The Best Apps for Musicians in 2025
Even creative people like tools that make their lives as performers, producers, and songwriters easier. We’ve put together some apps for musicians that make life on the road and in the studio much easier. Have fun with the best music apps in 2025!
Music Apps for Songwriting
1. BeatMaker | Music Production App
Beatmaker is a true veteran among iOS apps. The sample- and MIDI-based music production app offers 16 or 64 pads to which you can assign samples or MIDI notes. While there is an on-screen keyboard, you can also use an external MIDI controller.
The third version of Beatmaker from Intua is now available. The biggest new feature in the update is that it can now be used with AudioUnit apps.
2. Beat Snap 2 | Become a Professional Beatmaker
Beat Snap is a free drum pad controller app from MixVibes with an intuitive design that makes it easy to make beats and produce your own tracks. You can choose your favourite style of music from more than 135 available sound packs with over 5,000 sounds inspired by pop, trap, and more. Beat Snap lets you record up to 32 sequences and spice up your track with 6 real-time effects. With 2 grids, 16 pads, and a step sequencer, you’re sure to get quick results.
Download Beat Snap for Android
3. GarageBand | Create Music on your Mobile Phone
GarageBand is still the top dog among music apps. While it’s been around for a few years, regular updates ensure that this Apple classic is still at the forefront. An easy-to-use yet powerful app that allows you to create music on your mobile phone.
In addition to iOS, GarageBand is now also available for Windows and Android. Still one of the best ways to make music on the go.
4. Mubert | Generate License-Free Songs with AI
The use of AI in music production is controversial. Regardless of this, AI music generators are becoming increasingly popular and are being used in an almost inflationary manner. The tools have now been perfected to such an extent that some songs are barely recognisable as having been composed by humans or artificial intelligence.
While music tools tend to require more complex prompts than text or image generators to deliver good results, even beginners can achieve remarkable outputs. One of the most popular tools is Mubert, an AI-based collection of music-related applications.
The free trial version allows you to create NFT soundtracks. The Mubert app can be operated via prompts or a selection menu, whereby you can choose between genre, mood, and activity. We’ll keep our opinion to ourselves in this case.
Sheet Music Apps for Musicians
5. Setlist Helper | App for Lyrics and Setlist Organization
As a musician, you’re probably familiar with the following scenario: you’ve scribbled the chords onto a printout of the lyrics. During rehearsal, it turns out that you’re supposed to play the song in a different key. Confusion ensues, as you now have to manually transpose the chords and erase what you’ve already written. In the digital age, there are much more convenient solutions. One app that works well is “Setlist Helper”, a useful tool for any musician. It’s easy to use and also works great for live performances.
Setlist Helper allows you create set lists and import audio and video files. It also offers automatic scrolling and can import Chordpro files directly, as well as documents in PDF, IMG, DOC, DOCX, and RTF formats. You can also simply copy and paste text from a word processor. There are various other functions that make this an indispensable tool for musicians.
Download music app Setlist Helper for Android
Download Setlist Helper for IoS
Useful Apps for Making Music
6. SunVox | Tracker, Sequencer, and Virtual Modular Synth
SunVox has a frustrating interface and one of the steepest learning curves, but is one of the most powerful music apps for Android, with the iOS version offering a few extra features. Assuming you have a decent smartphone, it’s probably the most efficient way you can spend a few bucks on a music app. SunVox offers a solid set of basic synthesis, audio processing, and pattern sequencing features and invites you to combine these building blocks into more complex setups. It can also sync to hardware via Pulse Sync. SunVox can be a multi-effect for live audio, a real-time sampler, and much more.
7. KORG Kaossilator | Touch-Based Synthesizer App
“KORG Kaossilator for Android” is a synthesizer app that lets anyone become a performer simply by sliding their finger across the touch screen. From electronic sounds to acoustic instruments and drums, you can play a wide range of sounds with just one finger.
A sequencer is also provided, which is indispensable for creating songs. The app is still one of the most popular of its kind, even though it was last updated in 2023. This is perhaps due to the fact that you can also export all tracks individually for further processing in your DAW.
Download Kaossilator for Android
Music Apps for Practising and Shopping
8. Metronome/MetroTimer | Apps for Perfect Timing
The metronome is another music tool that is increasingly being replaced by apps. If you’ve forgotten your tempo counter but now need the correct timing, this is not the slightest problem with an app such as Metronome by Onyx.
The app also effortlessly handles unusual time signatures such as 9/4 or 7/8 time. The tempo is indicated both acoustically and visually. Never before have we been so sure of our timing.
Download The Metronome by Soundbrenner for Android
9. ToneGym | Efficient Ear Training App
While ear training may not sound all that exciting, it’s an essential discipline for all musicians – that’s just the way it is. So what if there were an app that makes a dry subject more fun?
One such solution is ToneGym. The app includes a whole range of exercises for your ears. One advantage that should not be underestimated: because it is a web-based tool, you can also use it without a mobile phone. It also has a motivating ranking concept that invites you to challenge yourself.
Other Apps for Musicians | Shopping
10. Thomann Official | Shop for Music Gear Online
We also have an app for you: you can download our online shop with extensive features from the app store. Look forward to over 90,000 products, great deals, countless videos and high-resolution audio demos, push notifications, verified customer reviews, your personalized customer centre, helpful online guides, and much more.
Your shopping cart and watch lists are synchronized across all your devices, whether you’re using the app, the mobile website, or the classic desktop website.
Download Thomann Official for Android
Download Thomann Official for iOS
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Guido says:
Best app for band is “Bandhelper” from Arlo Leach ! Both rehearsals and live gigs can be managed for the setlist, financials, contacts, schedules, midi’s etc. Try it !
Mace says:
Definitely +1 for BandHelper, is a brilliant app
Derek says:
Bit new to the guitar but interested to know everything about making music etc, know quite a lot about musical theory, scales chords etc.
Carmine says:
Camelot Pro
Steve says:
Try caustic (android)
Pete says:
Are there any apps that allow you to play music remotely with bandmates? Like a videoconference, but without noticeable latency?
Eric says:
We use the “Band Setlist Manager” for our band. It’s a really cool looking App that allows us to remotely work together on our songs and setlist. I think they have a version for Android and IOS.
It can link multiple devices and put them in several stage modes. Our singer controls the set with a lyric view and we have one tablet setup as a center stage monitor displaying the current and upcoming song.
I can definitely recommend to check out Band Setlist Manager.
Dave says:
We use https://piano2notes.com to create sheet music from our own cover songs.
Needs a bit of rework in MuseScore, but still works like a charm.
Gary Benites says:
Hey Joe, I realize I’m a bit late reading this article, but I think there was a typo in this “GarageBand” section where you write. “In the meantime, there are versions for Windows and Android as well as for iOS.” I got all excited until I went to Google Play to download it for Android and couldn’t find it.
Susanna says:
Great list! I would add Clipza Video Capture. Clipza is a camera app that lets you swipe left to instantly replay the last 30 seconds, or tap to save the last 30 seconds. You can set the clips for 15, 30, 60 and 90 second lengths of capturing the past. It’s great for checking how you are doing in the practice room without hitting the start button and posting highlights of gigs to social when you did something great. IOS. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clipza-video-capture/id1564596106
Fergal says:
Hi guys, I wanted an App that would prompt me with lyrics/chords while playing a backing track so that I could play &sign along without worrying. I couldn’t find what I wanted so I ended up creating an App called GigaPrompt which is now available on the Apple App Store. See this link for an overview on how it works.
https://youtu.be/8PwbF6mGdf4
There are also some very cool “Pro” features such as SIRI auto-generated lyrics and AirPrompting to other band members.
Ashikul says:
Nice
Ba2 says:
How is this list from 2025 with comments from 2020?
Larry says:
The list is constantly updated, but the older comments from previous versions of the post (like from 2020) are still visible. We keep these so readers can see the full conversation history, even across updates 😉