hrdl vs One Second Song
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
hrdl
Guess a new song daily by listening to short clips. Test your music knowledge and compete with friends. A fun daily challenge for music lovers.
- Daily new song to guess
- Listen to song clips
- Test music knowledge
- Daily challenge
- Compete with friends
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Have you played Wordle?! Do you love music?! Welcome to hrdl, come back daily for a new song to guess!
One Second Song
Test your music knowledge by identifying songs from short audio clips. Guess quickly to earn a better score, or listen longer for more clues. Enjoy weekly updated music packs across various genres and decades.
- Identify songs from short clips
- Adjust clip length for more clues
- Earn higher scores for faster guesses
- Receive trivia hints for each song
- Play solo or with friends
- Weekly updated music packs
- Multiple genre and decade options
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How fast can you name that song? One Second Song plays you a short clip from a real song. If you know it, type a few letters and tap the match. If you need more, tap Hear More and the clip gets longer. Wrong guesses are free, so guess as often as you want! The less of the song you hear, the better your score. Each song also has three hints. They give real trivia about the song without naming the title or the artist. PLAY ALONE OR PASS THE PHONE Practice on your own, or take turns with friends. The scorecard at the end shows how much of each song each player needed. FRESH PACKS EVERY WEEK Choose today's hits, decades from the 60s to the 2020s, rock, hip-hop, and more! We refresh the packs every week from Apple Music's editorial playlists. Each pack has three difficulty tiers, from familiar hits to deep cuts. OR PLAY YOUR OWN PLAYLIST Copy the link to any playlist on Apple Music, Spotify, or YouTube and paste it into New Game. Those songs become your pack. Artist, album, and song links work too. FREE • Songs play from Apple Music preview clips. No subscription needed. • No accounts, no ads, no data harvesting. • No in-app purchases. Pick a pack and see how little song you need!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: One Second Song at 92% against hrdl's 0%. One Second Song also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.7) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
One Second Song holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: One Second Song has 31 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of hrdl's written reviews are positive against 92% of One Second Song's.
hrdl ships an update every 3 weeks, One Second Song every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | hrdl | One Second Song |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (3 ratings) | 4.9 (31 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 92.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 31 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Cameron Moss | Mark Gregor |
Customer experience
hrdl
One Second Song
In-app purchases
hrdl
No in-app purchases
One Second Song
No in-app purchases
