Bandle

Bandle was made by Johann Levy, a French programmer and drummer, who launched it quietly in August 2022 after Wordle and Heardle had made daily guessing games popular. He runs it from Marseille with a few volunteers he met through Reddit. It began as a website, and after the mobile app came out the game spread through TikTok, Twitch and YouTube, where players filmed themselves guessing.

Each day there is one numbered song, and before you press play you see the year it came out, how many YouTube views it has and how hard it is, given as a par. The track is not a clip of the original recording. Levy and his helpers rebuild each part separately, so the game can play the drums alone or with the bass, then add guitars and strings until a sung cover comes in. On 28 October 2026 the six steps were drums and bass, guitar, strings, electric guitar, the voice cover and a clue. You can guess at each layer by typing the artist or the title.

That structure is what sets Bandle apart from Heardle, which plays longer and longer pieces of the same recording. In Bandle you are listening to the arrangement. A drum fill or a bass line can give a song away before you hear a single word. Alongside the daily song the site and apps have Quick Play with more than 2,000 songs, a page for replaying the last seven days, a multiplayer room you join with friends, and paid song packs with bonus rounds.

Bandle suits anyone who has a big mental library of songs and likes to listen closely. Drummers and bass players have a small advantage, but regular radio listeners can do well once they learn to hear the rhythm of a familiar hit.