FREE VOCAL REMOVERS, COMPARED. what you get for nothing

Five well-known vocal removers, compared on what each one says on its own site about its free plan. This is not a sound-quality test: we didn’t run the same songs through each one, so we don’t rank them by how clean the vocal comes out. Try two on a song you know; your ears are the test that counts.

Where a feature needs a paid plan or has a free limit, the cell names it. Rows we couldn’t confirm for every product are left out of the table and covered below where a site says it plainly.

Chord Lens (ours) splits your own MP3, WAV or M4A file into six stems: vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano and other. Karaoke takes out the vocals and Other, Instrumental takes out the lead vocal, and Vocals only keeps the voice. The split runs in your browser on a computer, in Chrome or Edge, with the chords and words in time above it. Free splits a 2-minute part you choose, 5 times a day, and plays it in Chord Lens; downloading the mix or the stems needs Premium (MP3) or Pro (MP3 and WAV).

Moises has a dedicated vocal remover that separates a song into 2, 4 or 5 tracks and can remove the lead vocal while keeping the background vocals. It takes a file from your library or a public URL, detects the beat and chords, and downloads tracks or a mix as MP3, WAV and other formats. It works on the web, desktop and phones. Free users can separate a limited number of tracks a month; its page doesn’t give the number.

LALAL.AI runs in your browser, with apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Android. It separates vocals and instrumental, drums, bass, guitars, piano and more, and can split lead from backing vocals. Its free Starter plan gives 10 minutes in the relaxed queue, with files up to 200 MB: you can preview the result, but downloading the full result needs a paid plan.

Ultimate Vocal Remover is free, open-source software (MIT licence) you install on Windows, macOS (Apple silicon and Intel builds) or Linux. It runs the separation models on your own computer, so speed depends on your hardware; its page names an Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB as the minimum for GPU conversions, and files other than WAV need FFmpeg.

Fadr can remove vocals and separate stems, and its free Basic plan gives vocals, melodies, drums and bass with MP3 downloads, which its page calls unlimited. It also detects the key, tempo and MIDI, and shows the chord name as the song plays. Fadr Plus adds more stems, including lead and background vocals and an instrumental, plus WAV downloads.

Want a file you keep, for nothing? Ultimate Vocal Remover makes the files on your own computer if you are happy to install it, and Fadr’s Basic plan downloads MP3s in the browser. LALAL.AI’s free plan lets you hear the result but not download it.

Want the lead gone but the backing voices kept? Moises and LALAL.AI both say they separate lead from backing vocals; on Fadr that is part of Plus. Chord Lens keeps all the voices in one Vocals stem, though backing voices can land in Other.

Want to sing or play along to a song you have as a file? Upload it to Chord Lens, and the chords and words run in time over the band. That is what it is built for. It is for practising and studying a song yourself, and its Premium and Pro downloads are for your own study, not to share or publish.

On a phone? Moises and LALAL.AI have store apps. Chord Lens doesn’t split on phones: on a phone you get the chords and the words, and the split needs a computer.

We read each product’s own pages on 23 October 2026, signed out, and linked every one below. vocalremover.org, a popular free site, answered our requests with a browser check instead of its page, so we left it out rather than guess. Moises’s vocal remover page doesn’t say how many tracks a month the free plan gets, so neither do we.

We make Chord Lens. Every Chord Lens row comes from the Studio’s Upgrade page, the plan limits and the Studio itself the same day.

No test results, scores or rankings: we didn’t measure them. If a page changes, the date at the top tells you how old this is.