Whence

Where that song was on screen

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50+

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Same listing on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

5.0 ★

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About

A Flutter app that identifies any song with ShazamKit, normalizes metadata with MusicBrainz, enriches results with TMDb (and OMDb as fallback), and caches matches locally for fast repeat lookups — so you can discover where a track appeared in TV and film. Available on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Android (Android 12+).

Record a clip; ShazamKit returns title, artist, artwork, and ISRC when available
Manual search when you already know the song title and artist
Share a song from Spotify or Apple Music into Whence to start a search
MusicBrainz for canonical title and artist
TV and film sync appearance matching pipeline
TMDb / OMDb for posters, years, and metadata
Drift (SQLite) for history, favorites, and offline cache

Tech Stack

FlutterDartShazamKitRiverpodDriftFirebaseMusicBrainzTMDb

Year

2025–2026

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Changelog

v1.0.62026-08-22

Fixed wrong years and posters on appearance rows — a show no longer picks up an unrelated film that happens to share its name
Remakes and their originals are told apart by the credit's own air date rather than by popularity
Titles no longer lose their poster and year to spelling differences — apostrophes, accents, a trailing year, or a studio possessive
Films no longer borrow a season and episode from the show credited beside them

v1.0.42026-08-22

Android now targets API 36 (Android 16), up from 35, to stay inside Play's target-API requirement

v1.0.32026-08-13

Fixed TV and film lookups coming up empty for songs a manual search finds — accented artist names such as Beyoncé were mangled before the lookup
The identified-song card now fits its zone instead of scrolling

v1.0.22026-07-05

Share songs from Spotify or Apple Music into Whence to start a search

v1.0.1 (iOS)2026-04-27

New manual search — look up a song by title and artist without recording

v1.0.1 (Android)2026-04-26

Added manual search option

v1.0 (iOS)2026-04-14

Released on the App Store for iPhone and iPad

v1.0 (macOS)2026-04-13

Released on the Mac App Store today at 3:00 PM — grab it on macOS

v1.0 (Android)2026-04-10

Released on Google Play — requires Android 12 or later
Same identify, sync appearances, favorites, and history as on Apple platforms

2026-04-01

Active development — Flutter, Clean Architecture, Riverpod