11 Best Music Collaboration Apps That Don't Stink

Besides hi-resolution audio and multi-channel, Audiomovers ListenTo is also an acclaimed collaborative production platform. ListenTo is actually a plugin that you can use to stream audio in real-time in uncompressed (high quality) audio with minimal latency (0.1-1 second). To do that, you can use either the receiver plugin or a web browser. 

The plugin can be used by both engineers that want to record session musicians remotely and want to listen through the mixes with their clients in real-time. The plugin has a free trial for 7 days. After the free trial, you can pay $4 a week or $100 for a one-year subscription.

Pro Tools is known as one of the most chosen music software platforms in the world. It is used by musicians, podcasters, students, and music lovers that want to create their own music and other audio files. Among one of the newest and most helpful features is “AvidCloud”. Thanks to this, multiple users can share audio, track edits, and MIDI files to both theirs and other users' mixes. This can all be done remotely and conveniently within the same ProTools session via the cloud feature.

The app includes a real-time text feature that gives collaborators the freedom to communicate while editing. The projects are available anywhere as long as there’s an internet connection. If you sign up for its annual subscription plan, the app will offer you backup cloud storage for all projects. It can store from 100 GB up to 2TB. On that note, it’s worth mentioning that the Avid Cloud collaboration feature is available with Pro Tools First (which is free but limited). Of course, it’s also available for the other two versions - Pro Tools for $29 monthly and Pro Tools Ultimate for $79 monthly.

Bandlab is another one of the best music collaboration apps on the market. With it, both aspiring and professional musicians can create music on the go or online and they can keep 100% of their earnings. The thing that makes Bandlab one of the top apps for music is that it’s completely free online. Its DAW (digital audio workstation) can be used on computers and phones. It features more than 200 helpful instruments such as bass amp situations, and guitar to name a few.

With Bandlab, users can import and record live audio. Thanks to the algorithmic mastering engine, you can make your recording sound as good as possible. The app also allows its users to easily connect with each other and collaborate with a global network of other creators. Additionally, with this music collaboration app, you have unlimited storage at your disposal and unlimited 'undo' history, which means you can go back to the original versions of your songs with relative ease.

If you have a creative mind that needs an app for collaboration and music production, then Pibox is the one for you. It comes with a file-sharing platform integrated within the chat functionality. So, if you are working remotely on a song with a producer or musician, you can easily communicate with them and leave feedback directly on the waveform. Besides that, you can keep the conversation outside the track and turn your comments into “to-do” items. 

Pibox has different versions and comes with different monthly price points. Depending on the storage and collaborator plans, you can choose from the Basic plan at $4.50 monthly, Standard for $9 monthly, and Premium for $18 monthly.

Another online DAW that’s full of positive ratings and has millions of monthly users is Soundtrap. Created by Spotify, It’s an online workstation that features a variety of instruments and allows users to collaborate and share tracks in real-time with producers and other artists. Among some of the handy features that the app offers are automation, auto-tune, amplifier, loops, and stimulations among others.

If you are looking for a platform that offers music collaboration online then you should definitely give Soundtrap a try. You can create music and collaborate with others on multiple devices such as phones, tablets, and computers. Because of its many features and instruments, Soundtrap comes with a range of pricing options. It has a free version with limited features and instruments as well as a premium version that includes over 600 instruments and 5,000 loops.

Bounce Boss is used by artists, producers, and management that need cloud-based services to keep their music projects organized. With Bounce Boss, you can receive feedback about each song via email from different collaborators around the globe in order to see how people are responding to your music. 

The feedback about each song exists in one place and users receive notifications when an update is made. With this app, you can keep track of all versions of your projects and organize all of your versions, reference tracks, mixes, and stems in specific folders. In addition to that, Bounce Bass allows users to collaborate freely with no limits and provides extra security. For you to be able to take advantage of the 100GB of storage, however, you’d have to pay $36 per month.

Ableton’s Link is a feature from Ableton that enables aspiring and professional musicians to run two different devices in time with each other. The German music software, Ableton was founded in 1999, making it one of the earliest music companies of it’s kind to exist. Its products have been used and praised by artists, dedicated musicians, and sound designers from across the world. 

Ableton allows users to collaborate with each other and use other iOS apps and desktop software such as Audiobus, iMPC Pro, KORG Gadget, Loopy HD, Max, Model 15, and Reason. The app comes in different versions of Ableton Live 9.6 and Ableton Live 10. First, is the Intro version that costs $99, then the Standard version for $449 and lastly, the Suite version, which is available for $749.