SignalScope X Reviews: Is It Legit?

Name: SignalScope X
Rating: 3 (23 reviews)

SignalScope X

Faber Acoustical, LLC

📚 Education

🔧 Utilities

Customer Experience

Positive experience10.2% of reviews

Neutral2.5% of reviews

Negative experience87.3% of reviews

~ Based on 118 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about SignalScope X

Reviews of SignalScope X are mostly negative: the Utilities app is rated 3.0/5 from 23 App Store ratings. What users like most: powerful software, good for professional testing. Top complaints: expensive subscription model, high one-time purchase cost. Summarized from real user reviews.

Positive things

👍Powerful software
👍Good for professional testing
👍Captures faint hums
👍Works well for waveforms
👍Useful for guitar debugging
👍Great for live sound monitoring
👍Works on multiple devices
👍Good for teaching/demonstrations

Negative things

💸Expensive subscription model
💸High one-time purchase cost
💸Perceived as a rip-off
💸Previous purchases invalidated
💸Lack of upgrade path
💸Subscription required for basic functions
💸Overpriced compared to alternatives
💸Clunky user interface
💸Inaccurate SPL meter
💸Takes over file types
💸Limited free version

Is SignalScope X Safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess SignalScope X.

Is SignalScope X Legit?

SignalScope X appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for SignalScope X is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Most Recent Highest Rated Lowest Rated

Excellent app

LLon_bio

2 months ago

Be careful

Unresponsive company
They charged me for the app, and now it no longer works. They have not responded. It was not inexpensive. I cannot recommend this company at all.

AAl707

4 months ago

Response from developer

I'm sorry you had a poor experience. We have been striving to be highly responsive to our customers for over 23 years. Is it possible that your message didn't get through? We typically respond to inquiries submitted through our website within 24-48 hours. Please try again. We will, too.

Keeps crashing….no thanks!

Keep crashing whenever sound changes are made. If you enjoy rebooting, go ahead and try this. Otherwise, move along. (And yes, I JUST updated to a version that supposedly fixed a similar sounding crash description. Clearly it was not fixed in my case)

OOpinionatedDonut

4 months ago

Response from developer

We're sorry that you had a disappointing experience with SignalScope X. We're not aware of any issues with SignalScope X that would require a reboot. Please contact us and let us help identify the source of the crash you are experiencing, so we can ensure that it gets resolved.

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DDETH2FED

a year ago

Doesn’t work like it used to

I have used this app for years, primarily as a teaching tool with my iPhone microphone. For some reason, it is no longer working. It will either start to record, then stop. Or it won’t work at all. The Faber SLM app seems to be working fine, so I’m not sure why the oscilloscope and FFT have stopped functioning. Very disappointing especially considering the price we pay for the subscription.

PPezhead418

a year ago

Response from developer

We're sorry that you had a disappointing experience with SignalScope X. If the app stops working as you would expect, please contact us and we will response as soon as we can. When things aren't working as expected, it can sometimes be due to a change in the way an analysis tool is configured (e.g. single shote vs auto triggering), the units and sensitivity of the selected input device or channel, etc. We'd be happy to help get it sorted so you can be up and running again.

Yet another app that requires a subscription

Cannot test basic functionality without setting up a subscription. Sorry but will not subscribe to an app. Would be happy to pay a reasonable one-off payment if I had been able to test first. Potential customer lost.

RRH03

2 years ago

Powerful Software With Odd Limitation, Skimpy Manual

I've been kicking the tires to decide whether to subscribe. Right off the bat I was mystified by the apparent lack of the ability to store and retrieve various setups (after setting up a tool and its parameters) for making different measurements and/or setting up different displays. Since there is no manual, and the meager help file doesn't address this, as best as I could determine the software just retains the setup that exists when the program is quit. That limitation seems very odd. In general, a manual would help.

KKDHogman

2 years ago

Amazing App.

GOOD VIBES!

AAntoiooio

2 years ago

Subscription

I spent A LOT of money on this app, I haven’t used it for a while because it became subscription after an update with no warning. If the developer offered updates with incremental cost ok I get it but I feel ripped off.

SSoundManAnother

2 years ago

Takes over txt and csv files

The app takes over basic file types on the phone and does not allow overrides.

VVodorodusvasus

2 years ago

This app like most in apple appl store

This app is cool it has a bunch of features but for mapping sound. Any one who will need something like this alot will have desk top software that goes with their DAW, considering that fact it's significantly over priced. They're are video editing apps with a ton of more features fur the same price, the everything version sloths first add much as the Year basic

DDJSqualeMusic

2 years ago

Abo-Falle

Die App ist ohne Abo überhaupt nicht nutzbar. Das sollte in der Beschreibung besser klargestellt werden. Sofort gelöscht.

DDonCajon77

2 years ago

Response from developer

Wir wissen, dass viele Nutzer keine Abonnements bevorzugen. Als Alternative dazu bietet SignalScope X nun unbefristete Lizenzen an. Zudem gewähren wir Rabatte beim Erwerb einer unbefristeten Lizenz für alle, die bereits eine ältere Version von SignalScope gekauft haben – angefangen bei der ursprünglichen Version für den Mac (erschienen 2003) bis hin zur ersten Version für das iPhone (2008). Auch Rabatte für den Bildungsbereich bieten wir jetzt an.

Useless on MBP 2013

SPL meter is useless. Totally inaccurate. No way to calibrate it that actually works. And even adjusting input volume in macOS settings doesn’t result in a significant change in amplitude. Only giving a second start because that’s the only feature I tested.

Tteqteq

3 years ago

Stürzt sofort ab.

Abo-Falle inklusive. So nicht! Gelöscht.

MMacBastian

3 years ago

Response from developer

SignalScope the Best by Far

SignalScope is the best sound and vibration analyzer app for iPhones and MacBooks, by far, available for professional testing and analysis.

There are many apps out there that claim to be sound level meters and octave analyzers. They do not have calibrated and verified mesurement capabilities. You can trust the results from SignalScope. You cannot from many other apps.

Also, those who complain that SignalScope costs money do not understand the technical issues of making good quality measurements. It takes much engineering knowledge and skill to develop and support an application like SignalScope.

I am not a fan of cliches, but it is true, you get what your pay for.

DTDave Tenney

3 years ago

gotta pay

only a oscillator unless you pay, not a free app really

Vverybadlymadeapp

3 years ago

Beware this company

Beware this company! They take your money and then come out with a new version, and then an “update” breaks the one you paid for. There are other good tools from other companies that don’t do this.

SGSome othr guy

3 years ago

not actually free

if you want to use the tools you actually want like the spectrogram, you have to pay a subscription

Mmusicman7482662

3 years ago

Grosse arnaque

Déjà cette appli était très chère à l’achat pour un programme iOS mais en plus cette société a le culot de downgrader ses services et de demander une nouvelle souscription par abonnement pour des services anciennement acquis.
Tout simplement une arnaque de haut vol.
Apple devrait dégager ce développeur de son store.

BBabsos

3 years ago

absolutely useless

Untill you buy subscribtion

Tthebirthquake

3 years ago

Response from developer

We understand that many people do not prefer subscriptions. SignalScope X now offers perpetual licenses as an alternative to subscriptions. We also now offer upgrade discounts on perpetual licenses to anyone who has purchased an older version of SignalScope, going all the way back to the original SignalScope (for Mac) that came out in 2003 and the original SignalScope for iPhone (2008). We also now offer education discounts.