Google Play Music app hits iOS with a free month of All Access

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Google Play Music subscribers should have a hop in their step now that word has come that the All Access Music app is finally available on iOS.

The search giant's music service has always been available on iOS through a HTML 5-enabled browser app, but Google finally released a full-fledged app for iOS devices.

Users can expect the same free, standard Google Play Music service that lets them stream internet radio and upload up to 20,000 tracks to their music collection to the cloud.

Google is also offering a free month of All Access streaming service, which normally costs $9.99. All Access grants a pass to over 20 million tracks with custom radio stations to help music lovers discover new songs through "smart recommendations." Google's paid music service lets you download up to 20,000 tunes for listening offline on your devices as well.

Chromecast owners will be glad to hear the new iOS app has support to cast music wireless from Apple products to a TV. For now the app only comes as an iPhone version, but Google is probably cooking up something for iPads that won't look quite as blown up. Oddly enough the only thing that's missing on the app is the ability to buy songs.

Crowded waters

Google's all-you-can-eat music app joins the iOS ecosystem where there are already a number of services that do just about the same thing.

Spotify offers nearly the same service for $10 with unlimited streaming and the ability to download up to 3,333 songs across three registered devices. If streaming only is more your speed, Rdio's $10 plan has unlimited web and mobile music streaming. The service, however, does not include an option for offline listening.

For the cost of nothing at all, Pandora offers unlimited Internet radio offset by a set number of song skips and ads.

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