# Recognize — user reviews > 135 indexed App Store user reviews of Recognize by JG Applications Ltd, rated 1.70/5 from 51 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/recognize/id604448810/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/recognize/id604448810.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 5 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 39 ## What do users think of Recognize? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🎯 Accurate song recognition for most songs - 🌍 Excellent recognition of international and obscure music - ⚡ Fast and quick identification - 🎨 Clean and user-friendly interface - 💰 Free application - 🎵 Recognizes songs even with background noise - 📱 Works well on multiple devices **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes when attempting to identify songs - 🔐 Requires email/social media login (Facebook, Twitter, Gmail) - ❌ Poor recognition accuracy in recent versions - 📵 Returns 'No Match' for popular and common songs - ⚠️ App force closes without error messages - 🚫 Requires Facebook posting permissions - 📊 Inconsistent performance across devices - 🎙️ Microphone button sometimes missing or non-functional - 📺 Covered in ads - 🔄 Broken after app updates **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes immediately when microphone button is pressed - Force closes without error messages - Login/signup button functionality broken - Token expiration errors on authentication - No close button (X) on error dialogs - App crashes after reinstallation - Crashes on startup for some users - Misspelled error messages ('unfortunately' misspelled) - App notification badge (1) cannot be removed - Orientation not properly supported on iPad - Recognition fails after working initially **Most requested features** - Remove mandatory login requirement - Add lyrics viewing capability - Offline song recognition capability - Save/bookmark recognized songs for later - Remove social media permission requirements - Better handling of background noise - Faster recognition time (under 10 seconds) ## Newest reviews (19 of 135) ### 1/5 — Better of deleting *2016-09-13* Use to work fantastic! Every time it found the songs, now it hasn't even been able to recognize anything for like over 6 months and doesn't seem like it'll ever be fixed. ### 1/5 — No Longer Working *2016-09-07* This app used to be close to perfect. It would recognize almost anything. But now it just returns a "No Match" message, even for songs it previously recognized. ### 1/5 — No longer works; dead app *2016-09-06* This app used to be amazing and identified every song without fail, even obscure royalty free ones! But now? It's useless! It doesn't recognize ANYTHING! It either says, "No match found" or it crashes outright. I really want this app to be fixed, but I think I'll just be better off deleting it instead since the developers don't seem to care. ### 1/5 — Crap! *2016-08-22, version 4.0.1* It hasn't recognized anything so far! ### 1/5 — Save yourself the time *2016-08-22* App doesn't work. Crashes and the app closes out every time. Has been this way for months and obviously nobody cares to fix the problem and create an update. -100/5 stars ### 1/5 — Crashes every time *2016-08-08, version 4.0.1* Completely useless ### 1/5 — Won't Recognize *2016-07-21, version 4.0.1* Keeps saying no match, even when it's a popular song. ### 1/5 — I concur with reviewer number 1. *2016-07-12* iPhone 6S with iOS 9.3.2 ### 1/5 — Can't use it *2016-07-08, version 4.0.1* The only reason that it got one star was.... It crashes every time you try to use it. Thanks for wasting my time ### 1/5 — Worked initially but now...... *2016-07-06, version 4.0.1* Not so much. It can't identify any song. Even songs it had previously. Please fix. Thanks. ### 1/5 — darcy *2016-07-04* Crashes a few secs after the beginning of recognition starts ### 1/5 — Problem with app *2016-06-30* I was having trouble with it not being able to identify songs after it worked fine for months so I deleted the app and reinstalled it. Now it force closes every time I attempt to use it. Currently your app is totally useless. ### 1/5 — Una porqueria *2016-06-28, version 4.0.1* Antes era de mucha utilidad ahora simplemente se cierra sin razón alguna ### 1/5 — No longer works *2016-06-25* When I first downloaded this app, it worked great. Now I can't even get it to recognize popular songs, whereas is used to identify classical music that didn't even have words. Very disappointing app. ### 1/5 — Did not work *2016-05-27, version 4.0.1* Downloaded this app every time I tried to hit the mic it shut down just ended up deleting it ### 1/5 — This app doesn't work 3/4 the time!!! *2016-05-24* The app doesn't work most times when needed and I'm sure I'm not the only one experiencing the headache glitch. Most music isn't in the bulk to recognize them. I'm sorry but I have no use for an app that works 25% the time from my iPhone and 14% of the time from my mini!! Sorry guys. Good luck though. ### 4/5 — Love it! *2016-05-10* This app is great. I'm finding what artist sings my favorite songs and finding songs I have not heard in a very very long time. The only reason this does not get four stars is lately my app has been giving me no matches on every song I've tried it on. I'm hoping this is a fixable glitch and that the developer will get back to me soon. ### 1/5 — Al dar clic en el icono del micrófono se cierra la aplicación *2016-05-08, version 4.0.1* No funciona en absoluto 👎🏻 ### 1/5 — Crashed *2016-05-02, version 4.0.1* Crashed immediately!!!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — What a bloody awful app! *2020-12-10* I tried using this today and the signup box that appears has a button that is a login AND a registration button, but when I tried signing up with my email address it said that I was not registered!! Then I tried using one of the two other ways (why on EARTH do stupid programmers require me to sign up using twitter or Faceplant (Facebook)?) and it came up with an error box saying that the token for the page had expired and gave an option to sign in or sign up with twitter. I tried this and that didn't work either. I could not get rid of this stupid box as there was no X to close it. Really DUMB app. ### 1/5 — R.I.P *2020-01-04, version 4.0.1* This app needs to be recalled.I tried registering using Twitter and Facebook but the only message I got was that the app was still in development.This app is crap. ### 1/5 — Not working at all *2018-10-08, version 4.0.1* Does not start up, neither fb nor twitter login doesnt work A true disappointment. ### 1/5 — Worth what I paid. Nothing *2017-07-30, version 4.0.1* Doesn't work. Wouldn't get past the login screen. Wants to post to my Facebook account. No way ### 1/5 — Lame *2017-04-23, version 4.0.1* Never work! Worthless!! ### 1/5 — Simply useless *2017-03-25, version 4.0.1* One of the worst app I've ever come across. It wants posting permission for facebook but even if granted it still doesn't let you sign in. And of course you can't use it without signing in. It's a joke ### 1/5 — Doesn't recognise any songs *2017-02-08* I tried this app for several songs. Didn't give me any results. Useless app. Don't waste time downloading it. ### 1/5 — CRASHES!! *2017-01-26, version 4.0.1* I used to love this app, but now it crashes every single time I try to use it. It's frustrating! ### 1/5 — Dead App Do not Buy *2017-01-18* Was good but as others have said, no longer works. Disappointed that Apple even allows it still in the store. ### 1/5 — Only crashes well *2017-01-11* Cannot get the app to work at all. Touch the mic icon and it tries to start recognition but crashes right way. No error nothing, just crashes and stays running without recognition in the background. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — good *2021-06-14, version 4.0.1* it is really good but why do you need our e-mail and things like that while you can do it like musica (XM) ??? ### 5/5 — Recognize review *2015-12-12* And absolutely killer app. I love it because I hear a lot of old tunes that I can't remember the title of. So Recognize will tell me the name of the tune and artist and then I go on to iTunes and buy it for $.99 or a $1.29. best deal around ### 5/5 — Shazam en mieux *2015-11-07* Ergonomie top, rapide, fiable même pour des titres rares et méconnus ### 5/5 — Helped with my obscure music collection *2015-10-31* I had a bunch of old cassette to MP3 music (old reggae and bluegrass) that I had no idea about. Most had no lyrics. This app gave me correct titles for about half of them. Pretty good considering it's a lot of old obscure music that was probably never very popular in mainstream US music. The app itself never crashed on me or gave me any troubles. ### 5/5 — Program Çalışıyor. *2015-08-06, version 4.0.1* Dinlettiğiniz şarkıların isimlerini ve söyleyenini buluyor. Program güzel çalışıyor ### 5/5 — Great app! *2015-08-01, version 4.0.1* Great app! ### 5/5 — The perfect app for music recognition! *2015-04-28* This app is great at recognising music. I always use it to recognise those songs you hear that you don’t know the name of. A real must have app for any iOS user. The music video section is fun too!!! ### 5/5 — Yashchudasama *2015-03-31* It's very useful app ### 5/5 — Great app *2015-03-27, version 3.4* This app is the best one I have found so far. I've had trouble with others, but not with this one. ### 5/5 — It even does international music! *2015-02-16, version 3.4* The database for this program must be infinite. The first song that I looked for was an old Brazilian samba tune, and it nailed it! I am very, VERY impressed! --- *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 2026-08-30.*