SoundHound - Music Discovery

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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Simply awful. This app has got to be the absolute worst song identifier on the Apple Store. Seriously, it just spins and spins and spins until it regretfully informs you that it can’t find whatever it is you’re looking for. Don’t waste your time.

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Agreement. Same grumpy bear_ all right I forgot the numbers

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   What happened?. SH hasn't found a song in weeks. Lay the phone next to speaker? Nothing. Don't even ask it to find music without words (Impossible Germany - Wilco!) and Shazam found it in 5 seconds. SH could not find it after 3min

4. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

   Having issues finding songs. App needs an update. Having issues getting to share songs on social media and doesn’t recognize songs.

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   More like Music Never Found!!!. App works fine for a little while, but then works not at all. Constant searches with unfounded results. Have had this app for years, but only works part of the time and then just sits on my phone not being used. Whoever, whatever, or how ever this app needs to be improved needs to be done, never produces search results, always shows no results found and that’s with songs from the radio with clear sound. ~Not a happy user~

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   A Lot of Noise. Finds the name of nothing…

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Stopped recognizing music. Last dozen times I’ve used the app it doesn’t recognize the song. I even tried it on a U2 song just to see, and it didn’t recognize it 🤡. Deleting, it’s just taking up space on my phone

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   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!

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Downward spiral. App no longer recognizes songs, even under perfect conditions WiFi connected, directly under a speaker with no ambient sound, app still detects humming and never picks up song. Last update was in Jan 2026(it’s April 2026) and still sucks. Don’t know what happened, this thing used to be fire.

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    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.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    horrible. not once has it recognized a song, don’t matter how clear it is, it doesn’t know any songs

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Ineffective. Hasn’t been able to get even close to the right song

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    This app sucks. It sucks. Doesn’t capture any audio anymore. What happened?

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not good accuracy. Consistently gets my songs wrong. Quality of app is subpar from my ability to look up song titles

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Can’t Recognize Songs. Have consistently had issues with the app recognizing a song, despite turning up volume, being in an otherwise silent area, etc. Not worth using.

16. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    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.

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Doesn’t help at all. This didn’t work at all.. I don’t recommend installing.

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Junk. Didn't work for me.

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Don’t know how this has 5 stars. I have tried to use this app numerous times over multiple years and never once has it successfully given me the song name of what I’m trying to find whether I’m humming or using some of the lyrics, whistling or anything. It has never worked.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Loser App. 2 time 2026 Grammy award winner on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and nothing. Crickets. SoundHound sucks!!!

21. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Used to be Great, Been Sucking For Awhile Now. Not much to elaborate on. It used to be awesome, a perfect alternative to stupid paid apps, just to find a feckin song? But in the last year it has gotten worse and worse and now it can’t recognize well known songs 95% of the time. Not sure if they’re not upgrading or what but SoundHound SUCKS BALLLS NOW

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    I even said the most obvious song in the gave me something completely different. It is horrible. 1

23. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Not working anymore. This app went 👎 Doesn't recognize songs more often than not, with some of the artists popular.

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    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.

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Used to be great. Hasn’t recognized songs in ages… used to be great now it’s an unnecessary use of storage… DELETE

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Stupid. Plays ads with full audio while listening to a song. How can you identify a song around the noise of an ad???

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    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.

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Can’t identify songs. App use to be good; however, now It seem to not be able to identify songs. What a waste, uninstalling.

29. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Won’t let you cancel subscription. It will keep charging you without letting you cancel subscription

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Junk. Won’t detect even a very recognizable song on guitar, total trash