Soundbite Finder: find the best part of your song for TikTok and Reels
Paste the lyrics of your own song, add any sound moments like a beat drop, and the Soundbite Finder picks the clip to lead with, eight more moments worth a video, an idea for each one, five openings to test as trial reels and a message to ask friends which part sticks. It is free for three songs a day.
CHECKED 17 October 2026Soundbite Finder runs in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded.
Why the chorus is not always your best clip
Most artists start every short video at the chorus or at the top of a verse, because that is where the song starts in their head. The moments that stop a scroll are often somewhere else: a strange line in the middle of the second verse, the bar where the beat drops out, an ad-lib, a silence before the drop. A song of three minutes holds fifteen or twenty of these moments, and each one can carry its own video.
Artist marketing teams find them the slow way. They sit in a room, play the song, stop it every time a line or a sound is interesting, and write down a video idea for that moment, even an idea that has nothing to do with what the song means. A line about leaving can soundtrack a glow-up transition. A line about rent can be the punchline of a payday meme. The Soundbite Finder runs the same exercise on your lyrics in about twenty seconds.
How to use it
- Paste your lyrics, with section names like Verse 1 and Chorus if you have them. One song at a time, up to 4,000 characters.
- Add sound moments if you know them: a beat switch at 0:48, a sample at 1:55. The finder never invents a time stamp.
- Tick "I don't show my face" if that is you. Every idea that features you will then work without your face: hands, mood footage, lyric visuals.
- Read the lead clip first. It is the most hummable moment, the one to put most of your posts behind.
- Send the friend message to three people. You are too close to your own song to hear its stickiest part, and if they all name the same section, that is your lead.
Three circles of video ideas
Every idea the finder gives you sits in one of three circles. A good month of posts uses all three, because each one does a different job.
| Circle | What it is | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Culture | Your song under a moment your scene already shares: a film or show edit, a sport clip, a meme format | Reaches people who have never heard of you |
| The song's world | A short cinematic moment that acts out what the song is about, sometimes over the instrumental only | Makes the song feel like a place people can step into |
| You | Performance, a lip-sync of one line, your hands on the instrument, a verse challenge with another artist | Turns viewers into fans of you, not only of a sound |
What happens to your lyrics
Your lyrics are sent to our server once, to write the ideas, and are not stored. The result quotes at most a few words of each line, only to show you where the moment is. The finder is made for your own songs: if you paste a well-known song by another artist, it says so and stops.
After the soundbites: post them well
- Make posts for each app. Film for TikTok and Instagram separately where you can, and repost to YouTube Shorts without the TikTok watermark.
- Publish by hand. Plan your calendar anywhere, but press post yourself at the time: scheduled posts tend to reach fewer people.
- Test the opening. Five versions of the first five seconds, posted as Instagram trial reels, show you which hook to keep. Our trial reels hook test guide walks through it.
- Use more than one moment. Lead with the stickiest part, then keep the song showing up with other lines and sounds for weeks after release.
Questions artists ask
What is a soundbite in a song?
A short moment that works as the start of a video: a striking line, a beat switch, a drop, a vocal run or even a silence. On TikTok and Reels you usually get about 15 seconds of a song, so the moment you pick matters more than the whole track.
Is the Soundbite Finder free?
Yes, for three songs a day, with no account. Stage members can run it as often as they like inside HANI, which also remembers what they will and will not do on camera.
Do you keep my lyrics?
No. They are sent once to write the ideas and are not stored. We only log that the tool ran and how long the text was.
Can I use it on someone else's song?
No. It is built for your own songs and stops when it recognises a well-known song by another artist.
Does it work for instrumentals?
Partly. Add the sound moments with times in the sound field and a short description where the lyrics go, and it will build ideas around the sounds.
Which part of my song should I use on TikTok?
Start with the most memorable moment, the bit people hum later, and then test other lines and sounds. Our guide to the best part of a song for TikTok explains how to choose.
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