Documentation
Everything Songstead can do, one feature at a time. If you're new, start with How Songstead works. For a guided walkthrough of a single task with a video, see Tutorials.
Common questions
Getting started
How Songstead works
Songs, charts, sets and groups, and how they fit together across your devices.
Tutorials
Step-by-step walkthroughs with a video: creating a song, importing a library, autoscroll and annotations.
Create an account
Signing up with an emailed code, trying the demo first, signing in, and resetting a forgotten password.
iPhone, iPad and Android
Getting the apps, how they stay in sync with the web, downloads and recordings on a phone, and buying a plan.
Plans and limits
What Jam, Backstage and Harmony include, what each costs, and how trials and seats work.
Songs
Songs
Creating, editing, duplicating and deleting songs, and every detail a song can hold.
Charts
Text and file charts, keeping several charts on one song, and choosing the default.
ChordPro and chords over lyrics
The two text formats Songstead reads, section headers, and the ChordPro directives it understands.
Keys, capo and transposing
Written and performed keys, capo and transpose, and which of them are personal.
Chord display
Nashville numbers, simplified chords, chord symbols, font size and what parts of a chart are shown.
Files and storage
Attaching PDFs, images, Word documents and audio, playing from a file, and storage quota.
Tags
Group and personal tags, hiding tags, renaming, merging and deleting them.
Search, filter and sort
Searching titles, lyrics, files and annotations, and filtering songs by group, key, tags, time and tempo.
Sets
Performing
Live Mode
Full-screen performance view for a song or a whole set, in columns or one continuous scroll.
Autoscroll
Scrolling a chart at a set speed, or in time with the song's duration.
Metronome
Playing a click at the song's tempo, and tapping in a tempo.
Foot pedals and shortcuts
Page-turner pedals and every keyboard shortcut in Live Mode and the annotation tools.
Annotations
Drawing, highlighting, text, stamps and audio on a chart, and sharing annotation layers with a group.
Library
Account
Appearance and themes
Themes, chord notation, colors and spacing for the app and for PDFs, and how file charts are recolored.
Settings
Transpose mode, keeping the screen awake, and Live Mode's scroll direction.
Account
Your name, password, email updates, connected apps and deleting your account.
Billing and payments
Choosing, changing and cancelling a plan, trials, payment methods, receipts and failed payments.
Connect an AI assistant
Connecting Claude or ChatGPT to your Songstead library, and what an assistant can and can't do there.
More
Using an AI assistant?
Every page here is also published as Markdown. Give your assistant songstead.app/llms-full.txt and it can answer questions about any part of Songstead. To let it work in your library as well, see Connect an AI assistant.