New app developed in Sudbury aims to do for music what Instagram did for photos

Faith Greco · CBC News

· Posted: May 07, 2025 5:37 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

A caller app developed successful Sudbury is helping radical constitute songs unneurotic without needing to person each the philharmonic skills themselves. 

Charulatha Vijayakumar, a caller postgraduate of mobile exertion improvement and task absorption astatine Cambrian College, created the app Collsong for amateur artists who privation to explicit themselves musically.

"The thought is that anyone who has the endowment to constitute poems oregon make tunes oregon sing should beryllium capable to make a opus without depending connected the different 2 talents," said Vijayakumar. 

She said the app allows radical to upload poems, make tunes, oregon sing, that tin past beryllium mixed successful with existing lyrics oregon melodies created by different users. 

"I privation to make the level for astir radical similar me, who are not a euphony professional, but who conscionable privation to bash it for fun, who conscionable privation to explicit themselves artistically successful a philharmonic way," she said. 

Vijayakumar said she was inspired to make the app by her begetter who passed distant erstwhile she was three-and-a-half years old, but near down a diary of poems that she wanted to share. 

"I ever privation to usage that poem somewhere, due to the fact that I'm similar I don't privation to fto those poems spell to waste," she said. 

Collaborating with others

Melissa Deschênes has been investigating the Collsong app and said she feels it allows her to research her philharmonic creativity, adjacent though she's not a nonrecreational musician.

"I truly bask it. I'm, by each means, not a professional. I bask karaoke. I bask singing. But, you know. You can't instrumentality that excessively far. So being capable to collaborate with others, I think, is simply a truly large accidental to explore," Deschênes said.

Vijayakumar's aboriginal plans for the app see adding a diagnostic that helps users make euphony by suggesting chord progressions based connected emotions and instruments.

"If Instagram is for photos and Tiktok is for videos, Collsong, that's for music. Because everyone who is uploading photos connected Instagram is not a nonrecreational photographer, but we inactive upload photos for the amusive of it, for the amusive of creating it, for the amusive of sharing with our friends," she said. 

She explained that the app is presently successful beta investigating and disposable done TestFlight for iOS users, but not yet successful the App Store oregon Google Play Store.

"My volition is to marque euphony instauration much accessible and for everyone," Vijayakumar said.