Karaoke is a popular activity. Before the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, many people may love to go to KTV or bar to sing their favorite songs. Now, we have a lot of time at home. Then, can we sing Karaoke at home?

Of course! There are many Karaoke apps that allow you to singing, recording and also sharing your voice with your friends, family and also fans via social media.

Whether you want to do it professionally or simply for fun, here are some of the best free Karaoke apps you can use to sing songs.

The Best Free Karaoke Apps 

1. Smule

Smule is one of the best Karaoke app available out there for both Android and iPhone users. 

Smule is an American music app initially released under the name Sing! Karaoke. With the Smule app, you can sing the way you want and create your favorite music along with your friends as well. Be it solo or duet, you can sing your favorite songs and also apply some audio effects or even video filters to make the song entertaining. 

Main Features:

• Choose to sing LIVE or record
• Sing a duet, solo, or join a group performance
• Star in your own music video
• Express yourself with creative audio and visual filters
• Choose from more than 10M karaoke songs in your favorite genres, across languages

📱Available on: Android, iPhone, iPad

2. Karaoke by Yokee

Yokee is another karaoke application that allows users to have an entirely private karaoke experience on their smartphone.

Yokee presents its users with an extensive library of licensed songs from US publishers in some twenty languages, as well as access to YouTube’s database of sing-along videos. Everything from classical opera to pop, rock and country genres are represented on the platform so that users can really test out their range.

The big one-up for Yokee over other more traditional karaoke platforms is that you can record your sing-along sessions and send them to your friends. The downside is that this fun feature doesn’t come free of charge. 

Main Features:

• Search for songs from an endless catalogue of karaoke music
• Sing, record and share your version of your favorite songs
• Listen to your friends’ performances
• Yokee Karaoke app now has more than 1m monthly active users

📱Available on: Android, iPhone, iPad

3. The Voice – Sing Karaoke

Have you heard of NBC’s reality singing competition, The Voice? Well, the network has capitalized on the show’s popularity and released its own karaoke app.

This Karaoke singing app has a good collection of pre-recorded music of famous songs. One feature that differentiates The Voice from other Karaoke singing apps is that the more songs you sing; the more songs get unlocked from a list of top performing artists around the world. This app also helps you add different audio effects and also enables sharing your performances on social media.

Main Features:

• SING KARAOKE for free from a huge library of songs.
• RECORD your favorite songs with our amazing voice and visual effects.
• SHARE your creations with 100M+ singers on our platform.
• DUET with singers from all over the globe.
• WATCH amazing covers, like, comment and interact with other singers.

📱Available on: Android, iPhone, iPad

4. StarMaker

StarMaker is downloaded by more than 50 million people on the Google Play Store and it is one of the top-rated Karaoke apps. 

StarMaker helps people to showcase their singing talent on the platform. The app collaborates with various brands and recording artist to help users create and share their talent by making duet videos. There are various Indian and American artists who use the app to sing their own songs.

Main Features:

• Collab with your friends and favorite artists
• Record and edit your karaoke songs
• Captures your voice with the best quality sound
• Suggests new content for you based on your tastes and style
• Sing or participate in regular karaoke competitions

📱Available on: Android, iPhone, iPad

5. Voloco

Voloco is a vocal effects app with automatic tuning, harmony, and vocoding. This is a lot like Dolby On, but with more complex things to help your recorded singing sound better. For instance, you can remove background noise, put your voice to a beat, EQ your voice, play with things like reverb and compression, and more.

Along with these it has also an option of karaoke so that you can easily sing a song and record them on your smartphone. 

Main Features:

• Studio sound without the studio
• Free beat library
• Import your beats for free
• Process existing audio or video
• Extract vocals
• Over 50 effects grouped into 12 preset packs

📱Available on: Android, iPhone, iPad

6. KaraFun

More than 44,000 karaoke songs around the world are accessible to you in a few flicks of your finger. KaraFun is one of the best karaoke applications out there, and you can start belting out anytime, anywhere.

By turning on the lead vocals, you can sing along with the singer’s voice. The app will allow you to adjust the pitch to sing in a lower or higher key. You can even connect your device to any Chromecast-compatible device or to any video projector or TV and enjoy your favorite songs. Also, you can add your favorite songs to a convenient location and save them offline.

Main Features:

• 44,000 karaoke songs available
• Control each vocal track individually
• Add any track to your favorites
• Works with Chromecast
• Offline Mode

📱Available on: Android, iPhone, iPad

7.  MagicSing Karaoke

MagicSing features more than 200,000 song choices from different countries in a litany of languages. It highlights the various elements of music and singing by allowing users to alter the tone, tempo, and melody so that the song can be tailored to each unique singer! It provides a voice search function and a wide-range of musical genres from gospel music to the latest pop songs.

Main Features:

• It provides a voice search function
• Includes a wide range of musical genres
• Supports key changes, tone, tempo, and melody
• Uses a small amount of data
• The latest songs are automatically updated

📱Available on: Android, iPhone, iPad

8. Singa

With Singa, you can easily find a song you want to sing with a list of over 80,000 high-quality songs with karaoke lyrics to choose from. No need for expensive karaoke equipment or sneaking over to a karaoke bar.

You can also adjust the karaoke song pitch to a level that suits your singing perfectly. Once you are done recording your song, you can share your work with your friends on different social media platforms.

Main Features:

• Song library of more than 80,000 high-quality songs
• Sing karaoke at home or hit the stage at Singa-powered venues
• Adjust the song pitch to suit your vocal range or turn on guide vocals
• Song queue and pop out player guarantee the best karaoke party

📱Available on: Android, iPhone, iPad

9. Singing Machine Karaoke

Singing Machine Karaoke is another fun karaoke app selection that will give you plenty of musical choices, along with the ability to record, edit, and replay the tracks you sang at varying audio qualities. One of the best feature of this app is to allows you to collab with your friends and favorite artists. 

Main Features:

• 50,000+ songs from today and decades past in many languages and genres including pop, rock, R&B, hip-hop, country, Latin, and more
• Disney favorites including Frozen, Moana, Beauty and the Beast, and the Descendants.
• Pre-made party mixes in a variety of themes including “Party Time,” “Karaoke #Hits,” “Totally ‘80s,” “Disco Party,” and “Motown Classics”

📱Available on: Android, iPhone, iPad

10.  MiXiT – Sing Karaoke 

MiXiT is a karaoke app with a social element. It contains a number of hits from various artists. They can sing, record, and even video of you singing the song. With this you can also upload your own music and with the voice removal function of the app you can sing it yourself. 

Main Features:

• Sing solo or create a duet with your favorite stars
• Edit your audio with cool effects such as: reverb, speaker, echo, a capella, chipmunk, yodel etc
• Use cool looks and filters to give your music video that extra special touch
• The only karaoke app with 3D sound effects!

📱Available on: Android, iPhone, iPad

11.  Learn to Sing, Singing Lessons

Learn to Sing, Singing Lessons app replaces the need for an expensive vocal instruction to help you learn to sing, or improve your voice. Using its “What You See is What You Sing” technology, users can “watch” their pitch in real-time and thereby reinforce auditory pitch awareness. 

Main Features:

• What You See is What You Sing technology
• Record and playback
• Breath filtering
• Dedicate and share songs with friends
• Train + Train feature

📱Available on: Android, iPhone, iPad

12.  SingTrue

SingTrue features over 30 interactive exercises that help you learn to sing easily, confidently and in perfect tune. By using the iPhone microphone and sophisticated signal processing, the app analyses your singing and provides personal feedback on how you can improve.

Main Features:

• Take a test to see if you’re tone deaf
• Anyone can use the app and learn how to sing better and on pitch
• Listen to examples from professional singers
• Work your way through more than 30 interactive singing exercises
• Track your progress to see how far you’ve come

📱Available on: Android, iPhone, iPad

13.  WeSing

WeSing, from Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent, is a social karaoke app, thriving as many KTV venues around Asia close during the pandemic.

WeSing allows you to easily record your vocals, add filters and effects, and share privately or with friends. If you only like one part of the song, the ‘section’ feature can let you sing just that portion. If you want to work with another artist or karaoke sing with a friend, the ‘duet’ feature can let you tag team the song from any number of music categories you love.

Main Features:

• Sing along to new and classic songs with music and lyrics
• Record and edit your karaoke songs with a large selection of special effects
• Duet with your friends and favorite artists
• Have fun with your friends by Online Scoring and online recording sharing
• Make albums for your own songs

📱Available on: Android, iPhone

14.  VocalParty

VocalParty is a social networking app where you make friends singing Karaoke. It’s one of the most beloved voice-based social networking apps! Use your voice to meet interesting souls, and share your feelings here.

Main Features:

• Sing with your friends in the singing room
• Thousands of free songs for genres like Rock, Pop, Rap, R&B, Electronic, and Country Music
• Many instruments and custom DIY tracks are available
• Voice-based social media – Encounter the most irresistible voices out there

📱Available on: Android, iPhone

15.  Backtrackit: Musicians’ Player

BackTrackIt is a different kind of karaoke app. It’s technically for musicians who play instruments. You can put in your own tracks, have the app delete a specific instrument, and try to play it on your own.

BackTrackIt app will be especially appreciated by those who are passionate about music and like to play their favorite songs on their musical instruments. 

Main Features:

• Wide variety of original backing tracks for you to play along.
• Shift the key and tempo of any of your songs!
• Loop any part of your song for better practice.
• Guitar/Piano display of 31 musical scales in any key and more than more than 140 chords.
• Advanced Equalizer that you can set as default.

📱Available on: Android, iPhone

16.  SingPlay

With SingPlay, you have the power to be the artist and the producer on your way to becoming a Karaoke star!

The app equips a good collection of free karaoke tracks that will ultimately help you increase your singing experience. One common problem karaoke fans encounter with other karaoke app is that they might want to sing a song that is not listed on any of the other apps’ databases. SingPlay provides a solution to this problem by converting any MP3 songs in your phone into karaoke format.

Main Features:

• Enjoy singing with or without the original vocal
• Record your singing with the original music in the background
• Record only the part of the song that you like
• Adjust the TEMPO and PITCH controls as you want
• Save your recordings as MP3 files

📱Available on: Android

17.  Midifun Karaoke

Midifun is your offline karaoke for Android. The Midifun Karaoke app doesn’t have just a ton of songs stored on its database, and it allows you to upload a file from your local storage!

While using this app, you will feel like you are playing a guessing game as it will ask to guess the song based on the lyrics that would be displayed on the screen. To every correct answer, you will earn points, and the fastest you answer, you will earn bonus points.

Main Features:

• Guess the song based on the lyrics displayed
• Get a score for every correct answer
• Compatible with Bluetooth microphones
• Allows you to adjust the font size
• It comes with a collection of lyrics that you can sing-along to

📱Available on: Android

Final Thoughts

Whether you have an iPhone, iPad, or Android phone, these karaoke apps will let you live out your passion for singing the way you want. Now all you have to do is download anyone of these karaoke apps and start singing.