Stories made music discovery social — then left the loop open. Someone hears a song in a story, fumbles for a recognition app, and the clip ends before it matches. So they comment “song?” and hope. EarWorm closes that loop, and it's built to plug in anywhere.
A card is just a link. It renders inside a DM, a story, a feed, or a bio — and it plays without kicking anyone out to another app.
Every card opens in whatever service the listener already pays for. We route the tap; the platforms keep the stream and the royalties.
Catch, card, and share are three endpoints. Any platform that already has stories can close the loop in a sprint.
Someone hears a song in a story, opens a recognition app, and the clip ends before it matches. So they comment “song?” and hope. Multiply that by every story with music in it.
People find music in other people’s clips, not on the radio. But the clip is fifteen seconds long and gone in a swipe.
Naming the song is half the job. The card is the other half: something you can hand back into the conversation.
EarWorm does not compete with streaming services. It sends people to them, which is why it can work with all of them.
Platforms that want catch-and-card inside their own stories can talk to us at hello@earworm.network. There is no public API yet.
Anyone who has ever typed half-remembered lyrics into a search bar, and the artists whose songs those were.