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Plans and limits
Songstead has three plans. Jam is free, with no limit on how many songs or sets you keep. Backstage adds what you need to perform and to work with files. Harmony is for sharing songs and sets with a band, a worship team or students.
| Jam | Backstage | Harmony | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $2 a month | $1 per person a month |
| Songs and sets | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Join other people's groups | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Transpose, metronome, autoscroll | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Draw and write on charts | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Live Mode and foot pedals | Yes | Yes | |
| Audio notes on charts | Yes | Yes | |
| Attach files, play from a PDF or photo | Yes | Yes | |
| File storage | 5GB | 5GB | |
| Choose chart colors and spacing | Yes | Yes | |
| PDFs without the Songstead footer | Yes | Yes | |
| Sets in your calendar app | Yes | Yes | |
| Connect an AI assistant | Yes | Yes | |
| Create groups and share songs and sets | Yes |
The pricing page lists every feature, row by row.
Jam
Jam is free for as long as you use it. You get unlimited songs and sets, sync between all your devices, tags, search, importing, exporting, transposing, the metronome, autoscroll and annotations. You can also join any group you're invited to.
Backstage
Backstage is a plan for one person. On top of everything in Jam, it adds:
- Live Mode, the full-screen view for performing, with foot pedal support.
- Files: attaching PDFs, photos, Word documents and recordings to songs, and playing from a PDF or photo. Backstage includes 5GB of storage.
- Audio notes recorded onto a chart. See Annotations.
- Your own chart colors and spacing in Appearance.
- PDFs without the small Songstead footer. See Exporting and printing.
- Calendar feeds of your sets.
- Connecting an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT.
Harmony
Harmony is the plan for creating groups and sharing with them. The person who pays for Harmony gets everything in Backstage, and can create groups, invite people, and share songs, sets, tags and annotations with them.
Seats
Harmony is paid per person, and each person is a seat. You need at least two seats: one for you and one for someone else.
- Everyone in your groups uses a seat, including you.
- Someone who's in two of your groups still uses one seat.
- You can't send new invites once every seat is used.
What your members get
People in your groups get the Jam features from your plan. If you add the Backstage option to your Harmony plan, everyone in your groups gets Backstage features too, such as Live Mode, without paying for a plan of their own.
Joining a group never costs anything. A member only needs their own paid plan for features the group's plan doesn't give them.
Paying for a plan
You can pay monthly or yearly. Paying yearly costs the same as ten months, so two months are free.
Your first paid plan starts with a free 14-day trial. Each account gets one trial, and you'll need to add a card to start it.
To change or cancel your plan, select Plan at the bottom of the menu. See Billing and payments for how changes, cancelling and payment methods work.
Plans are bought on the web at my.songstead.app, not in the iPhone, iPad or Android app. A plan you buy on the web works in the apps too.
When a paid plan ends
Your songs, sets and charts stay in your library when you go back to Jam. Features that need a paid plan stop working until you subscribe again.
If your Harmony plan ends, your groups are switched off. Members can't see the groups' songs and sets until Harmony is back. The same happens if your groups have more people than your plan has seats, until you add seats or remove someone.