Smule: Sing Songs & Make Music Ratings and Reviews

Please remove the 100 video rule.

I love this app! I make funny singing videos and I never had a problem with this app! I love how you can communicate with people that have the same interest in singing! This app is really great but the only problem is the limitations for the none V.I.P members. I get that they need to make money somehow but the other limitations such as not being able to start your own duets or solos were working just fine. I don’t mean to disrespect the creators in anyway I just really would appreciate if the creators would at least let us make as much videos as we want without being limited. I never really was a fan of the limitations on this app like not being able to sing some songs if you are not a V.I.P but I know that they need to make money somehow so I never really questioned it but I feel like it’s just not that fair that we can’t make more than 100 videos if we are not a V.I.P. Again I don’t mean in anyway to disrespect the creators and I really love this app and the hard work they put in creating it but I would really appreciate that when the new updates come out that you guys can take off the 100 video limitation for the non V.I.P members. Thanks so much, I absolutely love this app otherwise!!! 👌

Community is great - App is Meh... Best collection of tracks tho

First I want to assure everybody that this app is not getting updated anywhere near as much as the update log would have you believe lol… it is simply compliance with Apple’s update frequency rule. App performance has never really “improved” The entire three years I’ve been using it; at times it has gotten worse and then return to normal, but I deal with the same bugs I’ve been dealing with since I started on here. If you really look through the log you’ll see that any time they make even the most minor of ACTUAL changes, they take care to point it out. The most recent actual change was a UI adjustment, that tried to help take the sting out of a recent-ish UI change that I personally dislike rather strongly. The community is pretty awesome as long as you are not a tool, and I’ve never seen a bigger collection of songs on any of the other apps. It also has slightly, to moderately less bots than the other apps I’ve seen as well. Social features suuuuuck but in some ways, I can appreciate the effect that has on the platform overall. It absolutely isn’t intentionally so lol - same low effort results. Sometimes I wonder if there is just one person programming this, that barely knows how to program. Considering the cost of a pro membership, the absolute lack of any kind of decent functionality is not really acceptable IMO. Other apps have FAR more advanced social features, and have been around for far less time.

Developer Response ,

Hey, you do raise some good points! We'll take your suggestions into account and will continue to work hard to bring you a better experience! We are here to improve your experience with the Smule app! Could you please drop us a message at support@smule.com? You can send us more details on what we can do to improve our services. We are always happy to get feedback from our users!

READ ALL THE REVIEWS!!!

I had a free day trial, expected it to not actually try to make me pay because it's A FREE TRIAL. It had used a card that isn't my main card to use to pay for just regular stuff in general which I thought one of my family members has been taking money and made a bunch of tension between some of my family members. Turns out it's been an app that is charging me $9.99 dollars for a literal seven day subscription. As I had the use a payment method for downloading FREE APPS to realize that this subscription somehow was taking money not even from my regular main card but instead the card I've been using to save up money for buying stuff that I actually want. I feel so angry knowing that this app had been causing drama in my life and milking money off a card I didn't use nor had registered in my phone during the time of the trial. I really want my money back now that I have at most $7 when I used to have in my account at least $250 which meant that at least every week to almost possibly every few days I would get charged for an app I don't use because I disliked how I could hear myself through my AirPods. Don't use any of the subscriptions, it's a waste of money, and the app should fix their free trial since I've seen others reviews just now stating how they're going the same problems as me ever since the beginning of the year probably, and I hope I get a reply and a refund for the money that was 'used to pay' for the trial.

Developer Response ,

Hi there - very sorry to hear about your VIP trial experience, that's not how it should work!
Please fill out this form so our Support rockstars can help make this right
https://smule.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000104183

It’s amazing but needs tune ups

I think this app is amazing. I am able to upload any song I want into the songbook for free and I can sing it anytime I want. I think that feature is amazing. I have been a fan of kpop for a few years and I’ve been able to express my love for this music genre through this app and I’ve made many singing buddies through live jams. The app itself is great. One thing that is an issue though, is that there is not a log out option. If you want to log out of one of your accounts you can’t. You have to delete the app and then reinstall and log in. I feel this is very inconvenient for people who have more than one account. Personally, I have gathered groups of people and created online cover groups and I have one account that is use for those group uploads and it’s basically like and online entertainment account but it’s inconvenient that there is not a log out button/option because I have to delete and reinstall each time I want to switch from my personal account to my other account. Also I think it’s a rip off that when you purchase VIP on one type of device, you don’t have VIP on another type of device. It’s very inconvenient. Also... stream ATEEZ, it will change your life and also. Watch “Victory Song” by Stray Kids and pay attention to the blonde dude in the performance video. Thank you for your time. :)

Overjoyed

I have been on Smule now for over 3 years and I wouldn't trade it for the world! When I started, I thought I would just sing and maybe join some people who could sing....but it is way more than that. The app itself is absolutely amazing. It has a huge library of songs and numerous versions and genres of the songs as well as options to sing audio or if you are like me and love the camera....you can video yourself. And there are so many other things that I could tell you but there is something else that is more important to me. The Community. Within the community, there are "Groups". These groups are people that have the same taste in music get together and chat, have challenges, support your recordings, join your songs, etc. I have met some that I honestly call my family. They are always there for me when I need to talk or need advice not only about singing but about life. You also have Smule members who put together competitios. Those are really fun! All in All, I recommend this app with all my heart and soul! Thank you Smule for helping me find my happy place. And to all my family, friends, and followers...I sure do love you guys!! God bless and stay safe!

Babydoll0401

Copyright claims and poor design ruin the app

Smule needs to seriously re-think how how they approach copyrights. It’s dumb to allow people to upload songs into the Smule catalog and do zero due diligence on Smule’s part to ensure copyrights were cleared properly. Its worse when access to previous recordings is blocked because *shocker* you got hit with a copyright claim. The better approach would be to work out copyright agreements with the artists in advance and/or build a bridge and invite them to the app. If artists can’t see that apps like this are HELPING them then maybe Smule isn’t doing something right. I know on plenty of occasions I jump between Apple Music and Smule to hear original tracks for vocal inspiration, which is generating revenue for the artist. Additionally, people do weird things like come up with weird loops and arrangements that kill a song and there’s not an easy way to flag an arrangement. Sometimes after you sing a song you get a how was that pop up but some of these arrangements are so off you can’t even attempt to sing them and of course those are the ones there’s no pop up on. Beyond that the on-screen controls are terrible. The heart button is WAY TOO CLOSE to the playback timeline and I constantly favorite things I don’t mean to and now you can’t undo it which makes that worse.

Developer Response ,

Hi, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with us! We're excited to have a passionate community thats willing to provide feedback. We will continue to ensure Smule remains the best place to create music with friends and family! You can reach out to us by email at support@smule.com if you have any questions or suggestions.

DISHEARTENED

SMULE,

Y’all really have an amazing platform for people all around the globe to share and created a very successful and unique community for people to be a part of and for that I’m very grateful for and appreciate. Now on the flip yall just threw in some kinda update that now makes it very unfavorable for the people who ain’t got the type bank roll to buy into ya services and now we being punished it look like to me. See I dunno exactly how ya system works but just recently before ya lil update I was able to join people on here who are vip because they wanted to jam wit me ok not my fault. Now when I get up on it try doing my thing I’m no longer able to join in with these VIP artists that asked me to join. Na ain’t that a lil weird an unfair? I mean what y’all don’t like that someone can have a decent enough time with the app without being vip and making waves that na ya gotta make it harder or impossible to jam wit others who wanna jam unless we pay? Well listen i ain’t got it like that and pretty soon here prob ain’t gown have time fa that wack type mess. Clearly fo me seems as if y’all letting greed an power blind ya original objective. Sad but ey such is life.

Developer Response ,

Thank you very much for your rating and suggestion for improvement. We really appreciate it! ❤️

Just listen to us for once!

I'm 17-years-old and have been using Smule since I was 10-years-old. I remember the days when Smule was called Sing!Karaoke and non-VIP members could watch videos and earn credits to open songs. Since then, things have changed quite a bit, and the changes were originally pretty good and were executed pretty well. I used to be excited when the app would come out with a new update . . . but now I dread it. For the past 3 pr 4 years every update that you guys have put out has been garbage. You continuously supply us with things we didn't ask for and ignore our complaints. There are very simple things that we want: (1) A logout button or way to change between multiple accounts without having to delete and redownload the app. (2) The ability to unlike collabs. (3) The ability to change the cover art on songs. (4) GIVES US THE OLD FXs BACK! THE NEW SYSTEM IS HORRIBLE! (5) You actually listening to us for a change. You claim that you "hear us", but it's obvious that you don't because we still haven't received anything that we've asked for. There has been outrage over your latest update and I know a multitude of people who are planning to move on to another platform, so I suggest you process this review carefully because everything I listed is not only what I want, but it's what a large majority of the Smule Community have been fighting for for years now.

Developer Response ,

Hi, thanks for bringing this to our attention, we would like to assist as soon as possible! Please get in touch with our Support team so we can help resolve this quickly and get you back to singing awesome tunes! You can reach us here: https://smule.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

This app used to be great!

I really used to enjoy using this app. SMULE had so much potential. I would try songs often, but rarely posted them to my profile. I wish I would have done that more often. But the app was fun even for someone just looking to rehearse songs.
I don’t have any complaints about the company trying to make money, but I think they have stifled their community growth by making it a service, and such an expensive service. Wow! That’s a crazy amount of money to ask someone to spend each year just to sing remade/covered sometimes bad quality vocal removed songs. And they now LOCK features like sing solo, or even start a duet behind the paywall. Personally if you want a great community of users that are always making new content for your big paying customers to work with, you would allow at least so many free solo tracks and duet starts per account per month without having to pay $99 per year to use a phone app. I really miss the days of a one time purchase, I get that this is something that needs updates and moderation to an extent, but not everything is a service and deserves rates competitive with Netflix and Disney+.
But that’s just the opinion of someone that used to think that SMULE was a really promising app before all of the cool features were removed and placed behind a monthly fee.

Developer Response ,

Hey, thanks for sharing your feedback with us! We do have a Free section with songs you can enjoy without a VIP subscription. You can also join the invites of other users or have fun with them live by joining an open Sing Live session. You can contact us by email at support@smule.com if you want to go over this in detail.

I love this app but unfortunately...

The VIP purchase got highly out of line... (when I first got this it didn’t have to put vip in there so I was happy without it) Even though I’m able to sing with other people, the part of the problem is “I don’t think I want to sing any of these songs with them, Is there anything else I would try out?” I’ll admit that’s how I am. Because when I get invited to a duet it’s those songs, I probably don’t even know or that it’s not my favorite. Then after I’ve gone threw those I try to sing either solo or maybe put in a duet, but apparently after the time’s has changed, it’s getting a little more boring and annoying now while not having VIP... I still have it but I hardly ever use it now because of it. I’m sorry people who works in this app but you’ve actually pretty much ruined this over trying getting more money... You probably need it for whatever kinda of reasons but... I’m sorry to say but your being... well... “Extremely Spoiled”... And even though I love the app... I’m slowly starting to feel like deleting this not “just” because of how expensive it is... but because I can’t pick what I want to try out anymore either. I love this, but it’s already taking up a lot of space on my device. So this is my result