We’ve covered all kinds of tools recently, from no-code tools to AI tools. Depending on where you are, today might mark the first day of the last month of summer. We’re taking this chance to do something a little more laid back and fun, like a round-up of recently launched music apps.

The celebration of International Friendship Day over the weekend reminded us of last week’s Spotify launch, Friends Mix. The new personalized playlist allows you to discover new tracks based on Blends you’ve created with your friends. According to TechCrunch, “Spotify says there are more than 11 million user-generated playlists with the word “friend” in the title. The company also notes that there has been a 35% increase in streams of these playlists in 2022 in the United States, compared to last year.”

MD Vinyl has skyrocketed on the App Store charts, becoming #1 in the US, overtaking TikTok and BeReal. The iOS widget connects to your Spotify or Apple Music app to sync the song you're playing and display it as a vinyl in the widget. Pretty retro, huh?

sona’s music-based digital therapeutic app is aimed at helping relieve anxiety symptoms. The music is created by Grammy-winning producers and artists, using a composition process backed by leading neuroscientists.

If you’re feeling brave and want to create the music yourself, Chord Genius helps you learn songs on the guitar, using chords and lyrics that move along. You can stream music from Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube and change the playback speed so you can learn at your own pace. You can’t rush art, after all.

Inspired by Mother Nature, earth.fm is like Spotify for natural soundscapes. Its interactive map takes you from listening to birds in the Congo basin rainforest to albatrosses in the Indian Ocean. Bonus points for partnering with charities focused on creating jobs, protecting ecosystems, and helping mitigate climate change.

Finally, ICYMI, check out Limewire’s comeback.

• Half baked ideas is an open platform to share your"what if there was an app that could" ideas. You can submit your own and vote for the ones you like.

• deck.rocks uses GPT-3 to generate pitch decks from one-liner ideas.

• Otherweb lets you read the news, discover podcasts, and search the web without attention-grabbing clickbait, auto-playing videos, and paywalls.

• Coming from Meta’s Open Source initiative, Docusaurus 2.0 helps you build documentation sites from Markdown files. Check out their launch to see how companies like Figma, Snapchat, and Supabase use it for their documentation.

• Botmother 2.0 allows non-technical users to build a chatbot for popular social media platforms like Telegram, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Polymath Robotics lets you build an autonomous industrial vehicle in simulation, using Python.

It works on most large outdoor vehicles like tractors, dump and yard trucks, combines, and excavators. Whatever you design in simulation can then be executed by a physical vehicle using the same code.