- November 15, 2013 03:01pm EST
Good news on the music streaming front, iPhone and iPad users. Google Play Music is now available on iOS.The app, which first launched on Android in May, lets you store up to 20,000 songs from your personal music collection for free online, and listen to your music from all your devices without synching. It would be perfect for those who, for instance, use an Android phone but also have an iPad, and want access to their music collection across devices.
You can listen to your music without ads, and save your favorites for offline playback when you don't have an Internet connection.
"All your music is stored online, so no need to worry about syncing, storage space, or offline playback," Google said in the app's description. "You can listen across any device and on the web, seamlessly."
The app also provides access to Google's $9.99 a month All Access music service, which gives subscribers "an unlimited pass to a huge library of music" containing "millions upon millions of songs," the Web giant wrote in a Google+ post. With All Access, you can create ad-free, interactive radio stations from any song or artist, search for specific jams and listen instantly, browse recommendations from experts, or explore tracks be genre.
There's also a 'Listen Now' tab, which "puts artists and radio stations we think you'll like front and center so you can start listening the minute you open your library," Google said. New users can get a 30-day free trial of All Access to see how they like it.
As PCMag's AppScout blog pointed out, the iOS version has most of the features in the Android client, with the exception of "I'm feeling lucky" radio, which builds a station based on your listening habits.
