searchzRandom song IDs
searchz asks Apple Music for hundreds of random song IDs at a time. Every song in the catalogue has the same chance of showing up, including the millions nobody has heard yet.
A music app for iPhone · coming soon
Stop hearingthe same songs.
searchz is a TikTok-style music feed that refuses to loop. Spotify and YouTube give you more of what you already play. searchz digs through the entire Apple Music catalogue at random, so every swipe is something you haven't heard yet.
40M+songs indexed
0repeats, ever
99%of subscriptions shared by listening time
Swipe up for the next song
The algorithm loop
Why your feed plays the same 200 songs
Recommendation feeds study what you play, then suggest whatever listeners with similar taste are already playing. Popular songs get recommended, so they get played, so they get recommended again. Every week, your world gets a little smaller.
Other music apps
You orbit what you already know.
- Recommends what similar listeners already played
- The most-played songs get pushed the hardest
- The same artists come back again and again
searchz
Every swipe lands somewhere new in the catalogue.
- Picks random songs from the entire Apple Music catalogue
- Skips the charts and the top of every search
- Never plays you the same song twice
How searchz breaks it
Built to keep things fresh.
Most apps are built to keep you comfortable. searchz is built to make you a crate digger. Here's what happens every time it looks for songs.
Skips the top
It also searches small styles and record labels, then throws away the top quarter of every answer, where the most-played songs sit. Artists with a big following on ListenBrainz (2,000 listeners or more) are left out.
Never the same song twice
Every song you've seen is remembered, even when it comes back on another release, and it never shows up in your feed again.
Artist cooldown
Once an artist has played, the next 25 songs are by someone else. No single artist can take over your feed.
Wildcards on purpose
About 3 in 10 songs ignore your taste on purpose, mostly from genres you haven't explored yet. You set how adventurous it gets.
Each like counts on its own
Like hard techno and liquid drum & bass? You get both, not a mushy average of the two. Matches come from around each song you loved.
Every song says why it's there:
Random pick
Wildcard
Because you liked …
Swipe like TikTok
One song per screen. Swipe to dig.
Open the app and music starts. Every gesture teaches searchz a little about you, without ever closing the door on something new.
Swipe upNext song
Double-tapAdd to Liked Songs
Swipe rightLove it: more around this song
Swipe leftNope: steers away from it
Tap the artistAll their other songs
Previews and whole songs
Songs from Apple Music play as 30-second previews, which is what Apple allows. Free music and songs artists upload to searchz play whole.
Then it's yours
Found one? Save it to a playlist or open it in Apple Music. Songs from searchz download to play offline.
Listen along nearby
Turn on the map to see what people within 75 m are playing, listen along with them, or say hi.
Search that digs
Search pushes songs you've already had to the end and mixes in finds from the deep end of the catalogue.
Our own library
Today we dig. Tomorrow, we host.
searchz keeps a database to learn from how people listen, but mostly to build something bigger: our own music database, and one day our own music library, with music from artists who upload it straight to us.
40.7Msongs you can search, from open music databases
2.5Martists, with links to everywhere they are
224kfree songs (Creative Commons and public domain) on our own server, and growing
You?artists who upload to searchz play in full and can be downloaded in the app
If we get traction
99%
follows what you listen to. We keep 1%.
Subscriptions are optional, and you choose what you pay, starting from €1 a month. It's a way to support the artists who upload their music to searchz: 99% is split by listening time, and the time you spend on an artist's songs goes to that artist, wherever you hear them, Discover included.
Your money follows your ears
Listen to artists' uploads for 30 minutes in a month: 5 to one artist, 25 to another. They get 5/30 and 25/30 of your 99%.
One artist? It depends on the rest
Listen only to one artist's uploads all month, and they get the full 99%. Spend half your time on free music or previews, and they get half: the other half goes to searchz.
What doesn't go to artists
Time on free music (public-domain and Creative Commons songs, given away by their makers) and on Apple Music's 30-second previews goes to searchz: there's no one to pay for those through searchz, and it keeps the server running. Your profile shows where your money went.
Try it
Where one subscriber's money goes in a month.
Time on free music and Apple Music previews goes to searchz.
For artists
Put your music on searchz.
Make an account in the searchz app, log in here, upload your songs, and see how long people listen and how much of that comes from subscribers. Songs on our own server play in full in the app, not as 30-second previews.
What we take
- 1:30 to 9:00 long. Shorter or longer songs can't be uploaded.
- 100% yours. You wrote, produced and own the song.
- No remixes of popular songs, bootlegs or edits of other people's music.
What you agree to
- You own it, we license it to stream and make it available in the app.
- Listeners can download your songs in the app.
- Subscriptions are optional and pay-what-you-want, from €1.
What you get
- 99% of subscriptions, split by listening time. Time on your songs is yours, Discover included.
- Your studio: listening time per song, and the share from subscribers.
- New ears. A feed built to find music nobody has heard yet.
Help us grow
Help expand the library.
Building a music library takes a lot of ears. If you want to help, we'd love to hear from you.
A&R and scouts: point us to artists who belong here.
Labels and collectives: bring a catalogue you own.
Anyone: tell us what you'd want from searchz.