Bandcamp User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.8% of reviews
Neutral16.3% of reviews
Negative experience32.8% of reviews

~ Based on 655 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Bandcamp Safe?

Bandcamp appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Bandcamp is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 37,683 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

96.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 37,683 App Store ratings for Bandcamp.

Is Bandcamp Legit?

Bandcamp appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Bandcamp is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Volume control issues

If I am streaming from the app, the volume often changes when I do not even have the app visible or sometimes even when I am not touching the phone. I think that it has something to do with being able to control the volume using the hidden swipe gesture on the app's album art screen combined with there possibly being some iOS bug with that feature that allows that to happen even when the album art screen is not visible. It is driving me crazy. I just go to scroll something or just swipe up on my phone and it cranks up the volume on Bandcamp. It makes the app almost unusable. Also, the help page for the app does not exist.
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Massive improvement needed

This has to be the hardest platform imaginable for end users.. has any decent market research taken place? I want to use this platform because the artists get more out of it but it is that user unfriendly I tend to avoid it. Issues: Finding artists, being able to buy songs, sometimes there’s only a wishlist & others a download option, finding the songs you’ve brought, playing the songs you’ve brought, why do I have to queue if I want to continuously listen to my songs.. list goes on.
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Zero support

I have bought two albums and told to DL this app/ to listen and can’t find the album DL. They’re absolutely ZERO support or link to help. Only FAQs. I’ve tried messaging through instagram- absolutely NOTHING. This is really disappointing !

Bc

Fails to work like it used to, always an intermittent malfunction to the app that disrupts workflow resulting in being frequently kicked out of the app

Hard to use app

How in the world does one find the artists we follow? App shows on the search page that I’m following Guthrie Trapp, but his two new tracks are no where on my favorites page?!

Buy music!!

Buying music has never felt so liberating.

Difficulty making an account

Every time I try to make an account I just get a message that says, "Network error 429." What's happening?

No Darkmode

It’s 2026, WTF! Add Darkmode!

Can’t login, can’t create an account

Downloaded an album to my iPhone, it’s disappeared, now u can’t create an account and can’t log in with an account it says I already have. Broken.

I go to CCYM summer camp I love the music

I love the music that Ian wrote

Dark mode.

Great app overall. But it desperately Needs a dark mode.

Not sure…

… why such a great service would have such a mediocre app. Maybe it’s the Apple of it all; the Android version is a whole heck of a lot better.

Please enable automatic app opening of BC links!

Bandcamp as a website/organization itself is a 5/5 due to being among the best at how artists are treated (AFAIK). However, this app itself leaves a lot to be desired as it too often requires manually refinding artists/albums rather than seamlessly opening the app from the website, as well as links in messages opening back in the browser instead of in-app.
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REMOVED ARTIST I BOUGHT SONG FROM

Took app staff 3 days to get back to me. Offered no explanation for why they removed artist content and refunded my donation ti the artist. The people running bandcamp are censoring and are cowards!

literally the best app I have ever used

I love bandcamp

Now Bandcamp are now censoring artist

Boy George’s We Will Dance Again and his profile appear to have become unavailable, raising serious questions about freedom of artistic expression. If art that remembers the victims of the Nova music festival can be silenced, what message does that send?

Over 300 young people were murdered simply because they were dancing at a music festival. Remembering them should never be controversial.

Art should encourage discussion, not suppress it. If content is removed, platforms owe artists and audiences a clear explanation.
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The BEST

The only music app I use

Search isn’t functional

there is content that does not show up when you search for it in app, which requires me to google around, and then sign into my account on desktop.

Great service, bad library

As a music app it’s pretty bad. It just sprawls all your purchased music on a single page and doesn’t have any sort of library function like iTunes or Spotify would. Very difficult to use on the phone, worse in the car

Idee gut Umsetzung naja

Also die Idee ist klasse und ich stöbere gerne und suche nach neuen interessanten Künstlern. Insbesondere die App ist aber inakzeptabel. Etwas unübersichtlicheres habe ich selten gesehen. Es fehlen grundlegende Player Funktionen. Alles wirkt irgendwie unstrukturiert, teilweise sucht man regelrecht den „kaufen Button“ und was für mich das absolut unverständlichste ist: man hat keine Möglichkeit unerwünschte Follower auszuschließen. Das ist kein Spaß, das ist mangelhafter Datenschutz. Es fehlt ganz klar die Möglichkeit den ganzen Account privat zu stellen, neue Follower manuell freigeben zu können und auch unerwünschte Follower zu entfernen. Ich habe schon erste Follower die mir nur folgen um mir ihren Kram zu verkaufen - das ist Spam und das nervt. Alle Follower können sehen was man kauft, man kann Käufe „privat“ machen, aber dann sieht es keiner (auch Freunde die es eigentlich sehen sollen) Was soll das???
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