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Patreon

Patreon is an incredible platform for musicians seeking to monetize the direct fan-artist relationship with regular content updates.

Ziibra

Ziibra represents nothing less than the future of the musician business, by crowdfunding monthly subscriptions from fans. Attractive to artists and fans alike.

Patronism

While Patronism is a true original and based on a great concept, the execution pales in comparison to the newest crop of fan subscription platforms.

Bandcamp

The free-to-join platform has everything an independent musician needs to start monetizing their music online for free. Highly recommended.

Flattr

Flattr is a great concept: make tipping as easy as a social share. Unfortunately, we were unable to use the platform during our review.

NoiseTrade’s novel approach to empowering the 21st century musician: enabling revenue streams while embracing free music. The premise is simple. Musicians upload a bunch of music, make it available to stream for free and ...

Centup

Centup is a unique tipping platform that splits tips between the creator and a charity of the user’s choice. It functions much like a Tweet or Like button, hanging out by a piece of content waiting for the user to click. ...

Moozar

Moozar is a tipping platform that allows creators to tag various content with a “reward link” that fans can use to send tips. The link appears when your content is shared on popular social networks, and brings the u...

Digital Tip Jar

Digital Tip Jar was created during a 48-hour hackathon, and the concept is pretty cool. Each registered artist gets a unique QR code, that when scanned takesn them to a page to tip the artist. Though the features and user exper...

See.Me

See Me takes a unique spin on the tipping model, allowing creatives to build profiles that articulate their vision, and then using those profiles to anchor a tip jar. The platform is beautifully designed, with a Pinterest-like ...

Tip5

Tip5 is a tip jar system that features text message and QR code functionality. Fans can scan a unique QR code, or you can text your fan list a link to a web-based tip jar. The idea is to plop the QR code on your merch table, an...