Simply Sing alternatives (2026)
The short answer: Simply Sing does one thing better than anything else here: it works out your voice type and shifts songs into your key, which is the fastest way to stop sounding worse than you are. Where it stops is that the score is the feedback — pitch and timing, not how you are making the sound. And you cannot find out what it costs before you start; the price appears only after the app has taken you through its voice test.
Simply Sing comes from Simply, the company behind Simply Piano, and runs on iOS, iPad and Android. It is free to download and free to start, and most songs and content need a subscription. The app finds your voice type, adjusts songs to fit it, and scores your singing as you go.
Who is writing this: the team behind Vocal Refresh, an iOS app in development for women returning to singing after years away. Every fact about another product on this page carries a source and the date we checked it, and where a competitor fits you better, we say so.
What Simply Sing does well
The key modulation is the standout, and it is not a gimmick: a song sitting three semitones above where your voice lives will make anyone sound strained, and moving it is the difference between an unpleasant hour and a good one. Levels unlock as you progress, so there is a sense of somewhere to go, and the song library is the point rather than an afterthought.
Where it stops, for a returning singer
The feedback measures pitch and timing. That tells you whether you hit the note; it cannot tell you whether hitting it cost you anything, and for a voice that has been out of use that is the whole question. Nothing in the app is watching for strain, and the path it sets is led by songs rather than by your voice. Pricing is the other friction: we checked hellosimply.com, the Apple App Store listing and Google Play on 26 August 2026 and found no published figure — you see it at checkout, after the voice test.
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How these apps compare
Seven criteria, chosen against what people actually search for here: what’s free, what it costs, where it runs, and whether anything is listening. Four of these five don’t publish a price at all — we say so rather than guessing.
| App | What you get freeSPEC | PriceSPEC | Where it runsSPEC | Does it listen backSPEC | Does it give you a planOUR VIEW | Who it's built forOUR VIEW | Biggest limitationOUR VIEW |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simply Sing | Free to download and start; most songs and content need a subscription | Not published publicly — Simply Sing shows the price at checkout | iOS, iPad and Android | Finds your voice type, transposes songs to fit it, and scores your singing as you go | Partly — levels unlock as you progress, but it is song-led rather than plan-led | People who mostly want to sing real songs, in their own key | You cannot find out what it costs before you start — the price appears only after the app has taken you through the voice test, and feedback stops at pitch and timing, so it cannot catch strain or technique habits |
| Yousician | Free to download; lessons and songs need a subscription | Not published publicly — Yousician shows the price at checkout | iOS, iPad and Android; also Mac and PC | Real-time feedback that listens while you play or sing | Yes — the fullest structured curriculum in this list, 10,000+ lessons on a guided path | People who want lessons and songs in one place, and often more than one instrument | Singing is one track on a general music platform, and the points-and-streaks style suits some people more than others |
| Singing Carrots | Vocal range test — free in the browser, no account. Pitch accuracy test and pitch training need a free account. | From $119.99/year, entry tier1 | Browser, plus a free iOS app | Real-time pitch feedback, with syllable-level hit/miss scoring in the app | Yes, since the AI Vocal Coach shipped — it assesses your voice and builds a daily session that adapts as you improve | Singers generally, and anyone who wants to measure their voice for free | The plan it builds is a practice plan for singers in general, not a route back to a voice you used to have |
| Sing Sharp | Free to download; the vocal range test and tone-deaf test are free | Not published publicly — Sing Sharp shows the price in-app | iOS, iPad and Android | Real-time pitch detection, plus breath detection and a visualisation of where your voice resonates | Partly — six named training plans that adapt to your range, but they are technique tracks rather than a coached progression | Singers working specifically on pitch, breath, mix and range | It does not publish a price anywhere on its site, so you cannot find out what it costs before installing |
| 30 Day Singer | Free Basic Access at $0/month — introduction and sample lessons, plus a weekly tips newsletter | $10.75/month billed annually ($129/year); free Basic tier at $0 | Any browser — no mobile app | None automated — video lessons, with instructor help and advice included in the membership | Yes, as a course syllabus — but it does not adapt to you | People who learn well from structured video lessons | Nothing listens back — no software hears you sing, so mistakes go uncorrected between instructor exchanges |
| Vocal Refresh | Vocal range test — free in the browser today, nothing recorded. Results come by email, so it takes an address. A free tier and a 14-day trial at launch. | $69.99/year for founding members, held for 3 years. Annual only. | iOS at launch; the range test runs in any browser today | Real-time pitch detection in the range test | Yes — a voice check places you at one of four levels and the app builds a five-to-twenty-minute session for the voice you have now | Women returning to singing after years away — not beginners | Unreleased. The waitlist is the only way in, and everything above is a plan rather than a product you can use today |
1 Given to us in writing by the vendor; not yet published on a page we can link to.
SPEC — a checkable fact, with a source and a date. If a vendor tells us one is wrong, we correct it. · OUR VIEW — our judgement, not a fact claim.
Specs verified 2026-08-28 against each vendor’s published pages and the App Store. Where a price reads “not published”, we checked the vendor’s site, the App Store and Google Play and found none. We don’t publish star ratings — they move weekly, and a six-rating average isn’t comparable to a hundred-thousand-rating one.
Which one should you pick
Keep Simply Sing if singing well-known songs in your own key, with a score at the end, is what keeps you coming back. If you want lessons and a structured path, and maybe an instrument alongside, Yousician covers more ground. If you want free measurement in a browser first, Singing Carrots has the strongest free layer here, and Sing Sharp is the pitch-drill specialist. And if you are coming back to your voice after a long gap and want practice that treats that as the whole point, that is the app we are building; the waitlist carries founding-member pricing. The long-form version of this comparison lives in our guide to vocal training apps, and all our singing-app reviews sit in one place when you want to compare everything.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Simply Sing cost?
Simply Sing does not publish a price. It is free to download and free to start, and most songs and content need a subscription. On 26 August 2026 we checked hellosimply.com, the Apple App Store listing and Google Play and found no figure — the price appears at checkout, after the in-app voice test.
Does Simply Sing teach technique?
Its feedback while you sing measures pitch and timing, so it can tell you that a note was off but not that it was a strain. Technique coaching is not what it is for.
Is there a cheaper alternative?
Singing Carrots: the vocal range test, the pitch accuracy test and the pitch training game all run free in the browser with no download. Our own vocal range test is free as well.
How do I know which app fits my voice?
Start with your range. Our free vocal range test takes about two minutes in the browser, records nothing and sends your results by email, and it gives you your lowest and highest comfortable notes in real note names — which is what any app’s song keys have to fit.
Simply Sing is for singing songs. If what you want first is your voice back, that is a different app.
Vocal Refresh is built for women returning to singing after years away: a short voice check finds your range today, then a five-to-twenty-minute session for that voice, private, no scores. Founding members pay $69.99 a year, held for three years. iOS at launch, free tier plus a 14-day trial.
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