SongShift Reviews

by Hoodie78

I’m finding SongShift difficult to use for a large library. The problems start when you have to manually find matches. If there are too many potential matches for an album, selecting one causes a second (often unrelated) album to be selected as well, and it seems you cannot select one without the other. Also, when SongShift crashes on the “shift” results page, you lose all of your work. It’s painful to struggle with selecting matches and then have to go all the way back to the beginning. Finally, you can’t use your phone while it’s running (40 minutes for my large library). It would be great if the matching process could happen in the cloud. SongShift is potentially a great tool, but I regret paying for it in its current state.

by Core Enthusiast

I've had SongShift for a couple years now and even purchased the pro version, and it's pretty useful for the most part. The developers definitely have some work to do in terms of bugs, however. I've been forced to restart shifts a number of times because they fail or get stuck in the process. Most recently (and the reason I'm writing this) a shift I update daily with around 500 songs was "processing" for over a day and rendered the rest of SongShift unusable. I ended up having to reinstall SongShift which erased all my other shifts so I'm pretty bummed about that.

by Jpb128

The service really works well, although sometimes it takes a song from one service and puts a different song of the same name on the other service, even though the first song is available on the new service. Also, if the shift stops, and you try to just restart it, it won’t work sometimes. The service duplicates songs if they’re already on the destination playlist, which is something to keep in mind. Overall, it works the way it should, if not for some bugs.

by Veganxmatt

SongShift is amazing. Being able to transfer playlist between different music libraries/services is extremely easy. The free version allows users to transfer playlists one at a time, but the $3.99 to upgrade to the Pro version is worth it, which allows you to transfer multiple playlist at once and change the theme and icon of SongShift is definitely worth it.

SongShift does sometimes crash in the middle of transferring, but it at least saves where it left of. My iPhone also gets very warm (almost uncomfortably warm) when it is processing.

by Allison_bliss

Took a couple of days & a lot of refreshing to get all my playlists to show up. Then once they did it took me two tries to get my playlist to actually transfer, but once it did it worked pretty well. A few of the songs were missing even though they’re available on both platforms. I don’t mind having to go in & add them myself bc it’s not many but it’d be nice if this app gave us a list of songs that did not successfully transfer so I don’t have to look through the entire playlist. SongShift does what it’s supposed to, it just takes some time to get it to work. Customer support was also not very helpful in their first reply to my email trying to get help & then never answered me back.

by VirginioM

SongShift first created empty playlists. I got it to work at some point (I think because another similar app made me change a setting which this app didn’t warn me about...). I imported a playlist and some songs got substituted for other versions. To be fair, other apps seem to do the same: they will replace songs by any close match. So for classical music an interpretation gets substituted by another one. Any song that has several versions could or could not be transferred properly... Useless. I wish SongShift makers would warn about this limitation.

by RacyLaserJet

When it works it does what it says. It can't seem to recover from crashes though. You have to delete and reinstall SongShift losing all the "shifts" that were previously done. That makes it currently dang near impossible to use for syncing. It might completely choke on a Playlist one run and not the next with no indication to the user as to why. If you have patience it's OK. If not you may end up frustrated. Five stars if the developer can fix the crashing, add some kind of crash recovery, and/or backup of "shifted" Playlist.

by Palerblues

i’ve seen a lot of people in reviews saying that it took forever bc they shifted all their playlists one by one, but the easier way of doing this is actually clicking the “songs” tab instead of the “playlists” tab (shows up at bottom when choosing where to shift music) if you’re trying to transfer all your music. it takes a bit longer, but it’s only one process and you don’t have to manually shift every playlist.

by Tmrshll

I only use the free features and would still give it 5 stars. It doesn’t lock any of the essential basic functions behind a paywall as many apps do. It also doesn’t (at least for me) ask for you to rate SongShift every time you open it, which led me to write this entire review today. Realizing how much I’ve used SongShift over a year or two, for free, I may purchase the annual subscription or the lifetime version of this app Pro.

by WayTooTyler

One of the most versatile, nicest song switching app out there. Looks and feels very modern and snappy. Also works way better than I expected when transferring songs. So worth the upgrade cost. Thanks this app :)

Edit: From a continued user of this app for the past 2-3 years, I gotta say that SongShift has been time and time again a lifesaver.

SongShift has helped me so many times with incompatible devices that only use this service or smart speakers that only use that service. The thick walls these companies create is astoundingly annoying and this app makes transitioning my music between them a breeze.

They have been keeping SongShift regularly updated and it still stands to this day that this app is one of my most valued apps I have on my phone because of the constant updates and bug fixes to make sure SongShift continues to function silky smooth even as the different versions of iOS comes out. Hats off to the team. It is rare that you’ll find developers like the ones that built this app that know what they’re doing inside iOS.

Anyway, great app. I’d love to see more apps from you guys.

by Gavanloud

I recently switch music subscriptions and it was a pain to find all my old songs and made me wanna switch back. I googled ways for weeks, then I found a website that taught me how using this week after I was extremely close to giving up. It was so quick and I before I knew I had my music back in no time!!! It’s so easy to use and tells you whether they could find a match to the song. SongShift is great and gives so many options on how to transfer.

by Magnum0630

This is my first Time i think i ever reviewed an app, SongShift saves you all the stress of going back and fourth with playlists regardless of platform and adding it song by song... SongShift is easy to use, and transfers entire playlists in minutes, i haven’t seen a transfer take more than 5 mins and i have some playlists with over 500 songs!!! The premium, atleast at the time of review, is only $5 and makes a easy to use app even easier with more accessibility. Definitely recommend especially if you have a lot of transfers to do. I couldn’t be happier and i had to share my opinion! I hope SongShift never changes and no this is not a paid review i stg 😂

by MSCHF75

It started off simple and I just expected it to get more complicated. It never did, the entire process was simple. I did pay for the premium because I had many playlist to transfer. Worked seamlessly, and if it didn’t find the song (didn’t happen often at all) it easily gave you the ability to search a replacement and this actually ended up finding the ones I needed. Don’t do a lot of reviews but SongShift definitely deserves it. Saved me days of work.

by Cartlight

Honestly I thought SongShift wouldn’t work but come to find out this is going to be my go to app. I switched from pandora to apple music. I thought this would make me lose all my old music but SongShift helped me switch all my old music to new music to apple music. Not to mention it’s easy to use and took about 2 mins to switch a 203 song playlist. Now it’s on my new app. Overall SongShift i’m going to use a lot more now and I just love it. Totally recommend for music lovers.

by ZombieMix567890

I downloaded SongShift after downloading another one with the same premise, but cost 3x the amount of this one. The fact that SongShift is so easy to use, free!!!!, and gives you purchase options for even more efficiency is so amazing. I’m happily surprised and would definitely recommend for anyone to transfer playlists with hundreds of songs in literal minutes. I transferred so many playlists with hundreds of songs each in less than 10 minutes. 10/10 love love love.

by MissMizzzzzzzy

I had to transfer over 200 songs for a friend to another app and instead of it take if me hours upon end to search and find all the songs. I was able to just use SongShift to switch the entire playlist over in less than a minute. It’s fast effective and efficient and gets the job done speedily. Plus is has a wide range of music apps to choose from end to transfer from so your music app is more than likely to be on here. Definitely highly recommend

by Oceanminded28

Not sure why anyone has any problem using SongShift outside ineptitude because I transferred everything in around 10min no hassle. Interface is intuitive and the transfers have been darn near perfect.

Developers you could easily give 5 free playlist transfers (so users know it is a solid app) and then some meager charge for x amount of playlist more because I would have paid. Don’t see a need for monthly or one time as I can’t justify $40 for a few uses.

Great job on SongShift though and thank you!

by RySkream

Works VERY well, I can’t say it doesn’t. The UI is well put together and very easy to navigate. My only; and I mean ONLY complaint, is that sometimes the “matched” files that SongShift picks are incorrect matches. Only a few per each “shift” but when it is wrong, it’s way off. This could also be the fault of the music service that is receiving the transfer, the only reason I think it’s SongShift is because I am able to type in the same search string and the first result is the correct one.

Would recommend SongShift over any alternatives!

by Logan "CF" Hamlin

I found SongShift and it looked really promising. I began the process of transferring my first playlist to test it out the playlist name transferred but none of the songs did. I the. Decided this might be a one time issues and then decided to transfer all 3000 of my songs which took a while and non of them transferred again

Edit: I came back to it an hour later the 3000 songs transferred but the much smaller playlist of 200 songs did not trying again might fix the issue

by DWD1533

What started out as a great but buggy app has grown into so much more. I got SongShift thinking it would fail to do what I had wanted. This was the first app I found to actually be able to help me keep concurrent music playlist between two different apps. In the beginning it would crash every once in a while so I had rated it four stars before. The team however provide constant updates and support for SongShift and each new update adds another cool feature and makes it more stable. I now have absolutely no problems when I use SongShift and couldn’t possibly recommend this more. this app is amazing and I’m glad I found it!

by Ostrich69er

SongShift worked very well. I used the free version to test it out on one of my smaller playlist and it did what I wanted. So I had no choice but to support and buy the full version to get all the features. I would have given a 5 star rating but it did not find all my songs not sure if this was due to Apple Music not having them or just mis understanding thru SongShift . Also it did get mixed up on a few songs and put some other song. But overall I am very happy with SongShift and will continue to use.

by Isaacraft

I thought this was gonna be another one of those fake, move your playlists around, application, but after downloading and trying it for free, I was sold lol. I love how for only $4, it will sync across multiple applications, for as many playlists as you want, surprisingly accurate (you will sometimes get those outliers, but that is normal), and the automatic sync for when a playlist changes from the source. I 200% recommend SongShift to anyone who is transferring music streaming services.

by 1H8fulguh-i

It’s hard to believe that asking Siri a question just now has solved a brain-buster I wasted all day fretting about. “How can I transfer my song library, playlists, albums etc. from one music streaming app to another.
Appearing before me, top of the page, SoundShift. Went to SongShift Store, searched it, found it, and downloaded it. Super quick, easy to understand, did exactly what I wanted, and no hassles. Unreal.
Thank you, SoundShift.

by MarcusPhoenix46

I usually don’t rate any apps, but I had to make an exception for this. I told myself “I’m going to rate this if this app does what it says it does for free”. And it did! It was very intuitive and made me feel in-control due to its excellent UI. It matched more songs than its competitors as well. I don’t plan to use the pro features, but for $4, anyone who needs that service will find it a steal! Thanks for a well-developed app!

by Alvintoro

After trying and failing with a more expensive option from the AppStore that requires you to pay $9.99 upfront to transfer anything over 10 songs, the free version of this app was able to seamlessly transfer almost 1000 songs from my Pandora thumb ups to a Apple Music playlist with only 20 songs unmatched. Thank you! Upgrading to paid version.

by TimmyGUNZ

I’ve tried just about every playlist transfer app there is and with the brand new 3.0 update, this app is by far the best one out there. I’ve been wanting an auto-sync feature for years and finally an app delivered.

My only request is for a two-way sync so regardless of the service I add the songs from, both service playlists are in sync.

by Aeolian.Mode

SongShift has been crashing for nearly a month now, it is unusable. I have sent multiple emails and tweets to the developer with no response. I have paid for the premium features as I have a lot of music I like to keep up to date with. The lack of response is nothing short of a scam and I will be trying to get a refund back for this purchase.

by Dev.nte

This service is great!! it used to match the wrong songs but with the newest update they allow you to look over the matches snd easily change it up... with that being said I don't i've had to switch it up yet, the accuracy has gotten better too! SongShift is amazing and makes me contemplate getting the premium version!