a song lets you gloss over the note you always miss. Pair it with drills that isolate one skill at a time.