Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Pyzam – Recognize and Visualize Songs from Your Terminal

I made some visual updates to Pyzam, a music recognition tool in Python. My goal was to an aesthetic way to Shazam songs while listening to music. Could be a neat feature at clubs or parties.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Pyzam – Recognize and Visualize Songs from Your Terminal launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Shazam for Mac▲151

   Listens and identifies music in the background

   2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   New Shazam▲165

   Swipeable nav with a refreshed look & feel

   2017 · shazam.com · its alternatives →

3. 3IT
   I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes▲753

   Hey HN! I just shipped a project I’ve been working on called Maroofy: https://maroofy.com You can search for any song, and it’ll use the song’s audio to find other similar-sounding music. Demo: https://twitter.com/subby_tech/status/1621293770779287554 How does it work? I’ve indexed ~120M+ songs from the iTunes catalog with a custom AI audio model that I built for understanding music. My model analyzes raw music audio as input and produces embedding vectors as output. I then store the embedding vectors for all songs into a vector database, and use semantic…

   2023 · maroofy.com · its alternatives →

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   Shazam for the Web▲133

   Shazam identifies songs playing around you 🎶

   2020 · shazam.com · its alternatives →

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   Shazam-like acoustic fingerprinting of continuous audio streams▲158

   Audio landmark fingerprinting as a Node Stream module - adblockradio/stream-audio-fingerprint

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Find Song Name & Artist in 1 Click▲234

   Instant audio recognition

   2024 · songminds.org · its alternatives →

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   Songbird▲220

   Shazam for bird songs

   2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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   DaftCloud 4.0 for macOS▲133

   SoundCloud now with Shazam DJ mix recognition

   2021 · daft.cloud · its alternatives →

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   Shaq, a CLI for Shazam▲155

   2023 · blog.yossarian.net · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Magnus▲270

    Shazam for art

    2016 · magnus.net · its alternatives →

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    Computer Music with Python▲105

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    What's Playing▲110

    Shazam on your lock screen and dynamic island

    2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Turtle.audio – a music sequencer inspired by turtle graphics▲126

    2018 · turtle.audio · its alternatives →

14. 14
    VybeCam▲8

    Shazam for your Camera

    Dec 2025 · vybecam.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Building an End-to-End Encrypted Shazam with Homomorphic Encryption▲59

    A tutorial on how to code a privacy-preserving version of Shazam using Zama Concrete ML.

    2024 · zama.ai · its alternatives →

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    Pixel Music▲90

    Make music from images

    2023 · pixelmusic.app · its alternatives →

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    WatZatSong iPhone App▲62

    Find the name of any tune

    2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Musicroamer▲69

    A visual Pandora for discovering new music

    2015 · musicroamer.com · its alternatives →

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    Music Genre Classification App in Django▲54

    Machine learning approach to classify music based on genres - indrajithi/mgc-ai

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    SongMine▲93

    Find and record chord progressions in your DAW for free

    2022 · songmine.io · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Record Player▲68

    Shazam for record covers, instantly open in Spotify

    2019 · patrickweaver.net · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Lyrix▲60

    Discover artists, lyrics & playlists with one tap.

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Shazam for Apple Watch▲7

    The best way to identify music and TV around you.

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Song Branch▲70

    An interactive song lyric visualization experiment.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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