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BandLab - Music Maker & Beats
BandLab Singapore Pte Ltd · 476,343 ratings · ★ 4.8
4.8
★★★★★
476,343 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 18 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"money"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Samples. If you’re gonna make the samples cost money then the least you could do is make free packs that are actually good." - 112goobie
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"free"
4 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Samples. If you’re gonna make the samples cost money then the least you could do is make free packs that are actually good." - 112goobie
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"samples"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Samples. If you’re gonna make the samples cost money then the least you could do is make free packs that are actually good." - 112goobie
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"everything"
3 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "No absolutely not. U need a membership for everything who's gonna buya dam membership for a song that someone is gonna forget the next week and the dam app is so complex I can't even chose a tune to rap/song off of without a damn membership 🤬🤬" - fduyhudfurfue
📋 All 18 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
Merging and cut
You guys took away the option to emerge and cut tracks on windows. We need that back you guys. Come on what are you doing?
Zero stars
Sucks there is so much bullying and every one is mean
Samples
If you’re gonna make the samples cost money then the least you could do is make free packs that are actually good.
App is now unusable
You cant even use the app now that they have introduced ads. It use to be a great app. Will be deleting it for good now though. There are much better paid options available
useless
it’s just data-mining slop that doesn’t even work. constantly crashes or gets stuck loading. a million disruptive ads. you can’t even get into the app and test it out with creating a stupid account and telling them your birthday (why tf do they need that???) and going through a million personalization questions. don’t even bother downloading.
Loyal Customer
If presets are made visible I will be canceling my subscription and deleting the app with it along with many other artist. We aren’t going to work on projects just for them to be handed out for free. Hope you make the right decision and at least make the rewind feature optional. Thank you
Age verification
I am 38 and I’m not eligible and idk why because you have to be 13 and up to make an account and that’s stupid of them not verifying a date from the 1980s man Ai is dumb
No absolutely not
U need a membership for everything who's gonna buya dam membership for a song that someone is gonna forget the next week and the dam app is so complex I can't even chose a tune to rap/song off of without a damn membership 🤬🤬
Keep getting signed out
Everytime the app updates I get signed out it’s the most frustrating thing.
I can’t use my Apple Store because I was charged for something and I didn’t know it. My kids……
My kids must have subscribed and I can’t afford to pay the money to fix it. I wish I could get this resolved.
Ads on Ads
What used to be a great app is nothing more than an ad fest now. Everything is about money today, even creativity apps like this one. It’s just sad.
Sucks
I can’t log in and i tried countless times just go to GarageBand everything is free, no log ins needed, and based of the reviews I read you guys make only 20 free samples?! GarageBand has ONLY free samples no need to pay.
I
I did a cool song
P2P
All free features became paid. U almost can’t use this app anymore. It was a very good app, but now it is impossible to use.
how did it end up this way?
I don't understand why the ads on this app have become so egregious and so repetitive and now you have added a limit to how many samples we can have in a month just trying to get us to buy the membership and I think that is just a horrible business model you are alienating the people that have supported you for almost 10 years like I have I am very disappointed in this company because I have supported you for many many years and this is just ridiculous. How this app has fallen it was a great when it started out. but now it's just greedy.
Worthless and a waste of time
This app is completely useless now. There are constant ads that you can’t even close out of no matter how many times you press the X. Oftentimes I can’t even start a project because I get an ad that I can’t close, so I’m forced to exit and re-open the app over and over again until I give up. I just lost an ENTIRE project because I got an ad when I was trying to save it, the ad wouldn’t close, so I closed and re-opened the app, and the project was gone completely. The money-hungry devs should be ashamed of such mediocrity. The only reason why I’m not giving this app one star is because it was great before all the unskippable ads (and AI… come on 😑) took over.
Muted short videos
Fix the option of listening to the audio on the shorts. In order to listen to audio, you have to pause snd then press the sound button at the top. I was tripping tapping report and going back and then getting the audio.
Review
I love BandLab but I hate the adds they are so annoying if they remove the adds they he a five star easy
Sentiment summary
94%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)