The best music apps. Chosen by the community.
109 music apps, chosen by the community. Top of this view: Shazam: Find Music & Concerts — #17 overall. The overall rank spans all apps and changes with every vote. How the ranking works →
Music apps are three different things in one category: services for listening, tools for making, and helpers around the edges — recognition, tuners, metronomes, sheet music. Anyone searching for the best music apps usually means exactly one of those.
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For listening, what counts is the catalogue, audio quality, offline use, and what happens to your own playlists if you switch services. For making music it is latency, support for external audio hardware and MIDI, project files that can be carried on in desktop software, and export formats without hidden licensing questions. The small helpers live on accuracy and on working without an account and without a connection. Across all of them, permissions are worth a glance: a tuner needs the microphone, but not your location.
Which app sits at the top is decided by the community, not by an editor. The gap comes from upvotes minus downvotes, and when two are level, how many people voted at all breaks the tie.
