SoundHound

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. [R80] 5/5 · US great: either i have perfect pitch and a naturally beautiful singing voice or this app is good at figuring out what song you're singing because it finds the song i'm looking for pretty consistently
2. [R163] 5/5 · US Perfect when all you know is a tune: I heard a song a bar that I used to really like but Shazam didn’t work at the time. I didn’t know the name of the song, Artist, or the lyrics. All I knew was the a tune from the chorus. The google microphone didn’t work either. I was finally able to find the song I was humming for 3 days with the help of this app on the first try!
3. [R185] 5/5 · US The best app: I’ve been searching for a song that I only knew the melody to for yearssss and I finally found it thanks to this app!
4. [R196] 5/5 · US amazing: after three years of trying to figure out this song I hummed in on here and figured it out!!!😭
5. [R123] 5/5 · US SoundHound is more precise than Shazam: SoundHound is more precise than Shazam
6. [R138] 5/5 · US Better than Shazam: Did what Shazam couldn’t do for months in 30 seconds. Glad I was able to find the classical songs I was looking for with only 5-10 seconds of a sample.
7. [R240] 5/5 · US Love this app: Love this app, recognized the song I listened to immediately when Shazam wouldn’t.
8. [R298] 4/5 · GB Love it!: Great app. Beats the apple hands down.
9. [R179] 4/5 · US Great App: This app is great, allow free music with lyrics , great interface, only some singers doesn’t appear,. I wish they update the app, and add more option for example choose quality of music to save data, the lyrics could have the option of translation in the same line , but for nowadays that we have to pay for anything and see a bunch of ads this app is great. Please don’t leave it behind
10. [R210] 5/5 · US Very happy with results: Sound hound has been awesome with recognizing music and it pairs with Apple Music really well I would highly suggest installing
11. [R1] 1/5 · US Doesn't work!: It doesn't identify anything. Shazam does it instantly, in a second. · translated
12. [R2] 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
13. [R3] 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
14. [R5] 1/5 · US trash: this garbage can never find a single song
15. [R145] 3/5 · US Search bar hasn’t worked in months: See title. Nothing comes up regardless of if it’s an artist name or song name. At least the audio search still works
16. [R153] 4/5 · US Acting weird lately: It's a great app and I have been using it for over a decade. Never had anything go wrong with the app. App always works best with wifi, even without it's pretty good. And had worked well even in a busy restaurant to figure out a song. Yet recently I noticed the app search feature doesn't load at all. It can still recognize a song automatically, but if you type anything into th
17. [R155] 4/5 · US Love it but needs an update: Been using this app for years! Love it but needs an update….search isn’t working & needs new song updates ;)
18. [R243] 5/5 · US Love this app but: So I’ve noticed for about a week or so now that sound hound can’t find any songs? When I tap on sound hound symbol, it says searching then it says singing or humming, then it goes to can’t find song? If I try to search song in search bar nothing shows up… 😒 please fix these issues. Thank you Sound Hound
19. [R136] 4/5 · US Loved it but it stopped working: It was an amazing app I used all the time, but it randomly stopped working. The search results didn’t show up, I played a whole song and it didn’t recognize it. The home section doesn’t show up. It just black and the SoundHound image. Tried deleting and re-downloading it. Please fix.
20. [R137] 5/5 · US Not working? Here is a tip….: I’ve used this app for several years and love it. However, recently it stopped identifying songs (iPhone). Not sure what happened, if it was a phone update or issue with the actual app, but I found the solution: uninstall and reinstall the app. Now it’s working perfectly again! Thanks!
21. [R590] 3/5 · CA Temporary Glitch???: I’ve been using this App for years; in fact, nearly a decade now! Always been a valuable resource and personal experience versus ShAz it has regularly outperformed. Until now. Now it won’t recognize my Bluetooth earbuds (Skullcandy Sesh) and has started crashing. Yes I have the latest version. Unfortunately I’ll be loading back up the competition until this is resolved. Hopefu
22. [R21] 1/5 · US Removed this app: Removed SoundHound app due to sexually suggestive advertisements that do not align with music discovery. Definitely feels like the app has been hacked or neglected. Just not worth running it.
23. [R35] 1/5 · US Beware of ads: This used to be my go to for identifying songs- loved it. Recently the ads have been x-rated with no warning. No thanks.
24. [R38] 1/5 · US Stupid: Plays ads with full audio while listening to a song. How can you identify a song around the noise of an ad???
25. [R39] 1/5 · US Inappropriate advertisements: I used to like this app for identifying songs until one song it continued to wrong AND had pornography pictures as an ‘ad’ I deleted it right away never to look back. I found another app that was better.
26. [R12] 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
27. [R19] 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.
28. [R340] 3/5 · GB Ok: Very Slow in compare to shazam
29. [R91] 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
30. [R151] 5/5 · US Playlist stops: It's the best music app I've had so far, The only problem is that when I open another app my music stops and I keep having to the app for it to play. I would really appreciate it if the developer or developers of SoundHound looked into this issue and fixed it for me or got back to me and told me how to fix it please, Thank you!😊
31. [R302] 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...
32. [R7] 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
33. [R129] 4/5 · US Downloaded because I’m a shareholder: I wanted to delete Shazam and use SoundHound fully because I own shares of it. However as much as I like the app, there’s a BIG flaw in it in my opinion. There’s no setting to add SoundHound to the control center (iPhone) the same way you can with Shazam. Adding this small but helpful feature is my turning point on deleting Shazam off of my phone and making S
34. [R17] 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!
35. [R157] 4/5 · US It works one minute and the next minute it doesn’t work it says no connection: Fix your app
36. [R565] 3/5 · CA Mediocre: This app says internet connection lost when searching even with full service and/or wifi. If it doesn’t lose service it rarely can identify the music.
37. [R223] 3/5 · US Poor for Jazz: Generally good for popular music but found to be very poor for contemporary jazz.
38. [R227] 4/5 · US Good App, but Bad for More Obscure Taste: This is a really neat app, but I mainly got it for the hum function and the more obscure (not crazy obscure tho) songs that I would hum wouldn’t show up. They wouldn’t show up even when I typed in the lyrics or the band name. This is mainly in the Hard Rock, Techno Rock, Metalcore genre. If you’re music taste is Pop, or you like popular songs, then this ap
39. [R247] 3/5 · US Good integration with Spotify but worst recognition: Cannot recognize songs in Hebrew, and Shazam can
40. [R253] 4/5 · GB Good app getting worse: I switched from Shazam to Sound Hound a couple of years back mainly because of better classical music support. Shazam is very poor at giving the composer of pieces of music. Sound Hound was much better. However, it’s going the same way as Shazam. Please reinstate specifying the composer of every piece identified. This morning it couldn’t tell me which violin concerto was
41. [R27] 1/5 · US Take my money and run: Years ago I paid for this to get rid of ads. Haven’t used it in several years, and to my surprise it won’t restore my purchase. Crooks.
42. [R461] 3/5 · GB Why is there two versions?: Why is there two versions in the App Store? I now have both installed as one or the other often refuses to work at all. Also lost all my history following a recent update. Not best pleased.
43. [R638] 3/5 · CA AirPods don’t work: Would be nice if AirPods worked with the app.
44. [R650] 3/5 · CA Good but incomplete information: I do like and appreciate this app but many times you do not list the composer of classical works. This is especially important to me.
45. [R10] 1/5 · US Having issues finding songs: App needs an update. Having issues getting to share songs on social media and doesn’t recognize songs.
46. [R6] 1/5 · US Can't find anyone: Seriously - this app can't ID the simplest of songs. Meanwhile, Shazam is killing it
47. [R74] 4/5 · US One lil add on: I think the one thing that’s missing is uploading vids/audio so it’s easier for some tasks
48. [R597] 3/5 · CA Good but missing a simple UX: Ive been using SoundHound for years. Great product. However, you’d think that by this time the developers would have added landscape view for iPad users. It’s really annoying when switching between apps by swiping.