# SH Consulting Detective — user reviews > 276 indexed App Store user reviews of SH Consulting Detective by JD Editions, rated 1.30/5 from 229 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sh-consulting-detective/id1268265393/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sh-consulting-detective/id1268265393.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 12 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 10 · 1★ 198 ## What do users think of SH Consulting Detective? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🔊 Good audio quality - 📚 Helpful for setting the scene - 🎨 Nice addition to the board game **Cons** - 🐛 Audio only plays for first case - 🚫 Doesn't work past initial case - 🔇 No audio playback - 💤 App is outdated and abandoned **Commonly reported bugs** - Only plays first case audio - Crashes or freezes on newer devices - Incompatible with recent iOS versions **Most requested features** - Play audio for all cases - Allow skipping between cases - Add more languages ## Newest reviews (19 of 276) ### 1/5 — Déception *2025-11-28, version 3.1* Seule la première enquête est lue. ### 3/5 — Bonne idée mais peu de fonctionnalités *2025-11-19* Intéressant d’avoir un guide vocal mais cela apporte peu de d’interaction avec l’application ### 1/5 — Waste of time *2025-10-04, version 3.1* You can only listen to the first case of each game. No point in the app now, not that the voice acting was any good to begin with. ### 1/5 — App doesn’t work *2025-08-18, version 3.1* When you try and play the case file audio, you don’t hear anything. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2025-07-21, version 3.1* App is total garbage, just read material from booklet, you’ll avoid wasted time ### 1/5 — Only case 1 works *2025-07-20, version 3.1* App is pretty useless, then you realise only case 1 works. Trash ### 1/5 — The Mystery of the Broken App. *2025-06-01, version 3.1* This app only plays the first mystery in each game. Why? Who’s to blame? When will it be fixed? How? What’s the point of downloading a broken app? Can YOU solve this mystery… ### 1/5 — Buggy *2025-05-24, version 3.1* Playing any of the cases will play only Case One. Also can’t skip forward. Seek bar goes beyond 100%. Disappointing. ### 1/5 — No funciona *2025-05-20, version 3.1* Aunque selecciones otros casos (al menos en el juego de Los crimenes del Tamesis), solo se puede escuchar el primer caso ### 2/5 — Audio manquant sur l’application mais… *2025-05-10* L’application est incomplète donc pas très utile mais tous les audio sont disponibles sur le site de spacecowboys. ### 1/5 — No funciona *2025-03-28, version 3.1* Solo eso, no hace nada ### 1/5 — They’re audio recordings, bit the sound doesn’t work *2025-02-20, version 3.1* Sound doesn’t work on any of the recordings! What a waste of time, why advertise something that’s been done so poorly ### 2/5 — Même bug *2025-02-19* Même souci pour moi seul l’audio de la première enquête est lu ### 1/5 — Mettre tamise - Seulement la première enquête *2025-02-16* Le concept est bien pour l’immersion, malheureusement il n’y a que la première enquête qui est lue. ### 1/5 — Wish it worked *2025-02-02, version 3.1* As pointed out the app is apparently long broken. No audio at all (period). ### 1/5 — Non funziona *2025-01-13, version 3.1* Pessima app, non funziona. Probabilmente rimasta alle prime versioni e mai aggiornata. Solo tre lingue disponibili. Inutile scaricarla. ### 1/5 — No audio *2025-01-12, version 3.1* All this app is a collection of audio recordings. I tried playing various- the player moves as if the file is playing, but there is no sound at all. I could play other apps from my phone, so it wasn’t a volume off or Bluetooth headphones problem. I was hoping this app would help with tracking travel time, but it doesn’t. ### 1/5 — La sélection des chapitres à lire n’amène qu’à la lecture du premier chapitre. *2025-01-05, version 3.1* Lorsque nous effectuons la sélection des chapitres que nous souhaitons lire, nous nous attendons naturellement à pouvoir accéder à l’ensemble de ceux choisis. Cependant, il est extrêmement décevant de constater qu’au lieu de cela, cette action ne mène qu’à la lecture du premier chapitre, rendant le processus frustrant et limitant l’expérience utilisateur de manière inattendue. ### 1/5 — In need of a consultant *2025-01-04, version 3.1* App doesn’t work at all. You scroll to any case and press play, only to watch a progress bar slowly progress 1% at a time. Silently. Nothing. No sound. Nothing at all. Pointless. Deleted it. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No sound *2026-06-16, version 3.1* Does not work. Press play, no sound at all. ### 1/5 — Case 1 Loop *2026-05-22, version 3.1* The app is broken. You can go to the various cases but it will only read the audio for case 1 no matter which case you choose. ### 1/5 — Only plays first case audio… *2026-02-21, version 3.1* App is useless. ### 1/5 — Only the 1st case is available *2026-02-09, version 3.1* The audio is only available for the 1st case, the sweeping only changes the picture but not the audio We read it ourselves, but would have been cool to have the audio. Too bad ### 1/5 — Ancora niente italiano *2026-02-08, version 3.1* L’app ha solo gli audio in inglese, francese e spagnolo ### 1/5 — No vale de nada *2026-02-06, version 3.1* No funciona ### 1/5 — No funciona *2026-01-31, version 3.1* No funciona ### 1/5 — Problème jack l’éventreur *2026-01-03, version 3.1* Problème de lecture ### 1/5 — App sucks *2026-01-02, version 3.1* Only case one of ten. What’s the point? ### 1/5 — Broken *2025-11-29, version 3.1* Doesn’t work at all ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Los casos de Sherlock *2025-03-10, version 3.1* Solo reproduce el primer caso que rabia ### 5/5 — Legal mas não tem em português *2024-03-26* É indicado para baixar esse app ao comprar o jogo versão Galápagos, mas não há tradução em português. ### 5/5 — Turn silent mode off to use the app *2023-07-03, version 3.1* At first the audio didn’t work but then a review mentioned that your phone’s silent mode has to be turned off in order for the audio to work. Easy fix! Fun addition to the game. ### 5/5 — Just needs a little work *2022-01-15, version 3.1* Shrink the sound files. This guy is just a noob app developer and didn’t ask anyone for help. You only need 128 or 192 size audio at most for an app. These massive sound files don’t leave room for anything else. Find a guy on Craigslist with a baritone voice and pay him chump change for a few hours of his time and voice the whole game out. Then re-release the app with an option pay for the additional content for $1-$2. The game is great but everyone’s criticisms of the app are valid and could be addressed in one slow weekend. ### 5/5 — Cela ajoute a l’ambiance du jeu *2020-07-26* J’aime bien le principe de pouvoir écouter le scénario en audio car cela plonge les joueurs dans l’ambiance de ce jeu. J’espère que l’application viendra intégrer le nouveau jeu « les francs tireurs de Baker Street » sous peu ! ### 5/5 — No funciona *2020-03-10, version 3.1* No se escucha nada. Arréglenlo por favor. ### 5/5 — It works just fine *2019-12-25, version 3.1* I mean, it accommodates a board game so don’t be expecting anything grand but it does exactly as it says in the manual. You click on the specific case you’re doing, press the play button and listen to the person explain the case. I’ve had no issues with audio or anything. Basically, it does as advertised, so even though on its own (obviously) its not going to do much; it accompanies the game so if there’s nothing wrong with it and it says in the manual “[...] before getting into a case we recommend that select it in the app and listen to the initial facts instead of reading them in the booklet” so you know that you aren’t receiving a proper game........ I’ll give that 5 stars. You can’t compare the software to the larger market of the AppStore since...... this isn’t a standalone thing. Like it can literally only be used (properly) if you are going to play the thing after. So yeah, alone it’s not as good as kingdom rush........ but kingdom rush is a stand-alone game, this is just here so you can listen to what’s said rather than read, and I like it. ### 5/5 — Definitely works *2019-02-08, version 3.1* Just make sure your volume is switched on. ### 5/5 — Une aide de jeu formidable *2019-01-02* Quelle belle idée d’avoir conçu ces introductions audio des scénarii de Detective Conseil :) ### 5/5 — Turn mute switch off *2018-01-07* A nice to have but totally optional addition to the board game. Note - you must turn your mute switch off to hear audio. Other than that issue, the app works great and it’s nice to see board game makers spend the effort on expanding the game through apps To the developers - please set the audio session category to AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback to allow playback while the mute switch is on --- *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 2026-08-13.*