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How it works

Hearing to having, in three taps

No typing lyrics into a search bar. No screenshotting stories and asking around. The whole loop lives here.

STEP 1 — CATCH

Hear it, tap it

A story, a passing car, a café speaker. One tap and EarWorm names the track.

STEP 2 — CARD

It becomes a card

Every catch mints an EarWorm card — art, preview, and links to every place it streams.

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STEP 3 — SHARE

Send it anywhere

Drop the card in chat, a story, or a link. Whoever taps it streams it on their app, not yours.

In detail

What happens when you tap

Three steps, start to finish in about the time the song keeps playing. Here is what EarWorm does at each one, and what it does not do.

  1. It listens for 8 seconds

    Tap the mic and EarWorm records eight seconds of whatever is playing near you: a story, a car going past, a café speaker. That is long enough to match almost any recording and short enough that the song is still on when the answer comes back.

  2. It names the track

    The clip is matched against a commercial recording fingerprint service. You get the title, the artist, the artwork and where it streams. If nothing matches, EarWorm tells you so instead of guessing.

  3. The clip is thrown away

    The recording is used for the match and then discarded. EarWorm keeps the song it found, not the sound of your room.

  4. It becomes a card

    Every catch becomes a card with its own page: artwork, a short preview, and buttons that open the song in the listener’s own streaming app.

  5. You hand it off

    Copy the link, drop it in a chat, or save the story-sized image straight to your camera roll. Whoever taps it hears it on their service, not yours.

No account needed to catch

You can identify a song before you sign up. An account lets you save what you catch to a library you can come back to.

Keep what you catch

Signed in, save any catch with one tap. Your library is yours to search later, and what the community saves feeds the radio channels.

Streaming-neutral

Cards open in whatever the listener already pays for. EarWorm routes the tap; the platforms keep the stream and the royalties.

Questions people ask

Does EarWorm keep my recording?

No. The eight-second clip is sent for matching and then discarded. What EarWorm keeps is the song it found, and your library only holds what you choose to save.

What if it can’t find the song?

It says no match was found. Try again closer to the speaker, or when the vocals come in; music with talking over it is harder to match.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes. EarWorm runs in your phone’s browser and asks for microphone access the first time you catch.

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