Just Dance alternatives without a console: the two camps
Which camp fits depends on the evening you are after. For the game feeling, Just Dance Now turns the room into a dance floor. The routine goes on a screen with internet, a PC, a Mac, a tablet, an Apple TV or a TV with a cast device, you hold your phone in your right hand, and the app scores your moves. Free to install, one free song a day, then a pass or subscription.
The console games carry on too. Just Dance 2026 Edition and Just Dance: Decades of Hits, the latter from 13 October 2026, run on a console. You follow a filmed coach, the game scores how well you hit the move, and there is room for up to six players at once. You buy the game, extra songs come through the Just Dance+ subscription, and your phone can act as the controller.
Can you play Just Dance on a phone alone?
Not quite on its own. The app sits on your phone, but the coach needs a screen of its own: a PC, a Mac, a tablet or the TV, while the phone reads your hand. And it reads your hand, not the rest of you.
With one screen and nothing else, the question shifts. A living room full of dancers will not fit on it. You and one dancer will. That is where the practice tools sit, the ones that pull a dance video apart and hand you no number at the end.
Which apps come close, and what is each one for?
They were built for different evenings, which counts for more than any ranking. Read across: what an app is for, what it costs and what you need alongside it.
- To score and compete: Just Dance Now, the console games or STEPIN.
- To learn a routine somebody else set: SPARKY or STEEZY.
- To work on a video you found yourself: MOVZ or Djensur.
| App | Built for | What it costs | What you need |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just Dance Now | Dancing along and scoring on licensed music | Free to install, then a pass or subscription | Phone and a screen with internet |
| Just Dance on console | A party for up to six players | You buy the game, songs via Just Dance+ | Console and the game |
| STEPIN | K-pop dance game with scores and leaderboards | Free to install, purchases, ads on Android | Phone |
| SPARKY | K-pop routines to learn at home | Free to install, purchases, subscriptions, ads on Android | Phone |
| STEEZY | Filmed classes from teachers, step by step | Free to install, subscription to use | Phone or web |
| MOVZ | Mirroring, slowing and looping a video you have | Free to install, in-app purchases | Phone and a video file |
| Djensur | Your own video, you beside the dancer on a stage | Free to install right now | Phone, a video file and an account |
What if your song is not in the game?
A dance game works from the tracks it has licensed, and that list is fixed. When the routine you saw on your feed is not on it, that is the point where the practice tools get interesting.
There is no catalogue here. You pick a video file with one dancer in it, up to fifteen minutes long, and the app sets that dance up for your library. The honest part: setting up takes time, the app has to stay open with the screen on, it needs internet because the raw video goes to our storage first, and you need an account. The cutting out itself happens on your own phone.
If a link is all you have, paste a YouTube address and dance beside the player. That is not the stage: the YouTube footage never lands in your recording, only you do. Pasting a TikTok link, or downloading from YouTube to set a dance up, is not something we do.
Game or practice: what actually changes
A game hands you a number for every move, and the number is the engine. You go again because you missed one, and for plenty of people that is the whole point of the evening.
Practice runs the other way round. You take eight counts, slow them down, repeat until you can do them without watching, and only then add the next block. No score needed for that, just control over tempo and repetition.
So Djensur passes no judgement. No score, no points counter, no leaderboard, nothing watching you. The only number is the one you give yourself afterwards, on a slider from 1 to 10, and it stays yours. What is there instead: five speeds from 0.5x to 1.5x, ten seconds back or forward with one tap, pause, and an A to B loop on any dance you set up through the app.
What a session looks like
Your camera feed is cut out on your own phone and goes nowhere. Only what you share or publish yourself ends up online.
- Add the video you want to learn from, with one dancer in frame.
- Pick one of the thirteen stages and match your size to the dancer with two sliders.
- Count in from 3, 5 or 10 seconds and dance beside that dancer.
- Drop the speed on the hard eight and put an A and a B around it.
- Every session records itself. Afterwards you choose: keep it or bin it.
What you will not find here
No score and no leaderboard, no catalogue of licensed music, and no button that flips the choreography. Your own camera feed does come back mirrored, the way a wall mirror works, and that stays on. The dancer stands the way the video was filmed. Turning a video around is what MOVZ, Dance.io and SyncMirror are built for.
What you get is one vertical clip with you on your stage, the dancer beside you or you on your own. On iPhone a cable into the HDMI port puts that same stage on the TV, and there is no wireless route. In both stores the app is free to install right now, with no subscription, no in-app purchases and no ads.
Every app above was checked on 11 September 2026 against its own store listing or its own site. Just Dance is a trademark of Ubisoft. We are not part of Ubisoft, and this page is not theirs.