Dragontape, which enables internet and iPad users to create playlists of videos and songs from YouTube and SoundCloud and share them with pals, released an iPhone app with the exact same functionality this week.
The iPhone app, like the iPad app, is designed to let users make “mixtapes” of their preferred songs or videos, complete with an simple-to-use search interface. With drag-and-drop functionality, they can add videos media they’ve searched for to a playlists and mix and match where that media shows up in the mix. Users can add fade effects in among songs or videos to smooth transitions between projects.
Once a mixtape has been designed, users can share those mixes with pals through Facebook or Twitter accounts, as properly as by email. Users can also give their pals and contacts the capability to collaborate and remix their compilations. While the app focuses primarily on creation of their own mixes, users can also navigate a number of “popular” mixes or “staff picks” designed by other users, and preferred them to watch later.
Releasing an iPhone app not only increases the flexibility with which users can access their mixtapes — in its press release, Dragontape suggests they can now use the app as a way to listen to mixes on the go, whilst the iPhone is in their pockets — but it also opens up a complete new prospective user base for the app maker. Whilst Apple has sold 25 million iPads over the past year or so, it sold far more than 200 million iOS devices in total.
For now, the iPad and iPhone apps are free of charge, but the business has said that it could start charging in the future. The press release notes that the app is no cost “for a limited time,” but hasn’t supplied any detail on when it may begin charging for its mixtape capabilities.
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