Vibnelo is open: hear new songs first

Most new songs never get a fair first listen. They land in a crowded feed next to a hundred others and get a second and a half before a thumb moves on. Vibnelo is built for that first listen. It plays new songs, most of them made with AI, as 30-second hooks in a vertical feed, and it asks you one simple thing: is this one good?

Vibnelo is open now. It runs in your browser on a phone or a computer, so there is nothing to download and no app store in between. You can listen, like and vote without an account.

Thirty seconds, with the words

Every hook in the feed is the half minute of a song that its artist picked as the strongest. The words light up as they are sung, so you hear the line and read it at the same time. If it lands, you can save it, share it, follow the artist and, where they have one, go to the full song on the platform they use.

Swipe and the next one starts. For you learns from what you finish, like and save, and brings you the hooks that people with the same taste loved.

Battles: two hooks, no names

In Battles you hear two hooks without knowing who made them. Listen to both, then pick the one you would play again. There is a daily ladder of fresh pairs, a weekly Cup in which the eight hottest hooks of the week play quarterfinals, semifinals and a final, a weekly theme for artists to write to, and answer battles, where one artist’s hook answers another’s. Why our battles are blind explains the thinking.

Call it, and build an Ear Score

Hear one you think is going to climb? Call it. A call costs Vibes, the free points you collect by opening the app each day, doing the day’s missions and voting. A day later Vibnelo checks whether the hook climbed more than the chart as a whole did, and if it did, your Ear Score goes up. Vibes are never money: you can’t buy them, sell them or cash them out. How the Ear Score works has the details.

The charts

Charts show what is moving: Rising, the Top 50, New, Top artists, a League for each language and Top ears, the listeners whose calls keep coming true. This week’s chart is public, so you can see the top 50 even outside the app.

For the people who make the songs

Artists drop a whole song into Hook Lab, which finds its strongest 30 seconds. Only that clip is uploaded; the full song never leaves the phone. The words are matched to the voice word by word, two cuts can be tested blind against each other, and the Hook report shows where listeners leave and which line they love. Every hook can also leave as a 9:16 lyric video for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. For artists: the thirty seconds that stop people goes through all of it.

Start in a minute

1. Open vibnelo.com on your phone.
2. Add it to your home screen so it opens like an app: on iPhone, tap Share and then Add to Home Screen; on Android and in desktop Chrome, use the Install button.
3. Swipe through For you for a few minutes, then try a battle.
4. Make an account when you want to call hits, comment, add friends or drop your own songs. New accounts start with 500 Vibes. Sign-in uses passkeys, so there is no password to remember.

Questions people ask

Is Vibnelo free?

Yes. Listening, voting and calling hits are free, and so are dropping and testing your own songs. Vibes are free points with no money value.

Do I need to download an app?

No. Vibnelo runs in the browser. You can add it to your home screen so it opens like an app, and on iPhone that is also what makes notifications work.

Is the music made with AI?

Most of it is. AI-made music is welcome when the artist’s tool allows release, and a hook’s page says when it was made with AI. Voice clones of real singers are not allowed.

Do I need an account?

Not to listen, like or vote. You need one, from the age of 16, to call hits, comment, make friends and upload.

Filed under Music discovery, Battles, Call it, Charts, AI music