Apps

An updated version of the app will show artists' searches to users.

Musicians get some nice gifts from Apple.

Not many DJ applications for iOS devices quite deliver the experience you get from using this week’s first must-have app – Tap DJ. Its bucket-load of features, together with its brilliantly designed and incredibly intuitive user interface, make it the ultimate pocket DJ application. Another of our favorites is Wunderlist – a beautifully elegant task manager that’s been around for a short while on the iPhone, and now it’s available in all its HD glory on the iPad Writing on your iOS device can sometimes ...

Musicians are not always the most articulate folks -- often letting the sound and emotion of a jam outweigh vocal clarity -- which can make singing along to your favorite...

New Year’s Eve is two days away. As if it weren’t stressful enough to look sexy, stay warm, plan a party or find a party, you also have to try…

Digital music company Spotify has released a new version of its iOS app, adding support for iOS 6 according to the release notes. The new version of the app (0.5.4)…

There are plenty of music makers for the iPhone, but how many apps will teach you to play the songs you already have? Capo says it will do just that, taking any song you give it breaking it down, and letting you master it on your own instrument. When you import a song in Capo (pronounced KAY-POE) it presents a waveform, where you can place song markers for quickly accessing certain parts of a song. While using the app, you can adjust pitch, learn chord progressions and loop sections of a song as you...

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. SayHi Translate (iTunes) Previously $2.99, now 99¢. SayHi Translate for iOS recognizes your speech and speaks the translation in any of 23 languages (and growing) for on-the-spot conversation across language barriers. The app uses Nuance recognition and SayHi's own "special sauce" combo of translation engines for impressive accuracy. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic...

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. USB Disk (iTunes) Previously $4.99, now Free. USB Disk for iOS gives you a fast and easy way to transfer documents and images to your device. Features include an easy-to-use document viewer, the ability to drag and drop files in iTunes for transfer, restores your last viewing position within a document, and more. Get it for Free. (via Apps-aholic) iOS Android iOS...

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. DocAS - Annotate PDF, Take Notes and Handwriting (iTunes) Previously $4.99, now 99¢. DocAS for iPad aims to be your all-in-one app for reading, managing and annotating PDFs and other documents, as well as taking handwritten and voice notes. Get it for 99¢. (via LogicBuy) iOS iOS

Do you want to buy a gift card for the Apple Store or for iTunes? Or maybe an Amazon card would be better. It all depends on what the gift recipient is likely to buy. We break down your options.

This week’s collection of apps include new ways to navigate the world—as well as new options for destroying the planet in your home movies....

This week’s must-have apps roundup kicks off with Mailbox, the best third-party mail client that’s available on iOS. If you haven’t already downloaded your copy and joined the queue, do it as soon as you can. Mailbox is accompanied by AudioBox, a new player for all of your cloud-based music; the latest game from Kairosoft, and more.

Apps get boring. Especially default apps. So here's T3, a totally different music player....

S Most people have sold at least something online at this point in their lives. It's an easy way to get rid of crap you don't need and make a little cash in the process. But there's inevitably a dip in the joy of your newfound wealth when you realize that your chosen platform has taken their fair share of your reward. Pay.me for iOS wants to make sure you receive the exact amount you're after....

Groove is a Canadian-made mobile app that’s tearing up the charts, reaching a top 1o spot in over 30 countries, and climbing to number 1 in the Canadian app store over other music apps including Rdio and Songza. The app is part of Montreal-based FounderFuel’s latest cohort, and in move that’s becoming a trend for Founder Fuel companies, it has just gone free, and racked up 85,000 downloads in just…

S The group shot dilemma—it's the bane of both narcissists and scrapbooking enthusiasts alike. But what are you supposed to do when you want to snap a pic of a precious moment between friends, but the only person around to take the picture is, well, you? Fortunately for you, Groopic has taken it upon itself to leave no group shot incomplete....

In a must-read post for the tech industry, Twitter experience designer and serial startup founder Paul Stamatiou writes: “Android is Better.” His op-ed serves as something of a wake-up call for the industry, where developers building the next generation of mobile applications still heavily prefer the iPhone, not only as their personal smartphone of choice, but also as the launch platform for their…

Discovr is one of those apps that has managed considerable success on the basis of doing one thing very well, in a number of different ways. The Australian startup behind the Discovr apps, Filter Squad, was founded in 2011 and since they’ve had strong numbers across four apps, including Discovr Apps, Discovr People, Discovr Movies, and its first, Discovr Music. That last one gets a huge update…

Guitarists don’t need to lug around huge pedalboards anymore if they want to tap into a variety of sounds. The BlueBoard and the iLoud are up to the task.

Microsoft’s Xbox Music app for iOS debuted back in September, but it never included offline playback. The software maker is rectifying that today with a simple update that brings offline playback for playlists. There don’t appear to be any other changes to the app, with the same UI and features as the original version. While Microsoft also offers a similar Android Xbox Music app, that particular variant has not yet received an update for offline playback. Microsoft’s Xbox Music service provides...

Popular audio identification app Shazam was updated Monday with a fresh coat of paint and the ability to more quickly access additional content, while Chaatz aims to end messaging fragmentation with a new profile-based app that can separate work from personal contacts.

A team of three young coders has come up with a way to turn your iPhone’s speakers into a wireless surround-sound system, thanks to a mobile app called Audibly.The app, which is perfect for parties or for blasting music when decent speakers aren’t readily available, uses technology found on newer devices (running iOS 7 or higher) in order to sync songs to multiple…

Though it arrived later than expected, Pioneer on Thursday supplied updates for its existing NEX lineup of car stereos to support Apple's CarPlay. In addition, popular streaming music service Spotify also saw an update to its iOS application to add support for Apple's new car infotainment platform.