Seven tools a bar can use to run a music bingo night, split honestly into card generators, hosting apps and companies who send a caller. Read the licence paragraph before you book the date.
Rockstar Bingo is a dedicated paperless music bingo product and prices by seats per game, while Quizado puts a Music Bingo round type and Name That Tune questions inside a full trivia app on a flat plan, so the venue that wants music bingo plus a normal quiz night gets both from one subscription. Quizado Music Bingo is on the Hospitality Group plan.
Pricing moves, so check each site for current pricing. None of these tools supplies a music licence, and none of them plays the music for you unless the row below says so.
| Tool | Price model | How the cards work | Who plays the music | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quizado | Music Bingo is on the Hospitality Group plan, at one flat monthly price. See the pricing page. | A Music Bingo round type played on the phone, no printing | You do, on your own system and your own licence | A venue that wants music bingo and a quiz night from one app |
| Rockstar Bingo | Priced by seats per game, with a small free tier; check their site for current pricing | Paperless cards that players dab on their own device | Not stated on their home page; check their site | A venue that wants a dedicated paperless music bingo product |
| Mix Tape Music Bingo | Prices not shown on the page; check their site for current pricing | Printable PDF cards that match their premium playlists | Their playlists, played through your system | A host who wants ready-made playlists and printed cards |
| Bingofy | A card generator with no paid tier advertised; check their site for current pricing | Generates a PDF of A5 cards from a Spotify playlist for you to print | You do. It makes cards and nothing else | A one-off night on the smallest possible budget |
| BingoCreator | No account needed to make cards; check their site for current pricing | PDF export, or a live game players join from a phone with a code | You do, from your own imported Spotify playlist | A host who already lives inside a Spotify library |
| Geeks Who Drink | No published venue rate; check their site for current pricing | Their Boombox Bingo format, run by their caller | Their themed playlists, brought by their host | A bar that wants the night run for it in the United States |
| Question One | No published rate; check their site for current pricing | A hosted music bingo night, run by their people | Their host brings the show | A UK or Australian venue that wants a booked host |
Most free music bingo tools are card generators. They hand you a PDF and stop. Somebody still prints eighty cards, cuts them up, hands out pens and collects the winners.
The Quizado Music Bingo round runs on the phones in the room. Nothing to print, nothing to cut, nothing to clear off the tables at closing.
A dedicated music bingo subscription only earns on music bingo nights. Buy one and you still need something else for the trivia night on Wednesday.
Music Bingo is a Quizado round type on the Hospitality Group plan, so the same plan also covers straight trivia, Family Feud and Jeopardy.
Seat-based pricing punishes the busy week, because the bill follows the head count. Check their site for current pricing and work out what a full room would cost you.
Quizado charges a flat monthly plan for the venue. A packed Friday and a quiet Monday cost exactly the same.
Most music bingo pages say nothing at all about music rights, which leaves a venue to find out about it from somebody official rather than from a supplier.
We will say it clearly: Quizado does not provide, include or arrange a music licence. Playing recorded music in a venue is your licence to hold, whatever software is on the screen.
Music bingo gets old faster than trivia does, because the format is thin. Four weeks of the same decade and the room stops filling.
Alternate a Music Bingo round with a Name That Tune round, then a buzzer round, inside the same night. The music stays and the shape changes.
A generator gives you cards and no scoreboard, so the host tracks winners by hand and the room has nothing to look at between songs.
The big-screen display shows the live standings, and leagues carry a table across weeks so a music night can run as a season. Leagues and seasons start on Trivia Pro.
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A bar trivia round type on the Hospitality Group plan. Cards are on the phone, marking is automatic and the host keeps both hands free for the music.
A different music format for the same crowd. Play a clip, the room answers on their phones, and in a Buzzer Race round the host console locks the first buzz it receives.
Guests scan the code on the TV and they are in the game. No app store, no card handed out at the door and no pen.
The external display window puts the current standings on any TV or projector, so the room can see the race between songs.
Five round types, six with Music Bingo on Hospitality Group: Buzzer Race, Everyone Answers, Everyone Scores, Knockout and Wager. Family Feud and Jeopardy are on Hospitality Group as well.
Trivia Pro puts your own logo on the display and the player screens, and adds media questions with image, audio and video. Custom fonts, colors and white-label are on Hospitality Group.
The first kind is a card generator. Bingofy and BingoCreator both take a Spotify playlist and hand back a PDF of unique cards, and BingoCreator needs no account to do it. Check their sites for current pricing. They do exactly one job. You print, you cut, you play the music, you watch for the shout, you keep score in your head.
The second kind runs the game. Rockstar Bingo is the clearest example: paperless cards that players dab on their own device, priced by seats per game with a small free tier. Check their site for current pricing. BingoCreator also offers a live mode where players join with a code. A hosting tool removes the printer and the manual checking, which is most of the work on the night.
The third kind sends a person. Geeks Who Drink runs a music bingo format called Boombox Bingo alongside its pub quiz, and Question One runs hosted music bingo in the UK and Australia. Neither publishes a venue rate, so ask them for a quote. If nobody behind your bar wants to call the songs, this is the category you are shopping in, whatever the software costs.
This is the paragraph most music bingo pages leave out. Playing recorded music to customers in a venue needs the right music licences for your country, and that obligation sits with the business playing the music. It does not move because the songs are part of a game, and it does not move because a playlist came from a streaming service you pay for personally. Consumer streaming accounts are generally not licensed for public performance.
Quizado does not provide, include or arrange a music licence. We supply the game: a Music Bingo round type, Name That Tune questions, the scoring and the big screen. What comes out of your speakers is your decision, played on your equipment, under your licence. The same is true of every card generator in the table, and none of them says otherwise.
The practical answer is short. Ring whoever licenses music for venues where you trade, tell them you want to run a music night, and get it in writing before you advertise the date. It is a small cost and a small phone call compared with finding out afterwards.
Quizado is not a dedicated music bingo product and this page will not pretend it is. It is bar trivia software with a Music Bingo round type and Name That Tune questions built in, which matters if you want one subscription to cover Tuesday trivia and the music night on the last Friday of the month. Family Feud, Jeopardy and Music Bingo are on Hospitality Group. Details of the format are on the music bingo page.
On the night it works the way the rest of the app works. Guests scan a QR code on the TV, the card appears in the phone browser with no install, and marks itself as songs are called. The display window shows the standings between tracks. The host plays the music from whatever the venue already uses and drives the round from a laptop, tablet or phone.
The best use we see is mixing formats in one evening: a Music Bingo round, a Name That Tune round, then a Buzzer Race round on general knowledge so the people who cannot name a bass line still have a chance. The free plan runs a real bar trivia night with the free question packs, which is a fair way to try the console before you take the plan that carries Music Bingo.
Music bingo specialists exist for good reasons, and these are them.
These are the four reasons venues run their music night on us.
Before anything else, confirm your venue is licensed to play recorded music to customers. No software on this page changes that requirement.
On the Hospitality Group plan, build one Music Bingo round and run it with staff. Check the songs are loud enough to identify and the QR code is readable from the back.
Put one music round inside your regular quiz before you give music bingo its own evening. It is the cheapest way to find out whether your room wants it.
Quizado does not provide, include or arrange a music licence, and the venue stays responsible for its own. We do not supply songs, we do not print paper bingo cards, we do not send a caller, and we do not work without an internet connection. If you want a specialist music bingo product with supplied playlists, the tools in the table above do that job and do it well.
New to running a night in-house? Start with the bar trivia software overview, then look at the trivia host app if you would rather run everything from a phone or laptop behind the bar.
Start free with the built-in packs, put the QR code on the TV and see how the room reacts. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro.
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