G2

Manu Y.

Full stack developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/22/2026

"Brings our client ad music in house, trial is too short"

4/5

What do you like best about Autunes?

I work at a company that serves bus owners and operators, and part of my job is putting together advertising content for them. Autunes is what we use on the audio side, mainly short music tracks and background beds for radio spots and social media ads. We pull it out whenever a client campaign needs a track, so it is project by project rather than daily, but it has been part of our marketing workflow for a while now. What I like most is that I can sit down with the client brief, the tempo, the mood, the length, and get something usable in the same sitting instead of going out to a freelancer and waiting days. Setup was quick, nobody on my team needed training or an onboarding call to start using it. The output is clean enough that we send it straight into a radio spot without a separate mixing pass. I am not a music producer and neither is anyone else on my team, so the fact that it does not demand studio knowledge is the whole reason it works for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Autunes?

The trial credits are far too low for anyone evaluating this for real work. When I was testing it before we committed, the free credits were gone in one sitting, and one sitting is nowhere near enough to learn how the tool responds to different briefs. I almost wrote it off and went back to hiring out. If the idea is to get teams to adopt it, they should hand out enough credits to finish at least one or two real client projects first. The second issue is that results depend heavily on how well you write the brief. A vague prompt gives you a vague track. That is fine for me now, but when I hand it to a colleague who has not used it before, their first few attempts are usually wasted. A small library of worked examples or ready made prompts for common advertising use cases would cut that learning curve a lot and save us credits. Reporting on credit usage across the team is also thinner than I would like when I am trying to justify the spend internally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Autunes solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our customers are bus owners and operators, and when they run an ad campaign with us they need audio to go with it. Before Autunes, every one of those campaigns meant commissioning a freelance composer. That was a purchase order, a brief handed over, a few days of waiting, and a bill for a single short track. For smaller operators the cost alone killed the idea, so a lot of campaigns went out with stock music that sounded like everything else, or with no music at all. Now the work stays in house. I write the brief myself and have two or three options ready the same day, usually within the hour, and the client picks one instead of paying for a single take and hoping they like it. That has cut our audio spend on these campaigns significantly and turned what used to be a week of back and forth into an afternoon. The bigger win for the business is that we can now offer custom audio to the smaller operators who could never justify the old cost, which makes our ad packages easier to sell. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.