65 Online Music Tools for Producers and Artists

Not that long ago, pulling a vocal out of a finished song was close to impossible. You’d hunt the internet for an official acapella, or try a phase trick that left you with a watery, half-there mess.

Now a free website does it in your browser. Same goes for finding the key of a reference track, getting a quick master on a demo, sending a mix to a friend for notes, or pitching a song to Spotify’s editors. A lot of what used to take a studio and a real budget now lives in a tab.

The catch is that there are thousands of these sites, and plenty of them are dead or quietly selling fake streams. These are the 65 online music tools that held up, sorted by the job you need done.

The ones I use myself are Splice for sounds, Suno when I’m stuck, Unison’s MIDI pack for chords, and LANDR. If you don’t want to spend a dollar yet, start with the five below.

Start Here: 5 Free Tools

All five are free, and together they’ll take a song from a blank session all the way to Spotify. Tap a name to jump to its entry.

How I Picked These

I picked these based on a mix of what I use myself, what my producer friends swear by, a pile of public reviews, and a whole hell of a lot of research.

You also won’t find anything here that sells streams or playlist placements. More on why near the end, in the AI section.

Make Music in Your Browser

You can build a whole track now without installing a thing. Some of these are full studios, and some are sketchpads for when an idea hits and all you’ve got is a laptop.

1. BandLab

BandLab is a full DAW that runs in your browser and on your phone, and the core of it costs nothing. It doubles as a social platform, so the place you post a track is also where you find people to work with. There’s free mastering built in too (more on that further down).

Price: Free plan, paid from $14.99/mo

2. Soundtrap

Soundtrap was built for making music with someone in another city, at the same time. Several people can work in one project live, and even the free plan gives you unlimited projects and over 7,600 loops. Spotify sold it back to its founders in 2023.

Price: Free plan, paid from $9.59/mo (billed yearly)

3. Audiotool

Audiotool looks like a table full of hardware, with drum machines and synths you wire together using virtual cables. It’s free with no ads, and you can jam in the same session with other people. You do need a free account to open the studio.

Price: Free

4. Online Sequencer

Open the page and you’re in a piano roll, clicking in notes. No sign-up, nothing to download. People have made over 5 million sequences on it since 2013, and when yours is worth keeping you can export it as MIDI or audio and finish it in your DAW.

Price: Free

5. Hookpad

Think of Hookpad as a chord and melody sketchpad that already knows music theory. The chords that fit your key sit right in front of you. The free plan covers chords and melody with unlimited cloud saves. Paid is $7.99/mo or $199 for life, and there’s an AI add-on called Aria for $14.99/mo.

Price: Free plan, paid from $7.99/mo

6. Splice Beatmaker

A free drum sequencer in your browser, loaded with sounds from the Splice library. Program a pattern and the MIDI download is free. For the audio, you’ll need a Splice plan.

Price: Free (audio downloads need a Splice plan)

7. Suno

Type a prompt and Suno writes a whole song, vocals and all. Its Studio (on the Premier plan, $24/mo billed yearly) adds MIDI, stems and automation, which basically makes it a DAW now. I’m a huge proponent of reference tracks, but Suno is becoming my number two or three option when I get stuck. How I use it (and the legal mess around it) is in the AI section below.

Price: Free plan (no downloads or commercial rights), paid from $8/mo (billed yearly)

Split Stems and Remove Vocals

Stem splitters pull a finished song apart into vocals, drums, bass and the rest. Fun for remixes, and maybe more useful for learning: solo the bass on a track you love and you’ll hear what it’s actually doing. Just clear it first if you plan to release anything made from someone else’s song.

8. LALAL.AI

The free plan on LALAL.AI is really a test drive: 10 minutes of audio, previews only, so you can hear how it handles your song before you pay.

Price: Free plan, paid from $7.50/mo (billed yearly)

9. Moises

Moises splits a song into as many as 27 stem types and shows you the chords, and you can slow it down or change the key to play along. Charlie Puth is its Chief Music Officer (no joke). Its newer Moises Studio is a browser DAW for working on songs with other people.

Price: Free plan available

10. Fadr

The free plan here is unusually generous: unlimited four-stem splits as MP3s, and MIDI detection that turns the parts into notes you can drag into your DAW. Plus ($10/mo or $100/yr) adds 16 instrument types and WAV files.

Price: Free plan, paid from $10/mo

11. UVR Online

A lot of producers pull stems with Ultimate Vocal Remover, a free desktop app. UVR Online, from X-Minus, puts those same models in your browser with no account needed, and one of the people behind it, aufr33, is a core UVR developer.

Price: Free plan available

12. Kits.ai

Kits.ai is mostly about voices: sing a part and turn it into a different voice. It has a vocal remover on the side. The free plan gives you 15 minutes of conversion a month to try it, but you can’t download anything until you pay.

Price: Free plan, paid from $8/mo (billed yearly)

Find Samples, MIDI and Sounds

Samples and MIDI packs are shortcuts, and there’s nothing wrong with taking one. Some of these cost a few bucks a month. Plenty cost nothing.

13. Splice

Splice is where I go when a track needs something extra. I’ll loop my song, sort by key and by a BPM range within about five BPM of mine, then cycle through sounds until one just happens to work. On one session I went through Splice like a madman, pulling atmospheres and vocal pads for the vibe. It has more than 3 million sounds, and Splice says it will never train AI on your work.

Price: From $10.84/mo (billed yearly)

14. Tracklib

Tracklib lets you sample real records legally. More than 100,000 of them come with the clearance built in, and it runs on credits: the Play plan gives you 50 a month.

Price: From $7.99/mo

15. Loopcloud

Loopcloud pairs a big sample library with an editor for chopping loops before they hit your project. Beatport sold it back to its founder, Matt Pelling, in late 2025. There’s a 14-day trial if you want to poke around first.

Price: From $7.99/mo

16. Freesound

Freesound is where the odd one-off noises live: more than 700,000 Creative Commons sounds, all free with an account. It’s run by the Music Technology Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Check each sound’s license, since some ask you to credit the person who recorded it.

Price: Free

17. Samplette

Crate digging without the crates. Hit a button and Samplette serves up a random record from YouTube to sample. The free version has ads.

Price: Free plan, paid from $9.99/mo

18. Pianobook

Composer Christian Henson started Pianobook in 2018 as a community library of free sampled instruments. It now has more than 1,700 packs, most of them played through the free Decent Sampler plugin.

Price: Free

19. Unison MIDI Chord Pack

Full disclosure: Unison’s founder, Sep Eshragh, is a former Masterclass student, and this is an affiliate link. I’m also a huge fan of this pack. More than 1,200 MIDI files of chords and progressions in every key. Drag one into your DAW and you’re building a song a minute later.

Price: $27 one-time

Analyze Songs and Check Your Studio

These answer the quick questions. What key is this song in? What did it sample? How loud is my master? What delay time fits 124 BPM?

A key finder can tell you a song is in F minor. Hearing why it works, and using that in your own tracks, is a big part of what we teach in the Masterclass.

20. Tunebat

Look up a reference track and you’ll have its key and BPM in seconds, out of a database of more than 100 million songs. The analyzer works on your own files too. They never leave your browser, and there’s no cap on how many you check.

Price: Free plan, paid from $2.99/mo (billed yearly)

21. Chordify

Chordify listens to a song and shows you the chords as it plays, across more than 36 million songs. Handy when there’s a progression you can’t stop replaying. The free version has ads and some limits.

Price: Free plan, paid from $2/mo (billed yearly)

22. Hooktheory TheoryTab

TheoryTab breaks songs down chord by chord, melody included, and shows how it all sits in the key. Over 80,000 songs are up so far, and browsing them is free. Pull up a hook you love and you’ll see how it’s put together.

Price: Free

23. WhoSampled

Ever hear a loop and think, I know that from somewhere? WhoSampled tracks the samples, covers and remixes behind more than 1.3 million songs. Spotify bought it in late 2025, but it still runs as its own free site.

Price: Free

24. Loudness Penalty

Streaming services turn loud songs down. Drop your master in here and you’ll see how much Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, TIDAL and a few others will lower it before anyone hears it. Your file stays in your browser.

Price: Free

25. AudioCheck

Free test tones and hearing tests, all in one place. Run your headphones or speakers through it, then your own ears.

Price: Free

26. Online Tone Generator

Need a 60 Hz sine to check your sub? This plays a tone at any frequency. Sweeps and a subwoofer test are in there as well, 17 tools in all.

Price: Free

27. banger.show BPM Calculator

For delay times I just use whatever calculator comes up first when I search, and this one sits near the top. Type in your tempo and you get every note value from whole notes down to 1/128, with dotted and triplet versions (at 120 BPM, an eighth note is 250 ms). No sign-up, no ads.

Price: Free

Master Your Music Online

Online mastering is a quick way to hear a finished version of your track and get demos out the door. It has no idea what you were going for, though. If you’d rather learn to do it yourself, Mix Master Flow is our course on mixing and mastering your own music.

One trick worth stealing: master a track yourself, run it through one of these, and A/B the two.

28. LANDR

LANDR is a good placeholder while you’re learning to master yourself. Mastering lives inside LANDR Studio now. Make a free account and hear a mastered preview, then grab a single WAV master for $10 or go monthly.

Price: Free preview, paid from $8.25/mo (billed yearly)

29. eMastered

Master and preview as many tracks as you like for free, and only pay when you want the download. The paid plans bundle mastering with other stuff, like distribution and stem splitting.

Price: Free preview, paid from $15/mo (billed yearly)

30. BandLab Mastering

BandLab’s mastering is free, with four presets co-designed by mastering engineers including Mandy Parnell. A BandLab membership gets you unlimited masters and more control.

Price: Free

31. Waves AI Mastering Online

Yes, that Waves. The plugin company runs its own AI mastering site, and you can pay $3.99 per track without signing up for a plan. Nice if you only master now and then. Yearly plans start at $71.64 for 36 masters.

Price: From $3.99 per track

32. Masterchannel

Masterchannel’s Professional plan comes with a mastering profile built with engineer Wez Clarke. There’s no free tier listed, so save this one for when you’re ready to pay.

Price: From $15/mo (billed yearly)

33. Automix by RoEx

RoEx mixes, which none of the others here do. Upload up to 16 tracks on the free plan and it balances them into a mix, with one free download (after that, $7.99 each). RoEx says it never trains on your uploads.

Price: Free plan, paid from $12.50/mo (billed yearly)

Train Your Ears and Learn Theory

Plugins can’t fix what you can’t hear, and most of these cost nothing. They’ll train you to spot the problems. If you want someone to point at what’s wrong in your tracks and walk you through the fix, that’s the Masterclass.

34. SoundGym

SoundGym is a video game for your ears. Short daily games train you until you stop hunting for problems in your mix and just hear them. The mud at 300 Hz. The snare that’s 1 dB too bright. The free tier gives you a three-game workout every day, and Pro opens up all 21 games. I’ve been pointing producers there since 2018 because it works.

Price: Free plan available

35. ToneGym

Same company as SoundGym, but this one trains the musical side of your ears, like hearing intervals and chords. The free plan includes a Music Theory 101 course.

Price: Free plan available

36. Quiztones

Frequency ear training from The Pro Audio Files, with over 450 quizzes. Heads up: it’s an iPhone and Mac app, with no web or Android version.

Price: Free on iOS, $19.99 on Mac

37. Teoria

José Rodríguez Alvira has run Teoria since 1997. It’s a deep set of theory tutorials and ear training exercises, and every bit of it is free.

Price: Free

38. musictheory.net

Skipped music theory? Start here. Short lessons and exercises walk you through the basics, no ads and no account. The iOS apps cost a few dollars if you want it on your phone.

Price: Free

39. Ableton Learning Music

You don’t need Ableton for this one. It’s about 55 short, hands-on lessons on beats, chords, melodies and song structure, all in your browser, and you can export what you make to Live.

Price: Free

40. Ableton Learning Synths

The synth version of Learning Music. You move a filter or an envelope and hear what it does to the sound, then mess around in the Playground and export what you made.

Price: Free

Collaborate and Get Feedback

Email someone an MP3 and you’ll usually get “sounds good!” back. These let people hear your mix at full quality and tell you which bar they mean.

41. Audiomovers LISTENTO

LISTENTO streams audio live, straight out of your DAW to someone’s browser or phone. The basic plan handles up to 32-bit/384 kHz, including Atmos, for up to 10 listeners. It’s the closest thing to having the artist on the couch behind you when they’re on the other side of the world. You can try it free for 7 days.

Price: From $99.99/yr, or $12.99/mo

42. Untitled

Untitled (styled [untitled]) is a private home for works in progress. Send someone a link and you’ll know whether they actually listened. A paid membership adds stem splitting and section looping, plus pitch and speed controls.

Price: Free plan, paid from $49.99/yr or $7.99/mo

43. Samply

Your files stay lossless, and people can drop comments at exact timestamps, which is perfect for mix notes. You get 4 GB on the free plan, and it doesn’t expire. Pro adds spatial audio and watermarking.

Price: Free plan, paid from $5/mo (billed yearly)

44. Pibox

Pibox is built for audio teams that need sign-off on mixes. There are plug-ins for Pro Tools, Cubase, Nuendo and Resolve, so you can use it from inside your session. Guests are free on every plan.

Price: Free plan, paid from $8/mo per user (billed yearly)

45. Filepass

Use Filepass when the mix is going to a paying client. It doesn’t encode your audio at all, so they hear exactly what you sent, and they can leave timestamped revision notes. There’s a 14-day trial.

Price: From $19/mo (billed yearly)

46. SoundBetter

SoundBetter is a marketplace for hiring the people you can’t find locally, like a mix engineer or a session singer. Posting a job and hiring are free, and each pro sets their own price.

Price: Free to post a job (pros set their own rates)

Release Your Music and Get Paid

A distributor gets your music onto Spotify, Apple Music and the rest. The songwriting side pays separately, and a lot of producers never collect it, so the publishing tools further down matter too.

47. DistroKid

Pay once a year, upload as much as you want. The Musician plan is $24.99 a year. Investment firm CVC agreed to take a majority stake in the company in July 2026.

Price: From $24.99/yr

48. TuneCore

TuneCore sends your music to more than 150 stores, with unlimited releases on the Rising Artist plan. Read the fine print, though. It takes 20% of what you earn on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

Price: From $24.99/yr

49. CD Baby

Hate subscriptions? CD Baby charges once per release ($9.99 for a single, $14.99 for an album) and there’s no yearly fee to keep your music up. It keeps 9% of your digital revenue and gives you free UPC and ISRC codes.

Price: $9.99 per single

50. Ditto Music

Ditto does distribution, with publishing and sync add-ons if you want them. You keep 100% of your streaming income.

Price: From $19/yr

51. UnitedMasters

UnitedMasters adds brand deals and sync opportunities on top of distribution. Its DEBUT+ plan is $19.99 a year.

Price: From $19.99/yr

52. Songtrust

When your song gets streamed, there’s songwriter money on top of what your distributor pays you. Songtrust registers your songs and collects those royalties worldwide. It costs $100 once, then keeps 15% of performance royalties and 20% of everything else. If you cancel, it keeps collecting for one more year.

Price: $100 one-time, plus a cut of what it collects

53. Muso

Muso (it used to be Muso.AI) pulls all your credits into one profile. Next time someone asks what you’ve worked on, you send a link.

Price: Free plan available

54. The MLC

Streams in the US earn songwriters mechanical royalties, and The MLC is who collects them. It’s free to join and has paid out more than $4.2 billion so far.

Price: Free

Promote Your Music and Grow

Once the song is out, people still have to find it. This is the pre-save, pitching, stats and cover-art side of a release.

55. Spotify for Artists

If you only use one promo tool, make it this one. It’s where your stats live and where you pitch Spotify’s editors. Pitch an unreleased song at least 7 days before release and it’s guaranteed to land on your followers’ Release Radar. Countdown Pages handle pre-saves, and the paid Marquee and Showcase ads are there when you want them.

Price: Free

56. Feature.fm

Feature.fm handles the links you share around a release, from pre-saves to smart links. The free plan covers one pre-save service and seven days of stats, and every plan starts with a 7-day trial of Pro Artist.

Price: Free plan, paid from $7/mo (billed yearly)

57. Hypeddit

Hypeddit is known for download gates: someone gets your track free in exchange for a follow or an email address. Smart links and pre-saves are in there too, and the free Rookie plan includes unlimited links and gates.

Price: Free plan, paid from $9/mo (billed yearly)

58. Linktree

The link in your bio, with music players built in and pre-saves for Spotify and 60+ other platforms.

Price: Free plan, paid from $6/mo (billed yearly)

59. SubmitHub

Pay to pitch curators, and get a guaranteed listen. Curators charge 1 to 5 credits and have 72 hours to reply, or you get your credit back. You can also earn free credits by rating other people’s songs. Whether anyone adds your song is still up to them.

Price: Free credits available, paid credits from $1

60. Groover

Groover puts your song in front of more than 3,000 curators, along with radio stations and labels. Each contact costs about $2, and you get it back if they don’t reply within 7 days.

Price: About $2 per contact

61. Chartmetric

Chartmetric puts your numbers from every platform in one dashboard. It’s also a sneaky good way to study how the artists you look up to are growing. The free account is basic, but it’s enough to get a feel for it.

Price: Free plan, paid from $40/mo (billed yearly)

62. Songstats

DJs and electronic producers, this one’s yours. Songstats pulls in Beatport, Traxsource and 1001Tracklists alongside the usual streaming numbers. There’s a trial, but no free plan.

Price: From €11.99/mo

63. Canva

Canva has templates for cover art and release-week social posts. It’ll handle simple video editing, and the free plan goes a long way.

Price: Free plan available

64. Rotor Videos

Rotor turns your track into a music video automatically, and it can make Spotify Canvas loops and Apple Music motion art. Previews are free, then you pay monthly or per credit.

Price: From $9.99/mo (billed yearly), or $9.99 per credit

65. CapCut

So much music promo is short vertical video now. CapCut is a free editor for making them on your phone or computer.

Price: Free plan, paid from $19.99/mo

AI Tools: What I Use and What I Wouldn’t

I’m not anti Suno or anyone who uses it. But I keep coming back to one question: if anyone can create anything, why is anyone paying attention?

For me the answer is taste. The thing that really separates people is their own taste filter, their sense of what they think is dope. Someone who already has the skills to build music, with AI handing them endless ideas, is going to make some of the best music out there.

Suno

Here’s how I actually use it. I take a 30-second clip of an idea, or a broken-down version of it, throw it into Suno and tell it to expand the clip into the best deep house track I’ve ever heard, with a catchy melody and dark, eerie vocal effects.

For every five to 10 outputs, there’s usually one thing that makes me go, oh man, that was really cool. A lot of the ideas are pretty rough. Once I pasted an idea straight in and recreated it with MIDI, but I’ve almost never used an output as is. As a co-writer, it’s pretty cool. Mostly, it reminds me that the best ideas are quite simple.

The legal side is still moving. Warner settled with Suno in November 2025 and became a licensing partner, and BMG and Believe signed deals in 2026. Suno’s v6 models were built with all three. Universal and Sony haven’t settled: their 2024 lawsuit is still going, and they filed a second one aimed at v6 in September 2026.

The free plan comes with no commercial rights and no downloads. If you want to release anything that came out of it, you need Pro at $10/mo ($8 billed yearly) or higher.

Udio

Udio has blocked downloads since October 2025, when it signed a deal with Universal. It’s moving to a licensed service where everything stays inside the app, and that app isn’t out yet. Warner, Merlin and Kobalt have deals with it too, while Sony is still suing. For now, there’s no way to get a track out of it to release.

MicDrop by Soundlabs

This is BT’s AI voice plugin, and it’s the one I’d recommend over any other voice cloning tool out there. BT is CEO and co-founder of Soundlabs. Its 80+ voice models are ethically trained, and the company has partnered with Universal since 2024.

It’s a plugin for your DAW (AU and VST3, plus an iPad version), so it’s a bit of a cheat in a post about online tools. MicDrop Classic is $79 one-time or $9.99/mo, with a 7-day trial.

Claude and ChatGPT

I work heavily in Claude and ChatGPT for the business side of Hyperbits. They’re also good for a quick theory question or reading through a contract. Both have free plans, and the main paid plans are $20/mo (ChatGPT also has an $8/mo Go plan).

I’ll be honest, though: there was a stretch where I leaned on ChatGPT way too hard for my emails, and I lost my voice a bit. Let them handle the admin, and write anything with your name on it yourself.

Skip Anything That Sells Streams

You’ll see the ads. Thousands of Spotify streams, or a spot on a big playlist, for a fee. Don’t.

Since April 2024, Spotify has charged labels and distributors for every track caught with flagrant artificial streaming, reportedly €10 per flagged track. In a single 12-month stretch, it pulled more than 75 million spammy tracks.

And small numbers earn nothing anyway. A track needs at least 1,000 streams in the past 12 months, plus a minimum number of unique listeners that Spotify doesn’t publish, before it pays any royalties at all. If you’re going to spend money on promo, spend it on getting a real curator to listen, on SubmitHub or Groover.

Frequently Asked Questions

Now Close Some Tabs and Make Something

Sixty-five tools is a lot of tabs. Pick the two or three that fix whatever’s slowing you down right now, and leave the rest until you need them.

And if you can hear the gap between your music and the music you love, it usually comes down to hundreds of tiny decisions no website makes for you. Learning to make them is what we built the Masterclass for.

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