SongCapsule Reviews

The notion of better generated playlists is how SongCapsule drew my attention when I was looking online for third-party Apple Music apps. SongCapsule does live up to exactly what it says and does so with a clean, easy interface. However, my experience with Next quickly went downhill as I attempted to alter a setting that would prioritize lesser played songs. SongCapsule said it was refreshing my music library, which it then continued to do for the better part of an hour as SongCapsule ran in the background with my phone awake. After an hour, I closed SongCapsule and reopened it, only to be greeted by a loading wheel, which after another hour led me to believe that it would continue forever if I let it. I reinstalled SongCapsule and found the same issues again.

Even if SongCapsule will run successfully on your phone, paying $4.99 for a glorified shuffle button was only worth it to me because I had leftover gift card funds. As Apple continues to refine and update the functionality of their Music app and Apple Music services, it will be apps like this one that will quickly and increasingly fall into irrelevance.

I had high hopes for SongCapsule but it doesn’t work any better than the Shuffle feature in Apple Music with my Library. I have 4000 songs there but SongCapsule insists on playing the same 15-20 titles each time I start it up. I thought it was supposed to be better at picking songs you had not listened to in a while to add to the shuffling but that is not the case. I am very disappointed.

Bought it for my car. Shows promise but lots of bugs. App doesn’t crash but touching track just causes a screen response but no play. Sometimes using apples generic app can be used to force play. I get some very verbose droid message about some sort of CarPlay problem. Never seen a single error message on anything other app so i guess they are doing something half right as SongCapsule doesn’t crash

The main function of SongCapsule doesn’t get me any better results than just hitting shuffle on my library. The smart curated playlist function is kinda neat but these are hardly better in terms of feeling like a cohesive listening experience. Just feels like shuffle but with some filters like “hasn’t been played for x time” or “belongs to x genre”

Even when you change the settings the shuffle is no better than apple’s, the “never played” playlist is full of songs I’ve played multiple times. Same with the forgotten songs playlist. I don’t understand why it’s so hard to make a better shuffle option

I was really hoping for something that would truly mix up my music, when purchasing im thinking “apple music shuffle on steroids”. NOT! SongCapsule was almost a complete ditto of my music library. I have ovr 10k songs and it managed to play the same song at least 3 times within a 30 min period. It did nothing special.. maybe an update will give the WOW effect that was raved about. Save yourself the 5 bucks!

SongCapsule is frustratingly slow. The playlists and interface are great, but it runs SO SLOWLY. Every time I select a song, there’s at least 15 seconds of waiting for that song to play, even with all the songs already being downloaded to my phone. Because of this SongCapsule is sadly unusable.

Bougth this on a whim to see what it would add to my music listening and, honestly, it just does what some smart playlists and 30 minutes could accomplish (albeit automatically).

First, you need 100 songs minimum in your library. Not hard to do honestly, but it's a requirement. Second, it does its thing. Pretty darn easy.

My one big criticism is the metadata (namely album covers) isn't persistant. Everytime SongCapsule refreshses the playlists, it loses cover art. Kind of annoying.

Beyond this simplicity and the bugginess, I think this has lots of potential. I hope they add some AI functionality to recommend new music based on the playlists.

I expected to be able to dynamically play based in the user rating of songs. Can’t believe it does t have a play loved, give you the ability to build playlist of 5stars it 4 &5 stars. It does have some interesting features , but it also would be nice to be able to reset the play counter on songs Apple Music played every time I hooked up to the car based on it being alphabetically first.

Overall, good idea.

What works well: it has surfaced songs I haven’t thought about in a while which I have missed. It’s also surfaced songs I have been glad to remove.

What could be improved: The UI needs some work (needing time switch tabs to see what’s playing feels unnecessary).

The question: this has opened up what look like holes in my historical Music data. Songs which have been labeled “never played” have indeed been played - albeit not in over a year. But I suspect that could be an Apple issue and not an app issue.

Have been searching for a replacement for the original Groove music app. (Bought and destroyed by Microsoft). SongCapsule comes close, but could be so much more. Groove mined metadata from last FM to tie songs together. This allowed for very specific playlists. Things like British New Wave. They also would create triple play playlists. Playing three songs by each artist within a specific genre. Hoping the developer can keep pushing the envelope and create the ultimate play list tool.

it’s a nice app, but i feel like we need SongCapsule on another language, in spanish for example 😸!

I really enjoy SongCapsule and the playlists they give me, but I would really enjoy it if they added a feature that was sort of like the old iTunes Genius feature where it would make a playlist of songs you already have in addition to songs you don’t have in your library. Hopefully that comes in an update at some point but so far I do love SongCapsule.

I just purchased SongCapsule . The concept is great. The execution is poor. It has to be tapped repeatedly to load. Once a song is selected it is difficult to clear. It stays on my iPhone 11 ProMax with 512gb and nearly 17,000 songs. It needs some simple user actions to “clear” selections.

FURTHER UPDATE! Still having problems with SongCapsule. Almost every specialized playlist has duplicate songs in it. There should be no exact duplicates.

Also, there should be an option to have a 50 song playlist.

I think the option to delete a song from a playlist should be available.

It would also be great if you could save a playlist and rename it.

Brings me back to my library after focusing mostly on Recently Added in the Music app! Hope they add new types of playlists and suggesting ones over time - for example “25 Most Played” is not a playlist I’ll listen to that much, but if new ones get surfaced I’ll keep coming back.

I have a really large library that I typically listen to on playlist shuffle. Next helps me rediscover "lost" tracks and deep dive on favorites from time to time.

Really smart how they implemented it so the playlist plays in Apple Music, making this song-rating, Carplay-using listener very happy.

Bonus points is they are super-responsive. I sent feedback on Twitter and they responded / fixed really quickly.

This is really cool! I really like that when it creates a “playlist” it is really just queues up a bunch of songs (which is awesome) INSIDE THE MUSIC APP. Amazing 👏

I would love to see more playlists added, maybe ones where it can sprinkle in related songs (but then I guess information would have to leave the device 😔). Also after reading the privacy notice, SongCapsule was a must buy — all on device and no tracking.

Thank you for making this awesome app!

I have a huge music library and it’s hard for me to listen all of my song. I love that SongCapsule narrows the music down and love the AI concept. Please keep updating, this is truly a gift to all of us music lovers!

Promising start I hope we see more playlists in different genres and criteria.

I also hope it starts updating and rescanning my music library every week or so to shuffle the new stats.

It’s such a simple app, but worth the money considering you’re rediscovering all of your favorite songs. I mean when you take paying $10/month for Apple Music into consideration, this is a good app to have since you’ll get more of your money’s worth. EQ adjustment would be a great feature to add down the road btw!