Bandcamp Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.6% of reviews
Neutral16.0% of reviews
Negative experience33.4% of reviews

~ Based on 676 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 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

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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WE NEED DARK MODE PLEASSEEEEENPLEASEEEEE PLEASEEEEEE

I love this app but I HATEEEEEE BEING BLINDED LATE AT NIGHTT PLZZZZ AD DARK MODE IM BEGGING🙏 😭

personal ≠ personalized 🫶

I LOVELOVELOVE the way that the "your feed" section isn't based on a weird, AI-curated algorithm of music the app THINKS I will like, and instead is made up of artists and genres that I actually CHOOSE to follow.

And the anti-Ai-scraping part of the terms and agreements is just the cherry on top of a huge pile of cherries. I hope the Bandcamp developers are proud of what they've made, because it's genuinely so refreshing to have a music platform that actually supports artists and an authentic listening experience. THANK YOUUU
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I love It

No issues with it my favorite band Is Japandroids go check em out and buy the house that heaven built

fantastic! but…

the only thing i’d like added after many years of using bandcamp is an official dark mode for both the app and web app.

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Please please please for sakes add a dark mode it's nearly 2027

AI trolled me on Bandcamp

I got trolled by AI. I bought a piece of music because I felt a human connection with the writer and I got suckered. What hurt the most was realizing how bad my taste in music can be.

I reached out to Bandcamp and heard nothing back. Maybe they don’t have the resources to respond. Maybe they just don’t care.

There are many talented human artists on Bandcamp, but now every time I open the app I remember how I got suckered like a chump.
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