150+ of the Best Apps and Software for Your Music Classroom

There is so much tech out there to use in music classrooms. It can be overwhelming to sift through it all. So here is a list of apps you can use in your classrooms to help enhance your tech offerings or introduce learners to music tech for the first time. Some overlap exists here because some of the apps or software packages might have multiple functions. This list was curated from Technology for Unleashing Creativity and has been updated to show new versions, names, or apps that didn't previously exist. This will be updated regularly, so check back often! These are some of the best apps and software for your music classroom out there so see what you might be able to use in your classroom. The best part? Most of these are free!

Legend:

$ - Paid

d/l - Download required

DAWs

GarageBand (for Mac and iOS devices)

BandLab for Education

Soundtrap for Education ($)

Audacity (d/l)

Soundation

Soundation4Education ($)

Reason ($, d/l)

FL Studio ($, d/l)

Cubase ($, d/l)

Ableton Live ($, d/l)

Ableton Live Lite (Free with hardware purchase)

Pro Tools ($, d/l) (Mac and iOS only)

Logic Pro ($, d/l)

AudioTool

Mixcraft ($, d/l)

Ableton Learn

Cakewalk by BandLab (d/l)

Notation and Chart Software

Sibelius ($, d/l)

Sibelius First (d/l)

Sibelius for Education ($)

Dorico ($, d/l)

Dorico SE (d/l)

Finale ($, d/l)

Finale NotePad (d/l)

MuseScore (d/l)

ScoreCloud (d/l)

Noteflight

Noteflight Learn ($)

Flat.io

Flat for Education ($)

Music Snippet (formerly Flat for Docs)

HookPad

HookTheory Classroom ($)

1Chart - Nashville Numbers (iOS only)

Chord Sheet Maker

ChordPic

Ultimate Guitar

GuitarPlayerBox

MIDI Sequencers and Drum Machines

Beepbox

ModBox

JummBox

GroovePizza

Drumbit

Drumbit Plus ($, d/l)

ROLAND50.studio (formerly 808303.studio)

Paint Composer

Mario Paint Composer Emulator

TypeDrummer

Bach Google Doodle

Oskar Fischinger Google Doodle

Mathigon (Music function)

Chrome Music Lab

Song Maker (Sequencer)

Shared Piano (Virtual Instrument)

Rhythm (Drum Machine)

Arpeggios (Sequencer)

Kandinsky (Sequencer)

Melody Maker (Sequencer)

Sound Waves (Western Theory Practice)

Voice Spinner (Sampler)

Spectogram (Sound Wave)

Harmonics (Western Theory Practice)

Piano Roll (Sampler)

Oscillators (Sound waves)

Strings (Harmonics)

Chords (Western Theory Practice)

Muted.io

Virtual Piano (Virtual Instrument)

Lil Beat Maker (Drum Machine)

Super Simple Sequencer (Sequencer)

Mini Music Machine (Sequencer)

Guitar Fretboard (Virtual Instrument)

Online Xylophone (Virtual Instrument)

Pentatonic Exploration (Virtual Instrument)

Western Theory Practice

Theory Cheat Sheet

Piano Chords

Major & Minor Scales

Circle of Fifths

Music Intervals

Intervals Chart

Scale Finder

Chords in Keys

Modes of the Major Scale

Chord Transposer

Guitar Scales

Guitar Chords

Chromatic Scale

Circle of Thirds

Piano Chords Chart

Chord Formulas

Scale Formulas

Scale Notes

Overtone Series

SessionTown Sight Reading Game

SessionTown Interval Training Game

SessionTown Ear-learning Game

SessionTown Music Theory Course

Tuners

Guitar Tuner

Chromatic Tuner

Voice Tuner

Fender Tuner

Loopers and Looping

Incredibox

Incredibox for Schools ($)

BeastBox

Loopy HD (iOS only)

Loopify (Android)

BandLab for Mobile (d/l)

GarageBand Live Loops (included in GarageBand)

Super-Looper

Ableton Link (included in Ableton Live)

GroovePad (Android)

Quantiloop (iOS)

Virtual Instruments

GarageBand

BandLab

Soundtrap

Scratch

WebSID (Commodore 64 emulator)

MIDI.CITY

aQWERTYon

SessionTown Drums

SessionTown Keys

Online Guitar from Recursive Arts

Chrome Shared Piano

Virtual Guitar Online

TypeDrummer

Creatability Suite

Clara Rockmore Google Doodle

Les Paul Google Doodle

Robert Moog Google Doodle

Hip-hop Google Doodle

Novation LaunchPad Intro

ChordChord (paid version)

Blob Opera

Touchless and Accessible Virtual Instruments

Keyboard

Sound Canvas

Body Synth

Seeing Music (Visualizations)

Clarion Lite

Word Synth

Music Coding

Scratch

MakeCode

BitBucket (paid versions)

GitHub

GitHub Education ($)

Blockly

EarSketch

Sonic Pi

Virtual Audio Routing and Virtual Loopback

VoiceMeeter (d/l)

LoopBack (Mac only)

LoopMIDI (d/l)

OBS (d/l)

Audacity Loopback (built-in feature in Audacity)

Video

Zoom

Google Meets

OBS (d/l)

WeVideo (paid version for teachers)

Da Vinci Resolve (d/l)

Final Cut Pro (Mac only)

iMovie (Mac & Windows)

Adobe Premier Pro Student ($, d/l)

BandLab for Mobile (d/l)

Canva for Education (paid version free for teachers)

Cyborg Llama (Online Rehearsal)

Acapella App (iOS)

Flipgrid

Loom (paid version free for teachers)

Screencastify (paid version)

Pitch-correction Software and Apps

GSnap (VST) (d/l)

Soundtrap for Education (AutoTune) ($)

Voloco (d/l)

Tune Me (d/l)

AutoRap (d/l)

Other

Chrome Transpose Extension

SessionTown Metronome