App Background Music
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The problem
App Background Music
Problem
Every user hears the same loop
A handful of bundled tracks plays on repeat inside your meditation, focus, or fitness app. Users notice by the third session, mute the audio, and the soundtrack you paid to license stops doing its job.
With Mubert
Mubert streams realtime generative music across 150+ moods and themes, so sessions don't replay the same file. Intensity can change while the stream plays, and like or dislike feedback can personalize what each user hears.
Problem
Licensing every track by hand
Each stock track carries its own terms. Product teams chase rights paperwork, check whether in-app use is covered, and track who is allowed to hear what. One missed clause can pull a feature from release.
With Mubert
Tracks come through one API under your license. Your backend creates a customer per user with a customer-id and access-token, and their usage counts against your license. Check the pricing page for which plans cover sub-licensing or monetized content.
Problem
Tracks never match the screen
A 3-minute stock track has to be trimmed for a 45-second onboarding flow or stretched for a 20-minute session. Editors cut and loop by hand, and the seams show. Search time piles up on top.
With Mubert
Generate tracks at the length you need, from 15 seconds up to 25 minutes, in MP3 or WAV, from text, an image, BPM, genre and mood. Webhooks tell your backend when each track is ready.
Utility
By the numbers
Yearly PRS fee alone for music on hold on up to 5 UK phone lines, before VAT
Content ID claims placed on YouTube uploads in 2025
Registered learners on Coursera as of March 2026
App Background Music
How it fits your product
Background music in an app has to stay out of the way. Pick low-to-medium energy, a steady tempo around 70 to 100 BPM, and soft pads, mellow keys or light guitar without sharp lead melodies. That keeps it under tap sounds, voiceover and screen transitions. Choose tracks with no hard intro or ending so they loop cleanly, and keep the loudness even from start to finish.
Use stream mode for sessions that run as long as the user stays in the app, and track mode for fixed screens like onboarding or a results page. Your backend creates a customer for each user and gets a customer-id and access-token, so their usage counts against your license. Call the API when a screen loads, and use webhooks to know when a track is ready.
With the Mubert API
Mode
Stream
Length
Endless
Tempo
70-85 BPM
Mood
Calm, unobtrusive, warm
Example prompt
Calm ambient electronic with soft pads and light piano, relaxed, for a meditation app
More prompts to try
Lo-fi hip hop beat with warm vinyl crackle and mellow keys, for a study timer app
Gentle acoustic guitar and soft strings, optimistic and light, for a sleep or habit tracker
Minimal upbeat electronic pulse with soft synth arpeggios, focused, for a productivity app dashboard
Features
What you get
Image-to-Music
Detect mood and context from images and convert them into music of any duration
150+ Genres and Moods
Coverage of popular and niche musical styles
200+ Music Channels
Predefined channels for different app use cases
FAQ
App Background Music
How long should background music be in an app?
It depends on the screen. A short onboarding or results screen needs a track of 15 to 60 seconds. For a session that runs as long as the user stays, such as a meditation or focus timer, a realtime stream avoids loops altogether. The Mubert API generates tracks from 15 seconds up to 25 minutes.
Can each user of my app get their own music?
Yes. Your backend creates a customer for each of your users through the Mubert API, which returns a customer-id and access-token. Their usage counts against your license. Like and dislike feedback can personalize the music over time, and in stream mode the intensity can change while the music plays.
More use cases
Pricing
Transparent & Flexible
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