Smule’s Newest Musical Brainchild: Magic Guitar for iOS
Following up on the success of Magic Piano and Magic FiddleSmule’s bumping their Magic duet up to a trio with Magic Guitar.
If you’ve played either of the aforementioned predecessors, you’ll be in familiar territory here. You hold the iPhone like the neck of a guitar (at least, as much like the neck of a guitar as you could ever possibly hold an iPhone), and the notes (in the form of little balls of light) stream down toward your fingers.
Smule releases Magic Guitar for Apple mobile devices
Smule has made its mark creating tactile music-related apps for Apple’s mobile devices and today it continues that streak with the launch of Magic Guitar.
The Magic Guitar app lets you strum your fingers across the screen of an iPhone or iPod Touch and produce electric guitar sounds that make you feel like a rock legend.
Unleash your inner rockstar with Smule's Magic Guitar
iOS music maker Smule is at it again: On Thursday, the company released Magic Guitar, its latest iPhone virtual instrument.
Smule, of course, is the developer behind apps like Ocarina, Leaf Trombone, Magic Piano, and MadPad, so the company has plenty of experience in allowing iOS users to unlock their inner rockstars or virtuosos.
Smule snags Songify app creator
With top virtual instrument app hits like Magic Piano, Ocarina and Leaf Trombone, Wang's Smule has sold nearly 20 million app downloads, and attracted top investment. Shasta Ventures recently raised $12 million for a second round of financing, closing in October.
With the new funds, Smule just made its first acquisition. Atlanta based Kh.ush, which also makes musical apps like Songify and La Di Da. No terms were disclosed, but Kh.ush will remain in Georgia.
Smule Buys Fellow Music App Creator Khush
Smule is hoping to make beautiful music with fellow app creator Khush through an acquisition announced Thursday.
In an interview Wednesday, Smule Inc. CEO and co-founder Jeffrey Smith said the goal of combining the two companies is to democratize the creation of musical content and distribution. Smith said it is a cash-and-stock deal, though precise terms are not being disclosed.
Smule builds social music app empire by buying Khush
Smule, the successful iOS music app start-up behind Ocarina, Magic Piano and I am T-Pain, is making its first acquisition. On Thursday, Smule bought fellow social music start-up, Khush, in a bid to take command of what it believes will be a fast-growing mobile musical expression market. The purchase of Khush, known for its popular Songify and LaDiDa apps, is mostly through stock and some cash and will keep the Atlanta-based start-up in its home city, where it will continue to put out new apps alongside Palo Alto-CA based Smule.
Creating Music App Harmony: Smule To Acquire Khush
In a deal that combines two companies that create music-making apps for the Apple iPhone and iPad markets, Palo Alto-based Smule today announced a deal to acquire the Atlanta-based startup Khush, for an undisclosed amount of cash and stock. (Executives at the two companies joke that the combination should be called Smush…but actually they’re going to keep the name Smule.)
Smule smushes together with Khush
Smule, the fast-growing maker of music applications for iOS, is adding a new player to its ensemble.
The Palo Alto startup announced Thursday that it has acquired Khush, an Atlanta startup whose music app Songify was a No.1 bestseller in the iTunes store this year. It is Smule’s first acquisition.
Music App-Maker Smule Adds More Voices, Buys Music App-Maker Khush
Smule, the company that makes cool music-making apps like Magic Piano and Ocarina, has bought Khush, the company that makes cool music-making apps like Songify.
The companies aren’t disclosing details except to note that it’s a cash and stock deal. Smule has more of the former because it just raised a $12 million funding round, and some of that is being transfered directly to Atlanta-based Khush.
Smule Acquires Khush To Further Boost Their Music Cred
Smule, makers of such fine musically-tuned iOS apps as Ocarina, Magic Piano, and I Am T-Pain, have just announced their intentions to acquire Khush, the equally music-minded company behind LaDiDa (you sing, it generates a beat) and Songify (you sing/talk/cough/howl, it bends the tune into a song). Wonder-Twin powers, activate!
The Machine That Makes You Musical
The common aim of Smule’s products is to prod nonmusicians into making music and to interact with others doing the same. There are singing apps like I Am T-Pain and Glee Karaoke, and digital versions of instruments like Magic Piano and Magic Fiddle. What connects these easy-to-use diversions to Wang’s more abstruse gear-tinkering is the exploration of expressive sound via technology: everyone can make music, he believes, and everyone should.
Smule’s MadPad Turns Your Life Into A Video Soundboard
This morning, Smule is looking to change that with their latest iOS app: MadPad. By capturing short, everyday sights/sounds and arranging them for playback at your fingertips, MadPad turns the world into your beatbox.
Smule's MadPad makes music out of anything
To date, Smule’s helped you use your iPad and iPhone as instruments, an auto-correcting microphone, and a karaoke machine. With Thursday’s release of MadPad for iPhone (and MadPad HD for iPad), the music-app-focused company creates a new genre: It helps you capture real world noise and turn those sounds into music.
MadPad for iOS: Playing with Custom Soundboards of Random Noises Is Too Much Fun
MadPad works for both iPhone and iPad and you can create soundboards using the microphone and camera. All you do is record 12 different sounds around you (it can be anything, like feet tapping, keys clinging, mouth smacking, you get the point) and then you'll get a grid of 12 images all attached to the sounds they make. After your twelve sounds have been recorded and hammered down, you can start your own personal track made up of those sounds. The app records you while you tap each icon trying to make a beat. You can adjust the pitch, volume of each sound and more.
Smule's Magic Piano App for iPhone and iPod touch Reaches 2.7 million Downloads in First Month
Smule announced that its new Magic Piano App for iPhone and iPod touch has been downloaded from the App Store more than 2.7 million times in its first four weeks. During this brief period of time, users of Magic Piano have played more than 31 million songs and used their iPhone or iPod touch to play over 13 billion musical notes.
Smule Plans to Double its Size in 2011
Smule, the company that makes super-popular music apps/games for the iPhone and iPad, says it plans to double its staff size in 2011. It currently has 23 employees, so doubling would take it to almost 50.
Apple's 2010 List of Top iPhone and iPad Apps is out and has pegged "I Am T-Pain" as the top iPhone Music app of 2010, "Glee Karaoke" as the top iPad Music app of 2010 (followed by "Magic Piano" at #2), as well as recognizing "Magic Fiddle" and "Magic Piano" BOTH as "Magical apps for the musically inclined" in their "Band in Your Hand" category. What a great year!
App Watch: Fiddling on the iPad
Music app developer Smule’s latest app, Magic Fiddle, emerged out of a dare. Walking out of classical musician Lang Lang’s concert in San Francisco last April, in which the pianist played an encore with Smule’s iPad piano app, Smule co-founder Ge Wang joked with colleagues about creating a violin app that would force users to put their iPads up to their face and rest their chins on the device to make it work. “We thought, ‘Wow, that idea is so bad, it might just work’” says Mr. Wang, looking back.
Magic Fiddle Turns Your iPad Into a Violin, and It Rocks
"What is Magic Fiddle, you might ask? It’s pure, unadulterated musical awesome. It turns your iPad into a string instrument — with a twist. Magic Fiddle, like Ocarina, really breaks the mold of what is possible and what is expected from the tablet device. Using multitouch for the strings and the bow — plus using Smule’s Global feature of connecting players with one another around the world, the game and app has tons of replay value and really makes the idea of making music on an electronic device feel natural. It’s also a ton of fun. Magic Fiddle has put a child-like grin on my face. Give it a try; we think it’ll do the same for you."
The Magic Fiddle iPad App Will Have You Making Sweet Music In Minutes
"Smule, the maker of the popular Magic Piano iPad app, has just shared its new Magic Fiddle app with us. It's cleverly designed, produces lovely sounds, and will only briefly frustrate the hell out of those with non-existant musical talent. Despite being initially frustrating for a beginner, the app will actually leave you fiddling a mellow tune in little time. "
Smule Makes More Magic: Magic Piano Fans, Meet Magic Fiddle
"The way Smule introduces the user to Magic Fiddle is sort of.. well, magic. The first time you launch the app, a dialog begins; it — “it” here being the fiddle — asks for your name, and then asks you to name it. From that point on, your Fiddle is your friend."
Smule's "Magic Piano" app has been played for 23.2 years worth of time
10 Ways People Are Using The iPad To Create Content, Not Just Consume It: Smule CEO Jeff Smith tells us that the Magic Piano app for the iPad has the highest engagement of all its products -- roughly 3X its engagement for some of its biggest iPad hits. Users have played "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" more than 735,000 times.
It’s Not The Same Old Song For SonicMule
Start-up SonicMule may have topped itself with another witty press release. You might recall our blog post in May praising the mobile audio applications for livening up an otherwise routine personnel announcement. Well, yesterday SonicMule announced the appointment of a chief marketing officer, and buried near the bottom of the release is a quote in German from CEO Jeff Smith. When translated, it mentions that a specially created song in honor of the new hire. The song, an adaptation of Franz Schubert’s “Wohin,” is played by Smith on the iPad using Smule’s Magic Piano app and sung by “The Artist Formerly Known As ‘The Mule.’”
Glee Karaoke for iOS Keeps It Rocking in the Free World
"We were big fans of the original app, and we’re happy to report that version 2.0 is just as much fun. The big, new feature is that users can compete with others from around the world. Glee Karaoke now has a new feature called “starbursts.” Starbursts are points you earn for doing things like singing a song, signing up for a username, adding your vocals to someone else’s track — that sort of thing. As you earn more starbursts you can move up to various levels and earn free songs to purchase within the app."
Glee Karaoke for iPhone and iPad Updated to Version 2.0
"Of course, you’ll also get all of the goodness you found in the original app too (Smule wouldn’t take that away!). When singing, Glee Karaoke will make you sound better. Pitch correction, harmonies and reverb enhancements touch-up your voice to make you sound, well, better than perhaps you should. As you sing, you’ll also get feedback on how you’re doing. This will help you belt out the tunes on-key, and improve your performances as you sing, and sing again. Daily leaderboards are also available, plus you can compete with others to collect the most ‘starbursts’ within the game. If you’re a fan of the show, this is a pretty much must have for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch."
Send Auto-Tuned Voice Mails With the New I Am T-Pain App Update
"It's a fact: everyone sounds better Autotuned. Smule's I Am T-Pain app now lets you send autotuned voicemails to friends and family for a small fee. Because there's no better time than the present to start calling your Aunt 'shawty.'"
I Am T-Pain for iPhone now delivering Auto-Tuned tracks straight to your shawtaaay’s voicemail
"In the age of GSM, no one gets to sound like a stunnah on the phone...Smule, the masterminds behind the oh-so-damn-clever I Am T-Pain iPhone app, think they have the answer: your voice? Auto-Tune it. Slap some beats on top, and then send it straight to your boo’s voicemail."
Ge Wang: Making Music Should Be Fun for All
Fora.tv picks the brain of Smule Co-Founder Ge Wang on the importance of music, and the role that technology can play in allowing everyday people to access their own creativity in a way that's fun and easy.
When has $1 ever bought you so much happiness?
"The thrill begins once you start singing into this app. You cannot sound bad. Period. You can also listen in to other people’s recordings or — and here’s where things get heady — add new tracks to them. The Internet is spinning with Glee-app recordings featuring quartets of people who will never meet in person, but sound great together. The result — professional backup band, you processed to sound gorgeous and perfect — is exhilarating, no matter how rotten a singer you are. It’s pop-star fantasy fulfillment for a buck, and everyone who tries it goes nuts."
Magic Piano Named an Essential iPad App by MacWorld
"Smule's Magic Piano allows you to tickle the virtual ivories in a solo setting as well as with others around the world, using a variety of traditional and non-traditional keyboards. Non-musicians will find Magic Piano a load of fun when they tap on the iPad's screen and hear something musical come out."
Glee on iPhone: More than Good it's Fabulous!
"When Glee first hit the air I loathed it. Sure, it was sharkfully wicked, but for a show about the joy of simply singing, I found the autotune insulting. I survived. Smule's Glee app makes autotune a blast. Even Mark Wilson, who started to try to cough out some goofy anti-Glee commentary in our edit channel—about Jane Lynch as Madonna of all things! Heresy!—came back from playing the Glee app for a few minutes and was like, 'So you're right. This is the best thing ever.'"
Gleeks Rejoice: Smule Packs Fox's Glee into a Fantastic iPhone App
"If you own a TV, you’ve probably heard of Glee. If you own an iPhone, you’ve probably heard of Smule. Now, bring these things together – what do you get? You get beautiful, beautiful music — and one of the best uses of a content license I’ve ever seen. Smule and Fox went all out here, taking the boring standard affair themed app to something actually worth opening more than once."
Unleash Your Inner Gleek on the iPad
"Fans of Glee, Fox’s campy comedy about the misadventures of a high school show choir, now have one more way to “gleek” out: Using their iPhones and iPads. For those who don’t have the pitch-perfect pipes of say, Rachel and Kurt, the application will adjust the pitch of the singers’ voice. In addition, the software will automatically harmonize the singer’s voice, creating an effect that sounds as if three-people are performing together."
Magic Piano for iPad is Music to Our Ears
"Magic Piano by Smule was one of the iPad apps we couldn’t wait to try; now we’ve tried it and we’re in love. Magic Piano (which costs $2.99) is in many ways the spiritual successor to Ocarina for the iPhone. By that I mean it’s a concept that is simple but brilliant, and one that can truly capture the power of a new device in a way that you may never have considered."
Magic Piano app kept me entranced for an embarrassing amount of time
"For $3, Smule's Magic Piano app kept me entranced for an embarrassing amount of time. It features a spiral-shaped piano keyboard that was fun to play (or, in my case, attempt to play). You can play duets with distant iPad users, which led to several cacophonous sessions with strangers, or listen to what people are playing around the world."
ABC News highlights Magic Piano
"Looks like ABC News has gotten a sneak peek at the iPad and nifty new apps—including something strange and musical that's making me look forward to finally getting to play around with the device."
What will be the next big thing online? And how will it change our lives? In the Digital Giants series, the digital world's top thinkers share their visions of the future with the BBC. Ge Wang, co-founder of Smule and assistant professor at Stanford University speaks about the power of mobile apps - and how they can enable meaningful human relationships.
Jeff Smith: "Everything we do is a test"
"Smule CEO Jeff Smith just wrapped up his keynote at VatorSplash, in which he discussed how his company, developer of wildly popular sonic iPhone applications like I Am T-Pain, Leaf Trombone, and Ocarina, is engaging with an increasingly transforming technology sector. Envisioning a revolution in recorded sound, Smule hopes that its applications will usher in an era of active sound creation and listening, fundamentally opposed to the passive experience of recorded music in the past."
A Playland for Apps in a Tablet World
Ge Wang, co-founder of Smule, the company behind applications like Ocarina and I Am T-Pain that turn the iPhone into a music machine, said he expected the tablet to be better than the iPhone at detecting the touch of many fingers. "On the iPhone, there are five touch points max,” Mr. Wang said. "You don’t need much more than that because that's about all you can fit on that screen." A tablet with a bigger and better multitouch screen, he said, “could mean entirely new user interfaces, screen layouts, instruments, contraptions and games."
Shrewd stars make music add up
"I Am T-Pain is an iPhone app that lets users record themselves singing along to songs by the US rapper with the help of AutoTune, and post their recordings to Facebook and other sites. Costing $3 (£1.85) - three times the cost of an average song on iTunes - the app sold more than 600,000 copies in two months."
Best Branded iPhone Music App of 2009
"I Am T-Pain might be an obvious choice for top spot, but it combined technical innovation with stellar sales. Eschewing pure promotion, it let fans sing along with a selection of T-Pain songs while having their vocals Auto-Tuned on the fly. It also had good sharing features, used in-app payments to buy and download new tracks for use in the game, and recently added the ability to sing over any song in your iPhone music library."
App Store Champ Smule Raises Another $8 Million
"Today, Smule is announcing that they've secured an $8 million dollar round of Series C funding. That's an absolutely massive pot for a development house focused solely on the iPhone, and it more than doubles Smule's total funding thus far... So, what is Smule planning to do with the new-found cash? Make more iPhone apps, of course. It'll also go toward expanding the 'Smule Sonic Network' which serves as the backbone for their applications."
Pocket musicians, rejoice: Smule Raises Cash to Expand Its Musical App Lineup
"Pocket musicians, rejoice: The ensemble of instruments available at your fingertips is set to expand. On Wednesday, Smule, the software company behind applications that turn the iPhone into imaginative instruments, announced that it had secured $8 million in additional financing. Smule, based in Palo Alto, Calif., has already had several hits for the iPhone and iPod Touch.One, called Ocarina, allows users to play their phone as if it were an ancient flute. Pressing colored circles displayed on the screen and blowing into the microphone releases the haunting hum of a wind instrument."
From Pocket to Stage, Music in the Key of iPhone
"The conductor raised his hands. A low droning sound arose, as if the chamber ensemble were tuning. Then the musicians began to swing their arms in wide circles, creating rising and falling waves of electronic sound. The Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra’s performance on Thursday used the most unusual of instruments: Apple iPhones amplified by speakers attached to small fingerless gloves."
Get Ready For The Next Big App: Smule and T-Pain Bring That Auto-Tune Sound To The iPhone
"What Smule has done here is technically incredible - and it’s a friggin’ killer product idea, to boot. You sing into the iPhone microphone, and it pipes your voice back through the iPhone earpiece or (preferably) speakers/headphones, complete with that Auto-tune sound. You can pick which scale you want your voice “Auto-tuned” to, saving your favorite settings as presets for later use. All of the technology is officially licensed and based off of the original."
I am T-Pain iPhone App Is Auto-Tuning Genius
"Smule, the guys who made Leaf Trombone and Ocarina, just ported Auto-Tune—the software T-Pain and Auto-Tune the news uses to make music gold—onto the iPhone. Holy crap is it awesome."
Auto-Tune iPhone app 'I Am T-Pain' on sale
"Auto-Tune, the voice alteration software pushed to its limits by the likes of Cher, Britney Spears and the rapper T-Pain, has been made available as an iPhone application.Users can either sing along to T-Pain's hits or record their own distorted vocals, which can then be posted on social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace, or sent over email."
"I Am T-Pain" Auto-Tune and Recording App Comes to iPhone
"T-Pain knows most people think two things when they hear his name: 'I have top hats and there’s Auto-Tune,' he tells Rolling Stone. He opted to turn the second signature into a new iPhone application developed with Smule. The “I Am T-Pain” app costs $2.99 and lets users transform their own voice into Auto-Tuned vocals, record tracks and stream them to Facebook or MySpace and create their own songs, Jay-Z be damned..."
Auto-Tune Isn’t Dead. It’s Coming to Your iPhone
"Despite Jay-Z's best efforts, it looks as if Auto-Tune, the software that adjusts the pitch of a singer’s voice, isn’t destined for the graveyard after all. Instead, it’s headed to the iPhone."
T-Pain Talks iPhone Auto-Tune App
"Adopting the same Auto-Tune voice/pitch correction technology used in recording studios, "I Am T-Pain" creates, in real-time, the vocal effects T-Pain has helped make popular in recent years. "It's actually the same software that I use in the studio, so if anybody actually wanted to be T-Pain, then there you go," he says."
Smule brings Auto-Tune to the iPhone
"This thing sounds just like the radio. If you have an ear for music, and can really get a hold of how to sing into the iPhone, you can actually get your recordings to sound like the real thing. After all, the application is based on the same Antares Auto-Tune technology T-Pain uses in the studio, according to Smule. Smule is once again breaking new grounds with this application that merges music technology, the iPhone's capabilities, and mainstream hip-hop music."
Ocarina, Leaf Trombone lead big parade of iPhone apps
For Ocarina and Leaf Trombone, Wang's wildest dream has come true: He wanted to see the world latch onto an instrument and share the love of it in a social setting. Within the iPhone app, you can listen to other folks playing the Ocarina and see where in the globe the music is coming from. Fans have posted sheet music, showing how to play popular songs on the instrument. "This is a new type of social fabric," says Wang.
One of the most original entertainment programs to emerge from the App Store is Ocarina by SonicMule Inc., a Menlo Park, Calif., start-up that was founded by Stanford University academics who specialize in computer music.
Leaf Trombone: World Stage — Like American Idol But With Leaves
Leaf Trombone is a wonderful instrument and an incredibly accomplished social toy. Furthermore, like any musical instrument, it’s something that you’ll delight in playing and growing with over time. Smule’s ability to manifest pure gold out of a downright silly concept, earns this app TheAppleBlog Gold Award.
Multiplayer Judging Fuses Instrument, Game
The app is simple, but the concept I think is pretty remarkable. We’ve seen interactive instruments, and we’ve seen music games. By adding the judging element, though, this is a free-form instrument that can also be a game.
The 2009 Creativity 50: Ge Wang
Ge Wang has conducted orchestras in lots of different places, from a sculpture garden on Stanford's campus to Macworld. But if he has his way, it won't be long before he's leading a worldwide chorus of iPhone players. See who else made the list: The 2009 Creativity 50
Smule Outdoes Itself Again: Leaf Trombone Is An Instant iPhone Classic
I like Leaf Trombone a lot - it taps into the iPhone’s network effect, it’s fun to play, and anyone can get started with a minimal amount of effort.
To call Leaf Trombone brilliant, fun, and amazingly executed is fully accurate
Developer Smule has taken the iPhone and iPod touch -- already cool devices -- and raised them to all-new levels of amazement with this one-dollar piece of software... Smule is on its way to becoming one of the world’s best and most creative app developers.
First Massively Multi-player, Musical Game for the iPhone and iPod touch
The World Stage will separate the Music Gods from the Wannabes.
If you hold shares in Apple and you're keen to help the company boost iPhone sales -- not that it needs your help -- try this: Next time you're at an office happy hour, whip out your phone, open the App Store, and buy a title called Ocarina.
The iPhone Ocarina is the sound of serious money
The most startlingly original app is iPhone Ocarina, which turns the phone into an uncanny simulation of the musical instrument beloved of small children.
So Many iPhone Apps, So Little Time
"...one of the most magical programs I've ever seen for the iPhone, and probably for any computer. It's Ocarina, named after the ancient clay wind instrument."
Is That Ocarina Music Coming from Your iPhone?
Software apps turn the Apple iPhone into an ancient musical instrument, not to mention a virtual lighter, firecracker and voice synthesizer
Zephyr: Throw Your Creativity To The Wind
The beauty of Smule’s iPhone applications is the simplicity of interacting with them, and the whimsy they bring out in the user. Zephyr is yet another perfect embodiment of this.
Ocarina (for iPhone) - Editors' Choice (4.5/5 stars)
When you see—and especially, try—Ocarina, you won't be able to help but say, "Wow!" The innovative use of the iPhone's features highlights the device's potential, the understated elegance of application's design inspires, and using Ocarina is just plain fun. This may be the best 99 cents you'll spend in your life
The iTunes App Store is iPhone's killer app
Smule's addictive 99-cent Ocarina turns the iPhone into the ancient flute-like instrument.
Wang and Smith are riding the latest phenomenon to sweep across the tech industry.
Apple Pro features Smule CTO Ge Wang
MacBook maestro Ge Wang bends the boundaries of computer as musical instrument.
Smule’s Ocarina: This Is How You Build A Great iPhone App
As an instrument Ocarina has been perfectly executed, and is much more suitable for the iPhone’s screen size than the virtual keyboards and guitars that litter the App Store... This is how an iPhone app should be done.
Smule iPhone Apps: Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
I think, if you're not excited by these insights, and the true breadth of technology going on behind the scenes with the applications Smule is turning out, you're just not a true nerd. Keep your eye on the big brains at Smule — I'm certain we'll be seeing a lot more incredible innovation out of them.
Our top pick of the bunch is Sonic Lighter by Smule; skip right to it if you want to see an impressively developed $1 app.
Find your inner 'Vader' or 'Smeagol' with Sonic Vox
If you're like me (and gods help you) and you like to manipulate your voice in different ways--you know, to freak your cats or even your wife/girlfriend--Smule has come up with something cool to make your Friday go by faster.
Sonic Vox From Smule - Unleash The Voices In Your iPhone
How it accomplishes this functionality, however, is what really makes Smule’s newest application a killer piece of tech. Truth be told, Sonic Vox is creating real time voice effects. To be clear on this point — it is not recording your input, altering it, and playing it back to you. Rather, as you are speaking into your iPhone’s mic, Sonic Vox is using Digital Signal Processing (DSP) in real time to alter the resulting, simultaneous output.
More Sillyware for the iPhone - Then again, you never know when you might need to change your voice.
Now Smule is out with another neat party trick, Sonic Vox, a kind of whacky microphone app that lets you change your voice on the fly. Practical applications? Well it does arrive in time for Halloween so you can put an extra scare or chuckle into the neighborhood kids.
Smule makes your iPhone go boom
One of the coolest features is the ability to see what are supposedly real-time Sonic Boom explosions by people around the globe. Also, if you have a second iPhone with Sonic Lighter, you can use it to light the fuse of the firecracker on your first phone. Talk about synergy.
Sonic Boom Makes a Firecracker Out of Your iPhone
All in all, if you’re looking for a way to have some momentary fun without losing fingers or something to accompany your friend’s Sonic Lighter purchase, this is it.
Smule - Much More Than Just A Cute Little App
Sonic Mule (better known as Smule) – yes you have heard of it. It’s that lighter on an iPhone thing. Take the time to look a little deeper, it’s not what you think. Smule is more than just the really cute little app. Much more.
Sonic Lighter: The First iPhone App That Lights Other iPhones On Fire
Now the Sonic Lighter iPhone app brings the sacredness of group flame to iPhone users everywhere. Not only can you create fire of your own, but Sonic Lighter allows you to simultaneously light iPhones around you.
What Is The Deal With This Stupid Lighter iPhone App?
Here's why people are going crazy for Sonic Lighter, and are willing to pay $.99. Smule has built in social and viral features that are helping this spread like mad, and they also give this ridiculous but effective incentive to use the app all the time.
You can actually blow on the flame through the iPhone's microphone and have it move around or even blow it out, just as you might with a lit match. You can also manipulate the flame with your finger — and not get burned.
Light Up Your iPhone With Sonic Lighter
Out of the horde of iPhone applications that fall into the "useless" category, the Sonic Lighter app released Tuesday actually looks pretty cool.
C'mon baby, light my iPhone's fire
Smule's site even hosts an World Wide Ignition Map that traces recently lit Smule flames around the globe (the East Coast and parts of Europe appear to be pretty heated up over the Sonic Lighter at the moment).
Review: Sonic Lighter Is Like Doing Street Magic
For $.99 cents I will use this amazing app to deliberately blow people's minds while blowing on my iPhone.
The northernmost recorded iPhone user
But hold on, what’s that, up there? In the Arctic Ocean, hundreds of miles north of the Chukchi Sea, itself north of where Alaska and Russia kiss? It’s a single, solitary Sonic Lighter ignition.
SMule Sonic Lighter: What's Wrong with an App Just Being, Um, Entertaining?
I'm really hoping to see more of these amusements type apps that are low cost, entertaining, and less complex than, say, Spore or other full blown simulation type apps or games.
它将为iPhone用户带来神圣火焰组。有了Sonic Lighter，您不仅可以点燃自己的iPhone，还可同时将您身边其他的iPhone点燃。而能做到这个神奇举动的，仅仅是1美元的软件。
Smule even has a nifty World Wide Ignition Map that traces recently lit flames around the globe.
Smule's Sonic Lighter is Almost Hot to the Touch
As virtual lighters go, Sonic Lighter definitely takes best of breed, and kudos to Smule for some innovative work here.
Smule: A lighter function for the iPhone
The Smule has got to be one of the most interesting iPhone applications, but interesting does not mean useful.
iPhone Worship Now Easier with Sonic Lighter App
Yes, I am a part of the iPhone cult. I sacrificed my old metro provider in order to gain favor of Steve Jobs and his apostles. Just like any cult underling, I must show my appreciate to the great Apple lord, and a new iPhone app has made that task all the more easier to do.
Set Your iPhone On Fire With Sonic Lighter
Though, for only 99 cents, I can definitely say it’s worth it for a quick entertainment fix…especially if you can get some other friends to buy it. Then you can all sit around, light each other's flames and sit in a dark room listening to Free Bird. Or not.
Sonic Lighter By Smule Released For iPhone
Smule has started a fire on your iPhone that can be shared with other users to create bonfires. Using a sonic modem, not wi-fi or 3G, users have the ability to “ignite” other Sonic Lighter users by touching the two iPhones together.
