Between music players, streaming apps, online radios, social apps for sharing and discovering music, concert finders, ID3 tag editors, ringtone makers, and more, there’s no shortage of Android apps for the music fan. Here are the best 30 ones I would recommend to any fellow avid music listener.
Anghami
Although Anghami rose as an Arabic music streaming service, it is hard to ignore the app’s international catalog of music labels and its extensive featureset. Anghami uses several approaches to bring music to you: you can either view playlists curated by your friends, pick a playlist based on your mood or activity, or search for a specific artist, album or track. A paid subscription even allows you to cache music for offline listening.
Price: Free
Requires: Android 2.3 or above
Google Play Link: Anghami
Developer: Anghami.com
Qello
With a collection of high quality concerts spanning from the 60s until today, over 1000 artists and bands, and a catalog that offers music documentaries and Q&As with the artists as well as concerts, Qello is one of the go-to sources for avid concert fans. The app also gives you access to curated content and setlists, lets you share the videos you run across and looks good doing so on phones and tablets alike.
TuneIn Radio Pro
TuneIn Radio is the first app that comes to mind when you think of online radios, and that’s for a valid reason. The app is really gorgeous, with a tablet-friendly UI, and packed with features. Over 70000 live worldwide radio stations are available for anyone and can be searched by title, or browsed by country or genre. TuneIn lets you favorite stations, suggests similar ones you might like, and as an added bonus, it also offers over 2 million podcasts, concerts and shows.
Now Playing: Music Player
Now Playing is one of several Android music players based on CyanogenMod’s Apollo app — a clean, Holo-designed replacement for the Android music player that comes bundled with CyanogenMod’s ROM builds. Now Playing builds on Apollo by providing a gorgeous cards UI approach to music, automatically fetching lyrics, scrobbling to Last.fm, and supporting DashClock’s widgets.
However, Now Playing’s signature feature is its gesture support: simply swipe right on the now playing screen to get to the song queue and edit it, or swipe left to fetch and view the lyrics of the song.
Price: Free
Requires: Android 2.3 or above
Google Play Link: Now Playing: Music Player
Developer: Jack Underwood
Requires: Android 2.3 or above
Google Play Link: Now Playing: Music Player
Developer: Jack Underwood
UberMusic
UberMusic was first made to emulate the gorgeously clean music player found on Windows Phone. It has since evolved to support skins that can make it look like anything from the signature Metro design, to Holo Android, and even MIUI ROMs.
Putting the looks aside for a second, UberMusic also packs a lot of functionality, including a rather fullscreen view that still offers access to your notifications, a live wallpaper that automatically updates with your currently playing music, different widget sizes, scrobbling options to Last.fm, and an ability to automatically download artist pictures to show as the app’s background.
Price: $3.49
Requires: Android 2.0 or above
Google Play Link: UberMusic
Developer: Federico Carnales
Requires: Android 2.0 or above
Google Play Link: UberMusic
Developer: Federico Carnales
