Your music diary
Snag is not just a one-shot song identifier. Every song you snag is saved with the date, an optional place, and your notes, so you can browse back through the music you have heard, replay it, and retry the ID any time.
What is Snag?
A free song identifier for iPhone, powered by Apple’s ShazamKit. It saves a short audio clip with every attempt and keeps a music diary of everything you hear.
What a music diary is
Most ways to identify a song are built for a single moment: you find out the name of the track, and then the answer is gone. Snag is built the other way around. Every time you snag a song, it is saved, so over time your history becomes a music diary, a running record of the songs you have heard and where and when you heard them.
That changes what a song finder is for. Rather than a name that disappears the second you read it, you build a personal archive of music: the track from a friend’s car, the closing record of a DJ set, the song you could not place at a bar. It is all there, in order, ready to scroll back through.
What gets saved on every snag
Each entry in your diary holds more than a title and artist.
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The date
Every snag is stamped with when you heard it, so your history reads in order from the most recent song back through everything you have identified.
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An optional place
Turn on location and Snag remembers where you were when a song caught your ear: the club, the festival, the bar, the street. Each track gets tied to a place, not just a date, so months later it can bring the whole moment back, the night, the room, who you were with. Location is always optional and stays off until you turn it on.
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Your notes
Add your own notes to any snag, such as who you were with or what set it played in, so the diary keeps the context, not just the song.
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The recording
Snag keeps the short audio clip of every attempt, whether or not a match was found, so you can replay it or retry the ID later.
Browsing your history over time
Your history is a list you can browse, organized by date, with the most recent snags at the top. Scroll back through it and you are scrolling back through the music in your life: weeks, months, and the songs that defined a night out.
Because every attempt is saved, including the ones that did not match, nothing drops out of the record. The songs you could not place are right there next to the ones you could, ready for another look.
Replay and retry from your diary
Open any snag and you can play the short recording back. Tap into one that never matched and you can retry the identification against the stored audio, as many times as you like, including after you move somewhere with a better connection.
Snag’s Retry Analysis also re-checks a saved recording by running Apple’s ShazamKit across several different windows of the audio. Giving the catalog more than one look at the same clip sometimes turns up a song the first tap missed.
Open songs in Apple Music or Spotify
When a snag is identified, you can listen to it on Apple Music. On the history detail page for an identified song, you can also open it on Spotify, so the track you found goes straight to wherever you actually listen.
Your diary stays the home base. Each identified entry is a jumping-off point to the full song, and the snag, with its date, place, and notes, stays in your history.
Snag uses Apple’s ShazamKit, the same recognition Shazam uses, but it does not stop at a single tap. Snag’s Retry Analysis re-checks your saved audio several different ways, giving the catalog more than one look at the same clip, so it can surface matches a single Shazam attempt can miss. And because every attempt is kept in a dated diary, a song you heard months ago is still there to replay, retry, and read your notes on.
Your diary stays private to you
Snag has no account to create. Your history, your notes, the places you tagged, and the recordings are stored privately on your iPhone. If you turn on iCloud backup, they also sync to your own iCloud account.
Nothing in your private diary is sold or used for advertising. To see how Snag works end to end, read how Snag works, or learn more on the privacy page.
Frequently asked questions
What is a music diary?
A music diary is a running record of the songs you have heard and identified over time. In Snag, every song you snag is saved to your history with the date, an optional place, and your own notes. Instead of a one-off answer that disappears, you get a diary of the music in your life that you can browse back through whenever you want.
Does Snag keep a history of every song I identify?
Yes. Snag saves every snag to your history, including the attempts where no match was found, because it keeps the short audio clip either way. Your history is organized by date so the most recent songs are at the top, and the recordings stay until you delete them.
Can I see where I heard a song?
Yes, if you choose to. Snag can tag each snag with an optional location so you remember the club, festival, bar, or street where you heard a song. Location is always optional, it is off unless you turn it on, and it is stored privately with the rest of your snag.
Can I add notes to a song?
Yes. You can add your own notes to any snag, such as who you were with, what set it played in, or why the track mattered to you. Your notes are saved alongside the song and the recording, so the diary holds the context, not just the title and artist.
Can I search my Snag history?
Not yet. There is no search feature in Snag today. Your history is a browsable list in reverse-chronological order, so you find a song by scrolling back through the music you have heard, with the most recent snags at the top. A way to search your history is something we may add in the future.
Start your music diary with Snag.
Free on iPhone. Every song you identify is saved with the date, place, and your notes, so you can always come back to it.
