Top-10 Best Free Music Apps

Virtual reality, artificial intelligence, advanced 4D graphics, incredible sound effects… The Digital Age amazes us every day with state-of-the-art solutions and breakthroughs. It seems that the word ‘impossible’ has become obsolete in the English language.

If you are passionate about music, you must be happy to have been born in such a time. There are countless streaming platforms and services that can provide you with tracks of any genre by any musician and allow you to download the latest releases.

With free apps, you can explore step by step the fascinating world of music and discover new performers, albums, and songs that you would not hear in some other source. Download the apps mentioned below and enjoy the best modern or classic records free of charge and with rare commercials.

Spotify

Spotify must be the most frequently used free app that provides streaming music. Ask a passer-by about what music app they use and the answer is likely to be Spotify. Just tell the service a few things about your music preferences and it will upgrade your playlist so you can choose the best soundtracks for your day.

The app offers a wide range of features:

• Subscribe to your Facebook friends’ accounts and thus enlarge your music library;

• Listen to track selections updated weekly;

• Use PlayStation 4 to play songs;

• Read the lyrics of your favorite tracks;

• Do everything mentioned above for free.

Rate tracks and add them to your music library. The Discover Weekly feature will allow you to renew your playlist all the time. The developers of Spotify have also made sure you don’t miss a single song you like – that’s how Shazam was born. Use it and find out the name of any song to add it to your playlist on Spotify afterward.

Use Spotify with a monthly subscription that costs $9.99 and listen to the highest quality music without irritating commercials.

Pandora

You might have heard of this platform. In case you haven’t, we recommend you to check it out as it is the second most popular app following Spotify. However, the two apps are quite different. Both Spotify and Pandora can be downloaded for free. But the former can play whatever music you want, whereas the latter composes a playlist depending on your favorite genres, songs, and performers. Pandora applies its own algorithm to create the station.

You can both listen to well-known performers and explore emerging artists in the app. Nevertheless, the choice of music on Pandora is quite limited and at times you may find yourself listening to the same tracks all the time. Give this service a break and select some other one from our list.

Jango

Jango is a commercial-free music app that can be downloaded at no cost. This platform is connected with numerous radio stations so you can listen to tracks to your liking and preferences. For instance, if you are an avid fan of Ariana Grande, the app will compose for you a custom playlist with songs you will certainly like. If you want to listen to more tracks of a similar style, you can go to the sections Modern Hits or Pop Mixup.

A performer has to pay for their tracks to appear on Jango. It is royalty-free music that you can listen to in the app. However, you can thank an artist with either a positive comment or NeuCoin tips. A NeuCoin is Jango’s currency – you will get it every week.

There are also hundreds of music clips and lyrics in the app for you to immerse fully in the world of music. Too busy to register? Get access to your favorite hits as a guest.

SoundCloud

SoundCloud is a free crowdsourced platform that provides thousands of songs in various genres. To get access to even more music, you can switch to the Premium Go+ tariff and listen to more than 30 million unique tracks.

In contrast to other music apps, SoundCloud is not curated which allows it to give free access to music for everyone. Choose your favorite artists, records, genres, bands and immerse in the world of music. You will have an opportunity to enlarge your playlist considerably thanks to recommendations of similar performers and styles.

Audiobooks, podcasts, and albums are streamed on SoundCloud as well. The app works stably both on Android and IOS.

TuneIn

TuneIn can definitely become an app that will brighten up your day. Not only does it provide genre-based and live music, but also offers content for those interested in podcasts, talks, sports, news. You can choose what program you are enthusiastic about at present. The app is free. It is connected with 120 thousand music stations. Moreover, you can watch numerous interviews or music sessions with famous performers.

If you’d like to listen to sport lives and your regional radio station doesn’t have permission for streaming the game, you’ll need to switch to Premium tariff.

Slacker

Apart from regular curated music selections that you can find on any music streaming service, Slacker offers:

• The best-loved album of the week;

• Top-30 songs from 5 years ago;

• Weekly countdowns.

With Slacker, you can also upvote or downvote tracks. The service allows enjoying some unique content as well – videos with behind-the-scene stories, interviews and much more. You can find news and weather forecast on Slacker as well.

If you found some station or song particularly appealing, you can share them with your friends on social networks.

AccuRadio

AccuRadio is another free online radio service. It is not commercial-free, however, you can skip ads anytime you want.

The service gives access to music of each and every genre you can think of. Featured stations can be ad-free for a restricted time. If some music genre is featured, all the relevant music stations will be commercial-free for twenty-four hours.

If you’d like to listen to a particular performer and you type a name to find their records, AccuRadio will display all the stations playing their music.

Slicethepie

This music app with an original and fresh approach allows you to get paid for the reviews you leave! With Slicethepie, you can either just enjoy music for free or listen to it and get paid. You can buy some Premium features as well.

Apart from music, you can make money by commenting on some consumer brands such as clothes and others. You can transfer your earnings to PayPal. Refer a friend and get bonuses for writing reviews together!

8tracks

8tracks is a music platform that offers sponsored and user-created playlists among other things. With 8tracks, you can find music for literally any mood or activity – you can find such genres as study, chill, workout, sad, happy, sleep, and many more.

Although 8tracks provides all the basic features that music apps usually offer, the app is unique and differs from other services a lot.

For annoying ads not to interrupt the songs you listen to, you will need to pay $4.99. It is inexpensive compared to other music apps’ premium tariffs.

Deezer

Sick and tired of listening to the same stuff again and again? Then you can try Deezer – this service hosts more than 50 million tracks. This platform allows rating records based on how much you liked them in order to personalize your playlist as much as possible. You can also upload your MP3s to Deezer to complete your music collection. Like many other music apps, Deezer allows you to watch interviews and see on-screen lyrics.

If you’d like to listen to music on your game console like Play Station or on a computer, you should probably try some other app. But if you want to listen to your favorite songs on your cellphone for free, Deezer is a good option.

Many users point out that Deezer works very well with Google Home and Sonos with an option Premium Hi-Fi.

Summary

Nowadays a music lover can find on certain services even more than they can dream of – specially composed playlists, interviews with the best-loved artists, various shows, behind-the-scene stories, music news. You have thousands of albums and genres to choose from. So what are you waiting for? Enjoy commercial-free music at no cost and dance like nobody’s watching.