In Pictures: 20 clever apps and services that make great use of the Cloud

Lots of mobile apps and Web services are available to help people who want all their digital content - not just documents - at their fingertips at any time. We look at 20 that are fun, useful, or both.

SoundCloud

Category: Music

Why You Need It: More than 11 million people are using the SoundCloud Web and mobile platform to share their music, podcasts, radio shows, or other audio, as well as to listen to popular uploads and see the comments people have made at various points along tracks as they play. For example, this screenshot shows how a band might use SoundCloud to share music. More than 250 outside apps for desktop, Web, and mobile have used SoundCloud’s API to let you record, discover, and share audio files on the platform.

SoundCloud | Free for 120 upload minutes; paid versions with more storage start at $39 a year | Android, iOS, Web service

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