Heardle Daily
heardle.info · Music
Closest to the version people remember: one popular track per day, named in six attempts, with a longer slice of audio after every skip or miss.
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Games like Heardle
Heardle played the opening of a popular song for a single second and asked you to name it. Each skip or wrong guess lengthened the clip, up to six tries, so the best results went to people who could recognize a track from its first note or drum hit. Spotify bought the game in 2022 and shut it down in 2023, but the format lives on in many daily remakes.
Every pick keeps the core of hearing a fragment and racing to name it. Faithful remakes of the intro-clip format come first, then editions themed by decade, genre or artist, and then music games that change the answer format, build songs up by instrument, use lyrics or turn clips into a crossword.
14 games like Heardle
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Songless
lessgames.com · Music
Opens with a clip only one tenth of a second long, harsher than Heardle ever was, and offers separate playlists for styles like rock, EDM and hip hop.
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Heardle 80s
80s.heardledecades.com · Music
Keeps the intro-first format but limits answers to number-one hits from the 1980s, and a Hook option starts the clip in the middle of the song instead.
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Heardle 90s
90s.heardledecades.com · Music
The 1990s edition, where the opening seconds of a track grow with every miss, a good fit if you grew up with that decade's radio.
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Heardle K-pop
kpop.heardledecades.com · Music
Applies the Heardle rules to K-pop, from groups to solo acts, so it suits fans who can tell a track by its first synth line.
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Disney Heardle
disney.heardledecades.com · Music
Pulls every answer from Disney movies and series, which makes it a gentler starting point for families or anyone who knows the soundtracks better than the charts.
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Heardle TV Themes
tv.heardledecades.xyz · Music
Swaps pop songs for television theme tunes, played from a very short opening fragment that stretches each time you skip or miss.
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Swiftle
techyonic.co · Music
Heardle for Taylor Swift's catalog only, with six attempts per song plus a quicker Rapid mode for fans who know every album.
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Bandle
bandle.app · Music
Builds the song up one instrument at a time rather than one second at a time, so you might name it from the bass line alone, and fewer layers mean a better result.
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Songdle
statt-land-song.ch · Music
Plays a single daily song and asks you to supply its performer, its name and when it was released, which rewards deeper music knowledge than a title alone.
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Musicle
musicle.app · Music
Asks you to pick the right title from four options for each clip rather than typing it, across over twenty themed playlists, and a Royale mode raises the stakes.
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Crosstune
crosstune.io · Music
Combines the listening of Heardle with a themed crossword: every clue is a song clip, and naming the singer or song writes the answer into the grid.
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Lyricle
lyricle.app · Music
Replaces audio with words: one line of lyrics at first, the next line after each miss or skip, for players who remember songs by what is sung.
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Riffdle
synthia.space · Music
For players who want to go beyond recognition: you hear a brief riff and rebuild it on a virtual keyboard, one note at a time, with colors marking which notes are right.
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Questions
What happened to the original Heardle?
Heardle launched in 2022 and was bought by Spotify later that year. Spotify closed it in May 2023, so the original site no longer runs a daily song. Independent remakes such as Heardle Daily and the decade editions on this page kept the format going, with the same idea of a clip that grows after each skip.
Which Heardle-style game is easiest for beginners?
Disney Heardle and Heardle TV Themes tend to suit casual listeners, since film songs and theme tunes are often more familiar than chart hits. Heardle 80s and Heardle 90s narrow the pool to one decade, which also helps. Songless is the toughest start, because its first clip lasts just one tenth of a second.
Is there a music game that is not about naming songs?
Riffdle asks you to rebuild a short melody on a piano keyboard, and Spotle has you work out a music artist from facts such as nationality and genre rather than from audio. Bandle stays with song naming but adds instruments one layer at a time, which makes it feel quite different from a growing clip.
