How to remove vocals from a song on iPhone
The right method depends on where the song lives. Apple Music Sing for the Apple Music catalogue, a separation app for files and videos you have — and what each one can and cannot give you.
Read articleVocal remover · Karaoke · Stems · iPhone & Android
Pick a song or a video from your phone and Vocly's on-device AI separates it into vocals and instrumental — a karaoke track, an acapella, or four studio-grade stems. Nothing is uploaded.


Offline and private
Almost every vocal remover uploads your file to a server and separates it there. Vocly runs the model on your device instead. The models ship inside the app on both iPhone and Android, so it needs no internet at all, and there is no server that could hold a copy of your recording.
What the app does and does not collect is in the privacy policy.
What Vocly does
Separate

Practise

Karaoke

Export

Library

Vocly separates the audio in files you already have on your device. Please only process content you own or have the rights to use. Separation quality varies by recording, and on-device AI may leave small artifacts on complex mixes.
From the reviews
“The only one that worked. Thank you, it's good.”
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“spectacular!”
“very very good”
“love it”
“Excellent”
A selection of Google Play reviews, quoted exactly as written. Non-English reviews show the original alongside our translation. Vocly has passed 5,000 downloads on Google Play.
Pricing
Separation, the mixer, karaoke mode and the stem library are all in the free version. Ads support it. If you want Pro, you can subscribe monthly or buy it outright once — through the App Store on iPhone, or Google Play on Android.
On Android, exports save to your Music and Movies folders. On iPhone, they go to the share sheet so you choose where they land.
Take a look
From the blog
The right method depends on where the song lives. Apple Music Sing for the Apple Music catalogue, a separation app for files and videos you have — and what each one can and cannot give you.
Read articleSeparation is a guess made from the finished mix, not an undo of it. What that means in practice, which songs come out clean, which never will, and how to get the best result available.
Read articleQuestions
No. The separation runs on your device using an on-device AI model. Your audio is never uploaded, and the models ship inside the app on both iPhone and Android, so it works with no internet connection at all.
Yes. Import an MP4 or MOV, split its audio, then export the same video with only the vocals or only the music. The picture is not re-encoded, so quality is unchanged and the export is fast.
The standard run gives you two: vocals and instrumental. Advanced mode separates four — vocals, drums, bass and everything else — which is more useful if you are learning a part or remixing rather than just making a karaoke track.
M4A, WAV and FLAC, up to 320 kbps and lossless. You can export the vocals, the instrumental, both as separate files, or a custom mix at your current mixer levels. On Android files save to your Music and Movies folders; on iPhone they go to the share sheet, so you choose Files, Photos or another app.
Yes. Vocly is on the App Store for iPhone and on Google Play for Android, with the same on-device separation on both. On iPhone it needs iOS 17 or later.
Open Vocly, pick the song from Files or a video from Photos, and tap Separate. You get the vocals and the instrumental as separate tracks, then export the instrumental as your karaoke version. Nothing is uploaded — it runs on the phone.
Separate the song, then export only the instrumental. If you want to sing along with the words on screen, paste the lyrics into karaoke mode and tap along to sync them — the instrumental plays while the lyrics scroll.
Yes. The same separation gives you the vocal stem on its own. Export just the vocals to get an acapella for learning a part, sampling, or practising harmonies.
Usually close, rarely perfect, and no app can promise otherwise — separation is an estimate from the finished mix. Dry, modern recordings with one lead voice come out cleanest. Dense live recordings and heavy reverb leave more behind. Starting from a WAV or FLAC rather than a small MP3 helps.
Yes, free with ads. Vocly Pro removes ads and unlocks the HQ model, all export formats, video export and unlimited separations. Pro is sold two ways — a monthly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase if you would rather pay once — through the App Store on iPhone and Google Play on Android.
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