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Start in your browserHow to make a birthday song with someone’s name
By Sungto · Updated October 24, 2026
To make a birthday song with someone’s name, open Sungto in your browser or the iPhone app, choose Birthday, type their name and up to five details, pick a language, genre, mood and voice, then read and change the lyrics. The finished song arrives in about two minutes in the iPhone app.
Step by step
The steps
Start
Open sungto.com or the iPhone app, and choose Birthday as the occasion.
Add their name
Spell it the way they spell it. Add who they are to you.
Add up to five details
The joke, the habit, the thing they always forget.
Pick the sound
Language, genre, mood and voice.
Read the lyrics
Change a line or add a detail. Nothing is sung until you say so.
Hear it
In the iPhone app the song arrives in about two minutes.
Make it better
Put the year in
If they are turning 40, say so. A number gives the chorus something to hold.
Choose a genre they would actually play
Pop, country, rock or acoustic suit most people. Bollywood, K-Pop and other genres are there in their own languages, each language with its own genres.
Check the name
A name can be hard for a singing voice, so Sungto respells it for the singer. You still read the real spelling in the lyrics.
Time it
Lyrics land in seconds, so you can write the song the week before. In the iPhone app the finished song follows in about two minutes.
Examples to listen to
Two example songs, both made for fictional people: “Lost With You” (a girlfriend’s birthday) and “Keys In Your Hand” (turning 18). See the birthday song page for more.
Two ways to make it
In your browser, or in the iPhone app
In the iPhone app
Your first song is free.
Requires iOS 26 or later.
Web and app accounts are separate, so songs and credits stay where you made them.
Quick questions
How long does it take to make a birthday song?
About two minutes in the iPhone app, after you read the lyrics. On the web you can write the lyrics today; finished songs there are coming soon.
Is the first birthday song free?
In the iPhone app, yes: your first song is free. After that, packs start at $9.99 for one song.
Can the birthday song be in another language?
Yes. Songs can be in English, Spanish, Hindi, Korean, German, French, Japanese and Portuguese, each with its own genres.