# Spire: Music Recorder & Studio — user reviews > 449 indexed App Store user reviews of Spire by iZotope, Inc., rated 4.80/5 from 15,632 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spire-music-recorder-and-studio/id1013021109/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spire-music-recorder-and-studio/id1013021109.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 13,459 · 4★ 1,296 · 3★ 402 · 2★ 132 · 1★ 343 ## What do users think of Spire? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Full album - 🚀 Easy to use - 👍 Great app - 👍 High quality - 👍 Awesome - 👍 Useful - 👍 Confidence booster - 👍 Practical - 👍 Simple and intuitive **Cons** - 🐛 Can't shorten recordings - 🐛 Delay - 🐛 Latency - 🐛 Timing issues - 🐛 Metronome and tempo feature broken - 🐛 Sound quality issues - 🐛 Crashes - 🐛 Incompatible with external mics - 🔒 Concerns about rights ownership **Commonly reported bugs** - Recordings being deleted unexpectedly - Inability to open projects - Crashing on launch - Connectivity issues with Spire hardware **Most requested features** - Copy/paste and punch-in features - More track editing options - Ability to import multiple audio files - Effects like reverb, EQ, and auto-tune - Ability to save recordings to camera roll - Ability to duplicate tracks - Ability to adjust volume of individual tracks - Ability to create folders and organize projects - Ability to upload directly to YouTube - Metronome that can be used while recording ## Newest reviews (19 of 449) ### 5/5 — Best music app! *2026-05-03, version 2.64.0* I just finished my first song on the app and it’s amazing. Thank you for this app and this might help me to support my dream as a artist. ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-05-01, version 2.64.0* I love Spire. Great for on the fly recording and basic mixing. My only complaint is the recording button. i never know when im recording or not because they look practically the same when its activated or not. many times now i have thought i was recording but turned out i lost my performance because it wasn’t. can you add some text or change the color or something when u make your next update? otherwise - fantastic! ### 5/5 — Great Music App *2026-04-24, version 2.64.0* Great Music App ### 4/5 — 使いやすい *2026-04-23, version 2.64.0* 今まで使ってきた録音アプリの中でダントツにいいです。 一つだけこの機能があればいいなと思ったのが、一つのデータに対して複数の音源ファイルをインポート出来たらかなり使いやすくなるんじゃないかと感じました。 ぶっちゃけなくても使い心地かなりいいです。 ### 5/5 — Keep this alive by anymeans *2026-04-20, version 2.64.0* This has kept my faith in making music on my own alive ### 5/5 — Song bong *2026-04-11, version 2.64.0* I actually made a song that goes on Spotify with this ### 2/5 — Why *2026-03-20, version 2.64.0* Pretty good but for me the recordings are almost impossible to hear! ### 5/5 — I love this app. *2026-03-10, version 2.64.0* This app is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ### 5/5 — Excellent *2026-03-08, version 2.64.0* Excellent ### 4/5 — About the app *2026-02-26, version 2.64.0* Its so good no adds yet and I am enjoying the harmonies and you can do mini harmonies on top of each other. The only problem I have is when you add them they kinda get like a scratchy tone when you add more ### 4/5 — ? *2026-02-20, version 2.64.0* Don’t now how to start a new song but easy to make a song ### 5/5 — LINEに送信したいのですが、共有形式が違うと表示されるのですがどうしたらいいですか？ *2026-02-08, version 2.64.0* 上と同じ ### 5/5 — The Germ *2026-02-07, version 2.64.0* I’ve been using the free version of this app for years as it’s all I need to get the germ of my idea down to refine later. Usually I have my iPad near me so I can either hum the seed of a melody to come back to later or if I’m near my bass or gat I can flick a few tracks down then basically it’s captured for later & I can get back to the things I need to do. Cheers CT & Earwerm. ### 5/5 — Record on the go *2026-02-04, version 2.64.0* This app has been a game changer for music production ### 4/5 — 4 because… *2026-01-26, version 2.64.0* I honestly give it a 4. Here’s why. 1. The recording is off, I recorded myself with my camera and it sounded better, plus it picks up every sound in the background! 2. I accidentally hit next on random voice filters and so I tapped like, 100 times and couldn’t get it again! 3. Last but not least, sharing. You can’t share it to messages or do this with a friend. Me and my bestie made a song together and she can’t have it because I can’t share it with her! Developers, please do something about this ### 4/5 — Muito bom *2026-01-24, version 2.64.0* Poderia ter uma opção para fazer um ajuste fino no posicionamento da track na timeline. Ou então algo que permita corrigir os milissegundos de delay da gravação. Fora isso estou gostando. ### 5/5 — Spire IS the best *2026-01-22, version 2.64.0* Great for recording music. Haven’t found a better app. The only competition is BandLab, but with Spire you can record without a mic by simply rapping or singing into your phone. Absolutely love! ### 4/5 — Great for jotting down ideas *2026-01-20, version 2.64.0* Not for making a finished product. Too many editing controls are missing from the free version. But I have been able to make quick demos for original song ideas ### 5/5 — Spire *2026-01-09, version 2.64.0* It’s a good app but I think they should at least have a basic eq for each track and maybe master eq…Come on it’s 2024….dope app perfect for recording beats lyrics fast….. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Unfortunately unhappy with the whole thing *2026-01-28, version 2.64.0* Your manual sucks there is no manual??? ### 1/5 — Can’t even move tracks *2025-12-28, version 2.64.0* Doesn’t have a feature to line up tracks?? ### 1/5 — 𝓢𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓼 *2025-12-23, version 2.64.0* 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓴𝓮𝓮𝓹 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓲𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝓲𝓽 𝓪 𝓯𝓮𝔀 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮𝓼. 𝓓𝓸 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮. 𝓖𝓸 𝓽𝓸 𝓪 𝓭𝓲𝓯𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓪𝓹𝓹. ### 1/5 — Skip it *2025-11-27, version 2.64.0* If you plug your iPad into a usb interface, don’t get this. ### 1/5 — Not very good *2025-07-22, version 2.64.0* Very poor - can’t play drums and record at same time. Useless! ### 1/5 — can't slide tracks???? *2025-05-21, version 2.64.0* literally what is a music creating service without the ability to move a track around??? i don't care that there's a delay with bluetooth, i care that i can't fix it in post. ### 1/5 — Deleted all my music *2025-04-12, version 2.64.0* All my music except for the last couple months randomly got deleted. Had hundreds of my albums and they all got deleted! Do not recommend! How do I recover all that back??? ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work for me *2025-04-08, version 2.64.0* I tried to plug in my stylophone into the app too record it, but when I listened to it, I didn’t hear anything. Don’t try to plug in a instrument into this app. ### 1/5 — Can’t shorten recordings *2025-02-17, version 2.64.0* There is no way to cut out the 6 minutes of my band getting things together to start the song. So there is a 14 minutes song with 6 minutes of nonsense in the beginning, but I want to cut that 6 minutes out. When you delete it the entire song is still 14 minutes with 6 minutes of silence at the beginning. Not great ### 1/5 — Worst *2024-10-30, version 2.64.0* I literally hate this things guts(don’t worry, I’m hitting it soon) ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-08-18, version 2.64.0* This is a great app to have. Very handy and great if you want to record music ### 5/5 — REVIVE THE SPIRE *2026-08-14, version 2.64.0* I’m on my second spire, first bought one in 2018 & it’s been my go to recording device. Nobody complains and can’t tell my studio is a small box. PLEASE MAKE A NEW RUN OF THESE ### 5/5 — The Sum is Greater than its Parts on this one! *2026-08-08, version 2.64.0* This is an amazing app, even at its most basic, free download, no upgrades level. Offering any musician, at any level of expertise, the simple ability to record themselves at the highest quality available, using just their phone’s mic. Whether you’re uploading it or just listening back to yourself to boost your personal growth. However, should you decide to unlock pro (and you should!), and double especially if you find yourself a spire studio interface/mic, that setup is hands-down THE best demo recording setup you can get without spending somewhere close to 3-4 times the money. I literally use this thing almost every day because it’s so versatile and it puts out such amazing .wav’s without ever firing up a computer or setting up a button load of recording gear. Like the title says, the sum is truly greater than its parts on this one. ### 5/5 — So fun *2026-07-29, version 2.64.0* It’s where I practice my hits before I go out down my bag ### 5/5 — Very helpful with multitracks *2026-06-01, version 2.64.0* I like this app, it’s been very helpful with projects especially with the multi track feature, I do wish I could move the audio to certain spots/clip off unwanted space, but I’m happy with this, especially the mixing feature I wasn’t expecting, it’s very easy to learn too, this is better for me than GarageBand 🤣 ### 5/5 — Perfect for what I need *2026-05-17, version 2.64.0* I need to record some conversation and save them in WAV format but my pc mic is low quality, using this with an iPhone has made my life much easier ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-05-17, version 2.64.0* Excellent!!!! ### 5/5 — Great product. *2026-05-11, version 2.64.0* Amazing tool to capture and share creativity. ### 5/5 — Exactly what you need *2026-05-10, version 2.64.0* Been using this for going on a decade. I’m a dummy when it comes to recording/production, but I’ve made some really solid stuff with this. Have fun! ### 5/5 — Spire *2026-05-04, version 2.64.0* It’s an amazing app, I love it. Easy to use and creative. Recommend this to anyone, enjoys music on their phone.. --- *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 2026-08-28.*