# Songless

> **TL;DR.** Songless is a free browser and mobile music-guessing game that plays a song clip starting at just 0.

- **Category:** Web Games / Daily Puzzle Games / Music Trivia
- **Stage:** established
- **Age:** 884 days
- **Origin date:** 2024-02-24
- **First detected:** 2026-07-20
- **Canonical URL:** https://earlyterms.com/term/songless
- **Sources:** 7 primary URLs

## Definition

Songless is a free browser and mobile music-guessing game that plays a song clip starting at just 0.1 seconds and lets players guess the track across six escalating snippets. It is the most-cloned successor to Spotify's Heardle, spawning dozens of near-identical domains competing for the same searchers.

The genre took off after Spotify shut down the original [Heardle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heardle) in May 2023; the earliest verified Songless clone appeared on [GitHub](https://github.com/slanja/Songless) in February 2024, and developer Quynh Dau shipped a native iOS/Android version on August 29, 2025. By mid-2026 dozens of mirror sites — songless.app, songless.org, songless.me, songless.pro — were competing for the same daily-puzzle searchers, with Google search interest climbing through July 2026.

## Analogy

Think of it as Wordle for your ears — but the puzzle gets easier the longer you're stumped.

## Why it's emerging now

Songless is riding a mid-2026 Google Trends climb even though it's a 2024-era Heardle clone: search interest nearly tripled from ~20 to ~86 between June and July 2026 as dozens of copycat domains (songless.app, .org, .me, .pro, .xyz) fight for the same 'guess the song' searches, with no single official owner in sight.

## Related terms

- *parent:* Heardle
- *related:* Wordle
- *competitor:* Bandle
- *competitor:* Framed
- *related:* Spotify
- *parent:* daily puzzle game
- *parent:* music trivia game
- *related:* GeoGuessr
- *child:* Songless Unlimited
- *related:* Wordle-likes

## Sources

1. [Songless.app — official-style web game](https://www.songless.app/)
2. [MWM App Intelligence — Songless app listing](https://mwm.ai/apps/songless/6751617472)
3. [GitHub — earliest verified Songless clone (Feb 2024)](https://github.com/slanja/Songless)
4. [Hacker News — Show HN: music quiz website](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45178819)
5. [Bandiz — Best alternative to Bandle, Heardle and Songless](https://bandiz.app/the-best-alternative-to-bandle-heardle-and-songless/)
6. [Google Play — Songless app listing](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.songless.game&hl=en_US)
7. [App Store — Songless](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/songless/id6751617472)

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