Welcome to Indie App Spotlight, a weekly 9to5Mac series showcasing the latest apps in the indie app world. If you're a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. If you're an aspiring musician, Pocket Jam might be something you find useful. It helps you turn your favorite songs into a practice tool, letting you slow down, change the pitch, loop, and dissect tracks as you learn them.

Pocket Jam gives you the capability to pause a song at the moment you want to practice, then slow it down, adjust the pitch, or play it in a loop. You can even bookmark sections you want to spend more time practicing on. The app allows you to import audio files or a song from Apple Music, though some features like pitch adjustment are limited with Apple Music imports.

In the newest 5.0 update, Pocket Jam includes a redesigned waveform view, making it easier to navigate through songs, zoom and scrub, jump around, and isolate important parts. There's also a new tempo trainer for starting slow and speeding up as you learn, better looping, and bookmark descriptions.

Pocket Jam is available for free on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, and Mac running iOS/iPad OS 17 or macOS 14 Sonoma and later. For unlimited imports and music access, Pocket Jam Premium costs $4.99 per month with a 3-day free trial, or $29.99 per year.