Great Apps, Games, and Websites for Music Education

Captivating music creation app for young musicians

Bottom Line: For iOS-infused preschool and kindergarten classrooms, this could be an excellent intro to electronic music.

Lively activities introduce kids to music, rhythm, and instruments

Bottom Line: This whimsical app offers kids a variety of ways to make and experience music while boosting their critical-thinking skills.

Silly Muppets make learning music fun for young kids

Bottom Line: A great intro to music concepts for young kids, but only engages one child at a time.

Music-exploration app offers great balance of play and guidance

Bottom Line: Great, easily accessible approach to building the foundations for musical literacy.

Create digital drawings, explore musical tones

Bottom Line: With appropriate teacher guidance, this can be an engaging if limited creative experience for pre-K-grade 2 students that cleverly mixes drawing and music creation.

Great sharing features help parents, teachers support piano practice

Bottom Line: A cool way to get piano students, their teachers, and their parents on the same page, but it might need tweaking to remove some distractions.

Dip a toe into DJing with drag-and-drop music app

Bottom Line: The intuitive design strikes a nice balance between ease of use and a feeling of unique creative expression.

Inviting, interactive app makes learning classical music fun

Bottom Line: My First Classical Music App is a great interactive introduction to the Western classical music tradition.

Text-centric world music site could use more activities, music

Bottom Line: Kids won't hear every tune in its entirety, but Smithsonian Folkways' resources can help them comprehend and appreciate cultural music.

Amazingly powerful audio workstation unleashes creativity

Bottom Line: There's exceptional functionality in this solid, all-inclusive audio workstation that's fantastic for high-quality, anytime, and anywhere audio recording and sharing.

Clever animated hosts Tim and Moby masterfully tackle complex topics

Bottom Line: Cartoon videos in this extensive collection break down ideas in clever and thoughtful ways.

Make musical contraptions with playful sound and physics sandbox

Bottom Line: This engaging and open-ended sandbox app has limited functionality but will engross students for extended periods.

Jazzy music game lets kids design levels and create music

Bottom Line: A visually stunning music game that inspires creativity by providing simple but powerful tools to build your own music games to share with others.

Sharp music program has popular music, standards-based curriculum

Bottom Line: Since it features a standards-based curriculum and good skills-building for students, this is worth a look for teachers.

Charming visuals, challenging quizzes build solid musical knowledge

Bottom Line: iTooch Music is a terrific reference and review tool for beginning to advanced music students.

Safe, collaborative space for creating and sharing original music

Bottom Line: This useful, well-constructed music composition tool lets classrooms collaborate and comment on student-created songs.

Stellar interactive features bring classical music vibrantly to life

Bottom Line: A terrifically designed tool that invites students into the often unwelcoming world of classical music in a way that deepens appreciation and understanding of the complexities and beauties of the art form.

Customizable quizzes harmonize music theory and ear training skills

Bottom Line: An exceptional, teacher-led resource for practicing key ear training and music theory facts.

Appealing, feedback-rich tool helps kids build core musical skills

Bottom Line: Paired with great in-person instruction, this is a fabulous tool to boost musical skills.

Music practice tool's flexible features need fine-tuning

Bottom Line: With good support from a music teacher -- and a good microphone setup -- this is a cool tool for supporting (but not taking over) practice time.

Loop beats like a pro with stellar music-maker

Bottom Line: A stellar, approachable tool for constructing your very own digital beats and tracks.

Terrific composition tool empowers budding musicians to create, share

Bottom Line: An excellent tool for writing and sharing musical creations.

Powerful online audio production with built-in collaboration features

Bottom Line: Soundtrap is a uniquely collaborative sound-production environment, but if you want the top-quality EDU version, you have to pay top dollar.