What’s on the smartphone agenda for June?

Backtrackit

Backtrackit is a mobile application that comes with plenty of useful features to help users develop their skills as musicians.
The app includes functions such as track splitting – that removes or extracts vocals to create a karaoke track of any of the user’s songs. They can also control the volume of drums, bass and piano with the Track Splitter stem player. Users can detect and shift the key and tempo of any of their works and then save the new changes into a newly exported song. Backtrackit allows for advanced looping functions and an advanced equaliser that can save up to five custom presets. Users can practice singing the right notes in different orders and octaves while the app informs them if they’re hitting the note perfectly or not.
Additionally, there are plenty of original backing tracks, and the unique Live Notes Mode that’s helpful for musicians to improve their improvisation skills.

Memrise

Memrise is a language learning application that effectively uses spaced repetition of flashcards to help increase and improve users’ learning, speaking, listening and reading skills. The platform helps develop a personalised learning path for users by teaching them their chosen language in a way that’s used in real-world contexts.
Memrise shows videos of native speakers speaking the words users have just learned in order to aid their understanding of the correct usage. The application also provides unlimited conversation practice in real-life scenarios to steadily progress learning.
The list of languages available on the app includes Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Slovenian, Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Turkish and Yoruba.
Memrise’s content is free for users, with access to premium features available on a subscription basis.