Loudly

Loudly is the budget seat in the AI background-music market: a few dollars a month, a prompt box, and a serviceable track in seconds. It's built for the creator who needs a beat under a Reel today, not a score under a documentary next quarter.

What we like

Speed and price. The generation flow is about as short as possible — pick a genre or type a vibe, get a handful of candidates, download — and the entry plan costs less than most stock-music subscriptions' rounding error. The catalog of pre-generated tracks is a smart addition; browsing sometimes beats prompting when you don't know what you want. Output leans electronic, lo-fi, and hip-hop adjacent, and within those lanes it's perfectly usable under talking-head and lifestyle content. The mobile app deserves credit: creators who shoot, edit, and post entirely from a phone can source music without touching a desktop.

Where it falls short

The music is thin. Compared to Soundraw's fuller arrangements, Loudly tracks often feel like competent loops rather than composed pieces, and acoustic or orchestral requests expose the seams quickly. Customization is coarse — you can nudge energy and structure but not sculpt sections the way Soundraw allows. And the licensing tiers demand attention: what's cleared for personal use versus monetized versus client work differs by plan in ways that could bite a careless freelancer.

Verdict

For casual social creators on a tight budget, Loudly is a fair deal — cheap, fast, and good enough for short-form background. Anyone producing longer or client-facing video should spend up for Soundraw or a traditional stock library. It's a useful tool that knows its weight class.