Soundhound App Reviews

I loved this so much I bought it but now it has become second to Shazam. Consistently doesn’t recognize songs when Shazam gets it the very first time. No matter how many times you repeat the search, it consistently fails when Shazam gets it.

The most basic functionality of this app is to identify a song and no matter how many times I uninstall and reinstall the app doesn’t hear the song.

Every song I have tried to “look up” does not work. Even did an easy Timberlake song and still no results. Paid $8 back in the day- hope you’re not expecting me to pay more.

Opens new worlds of music for me. Love having the lyrics and videos and more available instantly.

I have submitted tickets, on latest version, have always updated, deleted, reinstalled...nothing. The app never hears audio now. I’ve gone 100% Shazam at this point.

It makes me crazy when I hear a song I like and don’t know what it is. So great to have Sound Hound that can tell me what every song is I hear. So fun!!

Been using SoundHound for YEARS! The fact that SoundHound could identify lesser known music like obscure Jazz standards and contemporary BlueGrass made it a standout app. Enjoyed it so much I bought the Infinity version 6-7 years ago. Used it to identify hundreds of songs in that time. But now SoundHound no longer works. Wasn’t working with iOS 10, so I finally up updated my 6S to iOS 12, but still doesn’t work. Just says “No Music Heard.” Decided to double check to see if it was a hardware problem and downloaded Shazam and tested them side by side and NOPE, it’s not a hardware issue, Shazam identified 10 out of 10 songs, SoundHound just says “No Music Heard.”

Please add integration with deezer and you'll deserve 5 stars

Sometimes we just want lyrics and that doesn’t require your app to override my Bluetooth to listen to my external phone speakers in order to figure out what song I’m listening too. So if you could give us the option to toggle between typing in our music selection or having your app listen in to what songs are floating around, that would be sublime. Seriously... I listen to gangsta rap at work and if I want lyrics without sharing my music with my quiet office, I should be allowed to!!!! Frustrating.

Just little too slow until it actually listen Need faster loading time

I was excited about this from the new update. However the second you go to the lyric page the app shuts down. Hmmm

For the most part this app rarely fails me. I’ve used it consistently for over 8 years and it gets better and better.

SoundHound is a great song identifying app. I use it all the time and it has always identified the song I was listening to.

Bought this app years ago and loved. I still use it when I need to capture a title Usually works 8 out 10 But with this latest update it just crashes Please fix this issue

Love this app

Just doesn’t work anymore. Either can’t find a match, or returns a ludicrous result. Disappointing, because it used to be a phenomenal app.

No clue why Shazam is so popular. Sound hound is better by far. UI is better, detection is better, etc. Not sure if the infinite app is still $2.99, but if it still is then it’s an absolute steal. Shazam requires an expensive subscription, this app is a single payment and it’s absurdly underpriced for some reason.

Great app - even better than the one you know about.

I got the Pro version of Soundhound years ago. Why am I now seeing ads? Even worse, FULL SCREEN POP-UP ADS!

Why did I just delete this App after using it for 10 years?? Started using this app when it was free. It was such a clean interface with no advertisements, unlike Sh.....m which had too many ads to be useful. I even paid ($9.95, I think, twice because of an iTunes/Apple ID screwup). During the last 2 years, SoundHound has deteriorated to the point I am about to uninstall it. I like Pre-Listening, because quite often (like during TV shows - E.G., “The Imposters,” there is only 15-20 seconds of music before the song is gone. I love building my Discoveries List from anywhere I hear music I might want to purchase (or now, stream from TIDAL. My current issue is that when streaming TIDAL to any of my Yamaha AV Receivers (mainly the RX-A3080) using Apple’s AirPlay, when I launch SoundHound, it immediately STOPS my stream and begins playing on my iPhone. If I launch SoundHound while streaming from TIDAL, it is because I want to check lyrics — and that is all. To stop my listening experience and shunt the sound back to my iPhone is UNACCEPTABLE. I will now start a search to find something which works like SoundHound used to work - for the user, NOT for the bean-counters!

I have had SoundHound for years. Started with the free version but quickly got the paid version. It was $4.99 and worth every penny. It may cost more nowadays, I think maybe $6.99 but it is easily worth $10. During the years I have used it, SoundHound has gotten better with updates and, it has never been buggy. I have used it to identify hundreds, perhaps thousands of songs. It has a live lyrics feature and you can access your music library from the app. I like the SoundHound playlist feature that creates a playlist on Apple Music and automatically adds songs identified by the app to the playlist. I can go on and on but I will only add that if you’re into music, at least try the free version. It limits the number of songs you can look up but you will see how well it works. I use it all the time to identify songs on the radio or on TV shows. If you get the paid version, and use it, you won be disappointed.

For a while now on my iPhone X, this claims it never hears any song sounds. However, it immediately understands my voice to tell Soundhound to give me help. It’s like the entire song conversion routine is missing. It’s now worthless, except for manually looking up lyrics on songs I know and can enter.

I have been using this app since it was first released back in the day. I liked this over all other app because it was clean UI, fast load, fast music detection and no nonsense app. However, recently with every update it has gone sluggish and doesn’t even detect any music. I tried this app 5 times yesterday on a Billy Joel’s song (She’s Always A Woman) and all 5 times it failed to detect the song. Siri (Shaham) detected it within few seconds.

Used to be fantastic now it is spam ware

I connect to spotify and listen to music with airpods, but the quality of the music is like radio. Please fix it.

Hi SoundHound Team, The UI needs and update, the orange and brown esthetic is ugly, and your music player should be more basic, just have it as a bar along the bottom of the screen. You definitely have the most powerful music recognition app but now it’s time to bring it into 2019. Also try simplifying the app overall.

Awesome and fast love the lyrics

Love this app!

Grateful so often for this tool to learn of musical resource !!!

„No music was heard” for last few months. Whats wrong with you SoundSound?

Sound Hound worked great for years for me. Now, After updating to version 8.9.4, the microphone detects no music. At all. Ever. Regardless of how loud and clear a song is playing. Not on the iPhone, not on an iPad. It’s too bad. I used to really like this app.

I am giving this a one star because of a feature that causes the app to crash. Find a song, close the app, open app again, go to the history, click the three little dots to the right of any song and BOOM. Crashes. Search a song, click on the lyrics area while you are listening to the song, click the three dots, boom crashes! Search a song, bookmark it, click the play button, click the text of any part of the lyrics, this leads you to the full lyrics page, click the three dots, BOOM! Come one guys, this is QA 101....

I love how it gives lyrics on songs and links to YouTube, Apple Music, and Amazon.

It’s not working

Awesome

What else can I say? Rarely diesigfs to pick up the target music!