Soundmap is a location-based music collection and trading game for iOS and Android where users walk to find songs.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#156
Games · free
Sentiment
4.7
439k reviews
Nemesis
Pokémon GO
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The app removes the friction of passive music discovery by turning the act of finding new artists into a physical, gamified exploration task.
For Music fans and collectors interested in gamified, location-based discovery and social trading.
What does it look like?
Key features
Location-based collection of virtual music items triggered by physical movement.
Structured collection tasks focused on completing specific artist discographies.
Peer-to-peer negotiation and exchange of collected music items.
How much does it cost?
Freemium model utilizing in-app purchases to supplement location-based engagement loops.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentperformanceUX improvementsShow more...
The app currently operates at a maintenance cadence, with 8 releases over the observed window resulting in a frequency of approximately 0.09 releases per week. Development is focused exclusively on minor bug fixes and stability improvements, such as addressing navigation flows and trading issues. There is no evidence of new feature development or live operations content in the recent release history. The last update occurred 90 days ago, indicating a period of stagnation in the product roadmap.
Who built it?
Intonation Studios
6 apps tracked · Games
Friendship Bracelets
Sidewalk - Rate Your Outfit
TouchGrass: Save the Earth
decibel FM: music fans only
stanly - send me songsUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Recent user voice shows a frustrated sentiment. Users appreciate collecting songs by moving through real-world locations creates an engaging and addictive gameplay loop and trading functionality allows music fans to connect and exchange songs from their favorite artists. On the flip side, players report being banned for cheating or spoofing without clear evidence or an effective appeal process.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Collecting songs by moving through real-world locations creates an engaging and addictive gameplay loop
- Trading functionality allows music fans to connect and exchange songs from their favorite artists
- Players report being banned for cheating or spoofing without clear evidence or an effective appeal process
82 of 149 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for Soundmap: Find Your Songs
How's the Games market?
Soundmap currently holds a #102 Grossing position in the US Music & Audio category, reflecting its niche but active user base. The gap between its free-tier engagement and grossing rank suggests that current monetization mechanics are not yet capturing the full value of the core collection loop.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Niantic, Inc.
Dominates the location-based collection genre with massive scale and established real-world map mechanics.
- Leverages massive global IP recognition to drive physical exploration and social interaction at scale.
- Features complex AR-integrated combat and raid systems that provide deep long-term engagement loops.
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Key takeaways for Soundmap: Find Your Songs
Where is it heading?
The location-based collection market is consolidating around high-frequency update cycles, leaving Soundmap exposed to rivals that iterate faster. The current maintenance-only cadence will continue to erode the user base unless the team shifts focus from feature expansion to technical stability and moderation transparency.
- Frequent crashes during map interactions erode the daily active habit, which compounds the rating drag already visible on Android.
- The 90-day update cadence leaves critical performance bugs unaddressed, signaling a maintenance-only posture that invites churn to more active rivals.
The SWOT
- Location-based collection loop drives daily session frequency
- Artist Quests gamify discography completion
- Marketplace trading creates social network effects
- Transparent appeal process for account bans to restore user trust
- Stability-focused update cycle to reduce churn
Next best moves
Ship stability-focused patch for map interactions because crashes are the top technical complaint → reduce churn
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's reliance on location-based drops is a vulnerability, not a strength…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
High-fidelity combat mechanics (available in Monster Hunter Now but absent here) +1
Since the last report: Development velocity has collapsed into a 90-day maintenance cycle, causing a decline in grossing rank from #6 to #102 and a shift in sentiment from mixed to negative.
Bottom line
The core location-based collection loop retains users, but the 90-day update cadence and opaque moderation process are eroding the player base. Addressing technical stability and providing a clear path for ban appeals would unlock the retention potential currently lost to friction.
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- [1] App Store listing, source
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