The Music app comes pre-loaded on every iPhone. You can unlock its power by using the Apple Music streaming music service. A day free trial lets you try it out before you sign up. Save songs for offline listening, create and share playlists, follow artists, and more. The service includes a Radio service, featuring the Beats 1 station. Beats 1 is an always-on, worldwide streaming radio station programmed by top DJs, musicians, and tastemakers. Besides Beats 1, Radio includes a Pandora-style music service that builds playlists based on the songs or artists you like.

Apple Music offers all the features you could want in a streaming app, and it's right on your phone. While most people think of it as a video site, YouTube is one of the most popular places for listening to music online. Think of all the music videos and full albums you find on the site. Playing some of those songs and videos is counted towards the Billboard sales charts. YouTube Music lets you start with a song or video you choose and creates stations and playlists based on that song. Like other apps on this list, stations learn your taste over time to serve up more music you'll like. Upgrade by subscribing to YouTube Premium for to remove ads from the app, download songs and videos for offline playback, and play music when your phone's screen is locked. With a name like TuneIn Radio, you might think this app is focused on free radio. There's a lot of radio available in TuneIn, but there's much more. The app delivers streams of over , radio stations that offer music, news, talk, and sports.

Included on those streams are some NFL and NBA games, as well as the MLB playoffs. Also available for free in the app is a giant podcast library. Sign up for the TuneIn Premium service, and you'll get a lot more. Included in Premium are more live sports, over commercial-free music stations, over 60, audiobooks, and 16 language-learning programs. And it removes ads though not necessarily from the radio streams. Lots of people use Amazon Prime, but the Amazon Music service is probably less well known. If you subscribe to Prime, there's a lot in the Amazon Music app to check out. Amazon Prime Music lets you stream a catalog of over 2 million songs, playlists, and radio stations. The service is ad-free and included in your Prime subscription.

Plus, you can sign up for a family plan with six users. The music you bought from Amazon—both as MP3 downloads and, in some cases, as physical media—is available for streaming and download. Upgrade to a full-fledged streaming service by subscribing to Amazon Music Unlimited. The paid service gives you access to tens of millions of songs, playlists, and radio stations. It also lets you download songs for offline listening. All users of the Amazon Music app get a cool, free bonus: Alexa. The Amazon voice-driven digital assistant, which powers its line of Echo devices, is integrated into the app and delivers all of the Alexa features and abilities to your phone.

Get the well-known and widely used SoundCloud experience on your iPhone with this app. The other apps on this list simply provide you music. SoundCloud does that, but it's also a platform for musicians, DJs, and other creative people to upload and share their creations with the world. The app doesn't allow for uploads—the SoundCloud Pulse app covers that. However, it offers access to all that music and the site's other features, including the discovery of new artists and social networking. The free version of SoundCloud lets you access million tracks and create playlists. The SoundCloud Go tier adds offline listening and removes ads. All the apps on this list include all sorts of genres of music, including Latin music. If that's your primary interest, and you want to dig deep into it, download Uforia Musica. There are usually different stations for different genres and moods. Many streaming apps allow you to search for an artist or song and listen to it with a free account.

Then it creates a station based with songs from the artist and similar sounding artists. Free accounts to music streaming services typically limit your ability to replay a song or skip songs you don't like in a station or playlist. Method 2. Download the SoundCloud app. Use the following steps to download the SoundCloud from the App Store: Open the App Store. Tap the Search tab. Type "SoundCloud" in the search bar. Tap SoundCloud. Tap GET next to SoundCloud. Open SoundCloud. You can open SoundCloud by tapping OPEN next to SoundCloud in the App Store, or by tapping the SoundCloud icon on your Homescreen. The SoundCloud app has an orange icon with a white cloud.

Sign in or create an account. If you already have a SoundCloud account, tap I already have an account and sign in with the email address and password associated with your SoundCloud account. If you do not have an account, tap Create an account and fill out the form to sign up for SoundCloud. You can also sign up or sign in to SoundCloud using your Facebook or Google account. Type the name of a song, artist, or album. This displays a list of tracks by the artist or album. Tap a song. This plays the song. Not all songs on SoundCloud are free, but many artist do upload free songs to SoundCloud. Other artists allow you to preview their songs on SoundCloud. Tap the pause button to stop play back. It's in the bar with song title at the bottom of the screen. Tap the heart icon to add a song to your Liked list. Method 3. com in a web browser on your computer. You can use any web browser on your PC or Mac. It's the button with three vertical lines in the upper-left corner. This displays the main menu in a sidebar to the left.

Click Amazon Music. It's the second option in the main menu bar under "Shop by category". This displays the Amazon Music menu in the sidebar to the left. Tap Download Store. It's the last option at the bottom of the Amazon Music menu. This displays the Amazon Download store on the main page. Click Deals. It's one of the category boxes at the top of the page below the banner. Click Free in the "Songs by Price" or "Albums by Price" section. It's in the sidebar to the left. This displays a list of albums or songs. Click Free for a song or album you want to download. For albums, the "Free" button is listed below the album image. For songs, the "Free" button is to the right of the song title in the list songs. Only songs that have the yellow "Free" button are actually free. Click MP3 Cart. It's at the top of the website on the right side below the navigation bar at the top. This displays a drop-down menu for all the songs or albums you added to your MP3 cart. This is not the same as the general check out shopping cart icon at the top of the web page.

Click Proceed to checkout. It's the yellow button in the lower-right corner of the drop-down menu. This displays a pop-up menu. Click Place your order. It's the yellow button on the right side of the page. Download the Amazon Music app for your iPhone. Use the following steps to download the Amazon Music app for your iPhone. Open the App Store. Tap the Search tab in the lower-right corner. Type "Amazon Music" in the search bar and press enter. Tap GET next to Amazon Music. Open Amazon Music. You can open Amazon Music by tapping OPEN in the App Store, or by tapping the Amazon Music icon on your homescreen. It's has a blue icon that says "Music" with the Amazon arrow below it. Sign in to Amazon Music. Use the email address and password associated with your Amazon account to sign in to Amazon Music.

If you are promoted to sign up for Amazon Music monthly service, or stay connected, tap No thanks. Tap the My Music tab. It's the icon that resembles headphones at the bottom of the screen. This displays your music purchases. Tap an artist or album. You can browse the music in My Music by artist, songs, albums, playlist, or genre by tapping the tabs at the top of the screen. Tap the play triangle or a song. To play an entire album or playlist, tap the Play triangle on the album, artists, or playlist page. To play an individual song, tap the song. Method 4. Download the ReverbNation Discover app. Use the following steps to download the ReverbNation Discover app from the App Store. Tap the Search icon. Type "ReverbNation Discover" in the search bar. Tap GET next to ReverbNation Discover.

Open ReverbNation Discover. You can open ReverbNation Discover by tapping OPEN next to it in the App Store, or by tapping it's icon on your Homescreen. ReverbNation Discover has a black icon with a red star. Follow the on-screen instructions. The first time you open ReverbNation Discover, it gives you a brief description of the app. Download tracks 4. Add new songs to iTunes music library 5. Put music on iPhone. or Watch video guide Hide video guide. Download Freemake music program to download music to your iPhone. Run Freemake Boom on Windows 10, 8. Please make sure you have a stable Internet connection and to install the program properly onto your computer. Follow all instructions and launch the application. Open Freemake music freeware, enter any artist or song name you want to download to your iPhone into the search bar in the top center.

Click the enter button on your keyboard to start the process. The software will list all available songs to listen to and download. сlick to enlarge. If you like the music result, please feel free to download music to iPhone. There are two options. You can download online audio files one by one clicking the arrow sign next to each song. By default, all songs are saved to your "Music" folder. The next step is to open iTunes. iTunes then stores all the selected tracks.

You don't have to buy individual songs or albums. Instead, purchase a monthly subscription and stream unlimited music from Apple Music, Spotify, or Amazon Prime Music. Whatever your listening habits, these free music apps for iPhone are essential downloads. While all these apps are free, some require a paid subscription to listen. About half, however, are free with ads like old-fashioned radio. Once you have the app s you want, connect your iPhone to a bluetooth speaker and enjoy. Just close the windows if you go with a speaker in the shower. The biggest name in music streaming, Spotify has more users around the world than any other service. It has a huge music catalog, cool sharing and social features, and Pandora-style radio stations. It recently added podcasts to its collection—including many that are exclusive to Spotify—making it a go-to destination for all kinds of media, not only music.

While iPhone owners used to pay to use Spotify on iOS devices, there's now a free tier that lets you shuffle music and playlists without a subscription you'll still need an account. You will have to listen to ads with this version, though. To unlock all the features of Spotify, the Premium subscription is required. With that, you can avoid the ads, save music for offline listening, and enjoy music in a higher-quality audio format than with the free tier. Pandora is one of the most downloaded free music apps on the App Store because it's simple and works well. It uses a radio-style approach, where you enter a song or artist, and it creates a station of music you'll like based on that choice.

Refine the stations by giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to each song, or add new artists or songs to a station. With a gigantic database of music tastes and relationships powering it, Pandora is a terrific tool for discovering new music. The free version of Pandora lets you create stations. However, you have to listen to ads, and it limits the number of times you can skip a song in an hour. A paid Pandora Plus membership removes ads, lets you listen to four stations offline, removes all limits on skips and replays, and offers higher-quality audio. For a bit more a month, Pandora Premium offers all of those features, plus the ability to search for and listen to any song, make playlists, and listen offline.

The name iHeartRadio gives a major hint as to what you'll find in this app: a lot of radio. iHeartRadio delivers live streams of radio stations from across the country. If you love the traditional radio experience, you'll probably love this app. But that's not all it does. In addition to music stations, you can also tune into news, talk, sports, and comedy stations. There are also podcasts available in the app from iHeartRadio-affiliated sources, and you can create custom stations, Pandora-style, by searching for a song or artist.

That's all in the free app, but some upgrades deliver more features. The iHeartRadio Plus subscription lets you search for and listen to virtually any song, provides unlimited song skips, and lets you immediately replay a song you heard on a radio station. If that's not enough, iHeartRadio All Access adds full offline listening, gives you the ability to listen to any song in the Napster music library, and lets you create unlimited playlists. The Music app comes pre-loaded on every iPhone. You can unlock its power by using the Apple Music streaming music service. A day free trial lets you try it out before you sign up. Save songs for offline listening, create and share playlists, follow artists, and more. The service includes a Radio service, featuring the Beats 1 station.

Beats 1 is an always-on, worldwide streaming radio station programmed by top DJs, musicians, and tastemakers. Besides Beats 1, Radio includes a Pandora-style music service that builds playlists based on the songs or artists you like. Apple Music offers all the features you could want in a streaming app, and it's right on your phone. While most people think of it as a video site, YouTube is one of the most popular places for listening to music online. Think of all the music videos and full albums you find on the site. Playing some of those songs and videos is counted towards the Billboard sales charts. YouTube Music lets you start with a song or video you choose and creates stations and playlists based on that song. Like other apps on this list, stations learn your taste over time to serve up more music you'll like.

Upgrade by subscribing to YouTube Premium for to remove ads from the app, download songs and videos for offline playback, and play music when your phone's screen is locked. With a name like TuneIn Radio, you might think this app is focused on free radio. There's a lot of radio available in TuneIn, but there's much more. The app delivers streams of over , radio stations that offer music, news, talk, and sports. Included on those streams are some NFL and NBA games, as well as the MLB playoffs. Also available for free in the app is a giant podcast library.

Sign up for the TuneIn Premium service, and you'll get a lot more. Included in Premium are more live sports, over commercial-free music stations, over 60, audiobooks, and 16 language-learning programs. And it removes ads though not necessarily from the radio streams. Lots of people use Amazon Prime, but the Amazon Music service is probably less well known. If you subscribe to Prime, there's a lot in the Amazon Music app to check out. Amazon Prime Music lets you stream a catalog of over 2 million songs, playlists, and radio stations.

The service is ad-free and included in your Prime subscription. Plus, you can sign up for a family plan with six users. The music you bought from Amazon—both as MP3 downloads and, in some cases, as physical media—is available for streaming and download. Upgrade to a full-fledged streaming service by subscribing to Amazon Music Unlimited. The paid service gives you access to tens of millions of songs, playlists, and radio stations. It also lets you download songs for offline listening. All users of the Amazon Music app get a cool, free bonus: Alexa. The Amazon voice-driven digital assistant, which powers its line of Echo devices, is integrated into the app and delivers all of the Alexa features and abilities to your phone. Get the well-known and widely used SoundCloud experience on your iPhone with this app.

The other apps on this list simply provide you music. SoundCloud does that, but it's also a platform for musicians, DJs, and other creative people to upload and share their creations with the world. The app doesn't allow for uploads—the SoundCloud Pulse app covers that. However, it offers access to all that music and the site's other features, including the discovery of new artists and social networking. The free version of SoundCloud lets you access million tracks and create playlists. The SoundCloud Go tier adds offline listening and removes ads. All the apps on this list include all sorts of genres of music, including Latin music. If that's your primary interest, and you want to dig deep into it, download Uforia Musica.

The app, which can display text in English and Spanish, offers access to over 65 Latin radio stations as they broadcast live. There are also streaming-only stations that are exclusive to Uforia. Discover these channels by city, genre, and language, and locate playlists to match your moods and activities. Cool features include saving your favorite station for easy access later and a car mode that presents the key features of the app in a larger format for easy access while driving. Unlike many other apps on this list, all features are available for free; there are no upgrades. Streaming the official major-label releases from record companies on services like Apple Music or Spotify is great.

Still, it's not the only place where new music debuts. If you're into hip-hop, you know that there are tons of great mixtapes that come out before official albums are released. Spinrilla is your way to access those mixtapes without searching your local record shops and street corners. This free app delivers new releases and trending songs, lets you comment on music, share it, and download songs for offline playback. The free version of the app includes ads. Provide the app with basic info about the kind of music you want to listen to or what you're doing, and it serves up a set of matching playlists.

The free version of the app delivers all the core features, including creating and sharing playlists and listening to those made by others. However, it has ads. LiveXLive, formerly Slacker Radio, is a free music app that provides access to hundreds of radio stations from nearly every genre. You can also create personalized stations based on specific artists or songs and fine-tune those stations to match your tastes. In the free version, you need to listen to ads and are limited to skipping six songs per hour. The paid tiers of the service offer more features. The paid Plus version removes ads and skip limits, lets you listen to stations offline, customize ESPN Radio, and enjoy high-quality Kbps streaming.

The more expensive Premium subscription delivers the already-mentioned features, plus the ability to stream songs and albums on demand like Apple Music or Spotify, offline listening of that music, and the ability to create playlists. Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day. By Sam Costello. Sam Costello. Sam Costello has been writing about tech since His writing has appeared in publications such as CNN. com, PC World, InfoWord, and many others.

Unlimited music downloads for iPhones! To play an entire album or playlist, tap the Play triangle on the album, artists, or playlist page. Was this page helpful? It's one of the category boxes at the top of the page below the banner. The first time you open ReverbNation Discover, it gives you a brief description of the app. What websites can I use to download music on my computer and then transfer it to my iPhone? Written by:.

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