WhoSampled

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6.12K reviews
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Rated for 12+
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About this app

What is the sample in this song?
Who covered my favorite artists?
What remixes were made for this track?
WhoSampled knows!

Discover the DNA of the music you love. Scan the music playing around you, or your Spotify library, to uncover samples, covers, and remixes - and explore WhoSampled's vast universe of musical knowledge.

Awards include:
- The Guardian - 25 BEST ANDROID APPS OF THE YEAR
- The Telegraph - BEST MUSIC APP OF THE YEAR
- Music Ally Digital Music Awards - BEST MUSIC APP
- Named one of the world's best apps by The Next Web, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and more

Explore the Music Behind the Music
WhoSampled is the music DNA discovery app that reveals how songs are connected. Explore the world's largest database of sample-based music, cover songs and remixes, and discover how your favorite artists influence, and are influenced by, others.
Whether you're into Hip-Hop, Electronic/Dance, Rock, Pop, Jazz, Funk, Soul, Reggae, Classical, or beyond, WhoSampled is an essential music discovery experience.

Key Features
- Discover music through your own collection. Scan your Spotify library to uncover amazing connections for the songs you love.

- Identify music playing around you and instantly see its samples, covers and remixes.

- Access the world’s largest and richest database of music DNA, with over 1,287,000 tracks, 399,000 artists, and continuous daily additions. Search for any artist or track even if it's not in your music library.

- Beautiful, ad-free, clean interface. Simple and intuitive navigation makes exploration effortless.

- Compare songs side-by-side and listen to full‐length tracks via YouTube (where available).

- "Now Playing" feature – switch from Spotify to the WhoSampled app to instantly see the musical DNA of the song you’re listening to.

- Highly detailed information on any sample (sample timing, sample type, part sampled) lets you pinpoint exactly where and how samples were used.

- Share your finds on social media.

- Deep and unique music charts that show you trending and top-rated music as well as the all-time most influential artists and tracks.

- A host of other features and functionality including the ability to save favorites and contextual recommendations from every sample, cover and remix.

Dig deeper into the music you love. Dig into the WhoSampled app!
Deeper music discovery via samples, covers and remixes
Updated on
Feb 13, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Audio, App activity and 2 others
  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, Photos and videos and 4 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

5.87K reviews
Bill Rhoten
November 5, 2025
I really like this app and have used the free version for years. I noticed lately that none of the audio links work anymore, get the message "This Video Is Unavailable - error code: 15" for any song that I pull up. Hopefully it's a bug that can be fixed. This error is the only reason I gave it less than 5 stars. Looking forward to using your app again soon.
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Chris O'Reilly
July 29, 2021
Update: curiously after logging out and back into the app and playing a track the app enabled me to add a sample as favourite and added the track to its search history. None of the earlier tracks I had ID'd were listed though - but its progress, I guess, so I'm happy!👌Feedback score amended accordingly. Whilst its music recognition ability retains an accuracy that is unparalleled, it no longer has the capacity to save favourite samples or recent history (this is the subscription model).
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Spotify AB
July 30, 2021
Hi Chris, thanks for letting us know. We're glad to hear that the issues are resolved. Unfortunately track ID history is only stored when you are logged in, and it sounds like you were logged out previously for some reason. Please do let us know if you encounter any further issues. Many thanks, WhoSampled Support
Myles Fennell
April 24, 2021
This app is great. More detailed than I thought. Not only do samples come up it tells you if other artists have used the instrumental as well. Very underated. It give multiple results as well as time stamps so you not searching through the entire song. And something else, you don't have to type the exact name of the song which is very nice, whereas other apps may come up with another result just because you didn't put in an apostrophe. I am also a massive advert hater and they rarely come up.
40 people found this review helpful
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Spotify AB
April 27, 2021
Hi Myles, many thanks for the kind words and support. We're very glad to hear that you're enjoying the app.

What’s new

- Track ID and Spotify library scanning are now free to use without requiring a subscription.
- All ads have been removed.
- Bug fixes and stability improvements.