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Best AI Music Apps for Songs, Stems and Practice, Ranked
By Editorial Team · published 2026-10-06 · updated 2026-10-06
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AI music apps do three different jobs: write a whole song from a prompt, split a song you own into its parts, or play an endless stream to work to. Suno is the best of the song makers by a distance — 50 free credits a day and full tracks with vocals up to eight minutes — but its free downloads are capped at seven for life. We ranked five apps on what each makes, what you can take out of the app, and what the rights allow. Prices are as of October 2026.
How we picked
We compared Suno, Udio, Moises, BandLab and Mubert from our catalogue on four things: what the app actually produces, how generous the free tier is, what you are allowed to take out of the app — downloads, stems, commercial use — and what the first paid plan costs.
These apps are not all the same product. Suno and Udio generate songs, Moises and BandLab are tools for people who already make music, and Mubert is a background stream. The ranking says which is best for which job, with one overall winner.
1. Suno — a whole song from a sentence
Suno turns a typed prompt, a hummed melody or your own lyrics into a full song with vocals, up to eight minutes long. The free plan gives 50 credits a day — enough for five generations of two songs each — on the lighter v6-mini model.
The catch is what leaves the app. Free accounts get seven downloads for life; Pro gets 20 a month; only paid plans carry commercial rights. Our score: 7.2. It wins because no other app here turns an idea into a finished song this fast, and the daily credits let you try again tomorrow.
2. Moises — the musician's AI
Moises is a stem splitter and practice player: upload a song you own and it separates vocals, drums, bass and the rest, then adds chord detection, a Smart Metronome, and speed and key changes. It does not invent music; it takes music apart so you can learn and play along.
Free accounts get five uploads a month of up to five minutes each; Premium costs $5.99 a month on the US App Store and Pro $29.99. Reviews mention stalled processing on Android. Our score is the highest here, 7.7 — the best app in this list, though not the best song maker.
3. BandLab — a full studio, AI on top
BandLab is a cloud-based mobile studio: up to 16 audio and MIDI tracks per project, with a sampler, vocal tuning, stem splitting and mastering. The core app is free, with ads, 16 tracks and 15 minutes per project.
The AI tools, extra effects and music distribution sit behind a Membership from $14.99 a month in the US. Everything saves online, so it needs a connection. Our score: 7.2 — the pick for people who want to record their own parts and use AI to polish them.
4. Udio — songs you can hear but not take
Udio also turns a text prompt into a song with vocals on iPhone; Custom mode takes your own lyrics, and Extend stacks up to ten sections onto a clip. Free accounts get 10 daily credits and 32-second clips by default.
What leaves the app is the problem: downloads of audio, video and stems are switched off, output is for personal, non-commercial use, and Voices and the Style Library stay on the web. Our score: 6.5. Suno does the same job with full-length songs and some downloads.
5. Mubert — a stream, not a songwriter
Mubert plays background music: pick one of 40-plus mood channels for focus, sleep, relaxation or workouts, and an endless stream assembled from producer-made samples plays, with like and dislike buttons to steer it. Its own store listing describes streams, not text-to-song generation.
The larger concern is age: the latest build on both stores dates from December 2023, and recent reviews describe sign-in failures. Our score: 6.1, last for being both the least AI-driven and the least maintained.
Daily credits, monthly uploads
The free tiers are built differently, and the shape matters as much as the size:
- Suno resets 50 credits every day, so a free user can keep generating indefinitely; the limit is on what leaves the app.
- Udio resets 10 credits a day, with 32-second clips by default — enough to hear an idea, not to finish one.
- Moises gives five uploads a month, up to five minutes each — about one album side for practice.
- BandLab's studio is free in full, with ads and a 16-track, 15-minute limit per project; only the AI tools are paid.
- Mubert's free stream is the whole product.
For someone curious about AI music, Suno's daily reset is the best deal in the category. For a working musician, Moises's five uploads a month will run out first, and $5.99 is the cheapest paid plan here.
A note on what these songs are
A generated song is assembled by a model trained on existing music, and the companies set the rules for its use in their own terms rather than leaving it to you. That is why the commercial line appears in every listing here, and why the free tiers of both song generators withhold commercial rights. If a track will go into a monetised video, an ad or a release, read the plan's terms first — the free plan of every song maker in this list says no.
What you can actually take out of the app
- Suno: seven downloads for life on free, 20 a month on Pro; commercial rights only on paid plans.
- Udio: no downloads of audio, video or stems; personal, non-commercial use only.
- Moises: your own uploaded songs, separated — the stems are yours to practise with.
- BandLab: your projects, with distribution behind the Membership.
- Mubert: nothing — it is a stream.
If the point is to use a track in a video or a release, the rights line decides the app before the sound does.
Bottom line
Suno is the best AI music app for making songs: 50 free credits a day and full tracks with vocals, as long as you remember the seven-download limit and pay before using a song commercially. Musicians should install Moises, the highest-scoring app here, for stems and practice, and BandLab to record their own parts. Udio is Suno with the exits closed, and Mubert has not been updated since 2023.
