# Settings

**Settings** holds the choices that change how songs and Live Mode behave. Each tab has **Reset to Defaults** in the menu (the three dots) at the top right, and every setting follows you to your other devices.

## Song

| Setting | Choices | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Transpose Mode | **Capo** (default), **Unrestricted** | **Capo** transposes up only, as a capo fret, for guitar and other fretted instruments. **Unrestricted** transposes up or down by half steps, for instruments like keyboards. See [Keys, capo and transposing](https://songstead.app/docs/keys-and-transposing.md). |
| Keep Screen Awake | On (default), off | Keeps your screen on while you're viewing a song or in Live Mode. Turned off, your device sleeps as it normally would. |

## Live

| Setting | Choices | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Scroll Direction | **Horizontal** (default), **Vertical** | **Horizontal** lays charts out in columns and moves left to right, one column at a time. **Vertical** scrolls charts in one continuous flow from top to bottom, and is the layout that has [autoscroll](https://songstead.app/docs/autoscroll.md). See [Live Mode](https://songstead.app/docs/live-mode.md). |

## Other settings

Most of how charts look is in [Appearance](https://songstead.app/docs/appearance.md). A few settings are kept where you use them rather than here:

- Chord names, simplified chords, font size and which parts of a chart are shown, from the **Display** card on a song page.
- The autoscroll speed, from the **Display** card.
- How songs are sorted, from **Songs**.
- The format you last downloaded in.
- Your annotation stamps, from **Customize stamps** in the annotation tools.
- Which tags are hidden, from the **Tags** tab in **Library**.