SoundHound - Music Discovery

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4.8 180734 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5❤️❤️❤️❤️ LOVE SOUNDHOUND!

   LOVE this app. I use it all the time both for trying to remember a song I knew but forgot the artist or a new song that catches my ear. I have been a SoundHound users since what feels like the beginning. They have proven to be consistent and reliable. Which is quick and accurate results. One of the main reasons I love SoundHound is for the feature that no other app features. Which is live lyrics! That is by far one of the coolest most useful things about SoundHound! Being able to sing along (rather badly) with either a fav song or even a new song im obsessed with learning the lyrics to, the app is there for me :). SoundHound I felt has always tried to give the user what they want. Realizing its difficult to please everyone, I for one have been a very happy and satisfied customer since its launch. I tried the "other" guys and they were just too commercial for me. SoundHound was the right balance of finding new music without pushing the sales-y part of the music industry onto me. I love it for its accuracy, its fast results, and giving me MORE if I chose to know more. Its all there. Keep up the good work guys!

   Musicislife1287 · 30 Aug 2026

2. 1/5This app belongs in the trash and should be deleted permanently

   SoundHound is an absolutely terrible app, and I can't stress this enough. First off, its song recognition is a joke. How can an app that's supposed to identify music fail so miserably? I mean, even when you play a crystal-clear snippet of a popular song, it still manages to get it wrong half the time. It's beyond frustrating. And don't even get me started on its database; if the song isn't mainstream, forget about it. It's like the app is stuck in a time warp with a limited selection of tracks it can recognize. Then there's the user interface, which is a complete nightmare to navigate. It's cluttered, confusing, and loaded with ads that slow everything down. Seriously, who thought this design was a good idea? Trying to find what you need feels like wading through a swamp of unnecessary menus and pop-ups. The constant interruptions from ads make the entire experience unbearable. It's like the developers prioritized ad revenue over user experience, and it shows. And let's talk about the so-called additional features. The lyrics are often wrong or incomplete, which is just ridiculous. How hard is it to get the lyrics right? And the artist information? Outdated and sparse. It's like they don't even care about providing accurate or comprehensive details. This app had so much potential, but it's been squandered by poor execution and a lack of attention to detail. SoundHound is a colossal disappointment, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

   John_doe884 · 30 Aug 2026

3. 5/5Return User - Excellent App!

   So, my wife and I are music fiends; grew up on it, love most genres - well, except country but that’s for personal reasons no room to explain - whenever a song is played on a tv show or movie - or anywhere really - that catches our attention, we love to use our phones to find out who the artist is and song name. Well, we once used this app years ago; but as apps and space became an issue it sadly went away. Mainly because hey, “Siri has the same feature right?” Let me tell you this people: Siri has digressed in many ways since it’s period of amazing us. When Siri continues to take FOREVER to reply to the simple request of identifying the song - no, this is not a WiFi or network issue as most of you will agree - the song is OVER or the cutscene where the song is used is long gone and Siri still is identifying....well, we’ve had enough. This app is great, always has been. We are happy with its features and will NOT be using “you know who” for those requests anymore...or most other things these days...but that’s a different story. Great app keep up the good work developers!

   Coeur de Parisienne · 30 Aug 2026

4. 5/5SoundHound Rating

   I LOVE Soundhound❣️ My husband introduced it to me about a year ago and I have used it to see who the artist of a song is, to see the lyrics on a song playing on the radio or my favorite TV Station “ Contemporary Christian Music”. It keeps a song I love on a playlist and can go back and listen to it again anytime I want to. There are so many things you can do and/or find out about a song, an artist, search for a song even if you only know part of the lyrics and it will 9out of 10 times find the name of the song and artist, I could go on and on about SoundHound it is my all time FAVORITE APP of all the millions you can get! My husband use to be my “SoundHound”. When I met him he was a DJ and knows who, what, when, where about most any song in any genre. Even though he knows so much about music he has SoundHound and loves it too. I figured he uses it to see if he is right about a song he heard. Again. LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT❣️

   GrandBeary · 30 Aug 2026

5. 4/5Good app, not certain about the hate.

   Disclaimer: This review is written within minutes of downloading the app. It will not include problems with using the app in the long term. So I downloaded this app in the hopes of finding a song that has been driving me insane for 6 months because I couldn’t think of its name. I read a lot of hate comments in recent months absolutely flaming this app, and I cannot tell if it’s legitimate, because they all cite the same problem. So I was skeptical going into using the app. I hummed the tune twice and didn’t get any results right away, which is when I realized that you have to go into the history tab of the app in order to actually find the results, because lo and behold, there’s the song that had been stuck in my head for months. So again, I’m not certain about this app, or if this was a “one off never gonna happen again” scenario, but the app did what I wanted it to do, and so it gets four stars for finding a song I couldn’t remember, but loses one for the awful formatting.

   wontpayforpremium · 30 Aug 2026

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3.6 915748 ratings · Google Play

1. 5/5

   very accurate

   Orlando Craigg · 5 Aug 2026

2. 1/5

   Doesn't recognize anything anymore. This used to be one of the most reliable apps to discover music. Not anymore. No matter what you give it, from Top-50 chart to some old but very popular song it doesn't recognize it. I tried to put phone right next to the source, re-installed, no luck. Few times it caught the music it didn't identify songs properly.

   Юрик RED · 5 Aug 2026

3. 1/5

   it's really terrible, never know when it's listening when searching. then it won't find Simple songs. just shows ads To disable hundreds of cookies you need to scroll 1000s of pages. they should put one button to disable all just like most European respectful websites. removing this app is quicker, it won't find most songs I'm looking for

   Mme20 (Try Duckduckgo com) · 5 Aug 2026

4. 1/5

   Used to be good. Now does not work. Ads infested nonsense which prevents you from searching.

   Matthew Lim · 5 Aug 2026

5. 5/5

   this is an awesome app SoundHound is the best app I've ever used awesome awesome awesome.

   Bill Greklek · 5 Aug 2026

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