JBL Portable Reviews: Is It Legit?

JBL Portable
JBL Portable
Harman International Industries

Customer Experience

Positive experience39.3% of reviews
Neutral10.6% of reviews
Negative experience50.1% of reviews

~ Based on 1,493 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about JBL Portable

Is JBL Portable Safe?

JBL Portable appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for JBL Portable is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 59,356 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 59,356 App Store ratings for JBL Portable.

Is JBL Portable Legit?

JBL Portable appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for JBL Portable is 100/100.

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

Top reviews

Disappointed

Sound quality not different from Clip 3 and this one does the Bluetooth connection constantly. Won’t buy this brand again

Software malfunction

I've been trying to connect my JBL Flip 7 to the app for over 3 1/2 months now and nothing is working I even tried hard resetting both devices and isn't working. I even tried deleting the app multiple times over the course of those 3 and 1/2 months and nothing; no type of device pops up on the app its keeps saying "discovering product" as if I didn't sit in my chair and waited a whole hour for my device to show up and it never did. Please fix the app; there has to be and issue on YOUR company side.
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Good App

I like how it gives my speaker a boast of quality sound!

Great Until it Wasn’t

App has all of a sudden decided it will not connect to my Boombox 3. Reset the speaker, reset Bluetooth, uninstalled and reinstalled the app. IT WILL NOT CONNECT.

No EQ

No EQ

Firmware Bricks Clip5

Most recent firmware will cause your device to randomly turn off.

A Continuing Disappointment

After several years now, to still have times where one must play Bluetooth three-card monte trying to convince the app to see the devices sitting right in front of me…when it works, it’s great, but when it doesn’t, it makes me regret buying JBL.

Finally working..

It didn’t work (couldn’t connect) until I deleted app and reinstalled, fyi to others having this issue

Stupid app

Zero connectivity, whenever I try to connect my boombox 3 through app it does not show up the device, I mean its already connected through my Bluetooth but will never show on the app.

More engineers, less marketing

JBL has a long tradition of half baked software release, and update problems. It takes forever to address simple functionality issues. You should be able to update firmware and software more easily.

Can’t find

I can’t find my JBL go3

JBL

The JBL APP drains my speaker too fast !

Awesome

Great small speaker to take on holiday

OK speaker, poor app

I upgraded from the Go4 to the Go5 and the sound is fine. I was hoping that the latest USB version in the Go5 would allow checking the battery with the phone LIKE EVERY OTHER device, but I’m forced to use the JBL app, which is terrible buggy. Poor purchase.

The worst app

The app doesn’t have more equalizer base. The app is the worst app. This app does not have the deepest base quality on the app how you wanna set your base at this point. I’m just gonna delete the app on the app so so terrible only terrible equalizer base settings doesn’t have like different base to make the only team have the deepest base sentence to Spotify. JBL Portable app doesn’t have a different equalizer settings. Only only the file that they have is the worst ever
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Software with no purpos

I don’t see any benefits to using the app. I can pair manually my two Flip5 speakers. I would love to see an EQ or some tone controls. Pointless application

App Stopped Working

Can’t connect to Grip anymore😔

Terrible app

Tried to connect to my JBL Charge 5 to this app and got stuck in an endless, time-wasting loop of disconnecting and reconnecting to Bluetooth. Fix your app.

No longer connects to the speakers

This app was fine when I had just one speaker, then I added another, and all of the benefits like equaliser settings became unavailable, not even visible. After, the app stopped finding the speakers.
So, pretty useless.
Any chance of addressing these issues or even improving the app?
I like the speakers, they are great sounding
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