• Dragontape brings its YouTube and SoundCloud remix app to iPad

    Steve O'Hear

    Steve O’Hear is probably best known as a technology journalist, currently at TechCrunch where he focuses mainly on European startups, companies and products. He was previously co-founder and CEO of expertise platform Beepl where he helped the company navigate its first VC round, along with seeing the product through development, private alpha and a high profile public launch. In November... → Learn More

    Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

    Dragontape, which lets users create ‘mixtapes’ of their favorite YouTube videos and SoundCloud recordings, has landed on Apple’s iPad, a device which benefits the service’s realtime editing functionality.

    As other video editing or remix style apps on the iPad have shown, a large touch screen device and accompanying OS has the potential to make the cutting, editing and rearranging of clips that bit more fluid with a tactile drag ‘n’ drop user experience. The same features that the browser-based version of Dragontape supports are also present and correct, such as the ability to share finished ‘mix tapes’ via Facebook and Twitter.

    A word of warning though. The Dragontape iPad app maybe free for now but it won’t be forever, says the company. In fact, it’s hinted at premium features for some time.

    Founded by Tamas and Peter Szakál – a.k.a. the Szakál brothers – Dragontape is based in Budapest, Hungary, and is funded via a small amount of seed money from individual investors.