Bandcamp Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.7% of reviews
Neutral16.0% of reviews
Negative experience33.3% of reviews

~ Based on 682 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Bandcamp

Is Bandcamp Safe?

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

This assessment is based on 38,086 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

Bandcamp Lifer

I have been with Bandcamp for a long time and I appreciate the steady improvements to the app. Playlists are now showing up on people's profiles which is cool. Maybe now that nina protocol is gone, certain labels can spend more time serving their Bandcamp customers who've been here for over a decade.
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Better than spotify but so many glitches

Same as the title.

Two glaring issues

Love this app, love being sure the artists I like are getting their fair share. Big fan of fee free Fridays, I always look forward to them.

I inly really have two problems. First, the shuffle function doesn't really work that well. You can only shuffle with the queue you already have so if you play the second last song on your playlist and press shuffle, your shuffle queue will just be the last song in your playlist.

Second problem is that you just can't edit your playlist cover image, just doesn't save.

Hope they change this cus I really love using bandcamp.
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Love this app

I wish I had learned about Bandcamp sooner.

Tarabesque

A new album of Arabic jazz, exciting solos in the micro tone. Also included our the classical Arabic instrumentals known as the.Longa and samai . This album is pure joy.

Cant log in on app

Every time I try and go and sign into my app, it keeps saying that an email has been sent for confirmation purposes. It is NOT in my email inbox nor junk mail. So frustrating.

horrible bugs on ios.

i can’t even log in on mobile. bs.

One nitpick

Typically hides free albums in the app version and has limited plays for them like with paid albums, I hope that gets fixed in an update

Frustrating

I can’t find my purchases on the phone app. I created my account on my iPad and I can find my purchase on the browser/web page, but there is no option on the actual app for seeing my stuff. Also when you click on the app support it just throws you into the same morass of albums they want to sell you and not to actual help. I found a help page and it didn’t give me my answer because it’s only pre set up FAQs.
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compatibility

i love this app, but i’m using it on my ipad and the app doesn’t even fill my screen, please add proper ipad support. besides that i love it. can you make support for landscape mode too because a lot of people use their ipad that way.

No dark mode

I love bandcamp. You let me take back my ownership rights. But at 3am you burn out my eyeballs with a 1600nits amoled display. Everybody else respects system wide dark themes but you.
Bandcamp is great and you should be a customer during daylight hours

No better experience than this!

I have been on and off band camp for a while but I've haven't stopped enjoying its platform.

There's always something new to discover and you will most certainly be surprised by what you come across, hundreds of talented musicians from all over the country.

If there's and artist you happen to listen to, you need to purchase the tracks to jump back in on repeat, the artist receives majority of the portion and you can also dig into their collection of merchandise.

If you don't know where to find music, you can also tune into Bandcamp's radio music catalog, you just have to explore the app for a minute.

As of right now, this is my go to app for music

much blessings to everyone
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Love Bandcamp, Loathe the app..,

Seriously, Bandcamp? I mean, really? Such a brilliant concept, such a brilliant website, and you release something like this?
Update. I take that back. Just tried to buy a couple of CDs. What a dreadful experience. Seems like the website has gone exactly the same way..

Love Bandcamp, Loathe the app..,

Seriously, Bandcamp? I mean, really? Such a brilliant concept, such a brilliant website, and you release something like this?

DARK MODE PLEASE!

I’m glad I can support bands I like. I would love to have a dark mode for this app.

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I wish they'd add a dark mode.

I love this app, but needs improvement

Playing a new song shouldn't clear the queue. Wth

Update: PLEASE DON’T TELL ME PLAYLISTS ARE DEVICE DEPENDENT!!! CAN’T FIND A PLAYLIST CREATED ON MY OTHER iPhone ON THIS IPHONE!

Cannot Change Shipping Address

I subscribe to a label on Bandcamp which sends me records quarterly… from the UK. I’ve moved since I signed up. There is nowhere in Bandcamp’s app or website to change one’s shipping address. The FAQ refers to a section of the website which simply doesn’t exist. Lesson: don’t sign up for a subscription, or don’t plan on a relocation once you do sign up.
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Urgent bug fix needed.

Urgent:

Every time i have unfollowed an artist… the next time i open Bandcamp i am following that artist again. i keep notified about artists i don’t care about. i’ve tried signing out, deleting the app, reinstalling, logging back in and checking. and it is still happening! super frustrating bug. PLEASE FIX THIS!

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please bring dark mode! we have all requested this for years and it never happens. no one wants to be blinded using Bandcamp. It’s been years of dark mode usage on practically every other app, but you refuse to give us options.

it is nearing 2027. modernize your app, please. for the sake of accessibility.
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lazy development

Obviously, the app itself doesn't reflect the quality of music you can find. That is and always will be great because of the artists.

The app itself, however, is just ok and oftentimes outright annoying.

It's taken over a decade to finally get to a point where you can buy music on the mobile app. Thankfully that was changed. But still, tapping a bandcamp link, within an artists post for example, will not open within the app, but instead in Safari. Maybe this is
so you don't loose your place in the article, but it's cumbersome nonetheless.

Have an issue with a purchase and didn't receive merch? Well bandcamp is going to make you do the work to sort things out and message the artist yourself, but you can't do that on the app. You instead have to move over to the desktop version just to get this done.

Instead of fixing basic quality issues such as these, we got a playlist and queue option. I guess this was inevitable and perhaps useful to some users, but it feels a bit out of touch. Almost like a ploy to appeal to people who are moving over from Spotify or Apple music.

One final note: I can't tell you how many times I've tried to search for something, checking and double checking my spelling, only to be met with "no artist found" or a bunch of extraneous results. Then by some mix of magic and mystery, I find what I'm looking for, but that required searching the label, a song, or just following a link from some other place like instagram / link-tree. But of course, that link doesn't open in the app either, nor is there an option to do so from Safari.
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