music Tools

2G is a sampler that looks and sounds like an early-2000s handheld devices. We imagined what Neural Synthesis would have been like back then. Describe a sound and 2G makes it. Then edit it and play it from your computer keyboard, or load your own audio instead. 2G is free for Windows and macOS, as a plugin or a standalone app, and starts you with 20 credits for generating sounds. Studio ($10/month, 7-day trial) gives you 200 credits a month.

Drop in a finished song and your own footage or photos. Clips finds the tempo and every part (verses, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge) and makes a vertical lyric video for each one, cut on the beat, with the words synced. Pick a layout and one of 54 effects, then export every part on every backdrop at once, named and ready for Ads Manager. Run them all for a week and put your budget behind the part that wins. Works offline. Free to try, then $99 once.

Penta turns your iPhone, iPad or iPhone Duo into a ’90s 5-disc CD changer for your Apple Music library. Every click, whir and tray motor is recorded from a real CD changer. On iPhone Duo the phone is the jewel case: close it and you’re holding the album, open it and the case opens with it, then drop the disc into the carousel. Hold it upright for a CD wallet over the tray that animates open and closed. Free, with an optional one-time Pro unlock for the real printed CD art.

Truffle recognizes each track by its sound and checks eight sources to fix titles, artists, albums, genres, covers, tempo and key. Works with Apple Music, local folders, rekordbox, Serato and Traktor. Nothing is written until you confirm.

Upload an MP3 or FLAC and get a complete song folder for YARG and Clone Hero: drums (pro cymbals, 2x kick), guitar, bass and vocals with word-timed lyrics, Easy to Expert, all charted by our own AI model. Every instrument gets its own audio track, so a missed note really drops out of the mix. No install, no GPU, no charting skills. First song free, no card needed; then from €1 per song, credits never expire.

Spin a free 3D globe, play a country’s live radio, or dig to the other side of Earth. Leave a light for a friend, family member, pet or idol you’ve lost. Exploring is free and needs no account.

Free online metronome with tap tempo. Tap the beat to find any song's BPM, then practise at a steady click from 30 to 240 BPM with time signatures, subdivisions, accents and a practice timer. No download.

Nostaliga turns your listening history into a personal timeline. Pick any song and see the day around it: your photos, places, runs, check-ins, shows and posts. Plus On This Day across the years. No account, no tracking; your timeline lives on your device.

Music Dawn is a recorder made for musicians. Record an idea in one tap, hear it with a finished sound right away, and keep every take in one library on all your devices. iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Free, with optional Pro.

Tonefold is a free, open-source AI music composer for macOS and Windows. Describe a song to Claude, get chords, melody, bass and drums in a piano roll you can edit note by note, then export MIDI, WAV and stems.

Meet Doco - an expressive Android companion for focus, music and everyday moments, with an optional Windows desktop visitor. Everyday mode is playful and warm; Focus mode cuts the noise with a little friendly sarcasm. Fully animated, zero setup. Connect Spotify and Doco plays music that fits the moment, staying close to your taste with room for something new. Add your own Gemini API key for camera-based reactions and AI captions. Pre-launch - join the waitlist at getdoco.app.

FlexChords turns any YouTube video or audio file into accurate, synchronized guitar chords in seconds. Unlike tools with noisy predictions or paywalls, FlexChords pairs deep learning with music-theory smoothing to eliminate glitches and deliver clean, musical progressions. Features include YouTube & audio chord detection, synced playback & real-time chords, interactive timeline with chord editor, key & tempo estimation. Instant access to unlimited catalog songs + 5 free custom scans (per month).

A self-hosted media server for films, series and documentaries, with music and ebooks on desktop and web. Native apps for desktop, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android TV and Fire TV. Free for personal use, with hardware transcoding and no ads.

FoundrRadio is an internet radio platform where founders could own their own radio stations and go on air. Visitors could listen to their favourite founders, their talks or music they love. An opportunity to own a small corner on the internet. An attempt to combine nostalgia and community.

- Rate songs and albums out of 10. - Write reviews. - Keep a listening diary. - Follow friends to see their ratings. - Follow critics and publications. - Reviews are also available in the app. - Native iOS 26+ with Liquid Glass, Apple Music and Spotify integrations, synced lyrics on the player with Genius annotations, widgets, and a live activity to see what friends thought. - Free, badge subscription to support the app

GhostDeck plays your own music files in the classic late-'90s deck layout, with a ten-band EQ and a playlist that snap together. Behind your album, a jewel case turns over one of five low-poly worlds that move to the music. Native Metal, offline, no tracking.

macOS has one volume slider and no equalizer. SOUND gives every playing app its own 8-band EQ, independent volume, and output device—right from the menu bar. No virtual audio driver or account; audio stays on your Mac. Free and available in 10 languages.

MIDIpad is a macOS application that transforms game controllers into musical instruments compatible with any modern digital audio workstation. More than simply mapping gamepad buttons to MIDI notes or CCs, MIDIpad turns your gamepad into two powerful, accessible, MPE-capable MIDI controllers: Chords, an expressive, scale-aware plucked-string engine, and Drums, a real-time, gesture-driven drum sequencer.

FRCTL is one engine for everything an artist ships and runs in the browser. Import your own footage or create generative shader scenes. Build a look, then pull cover art, a Spotify Canvas or a social clip. Run the loop live with direct full screen output. 190+ effects with infinite modulation and route audio into any parameter. Camera and canvas capture in live mode. Sell your presets or loops right in the Collective or post and comment on the member feed. Create, perform, monetize, collab.

A live Caltrans traffic camera on the US-101 in Studio City, playing itself as music in your browser. Real traffic on the southbound 101, this minute. Every car that crosses the line plays a note, and the music is being made in your browser as they go past.

Free browser practice studio that hears you play — vocal pitch training, vocal range tests, karaoke with live scoring, and guitar, piano and drum rooms that show every note you hit.