Band Mule is the app that brings your band together and provides a private space for sharing information regarding your shows, musical sets, collaborations, etc. It’s a free music band calendar app where you can mark your dates, schedule, ideas, events, and much more. Band Mule is one of the best communication apps for musician and music bands.

There are some premium app features of Band Mule like MP3 Uploads and member access, which you can avail with a paid subscription of $0.99/month. The best thing about this app is that only one of the band members needs to subscribe to the premium plan for all the band members to benefit from the premium access.

The band members get a shared calendar where all members can view their availability throughout the month for rehearsals, recordings, live gigs, and touring shows. The app also offers a private chatroom for the band member to chat via the mobile app or a desktop web app.

Now comes one of the best features of the Band Mule app; sharing setlists with the band. You can add songs and create your own library with as many setlists as you wish to make. You can add/remove/reorder songs, attach the setlist with upcoming gigs in the calendar, and print PDF of the list for shows.

Jamzone is a fantastic and super flexible app that can help musicians with several tasks in creating their music. As the app's tagline says, You can work, play, and jam seamlessly with Jamzone. Several unique features make Jamzone one of the best music production apps in the market. With thousands of backing tracks on the app offering live lyrics and chords; you can jam along and rehearse to these tracks.

There is a multi-track mixer feature that allows you to blend several layers to the track and create a professional sounding piece of music. You can instantly loop samples in single or multiple sections with just a single tap.

So, whether you want to work on the solo section or the chorus lick, it is all possible with just a single tap. If you get frustrated because the tracks available online are not in the tempo that you want or in a different key and scale, Jamzone offers a customized pitch & tempo option.

Jamzone transforms your smartphone into a live rehearsal studio, giving you the chance to make music on the go.

Jamzone may be outstanding at many things, but its set listing feature is not as great as the other ones. So, here is an app that is perfect for building your band's setlist. The app supports Bluetooth pedals like AirTurn and offers auto-scroll features for when your hands are busy.

You can add/remove/reorder your set list as many times you want with the app's drag and drop feature. Once you import Chordpro files into the app, you can view song lyrics and chord info in various formats like PDF, IMG, DOC, DOCX and RTF.

There are three variations of the app that you can use as per your needs:

i) Free Version

(ii) Setlist Only Version

(iii) Setlist & Lyric App Version

Setlist Helper is the best app for musicians, bands, solo performers, music producers, worship choir members, and anyone who is professionally or passionately inclined towards music.

If you need the whole band to practice but can't get everyone together for enough rehearsal sessions, then iReal Pro is the perfect musician app you are looking for. It's a great music rehearsal app that gives you the tools to create chord charts and jam along with real-sounding instruments.

iReal Pro has been listed among the "50 Best Inventions of 2010" by Times Magazine. Thousands of students and teachers of the top music schools like Berklee College of Music and Trinity School of Music use the iReal Pro app.

The iReal Pro app offers you options to choose from over 50 different styles of accompaniment. Using this app, you can record yourself jamming along or practice with 50 exercises of common chord progressions.

Don’t confuse iReal Pro with any other DAW or sound editor app, it’s an entire rehearsal studio in itself with chord charts, emulated music to practice with, thousands of songs to play with, and tons of musical tools to try out.

There was a very close tie between two apps, so we decided to add two apps here, best of both app platforms; iOS and Android. Both the apps are top-ranking and have most downloads in their specific platforms.

The Metronome by Soundbrenner Pulse is the top metronome app in Android, and the company also offers the first smartwatch for musicians that vibrates as a metronome. You don't need to have the smartwatch to use the app; it works just fine on its own. From iOS, we have MetronomeϞ that claims to be "the best metronome app on the App Store with perfect accuracy."

These Metronome apps are perfect for musicians that are always on the go and like to travel light. Both the Metronome apps have some fantastic features like different metronome sounds, complex rhythm patterns, subdivisions and accents, screen flash on each beat, and much more.

FL Studio is probably the best music creation app that we have on the list. Serious music creators would be familiar with FL Studio’s desktop software. The company has released the same software as a mobile app to help creators to make music on the go.

One of the best features is that the app is interoperable, meaning that you can shift projects to and from between their desktop and mobile app. Apple device users must be familiar with GarageBand. It's one the best competitors to FL Studio, but even GarageBand doesn't have multi-platform interoperability.

The app doesn’t have the entire FL studio’s bells and whistles, but it has all the most required functionality at little-to-no cost.

With FL Studio mobile app, you can create and save multitrack projects with ease. The app offers everything from basic features like Record, sequence, edit, mix to advance options like enhancer tools and customizable virtual instruments. It's an entire music creation studio that rests in your pocket.

SoundCloud is like YouTube for audio content ranging from music to podcasts and a lot more. Every audio creator no matter how big or small should have an account on SoundCloud. The SoundCloud Pulse app helps musicians, podcasters, and every other audio artist to manage their creator account and connect easily with the community.

To access the SoundCloud Pulse app, you'll need to make a SoundCloud account first, if you haven't already made one. It's the perfect platform for budding music artists where there are 175 million active and unique users and more than 20 million artists from around the world.

All the apps mentioned above will help you in creating your music, but SoundCloud Pulse will help your music to reach its audience across the globe. This app is more than just an audio streaming app; it's an open community for music creators and enthusiasts that operates globally to push music culture forward together.