Where to get (free) music for your App Preview on App Store
App Previews are the new way to show off your iPhone/iPad app in the App Store. In iOS 8 Apple allows developers to add video-preview in addition to the screenshots with every app. And developers were waiting for this feature.
There is a dedicated product for video-editing of App Previews that is already exists, but there is still no perfect solution for finding a good music for your video.
I collected some sources that could help you to find music that is (mostly) free for commercial use.
Apple recommends to add audio to App Preview. The music helps to improve user experience and to ensure users will not think that their device is on silence mode and they’re missing something.
First of all if you’re starting to work on App Preview, check out this article with a gallery of some great previews.
The top quality music costs money
There are many resources with a really great music like Marmoset and Music Bed, but they are really expensive for the most of indie-developers ($200–300 for a song).
If you’re fine with spending some money, but want the price to be reasonable check out PremiumBeat. The resource has a comfortable interface, high quality content and decent prices ($40 for a song).
Free
AudioBlocks —the service is subscription based, but all the content is licenced under royalty-free licence. So technically you can signup for a free 7-days trial, download all content you need and cancel your subscription. The company is aware of this kind of users and seems to be fine with it.
Wistia Music has only 3 tracks, but I think that they perfectly fit app previews for most of different kinds of application.
More free resources
If you still didn’t find something you really like on the resources above check out these:
AudioNautix — the interface looks like it was designed in 90s, but the content is good and copyright-free.
Musopen — mostly classic music, no copyright restrictions.
FreeStockMusic is created by AudioBlocks. Not comfortable interface, decent content.
Bensound has a small library with nice content, back link needed.
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