Simply Sing Alternative: Technique Training Instead of Song Practice

Short answer: The closest alternative to Simply Sing for technique training is Time to Sing. Simply Sing is a song-first app: it detects your voice type, adapts a large song library to fit your range, and gives real-time feedback while you sing along. Time to Sing is a technique-first app: it teaches the underlying coordination, breath support, and style-specific skills that make any song easier to sing well. They overlap on "practice singing," but they start from opposite ends — so which one is the right choice depends entirely on which end you want to start from.

If you came here because Simply Sing wasn't teaching you how to sing, only what to sing, this is the difference you were feeling.

What Simply Sing is built for

Simply Sing (built by the team behind Simply, formerly JoyTunes) has been downloaded more than 10 million times and holds a strong 4.3-star rating from around 270,000 ratings on Google Play. Its core idea is convenient and clever: figure out your voice type, adapt popular songs so they sit comfortably in your range, and let you build custom playlists from that adapted library while giving tips on producing the sound correctly as you sing along.

It's a good fit if you want to practice with songs you already know and like, with the pitch adjusted so they're not fighting your range.

Where the model runs into limits

Simply Sing is built around its song catalog, and that shapes what it can and can't do:

• No technique curriculum. The app adapts songs to you; it doesn't walk you through the underlying vocal coordination, like chest voice, mix, head voice, or belt, the way a dedicated training program does.
• No style-specific tracks. There isn't a separate path for developing pop technique versus musical theatre versus classical singing. The songs vary; the underlying training doesn't.
• Paywalled from the start. User reports indicate no songs are available for free, with pricing around $12/month or $60+ for a full year, so you can't meaningfully evaluate the training approach before paying.

What Time to Sing does instead

Time to Sing starts from technique, not song selection, and its real-time feedback is a dedicated training tool rather than a layer over a singalong:

• Find Your Range, first. Instead of jumping straight into an adapted song, Time to Sing opens with a Voice Range Check: sing two comfortable notes, low and high, and get a recommended starting range. Every exercise is then matched to it, so training grows with your voice at your own pace, from a complete beginner's first note to a professional's warm-up routine.
• A Voice Tuner built for note-by-note precision. Target notes scroll across a piano-roll style display and turn green the instant you're on pitch, giving you specific, visual feedback on exactly which notes are accurate, not general tips while a song plays in the background.
• Style-specific exercise tracks for Pop, Musical Theatre, and Classical, each built around what that style actually demands technically.
• Video-taught exercises. A vocal coach demonstrates and explains each sound before you practice it, so you understand the "why," not just the "hit this note."
• A genuinely free tier. Two exercises per style are available at no cost, so you can try the teaching style and the Voice Tuner before committing to Premium at €9.99/month.
• Offline downloads, playlists, and reminders to support a daily habit, not just a one-off singalong session.

Feature Comparison: Time to Sing vs. Simply Sing

Aspect	Time to Sing	Simply Sing
Core purpose	Technique training	Song practice adapted to your range
Platform	iOS and Android	iOS and Android
Real-time feedback	✅ Voice Tuner — note-by-note, piano-roll display	🟡 In-song tips while singing along
Starting point	✅ Voice Range Check	Voice-type detection to adapt songs
Style-specific training	✅ Pop, Musical Theatre, Classical	❌ None
Free tier	✅ 2 exercises per style, free	❌ None reported — paywalled from the start
Price	€9.99/month	~$12/month or $60+/year
Google Play downloads	—	10M+

Who should pick which

Choose Simply Sing if you want to practice using songs you already love, adapted to sit in your comfortable range.

Choose Time to Sing if you want to build the underlying technique first, style by style, with a coach explaining the how and why, so that any song, adapted or not, becomes easier to sing. The complete guide to teaching yourself to sing is the place to start.