Perfect Loops vs Epidemic Sound
This page describes the difference. It doesn’t declare a winner: everything below about Epidemic Sound was read off its own pages on October 18, 2026, not lived with for a month. We make Perfect Loops, so read our column accordingly; its gaps are listed at the bottom.
They’re different kinds of thing. Epidemic Sound is closest to music licensing libraries for creators: A subscription that licenses a catalog of tracks for use in your own videos, streams and ads, cleared for monetization. Perfect Loops is seamless loops cut from real artists’ tracks, with the artist paid from your own fee.
| Epidemic Sound | Perfect Loops (ours) | |
|---|---|---|
| Does the music end? | No. It is a library of tracks you download and use in what you make. | Yes: a loop repeats sample-exactly, with no gap and no click, until the timer fades it out. |
| Who made it | Signed musicians, producers and composers; the artist page names them. | Named artists, from their own finished tracks; each loop links to the artist and their platforms. Our own collections (made with Jam, and with AI music tools) are labelled as such and listed after the artists. |
| How the makers are paid | “Upfront payment for every track,” “50/50 streaming royalty splits, forever,” and “an annual Soundtrack Bonus of USD $4.2 million”; agreements “short, flexible, and non-exclusive.” It says artists earn “over $60,000 USD per year” on average. It was not accepting new artist applications on the day reviewed. | User-centric: half of each subscriber’s $5 goes to the artists that subscriber played, split by that subscriber’s own seconds, so a listener who only plays one artist sends their whole half to that artist. Paid monthly from $20 and quarterly from $5, with us covering the payment fees. An artist who brings a fan through their link also earns 20% of that fan’s payments for as long as they stay. |
| Platforms | Web; plugins for editing software | Any browser; installs to the home screen as an app on iPhone and Android, with lock-screen controls. A Loops button in the header of every HiveJournal page starts one in a tap. |
| Pricing | Plans named Creator, Pro, Enterprise and a Business plan; the pricing page we read showed no amounts. A free trial is offered. | $5 a month or $48 a year for the artists’ loops. Our own collections are free to play. Streamers and video makers may use the loops as background music free with credit. |
Where Epidemic Sound is ahead
The right tool if you need music inside something you publish: a huge cleared catalog, plugins, and an artist program that pays upfront and splits streaming royalties.
What Perfect Loops doesn’t do
- Small. As of October 2026 the catalog is our own two collections plus one human artist’s loops awaiting his approval and agreement; more artists are being invited. Every product above has more music.
- A loop is seconds of a track, not the track. If you want to hear the song, this is the wrong place; the artist’s links are there for that.
- The first artist payout has not run yet: the pipeline is built and the terms are set, but no statement has been paid.
- Browser-based. It installs as an app, but there is no native app, no offline mode, and on a locked phone a scheduled switch (Blend, a Path) can be delayed until you unlock.
- No sleep or health claims: the energy levels describe tempo and feel, nothing about you.
- The artists’ loops need a subscription; only our own collections are free.