Music games like Wordle
49 hand-picked daily music -dle games, free to play in your browser.
Music -dles ask you to identify a song, artist, or album from a short audio clip — typically starting with a fraction of a second and unlocking more on each wrong guess. Heardle, launched in February 2022 by an Australian developer named Glenn Angelo, is the genre's defining example: it served the first one second of a song, then two, then four, escalating until you either guessed or ran out of tries. Spotify acquired it in mid-2022, ran it for a year, and then shut it down — but by then the format had spawned dozens of clones (Bandle, BopMatch, Crosstune) that still run today.
Beyond Heardle-style audio guessing, the music category includes lyric -dles (guess the song from a line), instrument-isolation puzzles (Bandle plays each instrument from a song separately), and genre/era variants. The 49 games below include direct Heardle replacements, K-pop dailies, classical-music guessers, and several theme-specific spinoffs. Most need audio playback enabled — a few are designed for muted listening with lyric-only clues.
All 49 music -dle games
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Frequently asked questions about music -dle games
- What replaced Heardle after Spotify shut it down?
- Heardle Decades is the closest direct replacement — same one-second-at-a-time escalation, but pulled from a specific decade you pick (60s, 70s, ..., 2010s, 2020s). For pop-music guessing more broadly, Bandle and BopMatch are popular; for the specific feeling of "a clip with no other info," Crosstune and Songless are the closest in feel. The original Heardle is gone for good, but the category is healthier than it's been since Spotify owned it.
- Why is Heardle called Heardle if Spotify killed it?
- Heardle is a brand name now used (often without permission) by several clones. The original is offline, but "Heardle" entered the genre vocabulary the way "Wordle" did — people search for "Heardle" expecting to find audio-guessing daily puzzles, and the surviving sites cluster under that name. The closest legitimately-named successor is Heardle Decades, which has been running independently since 2022.
- Do music -dles need Spotify or a paid account?
- No — every music game we list works in the browser with no login. Some use Spotify or YouTube embeds for the audio, which means you don't need an account but the clips do depend on the underlying service being up. A few games ship their own audio (smaller catalog, more reliable). The advantage of self-hosted catalogs is they keep working when YouTube takes a video down; the disadvantage is they tend to skew older.
- Are there music -dles for non-Western music?
- Yes, a growing number. K-pop has the deepest scene (Kpoptourle, Songless KR), J-pop has several, and there are dedicated -dles for classical music (Concertodle), Bollywood, anime soundtracks (Animele), and various national pop scenes. The directory below has all of them under the Music category.