# AudioStep - improve your run cadence with BPM match — user reviews > 38 indexed App Store user reviews of AudioStep by Audioforge Labs Inc., rated 2.10/5 from 21 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/audiostep-improve-your-run-cadence-with-bpm-match/id652697216/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/audiostep-improve-your-run-cadence-with-bpm-match/id652697216.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 14 ## Newest reviews (13 of 38) ### 1/5 — AudioStep *2019-07-18* Does not work. ### 1/5 — Non-functuonal *2019-07-06* Crashes constantly. Will not load any songs. Does not work at all. If the dev can't or doesn't want to figure out what's needed to update, this app needs to be pulled from the store. ### 1/5 — DONT BUT IT *2019-01-29* I bought this and every time I try and play any song it crashes. Not worth the time and definitely not worth even the 99 cents. ### 1/5 — Will not load any music *2018-10-21* Useless. Should be removed from the store. The app will not load any music from an iPhone on iOS 12. ### 1/5 — iPhone X -ios 11 didn't work *2018-05-23* Didn't work. No songs play. Deleted. Will be asking for a refund ### 1/5 — Gave up *2017-09-23* Wouldn’t analyze my running play list. Crashed at least 5 times while trying to analyze. Then i let I play music while it analyzed. Crashed again. I would like my $.99 back. ### 1/5 — Waste of time *2017-04-20* None of my many albums/songs show up on the playlist, app is broke or doesn't work as advertised. ### 3/5 — hmm *2015-09-30* The crossfading between tracks is quite annoying while running when you want to get to a good song. in saying that it was very useful when it worked. Also, i recently updated to ios9 or whatever the new iphone software is, and now it wont load my playlist at all, and freezes. very annoying. ### 1/5 — Won't work with Apple Music *2015-09-23* Please note before buying! This app does not work with Apple Music. All my music is Apple Music now that I am a subscriber. Absolutely no use to me. With millions of Apple Music subscribers out there, I hope this can be changed. ### 1/5 — Does not work! *2015-05-17* Terrible waste of money. App crashes as soon as I try to add a song. ### 1/5 — Crashes with iphone 5 ios7 *2015-03-19, version 2.01* When I add a song, it crashes. Never got this to work. ### 2/5 — Works opposite of what is says *2014-06-22* The bpm work opposite if what it says. Increasing at 120 bmp and slowing down at 180 bpm. Waste of money. ### 2/5 — What? *2014-04-20* Better get to work. Too fast, too slow. Not matching up with my foot pod at all. I'm going thru my whole play list and moving out the songs that aren't working. Seems like the app was suppose to keep me from having to do that. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Outdated *2026-03-11* I should have read how old the last review was before I purchased this app. Seemed like a great idea and in theory would have worked out good for me. The last review was years ago and this app appears to have been abandoned. The app does not work at all on my current iPhone. ### 1/5 — Müll *2025-06-08* Da geht garnichts und sieht aus wie Windows 98. Schrott ### 1/5 — Audio Step doesn’t work *2024-03-02* Doesn’t work at all, feel scammed out of $0.99 ### 1/5 — Waste of money *2023-11-29* Only works with Apple Music. Most of my music is on YouTube music now. Useless to me ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work at all *2021-08-12* It worked only somewhat years ago but the new updates have ruined it. It won’t upload any of my songs. When I look up the playlists through the app and I select a song it does not load it into the app. Complete waste of money. ### 1/5 — Should have paid attention to the other reviews *2021-02-11* The app does not work. At all. Waste of time and money. ### 1/5 — Absolutely useless *2020-12-28* This app is a waste of time and (fortunately not very much) money. Just doesn't work with iPhone SE. ### 1/5 — The app refuses to work *2019-08-20* Downloaded the app, refuses to take music in from my phone and crashes every time. What a waste of money! ### 1/5 — App is dead *2019-08-19* New iPhone XS. Current OS. This app does not work. Will load no songs. Give me my money back. ### 1/5 — Rubbish app *2019-08-15* The app keeps crashing and you can’t import songs. Don’t bother with it! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Passt *2020-02-13* Funktioniert wie sie soll!!! Macht das Laufen richtig zum einer Art Tanzerlebnis! Auch wenn sich die App bei manchen Songs mit BPM-Bestimmung vertut...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 ### 5/5 — Seriously works *2018-05-11* Love this app. First time I used it my cadence significantly increased and I ran a very enjoyable PB. ### 5/5 — Game changer! *2013-10-02* This very well may be the first app I have ever written, and I own several hundred apps. Audio Step solved a very specific problem brilliantly and seamlessly. I started running 5 years ago, and discovered 2 years ago that running 180 steps per minute solved all my shin split problems. I spent hours creating a playlist of my favorite tracks at 180 bpm using Audacity, but it was manual and time consuming. I've run to the same 8-9 songs for 3 years! Audio step seamlessly took songs in my library (makes sure they are downloaded to the device and not just streaming from iTunes Match) and ran them at 180 bpm. Fast and seamless. Loved my first run with Audio Step, very motivating to have new songs. Songs will advance (with a 3-4 second processing delay) if you double click your headphone button. Highly recommended for all runners! ### 4/5 — Pretty good in most ways *2021-04-17* I haven’t had many of the problems described (so perhaps developers are paying attention), so far the app hasn’t crashed, connects with my iTunes playlist, and keeps good track of my run, speed etc. However, I’m pretty sure that some songs are not being adjusted. Usually I can tell that the speed of a song played through the app is faster than the original. But fairly often, it does not seem that a song is speeded up. I’m not sure if this is related to copyright issues (a previous app I had could only adjust a few certain songs as the other songs were copyright protected) or whether it’s a technical problem. If the former, it would be good if the developers state this up front. If the latter, it would be good if this could be fixed so that all songs reach the desired tempo. Also, I’m only able to indicate a desired tempo at increments of five (e.g., 160, 165, 170). It would be great to do smaller increments (that is, 161, 162, 163) ### 4/5 — I love this ... BUT... *2019-09-04, version 2.07* - app crashes frequently when running the analyzing step. otherwise, I adore this app! I’d love to see Last.FM scrobbling support added! ### 4/5 — Informative and made an impact *2016-02-28* I'm working on my 1min mile time(beginner level) w/o this app my last mile time was 11:30. This time, it was 10:13!! This app made it easier to stay on track oh and I realized how slow (Bpm) my "workout" song list is. ### 4/5 — Brilliant but delicate *2016-01-24* Pros: A very good idea and nice simple interface for runners. Works very well at regulating song speed while preserving the voices and individual notes. Has nifty way of setting bpm for tracks by tapping to the music, but not necessary in general as all my tracks were imported with on already set. Cons: Is a little unstable and crashes without explanation if you try to use a playlist that's too big or containing tracks that aren't downloaded yet - download tracks in Music first then try a smaller playlist (about 100 seems to work ok). Would be nice to fix the crashes by catching these errors and telling the user what's wrong (e.g. 'Download tracks first' or 'try a smaller playlist') rather than simply disappearing... ### 4/5 — Best run cadence app. *2014-03-13* Love the use itunes BPM feature. Would be 5 stars but app crashes after every itunes sync and has to be reinstalled to work. Please fix it. ### 4/5 — kinda liking it few tweeks and this would be awsome *2013-06-21* I currently run with a metrenome so cadence has always been a focus. App works good. Not sure about the claim of no chipmunks. Alvin, Simon and Big T are not on my play list but bump a 120BPM song to 180 and the speed of the lyric makes it sound chipmunk like, just no high pitch. Maybe I am technically challenged but I would love play lists, play by artist, genre, ect to mimic Ipod function. If that was available or even better play music directly from Ipod and app makes the changes in the back ground (really the same)...The app would be GREAT. A little fine tuning and this could be a hit. The app was unable to analyze quite a few of my songs. The analyzing process takes sometime and I only have a 2 G library. You can play while it is analyzing. If you like music and do a lot of metrenome runs this is a great alternative for a Buck...I recommend ### 3/5 — Audio Crash Step *2016-06-30* Started out fairly stable, but this $4.99 app hasn't weathered recent iOS/iTunes updates well. It cuts out during workouts now, plays one song, or can't locate playlists, really unstable. When it was working the UI wasn't sophisticated but it did the trick. adjustable bpm sliding scale. The songs on my playlist are slowed down or speed up to 180bpm for cadence training and the vocals dont sound distorted which is great! I am going to look for other options. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*