Please note all links for apps are iTunes links.
AOL Radio, free – AOL Radio powered by CBS Radio features over 200 stations that span more than 25 genres of music plus 150+ CBS RADIO stations from across the United States. For the first time, iPhone and iPod Touch users will be able to access hundreds of free music stations PLUS an extensive collection of popular terrestrial news/sports/talk programming including CBS RADIO’s WFAN-AM and 1010 WINS in New York, KLSX and KROQ in Los Angeles, WXRT in Chicago, WVEE in Atlanta and more. Works well over 3G, WiFi and even EDGE. Tune in your local stations or any from around the country. You will no longer wish your iPhone or iPod touch had a radio tuner.
Band, $3.99 – like having a miniature GarageBand app on your iPhone or iPod touch. Band features a recorder and several instruments that allows you to make music. Each instrument has been designed to take advantage of the unique touchscreen of the Phone, with complex chords of up to five notes playable in real-time. The instruments provide visual feedback, so that piano keys and bass guitar strings animate when pressed. All the instruments can be recorded, overdubbed multiple times, and mixed together into a final track, which can be saved for later playback. Almost like having GarageBand on your iPhone.
Boombox Pro, $2.99 – Boombox Pro brings the simplicity of Boombox and adds a host of features including: Music playback on 2G/3G. Color-coded bitrate date for song playback on 2G/3G. Import your Blip.fm Playlist. See your Favorite DJ’s and give them props for their Blips. Blip songs from your playlists. Add songs to your local Boombox playlist. Buy songs you love from iTunesBoombox, free – Powered by Blip.fm, allows users to search through a catalog of streaming music filled with millions of songs. Users can create playlists from Blip.fm songs or purchase songs through iTunes. Visually reminiscent of classic 80s boomboxes with animated equalizer and pulsing speakers.
EarMan, $9.99 – A good ear is the key to all musicianship. One of the most basic skills for any musician is the ability to correctly identify intervals, something that is practiced in class or with a private tutor. EarMan is a program that helps you practice ear training on the go. This is an affordable, no-nonsense application that can help you improve your skills with a structured curriculum and fully customizable practice sessions. Completing a training session in EarMan takes about 1-2 minutes, only a fraction of a typical tutored lesson. All sessions are graded immediately and results are made available in the results section of the application.
FlyCast Mobile Broadcast Network, free – like having free satellite radio on your iPhone or iPod touch, With close to 1500 digital channels, including all genres of music, talk, news sports, weather and traffic – FlyCast offers the largest variety of digital broadcasts available today. FlyCast partners with the top radio broadcasters and webcasters to bring you a comprehensive collection of live radio streams, including those from AccuRadio, Entercom, DI, SKY, Radio Paradise, 977 The Music, SmoothJazz.com, 1.FM, 181.com and many others. Other new features include an embedded web browser, allowing users to surf the web while listening to their favorite station, background play and battery saver modes, a connection speed identifier, and the ability to play any of over 25,000 stations in the Shoutcast directory.
FourTrack, $9.99 – songwriting and practice tool for singers, song writers, guitar players, piano players, and other musicians. Capture musical ideas anywhere. Plug in a microphone, arm a track, record, repeat. FourTrack works with the iPhone built-in microphone, headset mic, or an iPod touch with a third-party mic and headphones. WiFi sync allows you to download your FourTrack recordings to any desktop computer with a browser. Then load your tracks into any DAW. FourTrack is the only iPhone multitrack recorder with pan, bounce, metrononome with live drum recordings, and wifi sync in companion desktop software (RiffWorks). All features, including latency compensation, were deveoped by engineers with over 25 years of experience.
Guitar: Play and Share, $3.99 – fun app that is probably the most playable guitar app on the iPhone that takes a different approach. Learn and play your favorite songs with Guitar, the amazing acoustic guitar app for your iPhone or iPod touch. More than just a virtual fretboard, Guitar is an instrument optimized for performance. You can perform songs with any combination of chords and melodies on Guitar’s highly playable and easy-to-use interface. And you can strum along to your iTunes music with Guitar and hear your playing added into the mix!
Guitarist, $3.99 – Nice Guitar simulator for the iPhone or iPod touch. Takes Pocket Guitar up a few notches by adding quite a number of features such as scrollable fretboard, recording and effects.Record and save your song for later playback. Fretboard scrollable up to the 21st fret. Display between 3 to 10 frets on-screen. Record two guitars (eg. rhythm, lead), each with their own effects, into one song. Pitch bend by actually dragging strings. Tilt your iPhone for WahWah and Whammy effects.
GuitarToolkit, $9.99 – For guitarists this app for the iPhone features a nice tuner, chord finder, and metronome. Essential guitar utilities, including an amazingly flexible tuner and a library of over 1500 chord variations, all on your iPhone. There is also GuitarToolkit Lite, $5.99 with a few less features.
Last.fm, free – Listen to more than 5 million tracks for free with Last.fm on your iPhone. Create personal radio stations based on any artist or genres, and listen to commercial free music for hours. With Last.fm on the iPhone you can also check out artist bios and concert information and share your favourite tracks with your friends using the iPhone contact list. The more you listen, the more Last.fm learns what you like and recommends new music based on your taste. Go to the Last.fm website, and you can see your iPhone and iTunes listening history, stored by Last.fm no matter where you’re listening.
Midomi Ultra Music ID and Search, $4.99 – Listens to music or sing and this app will identify the song within seconds. Midomi Ultra is the fastest way to identify music – just hold your iPhone up to a speaker, and Midomi names the tune in as little as five seconds! It even works if you sing or hum the melody. You can also instantly check out a song or band just by saying or typing the name. With Midomi’s search and music browsing, you and your friends will get in touch with music like never before.
Ocarina, $0.99 – the first true musical instrument created for the iPhone. Ocarina is sensitive to your breath, touch and movements. Without any musical training you will be playing your favorite songs from Jingle Bells to Beethoven in no time. Easy-to-read music for hundreds of popular songs are available online as well as demo video at http://ocarina.smule.com/ You can also hear people learning to play around the world.
ooTunes Radio 2.1!, $3.99 – the most complete internet radio stream player available. It currently supports AAC, AAC+, MP3, WMA, OGG Vorbis, and even some Flash streams! Select from customer built database of 10,000+ preset stations from all over the world (3200+ from the USA which keeps growing. Select from ScanAmerica, RadioTime, Icecast, XM Satellite Radio (including Howard Stern and Oprah!), Live365, Reciva, Shoutcast, NOAA Weather, Air Traffic Scanners, AOL Radio or even your favorite local radio station that streams .pls, .m3u or .asx playlists on their website. Add the ooTunes Media Server ($19.99) and stream all the contents of iTunes on your home computer to your iPhone! This app also has a built-in web browser and you can post to Twitter what you are listening to.
Pandora Radio, free – I love Pandora and I really love having Pandora in my car. With this free app for the iPhone or iPod touch I have played Pandora over 3G while commuting to work. Fantastic app and service. Pandora Radio is your own FREE personalized radio now available to stream music on your iPhone. Just start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a “station” that plays their music and more music like it.
Pianist, $3.99 – virtual Piano for your iPhone or iPod touch that allows you to compose and record music. Pianist enables you to compose music while on the move on a musical “scratchpad”, or just jam with your friends. Full 88 key piano keyboard sampled from a real piano for maximum authenticity. Overdub as many times as you want, and remove unwanted notes. Zoomable keyboard allows you to display between one and two octaves across the screen.
Pocket Guitar, $0.99 – this is a very fun app that turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a very playable virtual guitar. Features 6 instruments and effects. You can press and strum strings, just like a real guitar. You can choose the sound from 6 instruments – Acoustic-Electric Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Muted Guitar, Electric Bass and Ukulele. You can also choose effects from Distortion, Chorus and Delay and edit parameters.
Pocket Tunes Radio, $9.99 – Listen to your favorite radio stations using your iPhone or iPod touch with Pocket Tunes Radio. Offers high quality audio and a built-in web browser. Now tune in to Sirius XM channels (with your subscription). Select from the thousands of stations in the pre-populated catalog or browse the web to add your own stations. The catalog is continually updated and will automatically grow as stations are added. Pocket Tunes Radio includes support for aacPlus v2, the leading industry format for providing the best radio fidelity over mobile networks. Pocket Tunes Radio is the best sounding radio for iPhone and iPod touch.
Radioshift Touch, $9.99 – Tune in to thousands of internet radio stations, right from your iPhone or iPod touch! At home or on the go, via Wifi, EDGE, or 3G, Radioshift gives you access to thousands of internet radio streams. Use it to find local stations, check out what’s popular, browse by genre, or just search for your favorite station. Radioshift is powered by RadioTime, the best catalog of radio on the planet.
Shazam, free – Listens to music and identifies the song within seconds providing a link to buy it if you like.
Works surprising well. Identify music anywhere: from the radio, TV, film, or in a store by simply holding your iPhone towards the music and tapping “Tag”.
SHOUTcast Radio, free – Access to over 25,000 SHOUTcast radio stations on your iPhone™ (EDGE, 3G or WiFi) or iPod® touch (WiFi). Shake to get a random station to listen to. SHOUTcast Radio is one of the leading online directories of professionally and community programmed radio stations. There are over 25,000 stations from around the world and over 500,000 simultaneous listeners at any given time. SHOUTcast is known for its depth and breadth, with broadcasts ranging from globally recognized music to local music and talk stations. You can now take all of your favorite SHOUTcast stations with you anywhere!
Simplify Music 2.0, $5.99 – New in Simplify 2.0: Search: Search by artist, album and title across all connected computers as though it’s one giant library, Favorites: Tag favorite music on the fly from personal libraries, or those of friends, Playlists: Create an on-the-fly playlist for later enjoyment right on your phone or touch, Seek: Use the “scrub bar” to easily move forward or back in a streamed podcast or audio book. Access your home computer’s digital music library on your iPhone or iPod touch, anytime and anywhere with Simplify Media. This app will also enable you to stream music from up to 30 of your friends’ music collections, while viewing lyrics and artists bios too. Simplify Media, $3.99 – Stream your iTunes music library at home on your iPhone or iPod touch and share tracks with your friends and family over the Internet. Also includes a chat client. Works with PC, Mac and Linux computers. Works over EDGE, 3G or WiFi.
Slacker Radio, free – Listen to unlimited free music on your iPhone. The free lacker Radio App gives you access to the entire Slacker music library featuring millions of songs from thousands of artists. Listen to over 100 expert programmed radio stations or create your own custom stations directly on the iPhone. Slacker Radio is the best way to discover new artists and hear your favorite songs. Unlimited free access to millions of songs from thousands of artists. I especially like the comedy section.
Tuner Internet Radio, $5.99 – Nice full featured tuner for the iPhone and iPod touch that allows you to stream thousands of Internet radio stations over 3G, WiFi or even EDGE. Bookmark your favorite stations, browse by genre, pick from the top 500 stations, search for stations or add your own streams using Tuner. Tuner is a full featured Internet radio player and even includes an OpenGL visualizer!
TuneWiki, free – allows you to listen to music while watching subtitled lyrics, translated to 40+ languages. Features include: Music Maps – see in real time what people around you are listening to–or anywhere in the world! Real?Time Top 50 Charts of all the countries in the world
The first and only Radio Lyrics (featuring ShoutCast). Buy the song you’re listening to from iTunes with 1 click. The most comprehensive Lyrics Search database in the world Music video Search “Blip” technology – let your friends in other social networks know what you are playing in real-time. Skins – change the look of the player. Very cool!
Wunder Radio, $6.99 – provides a quick and easy way to play thousands of streaming Internet radio stations and other audio streams on your iPhone. We have teamed up with RadioTime to create one of the largest directories on the Internet with stations from all corners of the world. Keep up-to-date with international news and current affairs. Search for stations by location and genre (sports, music, talk) and build a list of your favorites.
