Music is easier to keep making when you have support
Hearhood is a music-making and learning project operated by Scopra in the Netherlands. The beta brings creative tools and practical explanations into the same place, so you can try something and understand it while you work.
We want people to feel comfortable asking a basic question, trying a different approach or sharing useful feedback. The aim is to support the person making the music, including when they are still finding their way.
What is Hearhood?
Hearhood is a free music-making and learning beta that runs in a web browser. It is operated by Scopra in the Netherlands. The beta is for people aged 18 or older; younger people can join through a parent (see family accounts).
- Make music: Produce has drum and note grids, arrangement tools and a mixer.
- Write songs: the Studio supports lyrics, chords, instrument parts, humming to notes and voice recording.
- Practise DJ mixing: use decks and a mixer with compatible music files from your device. A computer has the full mixing layout; the phone layout is smaller.
- Get optional AI help: the assistant explains controls and supports some changes using project information. It cannot hear your audio. AI access needs an account or invite and has the allowance shown in the app.
- Use the tools without an account: there is no subscription or checkout in this beta.
- Keep your own backup: songs and recordings are stored in your browser. Signed-in account sync also keeps editable work, but excludes recorded takes and DJ audio files. Save an editable copy.
- Know what is still a plan: a licensed commercial-song catalogue, recorded-music uploads for public hosting, listener subscriptions, artist payouts and live shows are not available. Playable Produce song links and member song pages already work. Hearhood does not provide a commercial-song streaming catalogue.
Website navigation, account pages and community controls offer English and Dutch. Music editors, long guides and short courses currently use English. Check the language options.
These facts describe the beta checked on 25 October 2026. Getting started explains the three workspaces, and the guides walk through individual tasks.
What we want to build next
The Community is the first community feature: a place to ask, answer and share work in progress with other makers. Free accounts can create member pages, post and reply, follow people and exchange direct messages. Posts can include pictures, supported YouTube, Vimeo or SoundCloud embeds, and a playable card for one of the author's own Produce song links. Members can like posts and replies, search the community and block unwanted contact. Shared songs can carry remix credits and show play and remix counts; these are activity counts, not royalties. These community features are available now; member pages are separate from a future artist catalogue and payout system. Our longer-term ambition goes further: a community where artists can be discovered and supported, with a listening service and transparent payment arrangements. Those services need their own features, music permissions and agreements before launch. They are not part of this beta, and the app's Coming later card says plainly what is not built yet.
Explore the current community tools
Discover helps you browse shared songs; collections keep shared links together. You can start from a groove, give specific song feedback or ask for a collaborator. A weekly challenge needs a current prompt before people can enter. These features do not provide artist payments.
Built with feedback
We are developing the project with feedback. Tell us what you were trying to do, where you got stuck and what would have helped. We will use that to improve the experience; we will not pretend every idea is already a feature. The Feedback button in the app's top bar reaches the operator, who can reply inside the app; the Contact page lists the other routes.
Interested in what comes next?
If you are an artist, a DJ, a producer or a listener and you would like to hear about a future pilot, the For artists page has a short form: your email address, what you do, and whether you are a Buma/Stemra member. It records interest and nothing more: it does not subscribe you to anything, does not license your music and does not promise a place or earnings. We may contact you about the pilot; you can be removed at any time by emailing info@hearhood.com. The privacy notice covers it. Inside the app, the Coming later card under My songs still offers its one-question version for people who already have an account.
Why I’m building Hearhood
I’m building Hearhood because I want a place where people who love music can help each other make more of it.
Somewhere artists, DJs, producers and listeners can meet, share what they’re working on, ask questions and support the people behind the music.
I got tired of hearing how difficult it can be for artists to earn fairly from their work. The fees, the gatekeeping, the feeling that the people creating the music don’t always have much say in what happens to it. Something that starts with loving music can become exhausting.
I don’t have every answer. But I wanted to start building something that reflects the community I’d like to be part of.
Where I want this to go
The creative tools are the starting point.
Over time, I want Hearhood to become a place where artists can share their music, listeners can discover and support them, and people can build connections around what they create.
I’d love to see artists posting upcoming events, sharing stories and videos from their sessions, showing how a track came together, and eventually hosting live sessions with their community.
Fair payment is central to that ambition. I want people to understand where their support goes, artists to understand how their earnings are calculated, and the platform’s costs and share to be clear.
Those features are plans for the future. They need development, testing and the right agreements before they can become part of Hearhood.
I’m one person, and I’m learning too
There isn’t a big team behind this. I’m building it myself, learning as I go and improving it through feedback.
That means some things will take time. Some ideas will change once people try them. I’d rather be honest about that and listen to what’s useful.
If you try Hearhood, tell me where you get stuck. Tell me what helps, what feels unnecessary and what you wish you could do. If the idea means something to you, share it with someone who might want to get involved.
I can build the tools. The community needs people who want to show up for one another.
That’s what I hope we can create together.
The way to tell me: the Feedback button in the top bar of the app, which reaches me and lets me reply there, or an email to info@hearhood.com.
How the guides are put together
The guides describe Hearhood's current controls and use real screenshots of the app. They explain when a task needs a computer, a microphone or optional AI access. Examples of AI questions are labelled as examples, rather than presented as conversations that took place.
The byline names Hearhood and its operator, Scopra. The update date records a significant change to the instructions or page information. Screenshots identify the app version they show, so you can tell when your screen may differ. The project is still a beta, and instructions can need updating as it changes.
If something does not match, use Feedback in the app or email info@hearhood.com with the page address, your device and the step that failed. Please leave out passwords and invite codes.
Who operates Hearhood
Hearhood is a working name for the beta, operated by Scopra, a sole trader registered in the Netherlands. The registration number, business address and every contact route are on the Contact page; the Terms, Privacy notice, Cookies and device storage and Community and copyright policy pages are the rules of the beta, and each can be downloaded.
Follow Hearhood
Find music ideas, practical tips and work in progress on Hearhood’s social accounts: