iPhone Musician

This tuner provides a reference pitch as well as a meter when you play into the microphone. The meter is sensitive and accurate.

Terrific metronome. If you have used a Dr. Beat, you will be familiar with all of the features that Tempo offers, including subdivisions, tap for tempo, and the ability to create setlists.

Musician’s Practice Journal helps musicians track their practice and progress for specific pieces. You can set tempo goals for specific pieces and track your hours spent.

GigBaby is a four-track recorder, drum machine, and metronome. This full-featured app is a way to create on the go and evaluate your practice sessions through recording. Recordings can be exported via wi-fi back to your computer

If you’re a music major and have yet to pass music theory, Karajan - Ear Training is a great way to practice your ear training assignments on the go. If you don’t need all of the features, there is also a free version of this app.

For the working jazz musician, the Real Book is the go to book for lead sheets of jazz standards. This app includes chord progressions for your most requested tunes.

While Balance is not specifically written for musicians, it is a great, simple accounting app. It can be used to track private lesson fees and money made from gigs.

Create real music with Thumbjam. Loops, riffs, progressions, this app does it all. It has over 30 musical instruments, and the keys on screen are set in scales, of which you have hundreds of choices: major, minor, eastern, chromatic. It offers the option to import custom scales and record instruments live. Thumbjam is a must have app for any musician. The instrument samples are extremely good and sometimes surpass those of real recorded instruments. One of our readers actually used this app to create full length songs with 17 layers of music!