Shazam: Find Music & Concerts
Identify Songs, Live Shows
Your score
Strong. 7 of 43 checks need attention.
Shazam: Find Music & Concerts
Music · US
- Discoverability79.9
Top 5 for 2 of 6 terms · 89% of characters
- First impression82.3
icon 83, shot 1 100, subtitle 60 of 100
- Credibility97.2
4.9★ from 8.8M ratings
- Clarity71.4
3 of 6 viewers described it correctly
- Competitiveness87.2
Picked 2 of 2 shelf runs · 72nd pct
Working
- Your app name uses 29 of 30 characters. That's a good use of the highest-weighted field you have.
- You have a subtitle. Good, most indie apps don't.
Not working
- Your name or subtitle contains "shazam". Apple's guidelines forbid packing metadata with other apps' names or trademarks, and Apple can change or reject the listing over it. Take it out.
- Your name or subtitle repeats your category almost verbatim ("Music"). Apple indexes your primary category already and explicitly tells you not to repeat those words. Spend those characters on something your category doesn't cover.
Leaderboard rank
- #1Waze Navigation & Live Traffic88.8
- #2Shazam: Find Music & Concertsthis app83.6
- #3Chess.com - Play and Learn83.5
The shelf
2 of 3 simulated users picked a rival off this row.
Search results · US · Music
They were asked to find: “You want to practise an instrument at home and actually improve.”
- You1
Shazam: Find Music & Concerts
Identify Songs, Live Shows
4.98.8M ratingsGet
Skeptical Researcher passed: “No 1-star reviews visible on this card to read, and 8.8 million ratings is so massive it doesn't actually tell me if recent versions work.”
- 2
Bandsintown Concerts
Never miss another live show.
4.759K ratingsGet
- 3
Songkick Concerts
Never miss another show.
4.8101K ratingsGet
- 4
Music Recognition- Song Finder
Identify Songs - Music Finder
4.68.1K ratingsGetIn-App Purchases
- 5
Live Nation – For Concert Fans
Tickets, Presales, Info & More
4.8154K ratingsGet
Your taps
Where the taps went
- Shazam: Find Music & Concertsyou4/6
- Bandsintown Concerts1/6
- Songkick Concerts1/6
Fix these first
5 changes, in order of impact.
Competitor brand names in metadata
Your name or subtitle contains "shazam". Apple's guidelines forbid packing metadata with other apps' names or trademarks, and Apple can change or reject the listing over it. Take it out. Remove other companies' brand names from your metadata. This is a rejection risk, not just wasted characters.
visibilityApple-documentedCategory name repeated in name or subtitle
Your name or subtitle repeats your category almost verbatim ("Music"). Apple indexes your primary category already and explicitly tells you not to repeat those words. Spend those characters on something your category doesn't cover. Drop the category words. Your primary category is already indexed, so repeating it buys nothing.
visibilityApple-documentedDescription keyword stuffing
The word "shazam" makes up 5.5% of your description: 16 times in 293 words. Descriptions aren't keyword-indexed on iOS, so this buys you exactly nothing in search and reads as spam to the few people who open it. Stop repeating keywords in the description. It is not indexed on iOS, so stuffing it costs you readability and buys you nothing.
conversionIndustry consensusYour page and your actual users are different people
Your page speaks to casual gamers; your reviews come from prosumers and power users (41% of the reviews we could place).
conversionOur proposalCross-index locales unused
You're covering 7 of the 9 additional languages the United States storefront supports. Each missing one is another 30-character name, 30-character subtitle and 100-character keyword field: 320 indexable characters you're leaving on the table in the same storefront, without translating your app. Missing: Arabic, Vietnamese. Add metadata in your storefront's additional supported languages. Each one is another 160 indexable characters (30 name + 30 subtitle + 100 keywords) in the same storefront.
visibilityIndustry consensus
What simulated users said
6 of 6 would tap your card; 6 of 6 would install.
Skeptical Researcher
38, product manager · reads the one-stars first (the control persona)
“Nearly 9 million people rated this thing 4.9 stars, the screenshots show it actually does what it says, and there's nothing on this card that looks broken or ignored.”
- The card
- would tap
- The page
- would install
Skeptical Researcher
38, product manager · reads the one-stars first (the control persona)
“4.9 stars over 8 million ratings with nothing below five stars in front of me, updated last month, and the app does exactly what it says — I'm tapping it.”
- The card
- would tap
- The page
- would install
Price-Sensitive Pragmatist
29, gig worker · goes straight to the in-app purchase list
“It's free with no IAP warning, the rating is huge, and the core feature — naming a song — is exactly what I need, so I'm tapping it.”
- The card
- would tap
- The page
- would install
Price-Sensitive Pragmatist
29, gig worker · goes straight to the in-app purchase list
“It's free with no hidden stuff, does exactly what I need it to do, and the rating is solid so I'm tapping it.”
- The card
- would tap
- The page
- would install
Power User
31, developer · actually reads the description
“The screenshots show real depth — library organization, filtering, concert integration, and integrations with other apps — not just a hero slogan about naming songs.”
- The card
- would tap
- The page
- would install
Power User
31, developer · actually reads the description
“It does the core thing I need instantly, shows me real features I'd actually use in the screenshots, and 8.8 million ratings at 4.9 stars means the app works.”
- The card
- would tap
- The page
- would install