# SoundHound∞ - Music Discovery — user reviews > 835 indexed App Store user reviews of SoundHound∞ by SoundHound, Inc., rated 4.90/5 from 12,178 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/soundhound-music-discovery/id284972998/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/soundhound-music-discovery/id284972998.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 10,970 · 4★ 963 · 3★ 102 · 2★ 34 · 1★ 109 ## What do users think of SoundHound∞? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - ⭐ Excellent music recognition - 🎶 Great for finding obscure/niche songs - 💾 Offline song recording and search - 🎨 Useful features like live lyrics **Cons** - 🤖 Declining performance and accuracy - 🔌 Connectivity issues, fails to recognize songs - 🗑️ Removal of useful features over time - 🐢 Slow app loading and response times **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes and freezes on certain devices - Inability to identify songs playing in the background **Most requested features** - Bring back landscape mode - Improve database coverage for lesser-known music - Add auto-sync with music libraries - Provide option to manually search for songs ## Newest reviews (17 of 835) ### 2/5 — Lien avec Qobuz, Tidal … manquants ! *2026-01-09* C’est une appli UNIQUEMENT pour Spotify ou Apple Musique. Dommage.. Dommage pour une application payante… ### 2/5 — Needs some work *2025-12-13, version 10.3.3* Decent idea and database, but pretty poor at recognizing a song compared to the competition. ### 2/5 — What happened to SoundHound? *2025-10-05, version 10.3.3* SoundHound used to be accurate. Now between this and Shazam, Shazam’s accuracy for me has been 100%, SoundHound about 60%. Not too sure what happened, but my go to is no longer SoundHound. ### 3/5 — Slabé vyhledávání *2025-05-23, version 10.3* Nenajde skoro žádné české a u zahraničních ma problem. Zlatý SHAZAM ### 2/5 — Not for classical music lovers *2025-04-25, version 10.2.3* In my limited practice singing to it the app FAILED to find any of the music & I have perfect pitch. Very disappointed so far. Will persevere a little longer but early signs are disappointing ### 1/5 — Not working well anymore *2025-03-17, version 10.2.3* This app used to work great. Over the last few months, (late 2024 / early 2025) it’s been getting worse and worse. Now, it’s not unusual for it to fail to recognize top charted songs. Then try the built-in shazam on the iPhone and it recognizes the song in under one second. Something is very wrong. If the Soundhoud developers don’t do something soon to rectify it, I think it’ll be time to stick a fork in it. Too bad… it used to be so great. ### 1/5 — Lost its magic *2025-03-03, version 10.2.3* Sound hound was pretty good until a year or so ago. Originally it would identify nearly everything I sampled, but its ability to the same has waned. Now it doesn’t recognize anything if I type it in. Only occasionally will it recognize through the mic. Maybe it’s just not compatible with the more recent iPhones. Sent in a complaint through the app 6 months ago. Said they were working through issues. Haven’t hear a word since. Today I dumped the app, redownloaded, and still no typed or audio recognition of any famous artist or song. Lost my entire saved “library” in the process. Time to move on! ### 1/5 — No Longer Works *2025-02-14, version 10.2.3* Used to be great, but now it never ever has a search result which makes it worthless. ### 1/5 — Not working X *2025-02-03, version 10.2.3* Is it just me?? The app hasn’t been returning any search results at all?! ### 1/5 — No search results *2025-01-24, version 10.2.3* What a joke! Previous SoundHound updates were much better quality than recent ones. I've tried to search for artists and songs under SoundHound and couldn't get any results. This has seriously got to stop and work better. ### 1/5 — Garbage *2025-01-24, version 10.2.3* Garbage ### 1/5 — Stale Music App *2025-01-15, version 10.2.3* This app had not been updated in over a year. It often does not recognize songs. Shazam works so much better. ### 3/5 — Errores en la app *2025-01-05, version 10.2.3* Quitando que no tiene opción de conectarse con YouTube Music… si estás con auriculares, cuando abres la app, empieza a sonar la música en el móvil o se escucha con eco. Si solucionan esas dos cosas… 5 estrellas ### 2/5 — Actualicen *2024-12-13, version 10.2.3* De un tiempo para acá no reconoce casi ninguna canción. Por favor actualicen la aplicación. Yo prefiero SoundHound a Shazam pero ya estoy utilizando más Shazam porque SoundHound no reconoce las canciones. ### 1/5 — No app support *2024-11-29, version 10.2.3* Pretty bad now. Why isn’t there app support? ### 1/5 — 完全无法使用 一直说无法连接网络 *2024-11-21, version 10.2.3* 垃圾软件 骗我付款6.99 ### 2/5 — Nejak mi to uz nefunguje *2024-09-20, version 10.2.3* Poslední dobou mi aplikace nic nenachází ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Cannot share songs to Facebook on iPhone *2026-06-07, version 10.3.5* App correctly identifies songs but will not allow me to share to Facebook. I have removed the app from both my iPhone and iPad and will not reinstall them until this is fixed. ### 1/5 — Very low recognition rate *2026-05-27, version 10.3.5* It barely finds anything, about 40-50% of what Shazam is able to recognize. ### 1/5 — It used to be good, not anymore 😢 *2026-03-20, version 10.3.4* I really loved it but lately it doesn’t recognize what Shazam does: too bad because Shazam push you to get Apple Music and it’s really annoying. Please fix your database, 🙏. We rely on you! Please! ### 1/5 — Used to be ok now it sucks *2026-01-20, version 10.3.4* Not sure what they’ve done lately but barely finds any songs. Unless you’re looking for US popular radio songs, you’re out of luck. It’s useless. ### 1/5 — It was good, not anymore 😢 *2025-12-27, version 10.3.4* I really loved it but lately it doesn’t recognize what Shazam does: too bad because Shazam push you to get Apple Music and it’s really annoying. Please fix your database, 🙏. We rely on you! ### 1/5 — What happened to SoundHound? *2025-12-19, version 10.3.4* SoundHound used to be accurate. Now between this and Shazam, Shazam’s accuracy for me has been 100%, SoundHound about 60%. Not too sure what happened, but my go to is no longer SoundHound. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2025-09-03, version 10.3.2* Rarely finds the song I am looking for. Even once I find the song somewhere else struggles to use lyrics to find the right song ### 1/5 — I paid for this. Used to be like magic *2025-05-18, version 10.3* I paid for this. Used to be like magic, so accurate. Lately, the accuracy is gone. ### 1/5 — 被推送安装然后误购 *2025-04-01, version 10.2.3* 不小心触发安装，然后还不让退款，被迫继续用，试了三首中文歌，没一个能识别。 ### 1/5 — Poor customer service *2025-03-18, version 10.2.3* If you have your phone stolen and have to delete your email, don’t ask for help and try and get your email updated so you can access your paid subscription. They can’t help you, it’s 2025 but it’s too hard. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — O MELHOR! *2026-05-10* Para mim trás resultados melhores que o Shazam! ### 5/5 — App size *2025-08-12, version 10.3.2* Literally rating 5 stars from being under 100 MB. Kudos to the devs! ### 5/5 — La mejor a través de los años. *2024-10-09, version 10.2.3* Me gusta más que otras apps Shazam es buena pero midomi tiene más funciones ### 5/5 — ノンストップミックステープの曲では *2024-07-16* 昔聴いていたsuper rave NRGとか TDKミラクルミュージックショーのノンストップミックステープでは、何故かsound hound は反応しませんでした。 原因は、再生スピードです。ミックステープを作ったDJは、ノリ重視の為に意図的にスピードを変えたりするから。こういう場合は、パソコンで曲のスピードをオリジナルに戻してやると、sound hound は反応してくれます。 ### 5/5 — Work well *2024-04-20, version 10.2.3* Although Soundhound works very well, sometimes it just can’t identify a song due to ambient noise or too short of a sample. Understandable. A very cool feature would be if the app recorded your failed attempts so you could play them back later, allowing you to keep the tune alive in your head. How about it? ### 5/5 — From the start *2024-01-29, version 10.2.3* I’ve been using this app since the beginning. My first iPhone was the 3. Soundhound was the first app I paid for. It’s only gotten better since then. I’ve never had to pay to upgrade. ### 5/5 — July 11th 2008: *2023-11-21, version 10.2.3* That’s when I first downloaded SoundHound. After all these years, it’s still on my first page of apps. I use it all the time to identify songs on commercials, or during movies at home. The ability to integrate SoundHound into Spotify was amazing and makes it really easy to add songs to my daily playlists. I hope July 11th, 2028 I’m still as happy with SoundHound as I am today! ### 5/5 — Hope you guys will add better video PIP features… *2023-08-06, version 10.2.2* Hope you guys will add better video PIP features in the future updates. Sometimes we just want to multitask with our phones. Please add this feature. My Device: iPhone 14 Pro Max (latest iOS), iPhone SE (1st Generation, iOS 15.7.8), iPad Pro 12.9” (3rd Generation, 2018, latest iOS/iPadOS) Note: I regularly update my review/rating for this application. With Kindest Regards-BR ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2023-02-14, version 10.2.2* ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Keep up the quality work gents & gals… 😎🖖🏽 ### 5/5 — Trouble cleft *2022-12-30, version 10.2.2* No trouble getting songs identified! ❤️ --- *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 2026-08-29.*