Apple has announced the Apple Design award winner list for 2021 which included six new award categories. It comes as a proud moment as the list includes Indian developer Sandeep Ranade who developed the NaadSadhana app, which is a classical musical app.
In conversation with Sandeep Ranade, a Pune-based musician and developer said, “I feel like I just won an Oscar award! It’s a very surreal feeling — I never expected this award in a million years, and for innovation, no less”.
This is the second Indian app till now to win the Apple Design award and the first one on Indian classical Music. Apple describes NaadSadhana as an “all-in-one, studio-quality music app that helps musicians of all genres and any expertise perform and publish their music without boundaries.” NaadSadhana has expanded to support seven different genres of music. These include Hindustani classical, Semi-Classical, Devotional, Light / Bollywood, Carnatic, Western and Fusion.
