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Music AI apps

AI music generation — full tracks, stems, and royalty-free soundtracks from text prompts.

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    Splice

    Splice

    Royalty-free sample platform with generative AI tools that pay the original creators.

    The leading royalty-free sample marketplace, now with generative AI built around its licensed catalog. Variations creates new versions of any Splice sample (structure, key, BPM), Craft turns samples into playable instruments, and Magic Fit adapts sounds to your session's harmonic and rhythmic context — and the original sample creator is compensated each time their sound seeds a generation. Integrates with major DAWs via VST3/AU plugins, with desktop and mobile apps.

    Worth knowing

    Goldman Sachs led its $55M Series D in 2021 at a ~$500M valuation, bringing total funding past $155M.

    • samples
    • music-production
    • royalty-free
    • daw-plugin
  • View Mubert details
    MusicFREEMIUM

    Mubert

    Mubert

    Royalty-free AI music generated in real time from samples licensed from human producers.

    Mubert generates royalty-free music for content, apps, and brands by composing in real time from a library of more than a million samples contributed by 4,000+ musicians. Render makes soundtracks fitted to a video's exact mood and duration, the API streams adaptive music into products, and the Play apps serve generated stations for listeners.

    Worth knowing

    Launched in 2017 — years before the genAI music wave — and pays royalties to the producers whose licensed samples its AI composes from.

    • music-gen
    • royalty-free
    • api
    • adaptive-music
  • View AIVA details
    MusicFREEMIUM

    AIVA

    AIVA Technologies

    AI music composition assistant generating original scores in 250+ styles.

    An AI music generation tool that composes original tracks across more than 250 styles in seconds, with editing and influence-by-upload of your own audio or MIDI. Aimed at creators scoring video, games, and ads. Copyright terms are tiered: free and standard tracks stay under AIVA's copyright, while Pro subscribers own the full copyright of what they generate.

    Worth knowing

    In 2016 AIVA became the first AI recognized as a composer by a rights society — France and Luxembourg's SACEM.

    • music-generation
    • composition
    • royalty-free
    • soundtrack
  • View Riffusion details
    MusicFREEMIUM

    Riffusion

    Riffusion

    Free AI music generator that creates full songs from text, audio, or images.

    An AI music platform that generates complete songs from text descriptions, audio clips, or visual prompts using its FUZZ model. Born from an open-source project that synthesized music by generating spectrogram images with Stable Diffusion, it now runs as a free web app and mobile apps with a daily-credit free tier and paid credits for heavier use.

    Worth knowing

    Started as an open-source hack generating audio from spectrogram images; its FUZZ model now ranks near the top of public music leaderboards.

    • music-generation
    • text-to-music
    • songs
    • free
  • View SOUNDRAW details
    MusicFREEMIUM

    SOUNDRAW

    SOUNDRAW

    AI music generator for royalty-free, customizable background tracks.

    An AI music generator built for content creators: choose mood, genre, and length, then customize the arrangement section by section before exporting. All paid plans include a royalty-free commercial license covering video, podcasts, ads, and client work, and tracks generated while subscribed stay licensed for life. A higher tier adds streaming-platform distribution rights.

    Worth knowing

    Founded in 2020 in Tokyo by Daigo Kusunoki; its model trains only on music made by an in-house Japanese team, not scraped audio.

    • music-generation
    • royalty-free
    • content-creators
    • background-music
  • View Beatoven.ai details
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    Beatoven.ai

    Beatoven.ai

    Royalty-free AI music generator for video, podcasts, and games.

    An AI music generator that crafts royalty-free background tracks from a text description via its 'maestro' model, with support for video and audio prompts and sound-effects generation. Every download carries a non-exclusive perpetual license for monetized use. It is Fairly Trained certified, meaning its training data is licensed and contributing musicians are compensated.

    Worth knowing

    Founded in Bengaluru in 2021; among the first ~10 companies to earn Fairly Trained's Licensed Model certification.

    • music-generation
    • royalty-free
    • background-music
    • ethical-ai
  • View Mureka details
    MusicFREEMIUM

    Mureka

    Skywork AI

    AI music generator for songs, vocals, and instrumentals from a prompt.

    An AI music platform that generates original songs, vocals, and instrumentals from text or lyrics, with stem export, voice cloning, and multi-language support. It runs its own in-house models — the Mureka O1 reasoning model and V6 — and exposes an API for developers alongside the web app. The free tier has generation limits; paid tiers add higher quotas and commercial licensing.

    Worth knowing

    Mureka O1, billed as the first music reasoning model, applies chain-of-thought 'MusiCoT' to composition; by Kunlun Tech's Skywork AI.

    • music
    • song-generation
    • vocals
    • voice-cloning
  • View Sonauto details
    MusicFREEMIUM

    Sonauto

    Sonauto

    Free AI music generator that turns prompts, lyrics, or melodies into full songs.

    Sonauto generates complete, radio-quality songs — vocals and instrumentals — from a text prompt, your own lyrics, or a hummed melody. It is powered by Melodia, the company's in-house music foundation model, and ships a developer API alongside the web app. A free tier is available with paid credit plans for higher volume and commercial use.

    Worth knowing

    A Y Combinator W24 startup founded by Cornell alumni Hayden Housen and Ryan Tremblay.

    • music-generation
    • text-to-music
    • songs
    • latent-diffusion
    • +1
  • View Udio details
    MusicFREEMIUM

    Udio

    Udio

    AI music generation. The Suno alternative.

    Hosted full-song generation focused on production-quality output and finer style control. The other half of the AI music duopoly — many producers run prompts through both Suno and Udio.

    Worth knowing

    Founded by ex-Google DeepMind researchers; its $10M seed drew backing from a16z, will.i.am, and Common.

    • music-gen
    • production
    • vocals
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    MusicFREEMIUM

    Suno

    Suno

    Full songs from a prompt. Vocals, instruments, structure.

    Hosted music generation with vocal performances, instrument arrangement, and song structure baked in. Type a description or upload a hook, get a finished track. Defined the prompt-to-song category.

    Worth knowing

    Raised $400M in June 2026 at a $5.4B valuation, more than doubling its value in seven months.

    • music-gen
    • vocals
    • song-structure