GetMusic vs dlcm.app: which is better in 2026?

Both tools take the Bandcamp codes you generated and hand them to fans one at a time. dlcm.app is a small, focused code manager with a free tier for two releases and a $5 Pro plan. GetMusic charges per release and spends that money on a genre discovery audience, per-claim analytics, and code validation. The right pick depends on how many releases you ship a year, whether you need private pages, and where you expect fans to come from.

Our take, in one paragraph

Pick GetMusic if you release a few times a year and want claims from fans you have not reached yet. Your release sits on genre pages and ranked feeds, each code is checked against Bandcamp before it goes out, and you get a list of who claimed, when, and from where. The first release promotion is free and each one after that is $10, paid once.

Pick dlcm.app if you ship releases often, need password-protected pages or custom URLs, or want more than 100 codes on one release. Pro is $5 a month or $50 a year for unlimited releases, which undercuts GetMusic's per-release price once you pass five or six releases in a year. You bring your own audience; dlcm.app does not have one. Both do the core job well, and the difference is what sits on top of it.

Feature-by-feature comparison

Feature GetMusic dlcm.app
First release Free promotion, up to 100 codes Free (two releases on the free plan)
Additional releases $10 each, paid once (pricing) Free up to two total; unlimited on Pro at $5/mo or $50/yr
Distributes Bandcamp download codes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes, one at a time
Codes per release ➖ Up to 100 per promotion ✅ Unlimited, free plan included
Per-claim analytics (who, when, where from) ✅ Yes ➖ Used or unused per code
Built-in discovery audience ✅ Genre pages plus /explore and /popular ❌ Fans arrive from your links
Genre browsing pages ✅ Browse by genre ❌ No
Release page built from your Bandcamp URL ✅ Tracks, art, and tags pulled automatically ➖ Dedicated page; player embed and your own copy on Pro
Validates codes against Bandcamp before serving ✅ Yes ➖ Not listed; tracks usage after the fact
Code upload ✅ Batch upload ➖ Manual on Free; Bandcamp CSV on Pro
Password-protected pages ❌ No ✅ Pro
Custom URLs for profile and releases ❌ No ✅ Pro
Make a release active or inactive ➖ Not a feature we offer ✅ Pro
Fans notified of new releases ✅ Genre and artist followers ❌ No
Social posts for the release ✅ Queued automatically ➖ Social and streaming links on the page (Pro)
Fans need an account to claim ❌ No ➖ We could not confirm
Generates the codes ❌ Bandcamp does ❌ Bandcamp does
Smart links or pre-saves ❌ Bandcamp only ❌ Bandcamp only

Pricing, side by side

GetMusic

  • First release: free. Artist setup, a dedicated URL, one release page, up to 100 Bandcamp codes, and placement on the discovery and social surfaces.
  • Additional releases: $10 each, paid once per release, with the same page, 100-code allowance, and promotion. Labels get custom pricing; see the pricing page for current numbers. Fans never pay.

The first promotion is a one-time free release credit, not a subscription tier or trial. See the live pricing page.

dlcm.app

  • Free: two releases, unlimited codes, manual code upload, a public profile page, and a dedicated page per release.
  • Pro, $5/month or $50/year: unlimited releases, password-protected pages, custom URLs for profile and releases, your own copy on release pages, active/inactive toggles, Bandcamp CSV upload, Bandcamp player embed, and social/streaming links.

At three additional releases in a year the two cost about the same ($30 on GetMusic against $50 for annual Pro, or $5 a month for as long as you need it). Past that, dlcm.app is cheaper and stays cheaper.

How to test both without picking blind

Take the code batch from your next Bandcamp release and split it: 50 codes on GetMusic, 50 on a dlcm.app release. Keep the two sets separate so no code is listed in both places. Share the dlcm.app link everywhere you normally would, because that is the only way fans reach it. Share the GetMusic link the same way, and leave the release on its genre page as well. Run that for thirty days.

At the end, compare three things. How many codes went on each side. On GetMusic, how many claims came from the genre pages and feeds rather than from your own posts; that number is the discovery audience, and it is the part you cannot get from dlcm.app at any price. And how much time each setup took you, since dlcm.app's manual upload and GetMusic's URL-driven page builder cost different minutes. If the discovery claims are near zero for your genre, dlcm.app Pro at $50 a year is the sensible call for everything after that.

Pick GetMusic if… pick dlcm.app if…

Pick GetMusic if

  • You want claims from fans browsing a genre page, not only from links you posted.
  • You want to know who claimed each code, when, and where they came from.
  • You release a few times a year and would rather pay $10 per release than carry a subscription.
  • You want each code checked against Bandcamp before a fan sees it.
  • You want the release page, new-release notifications, and social posts handled when you paste the Bandcamp URL.

Pick dlcm.app if

  • You release often enough that $5 a month for unlimited releases beats $10 each.
  • You need password-protected pages for a press list, a Patreon tier, or a private drop.
  • You want custom URLs for your profile and each release.
  • You want to put more than 100 codes on a single release.
  • You already have the audience and only need a tidy page that hands out codes and marks them used.

A note on bias

GetMusic publishes this page, so treat the verdict as informed but not impartial. We have tried to be fair, and dlcm.app is the better fit for several of the scenarios above. The most honest test is to run one release through each for a month and see where the claims come from. How GetMusic compares to every Bandcamp code tool gives the wider picture.

Frequently asked questions

It depends on volume. One release is free on both; two releases are free on dlcm.app and cost $10 on GetMusic. From there GetMusic is $10 per release, paid once, and dlcm.app Pro is $5 a month or $50 a year for unlimited releases. Up to about three releases a year the totals are close. Beyond that dlcm.app is cheaper, and for a label putting out something every month it is not close.

Yes. Both take the codes Bandcamp generates on a release's Tools page, where each account starts with 200 free and earns 1,000 more per $500 in sales. Neither tool creates codes. Do not upload the same batch to both: a fan can claim a code on one while the other still lists it as available. Split a batch instead if you want to run both.

No. Fans reach a dlcm.app release page from links you share, and that is the whole model. GetMusic lists releases on genre pages and in ranked feeds, and notifies fans who follow the genre or the artist. How much that adds depends on your genre and how many fans are browsing it at the time, which is why we suggest the split test above rather than taking our word for it.

Yes. Take the unused codes from your dlcm.app release, or generate a new batch on Bandcamp, and upload them to a GetMusic release promotion. You will not carry over dlcm.app's used/unused history, but GetMusic starts recording per-claim data from the first claim. Many artists keep the dlcm.app page live for a while and watch which source produces more claims.

Password-protected pages, custom URLs, more than 100 codes on one release, your own copy on the release page, active/inactive toggles, and a Bandcamp player embed. All of those are dlcm.app Pro features. GetMusic builds the page from your Bandcamp URL and keeps it public so the discovery audience can find it, which rules out private pages by design.

GetMusic publishes it, so yes, read it that way. We have kept every claim to things you can verify on dlcm.app's site and ours, and the verdict hands dlcm.app the cases where it wins: volume pricing, private pages, custom URLs, uncapped codes. Where we could not confirm a dlcm.app detail, the table says so. One release on each for a month is a better judge than either of us.

Try GetMusic, free, with one release

Submit a Bandcamp release, upload up to 100 codes, and watch who claims them from the genre pages. The first release promotion is free; each additional one is $10, paid once.

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Written by Chuck Blake, founder of GetMusic.

GetMusic is a Bandcamp code distribution platform, so this page has a bias and says so. Competitor features and prices were checked against each company's public pages in October 2026; if something has changed, tell us and we will fix the page. More about who we are is on the about page and in GetMusic by the numbers.

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