Groover alternatives: how they compare in 2026

Groover and its alternatives at a glance

Prices and terms change. Check each service's page, linked in the sections below, before you buy.

What Groover does

On Groover you pay per contact: usually 2 Grooviz (€2) to reach a curator or professional, with some top curators at 4 Grooviz. If you don't get feedback within 7 days, the Grooviz for those contacts come back automatically. Groover suggests contacting at least 50 curators and professionals (100 Grooviz) for the best results. The network includes playlist curators, blogs, media, radio stations, labels, bookers and sync supervisors. All of this is as of September 2026, per their pricing page.

Groover also offers Groover Ads, a managed ad service on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. The minimum budget is €300, including VAT where applicable and a 30% commission on the total budget, per their ads page.

What it does well: a guaranteed reply or your money back, a wide range of professionals beyond playlists, and a low price per contact. Who it suits: artists who want feedback and opportunities from the music industry, not only streams.

SubmitHub

SubmitHub works with credits. Premium credits start at $1 each and go down to $0.78 depending on how many you buy. Influencers only take premium credits. Standard credits are free: you get two every four hours, holding at most two at a time. As of September 2026, per their help page.

Who it suits: artists who want to test a song with curators before spending much, or who are looking for a free starting point. It is a natural first stop if you are looking for a free Groover alternative.

Musosoup

On Musosoup you pay a £42 campaign fee, only once your submission has been approved. Curators then send you offers, and you choose between free and paid coverage; curators set their own prices. If you don't receive any coverage, the campaign fee is refunded. The network includes blogs, playlist curators, radio, magazines and influencers on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook. As of September 2026, per their site.

Who it suits: artists who prefer one fixed fee and then choosing which offers to accept, rather than paying per contact.

Playlist Push and SoundCampaign

Playlist Push runs Spotify playlist campaigns from $280 and TikTok creator campaigns from $350, per their homepage. On TikTok, you pay for creator reviews, not guaranteed posts, and a review that doesn't happen within 14 days comes back as account credit, per their TikTok page. Our Playlist Push alternatives guide covers it in detail.

SoundCampaign charges only for completed reviews and credits you back otherwise, with budgets from $80 to $5,000+ that can cover Spotify, TikTok and Meta, per their pricing page. Both as of September 2026.

Who they suit: artists who mainly want Spotify playlist placements, or who want to add TikTok creators alongside playlists.

If you want TikTok videos: Stembl and Songfluencer

Curator platforms are built around listening and feedback. If what you want is creators making TikTok videos with your sound, the tools are different.

Stembl is a pay-per-view marketplace, built in France and getting ready for launch. You set a budget (minimum €100) and a CPM between €1 and €5: what creators earn per 1,000 views. A platform fee is added on top and shown before checkout. A video uses none of your budget until it crosses 1,000 views; then all its views from zero are billed at your CPM, and new views as it grows. Views come from TikTok's official API, each video is checked at submission and before payout, and a rejected payout goes back into your budget. What is guaranteed: every euro spent pays for views that actually happened, so a fully spent budget always equals budget ÷ CPM × 1,000 views (at a €1 CPM, €1 = 1,000 views). What isn't guaranteed is how fast creators use the budget, or that they use all of it; unspent budget can be refunded once the campaign ends, as set out in the terms.

Songfluencer is a managed influencer marketing agency working on TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. It doesn't publish pricing, as of September 2026, per their site. It suits labels and artists who want a team to run the campaign.

How to choose

1. Name your goal. Feedback and industry contacts, playlist adds, press coverage, or TikTok videos using your sound. Each service above is built for one or two of these.
2. Check what is guaranteed. A reply, a review, a refund rule or nothing upfront. Read it on the service's own page.
3. Match the pricing to how you like to spend. Per contact (Groover), per credit (SubmitHub), one fee then offers (Musosoup), per campaign (Playlist Push, SoundCampaign) or per view (Stembl).
4. Start with a small test. Send to a handful of well-chosen curators, or fund a small campaign, and look at what came back before spending more.
5. Measure the result, not the activity. Replies are useful, but track playlist adds, coverage, or on TikTok the number of videos using your sound.

For a side-by-side view of the pricing models, see how much TikTok music promotion costs.

Where Stembl fits

Stembl is not a Groover replacement for curator feedback, press or radio: for that, Groover, SubmitHub and Musosoup are the better fit. Stembl fits when your goal is TikTok, and you want your budget tied to views on creator videos rather than to contacts or reviews. You can use both kinds of tool at different stages of a release.

Independent artists can also apply to the stembl Artist Fund, which funds the TikTok campaigns of 10 independent artists from a total of €10,000, as campaign credit (not cash) released in tiers based on results. Applying is free.

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