Amazon Music vs Audiomack

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] Amazon Music 1/5 · US Too Complicared: Needs to be slimmed down, stop forcing unwanted playlists from being crammed down your throat, and correct the issue of personal playlists disappearing when a new device is added.
2. [R3] Amazon Music 3/5 · US Changed everything: App layout totally changed amd rose yet, music I purchased totally disappeared.
3. [R43] Amazon Music 1/5 · US Terrible, Awful, No-Good, Very Bad: I don’t think this app could possibly be worse. So many steps to find your own purchased music, constant push of product and content by the app itself, unbelievably difficult to navigate, bugs and problems when trying to create playlists, it’s almost as if it was made bad on purpose. I regret purchasing any music through Amazon.
4. [R63] Audiomack 3/5 · US recent songs are blocked by subscription: has every song i want, no ads during songs, unlimited plays, and it plays in the background. i'm so grateful to finally find an app like this, i really hope it doesn't change or get taken down like the others :( edit: unfortunately after i wrote this, i got an ad after every song. i don't mind this but it wouldn't let me skip the ad or even continue playi
5. [R24] Amazon Music 3/5 · US Needs improvement: I bought the latest fire tablet just to use for the Amazon Music app. It would spin and hang up, not update or delete play lists etc. customer service didn’t know what the problem was.I would have to reset it and start over. I got tired of it and don’t use it anymore. My iPhone and iPad work better but still does crazy things sometimes like the app will just close in the middle
6. [R40] Amazon Music 1/5 · US Worst music streaming app by far: So much slowdown on an iphone 14 it’s unbelievable, crashing, slow scrolling, slow loading times. Just overall a bad experience with the only singular plus side being audio quality. Just a general bad user experience from interacting to song scrolling.
7. [R49] Amazon Music 1/5 · US Glitchy: It was good until around a month ago and now it’s slow to load the app and play songs.
8. [R66] Audiomack 3/5 · US Hm.: Great app, but, for some reason my app keeps crashing when i try to open now. Very odd.
9. [R19] Amazon Music 2/5 · US Slow, slow, slow: Very slow
10. [R25] Amazon Music 1/5 · US Very unreliable: The app kicks me out every 5 minutes or so and I have to start over.
11. [R99] Audiomack 3/5 · GB Love it, but there’s issues: This would have been a five star review, but it appears that since the most recent update, the app glitches and stops playing music whenever the Wi-Fi changes or goes off. It never used to do this and I cannot understand for the life of me why it’s started doing this now. I only listen to music that I’ve downloaded (there’s another issue: there’s a limited amount of do
12. [R15] Amazon Music 3/5 · US Dislike Subscription Ads: I remember when I would ask Alexa to play a specific song by a specific artist, and it would play the song. At times, it’s telling me that in order to be able to do so I need to have the monthly subscription.
13. [R22] Amazon Music 2/5 · US Not as good as Spotify: People,just get Spotify. It’s so much better. The only way Amazon Music is good is if you have Amazon Music unlimited and who wants to pay for that? Just get Spotify, it’s way easier.
14. [R55] Amazon Music 1/5 · US Greed is rampant: How much greed can Amazon have. In addition to the Amazon prime membership they now want $254 to listen to the unlimited. Which this used to be part of the membership before. Getting tired of no longer nickel and dimming but simply ripping off the consumer. I refuse to continue to pay additional $….. go ahead and ignore us and we will go back to vinyls
15. [R61] Audiomack 1/5 · US I would rate it five starts but…: Every time you click on a song or a button, there’s an ad, and some of us are too broke to pay for music, reduce the ads and make some features free Edit: now I can’t skip the ads, this makes my life more depressing… why are you giving me unskippable ads now?! "Ads make our music app free and they support the app" how the hell does ads an making people suffer sup
16. [R37] Amazon Music 1/5 · US App is horrible: Consistently freezes up remains stuck on a commercial for 10 plays before I just shut it down unable to fast forward your own playlist because they constantly want money. Why would I pay for such substandard service.
17. [R92] Audiomack 5/5 · US Awesome App: I am amazed by the features of this app. They have free downloads (offline music), same song repeating, a sleep timer (song snoozing), popular songs, and so much more. I highly recommend this app. Spotify is really good, but if you are like me and don’t want to pay for many features, then download this app.
18. [R118] Audiomack 1/5 · US Too much Ads: Could you please clarify whether the app is currently streaming music or advertisements? I find it puzzling to wait for a full minute of ads when my intention is to listen to three minutes of music. Additionally, the premium option to eliminate ads is priced at $6.99.