20 Tools for Musicians in 2021

If you are in the music industry, you should give these tools a try.

We all know how hard it is for a musician to manage everything nowadays, so hopefully, these tools will make your life easier.

Some may improve your workflow all the way to your social media marketing as a musician. We tried to keep this list pretty original and unique.

There is a good chance you have not heard of some of them, we definitely recommend giving them a try. So let’s start.

Videobolt.net
Videobolt allows you to create beautiful music videos directly from your audio files. This means you can get your music uploaded on Youtube with a fancy moving video in no time. The best part is you have countless templates to choose from, and can really customize the video to your branding.

Solo.to
There are a lot of these link-in bio tools, and we tried many ourselves. Solo.to seems like a very good solution for you to get started with. It allows you to create a beautiful page with numerous links, embed links and videos, all the way to customizing the background, and access all the analytics you would need. Within hours of setting ours up, we already had 19 clicks and could track which links they clicked on.

MelodyNest.com
In the community we are building for musicians, a lot tend to get stuck looking for a vocalist to finish a track, or someone to help with the proper mastering. MelodyNest is a great way to keep your project finished or moving to the next stage. It will help you avoid getting to the stage where you start to give up on a release. MelodyNest can help you push through with the help of talented musicians, sound engineers, vocalists, and much more.

Hypberbitsmusic.com
If you are looking to get some lessons in and brush up on some of your skills, Hypbermusic may be a great place for you. They have free classes all the way to a masterclass.

Splice.com
This is a bit of a classic, however, Royalty-Free Samples can always come in handy. And one of the best platforms for that is Splice.com. You can use Splice to try to improve the quality of your production.

Crello.com
A platform for people trying to use a slightly different version of Canva.com. We like it quite a bit as the templates are not as used around the web so it gives it a more unique and original look. However, that doesn’t tend to last, but we highly recommend giving it a try!

Copy.ai
If you care about your writing but tend to get stuck, Copy.ai is a great way to help you push through writer's block, or simply get you going in the right direction.

MissiveMail.com
This is the tool we use to reply to almost all of our emails. We highly recommend it, it is quite a good alternative to Gmail without being required to pay as well unlike other alternatives like Superhuman.

Audius.co
If you like to be early on new platforms, Audius is quite similar to Soundcloud. However, it is a decentralized platform. You may want to check it out and upload your music on that platform.
Our profile is: https://audius.co/indiematik

Qlearly.com
This is actually a tool that we built ourselves. It is a bookmark and tabs manager, here to help you be more productive when you work online.

Brave.com
If you are curious about trying another browser, Brave may be a good way to go. It is growing in the tech industry and will be around for some time. It is based on the chromium-browser which makes it helpful as you can still use Chrome extensions.

Gumroad.com
If you are looking for a way to earn some money online from selling a course, a plug-in, samples, etc. Gumroad may be a great way to go about it. We use it ourselves to sell our promotion packages for Indiematik. So yes, you can also have it all linked to your website and sold within your website.

Storrito.com
It can be hard to keep up with your socials sometimes, so a good way to make sure you do have some stories here and there is to use this Instagram Story scheduler. What we recommend, for example, is to use it as a way to support other musicians. You can schedule a few stories per week to support others you like in the industry.

PinataFarms.com: Video Meme Maker
This is the tool many are using to make the viral memes/videos you see online. It can be helpful if you are the kind of person that likes to discuss current trends, creating a good video at the right time can lead to a fair amount of impressions.

Lolli.com
In case you will be buying new gear Lolli is similar to Honey, however, you will receive Bitcoin instead. It’s very easy to use and works with a lot of websites. For example, you can receive 7% back from purchases at Sam Ash Music, 7% from Booking.com if you are traveling, 1% from BestBuy, and the list goes on. It's good to know when making a fairly big purchase online.

Speechify.com
We know a lot of you will often prefer Audiobooks over a hard copy, so you can think of Speechify as a tool that will turn any text online into audio. They do have an app as well. This can be nice to go through certain detailed articles and such.

Revolut.com
If you are traveling banks like Revolut could be interesting for you to look at. It’s really easy nowadays to set up accounts that will work for you almost anywhere, with the same benefits or so.

Breaker.audio and searching podcasts
This podcast platform was recently acquired by Twitter, however, you can still use it. You can also use any other ones but we find these podcast tools to be a great way to find interviews from people you like or topics you find interesting.

Hunter.io and others
It's a great way to find the emails of people when visiting a website

And to finish up the list, here are a few more you may want to know about.

Discord.com
If you are not using Discord yet, you should consider doing so. There are many communities you could join for free as a musician and could get to learn quite a bit. We also have a community in Geneva which is likely a platform that will be growing in the near future.

Radio.garden
You can use Radio Garden to discover radio stations around, near you, or anywhere in the world. This can be a good way to try to find radio stations to work with. For example, we found 19 in Miami. If you were a musician in town, you can try to talk to the 1–3 that support your genre and do some sort of giveaway for example.

Poolside.fm / Poolsuite.net
Check out Poolside for some inspiration. You will likely appreciate this site.