JioSaavn – Music & Podcasts

42 of 100 · reviews
4.3of 5 · store
7,064ratings on the App Store
495reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

JioSaavn is strong on the Indian catalog and performs reasonably well on the go, but the recommendation algorithm is stuck on the same 30 tracks, CarPlay has serious glitches, and the library is shrinking.

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What people use it for

Listeners of Bollywood and regional Indian music

What reviews praise

Deep Indian catalog with rare regional-language versions of tracks.

What reviews complain about

The recommendation algorithm cycles through the same 30 songs with no way to break into new music.

What users experience

2 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

This app has one of the worst algorithms for playlists. The same 30 songs play on repeat and it's impossible to escape them. Even if I play a song from 1970, the following song will be 1/30 repeat songs. It's obnoxious and impossible to discover new music.

First, if it wasn't for CarPlay Interface, I would give 5 stars. But, my primary use of this app is in the car, Apple CarPlay interface is important to me. CarPlay interface for this app hangs, doesn't play the right song, play song from a list instead what's chosen on the CarPlay screen.