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SongCipher hands you a famous lyric reworded in our own words and dares you to name the track and the artist in 30 seconds. Guess right, hear the hook, and climb the leaderboard.
SongCipher is a free music trivia game for Android. Each question shows a famous lyric reworded in our own words, and you have 30 seconds to name the song and the artist from four choices. It has 1,600+ songs and about 4,000 questions in 12 themed packs, all free, plus a new Daily Tournament every day, friend challenges and real-time head-to-head matches. The only purchase is an optional one-time $2.99 Remove Ads upgrade.
Updated October 2026
Less a trivia app, more a late-night lounge where your music memory earns bragging rights.
Nail the answer and the song's preview kicks in — like lifting a vinyl sleeve on exactly the track you hoped for. It's the most satisfying second in music gaming.
A fresh Daily Tournament drops every day: ten songs, thirty seconds each, one shot. Keep your streak alive, share your score card, and chase the weekly board while real-time ELO matches and friend challenges keep the rivalry going.
Thousands of questions across themed packs, with song previews and full offline play. Every pack is free — start decoding right away.
Built for people who know every word — and want to prove it.
Every pack, free. Rock, pop, hip-hop, R&B, country, indie and decade packs — all unlocked.
A new Daily Tournament every day. Ten songs, thirty seconds each, one shot. Keep your daily streak alive.
Share your score card. A spoiler-free grid of your Daily, ready for the group chat.
Leaderboards for every kind of rivalry. Daily, this week, all-time, by pack and among friends. The weekly board resets every Monday.
Real-time head-to-head. ELO-ranked matches that race the clock and actually mean something.
Friend challenges + invite codes. Send a round, talk trash, settle it whenever they finally cave.
Song previews on the reveal. Hear the hook the second you nail the answer.
Plays offline. Subway, plane, dead-zone campsite — the lounge travels with you.
Review the ones you missed. Replay the songs that stumped you until they don't.
Achievements worth chasing. Streaks, milestones and badges that reward deep-cut diehards.
Go ad-free anytime. One optional upgrade removes ads and supports the game.
Warm amber light on deep indigo, designed to feel like album liner notes. Prefer it bright? There's a light theme too.
SongCipher is a free music trivia game for Android. Each question shows a lyric we have reworded in our own words, and you have 30 seconds to pick the song and artist from four choices. It has 1,600+ songs and about 4,000 questions across 12 themed packs.
Yes. Every pack is free to play. The game shows ads, and there is one optional purchase: Remove Ads, a one-time $2.99 upgrade that also gives unlimited lives. There is no subscription.
Solo play uses lives: you have 5, a wrong answer or a timeout costs one, and they all refill 4 hours after you lose the first, or right away if you watch a short ad. The Daily, friend challenges and head-to-head matches never use lives.
A new Daily unlocks at your local midnight: 10 songs, 30 seconds each, and one attempt. Everyone gets the same songs, so you can compare scores on the daily leaderboard, keep a daily streak and share a spoiler-free score card.
Yes. Add friends by username or a 6-character invite code, send them a challenge on the same questions, or play a real-time head-to-head match ranked by ELO. Friends and weekly leaderboards (reset every Monday) keep score.
No. The clues are our own original rewordings, not lyrics. After you answer you can play a 30-second preview of the song and open its full lyrics on the web.
SongCipher is for Android. It is in testing ahead of its Google Play launch, and an iPhone version is not available yet.
Yes. After the first download, solo rounds work without a connection, and your results sync when you are back online. The Daily, challenges and live matches need a connection.
In the app go to Settings and choose Delete Account, or follow the steps at songcipher.com/delete-account.html. Your account and its data are removed.
Yes. The app's menus and screens follow your phone's language, and you can switch between English and Spanish anytime in Settings. The song clues, lyrics, titles and artist names stay in English, because the songs in SongCipher are English-language tracks.
SongCipher is coming to Google Play. Want in early?
Beta APK is an unreleased test build — Android will warn about installing outside the Play Store.