SoundHound alternatives

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] SoundHound 1/5 · US Doesn't work!: It doesn't identify anything. Shazam identifies it instantly, in a second. · translated
2. [R4] SoundHound 2/5 · US Struggling to identify: I will have music playing loud in my car or in a fitness class and it won't either recognize it or acts like nothing is playing
3. [R6] SoundHound 3/5 · US Does not ID music as it used to be: Have been using this app when it first came out. It was great back then and can identify music better than Shazam. But it does not ID music as it used to be.
4. [R12] SoundHound 3/5 · US What Happened To SoundHound: Here lately a lot of songs that I try to look up can’t be found and I have to go to Shazaam!!! What’s going on with this app?
5. [R2] SoundHound 4/5 · US Inferior to Encore: While this app is without doubt, inferior to Encore as far as recognition goes, it does have some redeeming qualities, one of which is playlists. Head to head with Encore, this app is bested by Encore on virtually every other feature. Encore has better recognition, faster, and considerably fewer dropped connections. But the playlists option is Soundhounds redemption in that
6. [R39] SoundHound 3/5 · GB Ok: Very Slow in compare to shazam
7. [R47] SoundHound 2/5 · US Meh: I’ve used this one for forever, and I get so frustrated because it takes so long to identify music. So I tried another popular app, and it works so much faster. I’m not going to be using this app anymore.
8. [R7] SoundHound 1/5 · US Garbage: This app is a piece of garbage. I have trouble working at all the time on my iPhone 13. The phone works just fine. This is the only app that has a problem. It used to work just fine. It doesn’t need an update. My phone doesn’t need an update. This app is just garbage. It stops working all the time and I’m sick of it! Then I can’t figure out what the song is before the song is over. Than
9. [R9] SoundHound 3/5 · US Ummmm: Hi guys, loved this app since the beginning. Lately however, you’ve been dropping the ball. Using an iPhone air, the mic is disengaged or something with widgets. All songs IDs going to Shazam 911
10. [R15] SoundHound 3/5 · US I really need help: So basically, there are 3 problems: 1. Most of the time, when I’m trying to get SoundHound to recognize music on my Apple Watch, it says that that no music was heard, even though it’s really loud and I’m right next to it! 2. The only thing I can see on my watch is the SoundHound music recognize button and the songs it’s recognized, but I can’t play them! What the heck! 3. This
11. [R43] SoundHound 1/5 · US Keeps saying "no internet connection": I'm connected to the internet. I can play YouTube videos and listen to music. I've tried wifi and cellular. Keeps saying "No internet connection...." LAME!
12. [R24] SoundHound 3/5 · GB A powerful that lost it’s way….: This app used to be the go-to for me and my friends, Shazam (it’s well known rival) had lost it’s way and was awful, but now the table has turned. Shazam with it’s Apple investment has gone from strength to strength and this app seems to get worse. New app updates seem to make it clunkier and it’s janky add-ons do nothing for me, it really struggles to identify e
13. [R27] SoundHound 3/5 · GB Sadly, going downhill.: I have been a loyal Soundhounder for many years but in the last few months I started to feel that it was not finding tracks more and more often. I was missing out on brilliant tracks so I downloaded Shazam and found that 95% Shazam found tracks that Soundhound didn’t… what’s happened? 😔
14. [R30] SoundHound 3/5 · GB Used to be great: I’ve been using this app for years! I preferred it over Shazam as it added to a playlist and always got the tunes. Recently it almost never recognised anything and hasn’t been able to add to a playlist for months....PLEASE FIX IT! Going to have to use another app...
15. [R3] SoundHound 3/5 · US Lacks pip: Love this app. Best. One thing that refrains me from using it is the lack of pip. This is a smartphone and always doing something so this would be a great feature. Please implement it. Thank you
16. [R36] SoundHound 3/5 · GB Apple music integration stopped working: App no longer adds songs into the playlist. "Open in apple music" is also not working. Used to be great though.
17. [R10] SoundHound 2/5 · US Charging After All These Years?: I can’t believe after a decade, this app stopped working only to find out they want money now. Boooooo, SoundHound. No thanks.
18. [R16] SoundHound 1/5 · US Can't find anyone: Seriously - this app can't ID the simplest of songs. Meanwhile, Shazam is killing it
19. [R69] Audiomack 5/5 · US The best: Finally a good offline music player
20. [R72] Audiomack 5/5 · US Finally a free music app!!!!: Trust me best app there is one song that are only plus but you usually can find one song exactly the same and are able to download it plus you can add your own download song stored on your phone 10000/5 stars!!!
21. [R75] Audiomack 5/5 · US DOWNLOAD THIS: Just like Spotify deadahhh too but when there are ads u can still listen to music and ads can be muted so basically no ads also cheaper trust me this the BEDT MUSIC APP
22. [R89] SoundCloud 5/5 · US One of a kind: 🫶🏿
23. [R92] SoundCloud 5/5 · US I love it here!: As an artist and a fan of music, sound cloud is perfect for me!
24. [R94] YouTube Music 5/5 · US BEST MUSIC APP EVER: It might be a little more pricey than the rest but not only do you get no ads on YouTube but you also get every single song you can think of that’s on YouTube. That unreleased song your favorite artist never officially dropped? It’s on here! That edit song remix you heard on TikTok yea it’s on here too. One downside I could say is there user-face. I’ve been using the app since
25. [R100] YouTube Music 5/5 · US Best app ever: I was gonna go to sleep and I can close the app and it will still play and I like the app since they could do that best app ever and can put up the volume and low down
26. [R103] YouTube Music 5/5 · US Deep music catalog, sounds great: For YouTube users YouTube Music is a great way to stream music. The song catalog is comprehensive and the audio sounds better than Apple Music (for my taste). I also like the many daily mixes that are algorithmically made to cover a variety of genres you like. Quickly switching between song and video is another strength of YTM. The queuing system is second to no
27. [R108] Soundmap 5/5 · US Fire: It’s cool
28. [R112] Soundmap 3/5 · US Solid app: It’s fun but I never really pull anything I want unfortunately
29. [R114] Soundmap 5/5 · US Tuff: Tuff
30. [R117] Soundmap 5/5 · US Wonderful: Amazing Game!!!☺️
31. [R71] Audiomack 1/5 · US Very useless app ,: Audiomack if you don’t regulate the amount of ads you allow on your platform soon another platform with less ads will pop out and audiomack will be completely forgotten. The number of ads that disrupt music is very annoying, you can’t play 3 music in a roll without an annoying ads popping up and ruining your vibes. Correct this nonsense soon or you’ll definitely lose A LOT of
32. [R74] Audiomack 2/5 · US So much advert: Reduce advert
33. [R76] Audiomack 3/5 · US Ads: Just ads ads ads. I wanted to give it another go after years but man it feels like i get ads every song. 20 minute drive i got a few songs. Has some good music but dang those advertisements were why i didnt wanna stay at first