8 Best Music Apps for iPhone & iPad

If you are a music lover, you must get used to listening to music on your portable device, such as iPhone and iPad. Actually, in order to obtain the best music experiences, choosing the most proper music apps on the App Store would be quite important. In this blog, top 8 music apps for iPhone and iPad have been sorted out below for your best references.

1. Spotify

Spotify is a genuine streaming music service platform, which was officially launched in Stockholm, Sweden in October 2008. Spotify provides free and paid services. Free users will be inserted certain advertisements when using Spotify's services, while paid users have no advertisements and have better sound quality. Spotify has been supported by several major global record companies such as Warner Music, Sony, and EMI. The music it provides is genuine. In addition to online listening, Spotify can also download music locally for offline listening. This software can be perfectly compatible with iPhone and iPad which could be easily obtained on the APP Store.

Related reading: How to Download Music from Spotify Without Premium to MP3?

 2. Apple Music

Apple Music, a streaming service similar to Spotify, the predecessor of iTunes Match, now uses the original "Music.app" to incorporate new music recommendations, which can be easily connected with other forms of online appreciation function and furthermore it has formed a comprehensive streaming media service platform. Paid members also enjoy the right to "make content available offline" and iCloud synchronization service, so that users can record playlists, favorite albums, favorite artists, etc. created on any platform. It can be displayed simultaneously on Mac, iOS and the future Apple TV platform.

3. SoundCloud

SoundCloud is a German website that provides music sharing community services. It has grown rapidly and has reached 198th in the Alexa world ranking. You can record or upload any sound online to SoundCloud to share. It supports AIFF, WAVE, FLAC, OGG, MP2, MP3, AAC audio format, you can upload online or upload music files through the software client, there is no file size limit. However, the free version limits the total length of uploaded audio to 2 hours of playing time, and each song is limited to a maximum of 100 downloads. SoundCloud allows music to be embedded into web pages via a Flash player.

Related reading: How to Download SoundCloud Songs to MP3?

4. YouTube Music

As an independent music app for YouTube, the UI design of YouTube Music is the same as that of YouTube, with a bright red interface and black with different gray levels. The top bar is divided into three parts, which are the homepage, the music recommended by YouTube, and the video/audio that the user has liked. In terms of content, all music on YouTube Music comes from music-related videos in YouTube. YouTube Music does not allow users to create playlists on their own, mainly recommended by algorithms, and selected by editors. All contents of YouTube Music can be watched or listened to for free, but there are advertisements in the normal user version. YouTube Red (premium paid) users can remove ads, and can use offline features and background playback.

5. Pandora

The Pandora music app provides users with a personalized listening experience, allow users to download them immediately, and can get access to users' favorite artists and podcasts, and learn about the latest singles and releases. From rap and pop to rock and country, broadcast your favorite artists and stay up to date with today’s hot news. Users can easily start playing all the current global hits and enjoy your own personalized music experience. The Pandora Plus subscription is $4.99 per month. The Pandora Premium subscription is $9.99 per month. You will be charged a regular transaction fee through your Google Play account.

6. TuneIn

TuneIn is a radio application. With TuneIn, users can listen to different radio stations, radios of different genres, or search according to the name of the artist or the name of the song, to find which radio station is playing the music you want to listen to. Radio TuneIn includes radio stations from all regions of the world. It can listen to AM/FM from all over the world, support Chinese and other multi-language display, more detailed program classification, let us easily find the program you want to listen to, without need to connect headphones, etc.

7. Amazon Music

AmazonMusic is a music store software officially launched by Amazon. It has a large amount of original music resources. Users can purchase and download music in the software, and you can also upload the purchased music to your own cloud network disk and listen to the music at any time. The software interface is simple and stylish, allowing you to have a better experience. Amazon Music does not have song cut restrictions or advertisements, and users can enjoy music according to their needs. But this also means that the service does not have a free "radio" service, and if you are not a Prime user, you cannot use it. In addition, Prime Music provides offline playback for users' mobile devices.

8. Gaana

The Gaana music video app is a free one-stop music store with unlimited access, which can meet all your Asian music needs. Gaana gives you free and unlimited online access to all your favorite Hindi songs, Bollywood music, regional music, popular videos, radio and video songs. Users can enjoy millions of music songs for free, from all kinds of new songs to old evergreen classics for free. You can browse new and old songs in the "Discover" section according to your preferences, and listen to a selection of playlists. On this website, music is updated daily, including Hindi, English, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and other languages.

How to Download Free Music to Best Music Apps for iPhone & iPad?

If you are familiar with the above music apps on your iPhone and iPad, then you may get to know some music apps would not allow you to download the music for free. Instead, as another way to obtain the music files, you can refer to the following methods to download the music free for your iPhone.

Method 1. Download Free Music During the Trial Period

Even though some music apps would not be totally free to download the music files for iPhone, it allows users to enjoy the app free for several months. Let’s take Apple Music as the example. For Apple Music users, you can get a 6-month free trial of Apple Music. In other words, during the 6 months, you can download all the music on Apple Music for free. Then if you have no idea about how to take advantage of this offer, you can refer to the following steps.

Step 1. Go to Best Buy’s website where you can sign up for an account to buy this music app on your iPhone.

Step 2. Add the Apple Music to your cart. Here in order to get the free 6 months of Apple Music, you should choose “Free Apple Music for six months” digital download to your cart.

Step 3. Go to your cart and check out. Then wait patiently, you can receive a digital code in your email linked to your Best Buy account.

Step 4. Download and install Apple Music on your iPhone and iPad, log into the app with your account and then you can download free music on Apple Music for free. Once the trial ends, your Apple Music subscription would auto-renew for $10 a month.

Method 2. Download Free Music with Leawo Music Recorder

Instead of worrying about the additional costs for the subscription on some music apps, you can also pay attention to some specific music websites which could show you the other ways on how to download audio from website. What’s more, for your further references, you can turn aside to some third-party independent music recorders for help. No matter where you would like to download music from, what you only need to do is to make sure the music is playing while you can start recording with Leawo Music Recorder. Prepare your related equipment so that the audio quality could be guaranteed. Then follow the simple steps below to get the music for free on your iPhone.

Step 1. Go to the official website to download Leawo Music Recorder to your local computer.

Step 2. Play the music you prefer with some media player on your computer. If you are still valid for Apple Music’s 6 free months, you can open the music on your iTunes and keep the music playing while recording with Leawo Music Recorder. 

Step 3.Click the "Audio Source" icon on the main interface of Leawo Music Recorder to set audio source firstly. To record online YouTube files, select "Record Computer Audio" option. 

Step 4. Click the red "Start" button to let this Music Recorder work. And then play preferred music that you want to record. It should be born in mind that you should first let this music recording software start recording and then play your source audio on the music website. After a period of time, the music file has been recorded to your local. Now in order to play the music on your iPhone, you follow the steps on how to transfer music to iPhone and finally you can enjoy the music on your iPhone.