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    Smule just launched a new feature on the app called “gifts” and with that a new payment options called “coins”. As Smule puts it, “Gifts are the newest, most expressive way to show your appreciation for the performances you love”. 

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    Gifts are essentially animated little stickers you can send to someone if you like their performance and you can also add a personal message along with most gifts. The feature is more personal and more prominent than the previous options of liking and commenting songs. While like and comments are public and can be left by anyone, gifts are a paid and personal option. While performances show the number of received gifts, the gift itself, the people giving them and their messages are only visible for the singers receiving the gifts. For this a new tab on the Activity section of the app was added. 

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    To send most gifts you need to buy coins in advance. Coins are essentially a virtual currency that only exists within the Smule service. The gift prices vary greatly, so one can spend a few cents per gift or well over US$ 40 for the most expensive one. Smule makes it clear in their terms of service that the coins are not a real currency. The purchase of coins is not refundable, the value of the coins may change at any time and the coin service might be changed or stopped. But the coin service is probably here to stay and could easily be extended to other features like paid video/audio filters.  

    Currently Smule hasn’t officially announce the gift service or updated their help and FAQ sections with more details. We will extend this article when more information emerges. 

    Feel free to comment below to tell us how you like the new feature. 

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    SoCalKaren

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    I think the money collected for coins to get stickers should go to the singers  so it would be worth something.  They get the stickers or at least a portion then it would be more iof a gift and incentive. Therefore more people would sing, buy stickers and the Company would make more money in the long run. 

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    sZHMX

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    Why do they prioritize this over improving the android app? It's so sad. The android and iOS apps are like two different apps. Fast forward /rewind feature hasn't come to Android yet ( it's been there in iOS for several years now). The ugly android UI, songs not loading fully when network is bad, groups feature, etc, so many things wrong with the android app. 

    I don't know why they keep pushing these useless features while their android app so lagging way behind its iOS counterpart. 

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    _Joe_Church_

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    On 5/9/2020 at 3:05 AM, sZHMX said:

    Why do they prioritize this over improving the android app? It's so sad. The android and iOS apps are like two different apps. Fast forward /rewind feature hasn't come to Android yet ( it's been there in iOS for several years now). The ugly android UI, songs not loading fully when network is bad, groups feature, etc, so many things wrong with the android app. 

    I don't know why they keep pushing these useless features while their android app so lagging way behind its iOS counterpart. 

    My friend, if you can get an iOS device the best is the to use it with Smule.
    I started singing with Android app in a Huawei y635 years ago. I even can’t listen myself through the headphones. It’s a problem with the sound latency on Android. I don’t know if the newest android OS have repaired it but in Android KitKat 4.0 was impossible to sing. I thought in several solutions but at the end I realized that the cheapest and easier was to buy an iOS device.

    I saw an offer of a new iPad mini 16Gb at 199€ and bought it, since that moment my problem was gone. 16Gb is a little limited but sufficient for me, I only wanted it to sing in Smule and not too much more (browsing, YouTube, mails, etc).

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