The best singing app for a beginner depends on how you like to learn. To learn with songs you love, Simply Sing adapts songs to your vocal range and tells you when to hold a note and when to breathe. For a full course that can also teach guitar, piano or bass, Yousician listens and gives instant feedback on your pitch and timing. For daily exercises and warm-ups, Sing Sharp and Vocalista both fit their exercises to your range and show your pitch as you sing. Free on the web, Singing Carrots has a vocal range test and a pitch-training game. Whichever you choose, measure your range and pitch first with two free one-minute tests, so you can tell later whether the app is working.
Key takeaways
- Look for two things: songs or exercises fitted to your range, and feedback while you sing. Simply Sing, Sing Sharp and Vocalista all say they fit to your range.
- Songs or exercises? Simply Sing teaches through songs, Sing Sharp and Vocalista through exercises, and Yousician mixes lessons, exercises and songs.
- Free versions differ: Sing Sharp is free with ads, Yousician has a 7-day free trial of Premium+, and the Singing Carrots range test is free.
- Every one of these apps listens through your microphone, so practise somewhere quiet. Almost half the voice recordings people make for us have a fan, air conditioner or traffic under them.
- An app is a practice partner, not a doctor: if singing hurts or hoarseness doesn't go away, stop and see one.
How we picked
On 26 October 2026 we read each app's own App Store and Google Play listing and its website, and noted what it says it does, what it costs and where it runs. We did not take a full course in every app, so this list compares what the apps offer and charge, not how much each one will improve your voice. US App Store prices; other countries differ.
| App | Best for | Runs on | Free | Paid (US App Store) | Fits your range | Feedback while you sing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simply Sing | Learning with songs you love | iPhone, iPad, Android | Free download | Premium, listed from $4.99 to $89.99 | Yes (songs) | Yes |
| Yousician | A course that can also teach instruments | iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, PC | 7-day free trial of Premium+ | Premium+ $29.99/month or $179.99/year | Not stated | Pitch and timing |
| Sing Sharp | Daily exercises and ear training | iPhone, iPad, Android | Free with ads | Membership $19.99/month, $39.99/3 months, $99.99/year | Yes (exercises) | Every note, live |
| Vocalista | Five minutes of exercises a day | iPhone, iPad, Android | Free download | Vocalista+, listed from $7.99 to $79.99 | Yes (exercises) | Pitch, live |
| Singing Carrots | Free tests and songs that fit your range | Browser, plus a new phone app | Range test | Pro price shown after you log in | Song search by range | Pitch, visual |
| Tera Studio tests (ours) | Measuring where you start | Browser | Free, nothing recorded | Free | Shows your range | Score out of 100 |
1. Simply Sing: best for learning with songs you love
Simply Sing comes from Simply, the company behind Simply Piano and Simply Guitar. It finds your voice type and adjusts songs to your range, so the high and low parts sit where you can sing them. Lyrics scroll as you go, you can sing solo or with the vocals, and it tells you when to hold a note and when to breathe. You start with easy songs and unlock harder ones, with a daily tip along the way. It has 4.7 stars from about 464,000 ratings on the US App Store and more than 10 million Google Play downloads, and Apple has made it an Editors' Choice.
- Cost: Premium is sold in the app. The US App Store lists Premium options from $4.99 to $89.99 without naming their lengths, so check the plan screen before you pay.
- Watch out: it teaches through songs and tips rather than a programme of technique exercises.
2. Yousician: best for a full course (and instruments too)
Yousician teaches guitar, bass, ukulele, piano and singing. For singing it listens and gives instant feedback on your pitch and timing, with vocal exercises, lessons on technique and warm-ups, and real songs. Its lessons cover breath support, intervals, scales, vocal range, ear training and solfège, and you can slow a song down and repeat a part until you have it. It runs on iPhone, Android, Mac and PC and needs no extra microphone. The listing has 4.6 stars from about 139,000 ratings on the US App Store and more than 50 million Google Play downloads.
- Cost: Premium+ is $29.99 a month or $179.99 a year on the US App Store, and yousician.com offers it free for 7 days. The store also lists One Instrument plans from $19.99 a month.
- Watch out: those ratings and downloads are for the whole app, which most people know for guitar.
3. Sing Sharp: best for daily exercises and ear training
Sing Sharp listens while you sing and shows every note you hit or miss, and its exercises adapt to your range. It starts with a vocal range test, then offers six programmes: Daily Workout, Recovery Warmup, Sing High Notes, Mix Mastery, Vibrato Pro and Harmony & Trio. There's ear training, video lessons from vocal coaches, and audio and video recording of your takes. It has 4.3 stars from about 13,700 ratings on the US App Store and more than 1 million Google Play downloads.
- Cost: free with ads. Membership is $19.99 for a month, $39.99 for 3 months or $99.99 for a year on the US App Store, and small warm-up packs start at $0.99.
- Watch out: the free version shows ads; removing them is a separate $2.99 purchase.
4. Vocalista: best for five minutes a day
Vocalista is a library of short vocal exercises and bite-sized theory lessons. Every exercise is fitted to your range, you see your pitch in real time, and after each exercise it gives feedback on pitch, breathiness and resonance (the last two only on iPhone 13 Pro and later). Daily goals, reminders and badges help the habit stick. It has 4.6 stars from about 3,300 ratings on the US App Store and more than 100,000 Google Play downloads.
- Cost: Vocalista+ is sold in the app; the US App Store lists it from $7.99 to $79.99.
- Watch out: it's exercises, not songs.
5. Singing Carrots: best free option on the web
Singing Carrots runs in your browser and says more than 300,000 singers use it. Its free vocal range test reads your lowest and highest notes in about a minute. A pitch-training game adapts to your voice type and shows your pitch through the mic, and a song search finds songs that fit your range. It also has two courses: All-Round Vocalist (21 lessons) and From Zero to Singing Hero, a 4-week programme for beginners.
- Cost: the range test is free; the Pro price appears only after you log in.
- Watch out: its new phone app has only a handful of ratings so far. The website is the main product.
Practise where the app can hear you
All of these apps judge you through your microphone, and so do you when you listen back. Our own recordings show how often that goes wrong. Between 12 and 20 October 2026, 85 of 183 songs made with a new voice on Tera Studio, 46%, came from a voice recording with steady background noise under it: mostly fans, air conditioning and traffic. Singing Carrots says the same about its range test: background noise is the usual cause of a jumpy reading. Turn off the fan, close the window, hold the phone about a forearm's length away, and use headphones when an app plays notes back to you. Then record yourself now and then with the free voice recorder and listen back. Your voice sounds different from inside your head.
Before you pay: measure where you start
Two one-minute tests give you a baseline to compare against after a few weeks of any app. The free vocal range test shows your lowest and highest comfortable notes and your voice type, and the free singing test plays 5 notes, you sing each one back, and it scores you out of 100. Neither records your voice. If a song you're practising is too high for your range, the free key changer moves any song file up or down by up to 6 semitones; how to change a song's key to fit your voice explains how far. For a whole routine without an app, read how to sing better.
Hear the target in your own voice
It helps to know what a song sounds like when you get it right. Tera Studio sings any song in your voice: record about a minute of your normal singing (2 minutes sounds more like you), upload the original song, and hear the whole song in your voice, on the original singer's notes and phrasing. It won't train your voice the way these apps do, but it gives you a target that sounds like you rather than like a star. See can't sing? hear yourself sing any song.
Current price and limits
Every new account can make and hear 2 whole songs free, once per account, each up to 4 minutes, with no card. Downloads need a paid plan. Starter is $8.99 a month for 30 finished minutes (about 7 songs) and Creator is $19.99 a month for 90 minutes, or $89.99 and $189.99 paid yearly. Both include WAV and song-card video downloads, one guided correction per song and free re-downloads. Minutes refresh monthly without rollover. Prices show in your currency where available; pricing and Stripe checkout confirm the total before you pay. See the refund policy.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best singing app for beginners? If you want to learn with songs, Simply Sing: it fits songs to your range and coaches your breathing. If you'd rather do exercises, Sing Sharp or Vocalista. For a structured course, Yousician. Try the free version or trial first and check your singing test score again after two weeks.
Is there a free app to learn singing? Sing Sharp is free with ads, Yousician has a 7-day free trial of Premium+, and the Singing Carrots range test is free in your browser. Our vocal range test, singing test and voice recorder are free too.
Can an app really teach you to sing? An app is good at the parts that need repetition and an honest ear: matching pitch, finding your range, warming up every day and hearing yourself back. It can't watch your posture or hear strain the way a teacher in the room can. Many people use an app daily and a teacher now and then. If singing hurts or your voice stays hoarse, stop and see a doctor.
Which singing app helps with high notes? Sing Sharp has a Sing High Notes programme, and Simply Sing moves songs into your range so the high parts are reachable. The biggest fix is often the song's key: see how to sing high notes.
How long does it take to sing better with an app? Fifteen minutes on most days is usually enough to hear a difference within a few weeks. Pitch and song choice improve first; range grows more slowly.
Hear any song in your own voice. Your first 2 songs are free to make and hear.