Shazam vs Soundmap

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. [R5] Shazam 5/5 · US Keeps us current: Old songs, new songs, songs we forget who sang them, Shazam keeps us current. Thank you Shazam.
2. [R25] Shazam 5/5 · US I like it.: It gets most of the songs I put in to identify. Giving me the lyrics is a big plus too. I recommend this app.
3. [R86] Soundmap 5/5 · US Support and variety: Support was very helpful and there are a variety of songs including my favorite ones
4. [R104] Soundmap 4/5 · US Wonderful concept; needs polished: As much as I’d love to give Soundmap 5 stars, there are some oddities that prevent me from doing so. But I’ll start with the good: profile page customization is virtually limitless, the action of completing trades is simple and easy, the favorite artists implementation is great, quests are as useful as they are difficult, and the varying editions and types of dro
5. [R4] Shazam 1/5 · US What did you do!?!?: Made awful changes can’t navigate. Complete fail from what it was the last 5 years. Deleted!
6. [R22] Shazam 1/5 · US Doesn’t work and has no support: For awhile, this app worked as advertised. Lately I’ve gotten interference from the advertising. I hear a song that I want information on, open Shazam and automatically an ad pops up that insists I respond to it before the app does anything else. Once I respond to the app, it drops me into the last identified song on hold. Now I have to close that window to get the
7. [R63] Soundmap 3/5 · US Fun but Slow: This is my absolute favorite game, I’ve been playing for close to 2 years now but in the past 6 months the app has been extremely slow.
8. [R72] Soundmap 3/5 · US Fun but Glitchy: It crashes way too often. It’ll freeze when I open songs. Also, the pop up for a bigger radar is WAY too often. It gets in my way all of the time. Honestly, it makes me never want to buy anything.
9. [R1] Shazam 2/5 · US What happened to Shazam: Shazam used to be great at identifying songs 90-95% of the time. If it didn’t know the answer it would tell me it couldn’t identify the song but something changed. I’m guessing it can identify songs correctly maybe 50-60% of the time. What’s really frustrating is when Shazam says it identified the songs by and it’s completely wrong. I knew the artist but wanted to find the
10. [R30] Shazam 1/5 · US Used to be better: This app worked so much better before Apple took it over. Now it’s a 50% chance the app recognizes a song.
11. [R64] Soundmap 1/5 · US Update: Day 645 of playing: Game has never worked completely right a single day. Customer service is awful and run by Ai. They will sweep you under the rug asap. Bought a song that hasn’t shown up for 30 hours. Just sold a song, game crashes and I get no money on my account. Literally the worst game in the world to be addicted to
12. [R101] Soundmap 1/5 · GB ignores, too many bugs: ive seen & experienced multiple people including myself get banned for no reason after spending money they ignore your emails & messages on support , the game is glitchy , hardly ever works correctly and a money grab
13. [R15] Shazam 3/5 · US Don’t like to be MADE to trial an app: I shouldn’t have to give a credit card when I’m trying to use a FREE app!!
14. [R69] Soundmap 3/5 · US too much pay to win.: other than everything you have to pay for, this apps good.
15. [R96] Soundmap 5/5 · US Peak: Nice game, but a lot of features are locked to premium and I’m not tryna go broke
16. [R82] Soundmap 1/5 · US Awful service: Don’t waste your time or money on this game. Went on deployment and had all my epics liquidated and support refuses to help. Trash game and support
17. [R97] Soundmap 1/5 · GB Support: Support are not helpful, didn’t review my ban after a million different emails asking them to give me more info on why i was falsely banned!