Last week Mark McGuigan posted a list of guitar-related iPhone apps that he likes. A nice list, including some interesting apps that I’d never heard of before, like iReal Book and Musician’s Practice Journal. Check out Mark’s full list here.

Griffin Technology has released a free iPod/iPhone app called iTalk that let’s you use the microphone of the iPhone to make recordings:

iTalk Recorder lets you record, pause, resume and append to existing recordings, manage the list of your recordings, and add text notes, all on the touchscreen of your iPhone or iPod.

You can then sync the recordings to your Mac or PC using the (also free) iTalk Sync application:

iTalk Sync is a dedicated app you run on your Mac or PC that searches your Wi-Fi connection to find any iPhone or iPod touch that’s running iTalk. It lets you drag recordings from your iPhone or iPod to your computer’s desktop.

iTalk seems like a great way to capture quick song ideas or record brief interviews with other guitarists.

(via Daring Fireball)

Julian Tan of Guitar Pug recently listed several guitar-related applications that have been created for the iPhone. Having recently purchased an iPhone, I’ve been looking for some cool apps to throw on it, and Julian’s list is a nice round-up of the ones I’ve found. Julian’s list includes:

Guitar Toolkit – This seems to be the most popular guitar-related app on the iPhone so far. It includes a tuner, a chord finder, a metronome, and tuning tones.

Band – An app by MooCowMusic, Band includes a collection of virtual instruments that you can use to create music. Instruments included are drums, piano, bass guitar, and guitar. Crowd noise is also included.

Pandora – Pandora is the iPhone version of the popular Pandora Radio streaming music service. This one looks particularly interesting to me.

Julian’s list also mentions a few other apps, so go check it out!