Step 1
Before working out how to send a song in a text message, pick the format. A song can travel four ways, and the right one depends on what's on their phone and what you want them to see.
Step 2
Button names shift between phones and app updates, so these are the moves that stay the same: how to send song via text on any phone, in three short routes.
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Maya, today we celebrate you
What they see
This is the gift page that comes with every song we make: their name, your photo and the lyrics lighting up as it plays. It opens in the browser, so it works the same on iPhone and Android.
Hear the real song
Written for Maya, by her best friend since ninth-grade chemistry, for her 30th birthday
A finished song from a real order, in English. The photo on the phone is an AI photo of fictional people.
Step 3
A song lands best when they can actually listen. A minute of planning beats sending it the second it's ready.
Some phones and messaging apps let you pick a send time, often by pressing and holding the send button or from the message menu. Not all of them do. If yours doesn't, write the message now and set a reminder.
Midnight for you can be breakfast for them. Aim for a moment when they'll have a quiet minute with the sound on.
Right before a meeting, on a commute without headphones, in the middle of the party: they'll glance at it and save it for later. Morning coffee or a slow evening works better.
With a song from us, you can schedule the gift email for the date you choose, then text them the same link so it's waiting in both places.
Step 4
A bare link can look like spam. One line tells them why it's worth three minutes. Borrow one of these and make it yours.
Happy birthday. I couldn't wrap this one, so press play instead.
Every year with you deserves a soundtrack. Here's this year's.
No reason at all. This made me think of you, so now it's yours.
I can't be there today, so I sent a song in my place. Sound on.
I never said it properly, so I asked a song to say it for me.
No need to reply. Put this on and breathe for three minutes.
Headphones on. Listen for your name in the chorus.
Twenty years of us didn't fit in a text. It almost fits in a song.
Written for this guide. Copy them freely.
Questions
Short answers to the questions that come up most. Anything else, just email us.
A link, in most cases. It's tiny, arrives instantly and doesn't get compressed. Send a file when they need it offline or when there's no link to share, such as your own recording.
Streaming links often open a web page, but full playback may need that app or an account. A file, or a gift page that plays in the browser, works without any music app.
Plain picture and video messages have size limits, so your phone or carrier may shrink a video before it goes out. Send a link instead, or use a chat app's file or document option, which usually keeps the original.
On some phones and in some messaging apps, yes; others don't offer it. If yours doesn't, set a reminder. With a song from us, the gift email can be scheduled for a date you pick, and you can text the same link whenever you like.
Yes, a link works in any group chat. Keep in mind that anyone who has a gift page link can open it, so share it only with the people it's meant for. You can replace the link or turn it off at any time.
Your steps are the same. What changes is the route: between different kinds of phones, a message may go as a regular text, where big files are more likely to be shrunk or refused. Links aren't affected.
Your gift page and files are available after you pay, and the link keeps working unless you replace it or turn it off. Download links are short-lived on purpose; if one stops working, ask for a fresh one through Find your song. The gift video stays available for 30 days after it's made and you can make it again. We don't promise to store files forever, so keep your own copy.
If you allow downloads, they can save the MP3 and the video from the gift page. You can also switch that off so they can only listen.
