“Not a bad app. — It’s a good app, but literally everything is paid; you have to get a subscription just to sing solo, and so on.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 528 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.5 ★181,397 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
175 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Sing, duet, and create music on Smule, a creative singing platform built to help you grow your voice with confidence. Join others in duets for free, or unlock solo recording when you are ready to practice, learn, and craft your sound.
Explore 15 million+ songs across pop, rock, R&B, country, K-pop, musicals, and more. Smule gives you the space to practice, improve, and explore your voice at your own pace, whether you are singing for fun or working toward becoming a better singer.
On Smule, you can begin by joining existing duets with singers from around the world at no cost. Singing together is a low pressure way to start, helping you learn by doing while building confidence through shared performances.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 14.3.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 14.3.5, updated 2026-09-14.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (1.5% of 528 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“the subscription just feels like a paywall — basically 90% of the songs are locked behind the subscription, there is barely any good songs that you can do for free. and why doesn’t it mark which songs are free? like the only way you can…”
“It sucks — U have to pay for everything like cmon”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 14.3.5.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown5
Lowest$5.99
Highest$12.99
Weekly VIP Access$7.99
VIP All Access Pass$5.99
VIP All Access Pass$9.99
VIP All Access Pass$12.99
VIP All Access Pass$7.99