SongScribe

Write, rehearse, play live

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Put each chord over the syllable where it changes, then play the song from the same screen on stage. No Wi-Fi, no account, no subscription. WRITE SONGS THE WAY YOU PLAY Lyrics and chords share one page. Tap a chord onto the syllable where you change and it sits above the word without pushing your lyrics around. Drag it anywhere and a glowing caret shows where it will land. • Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Hook and more, or name your own sections • Duplicate and reorder sections with one tap • A notes page on every song for rhymes and half-finished lines NO WI-FI. NO PROBLEM. Writing, chord lookup, recording, tuning and export all run offline, so you can play a basement bar with no signal. There's no account to create. Your songs live on your device, and iCloud sync carries them between your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud account. EVERY CHORD. EVERY VOICING. 1,794 curated chord shapes for guitar, bass, ukulele, mandolin and banjo. Build any chord from root to bass note, step through its voicings, and tap to hear each one. SongScribe keeps the exact shape you picked. • 19 tuning presets like Drop D and DADGAD, plus custom tunings, and SongScribe works out shapes for any of them • Left-handed mode and a piano view • Transpose, set a capo, or detect the key from your chords FIND A CHORD WITHOUT A NAME Tap out a shape you found by ear and SongScribe names it. Pick the right name and it goes straight into your lyrics. BUILT FOR THE STAGE Performance mode puts the song full screen and scrolls it for you, at any speed from a slow crawl to 2×. Controls fade once you start, and the screen stays awake until you leave. • Build setlists and play the whole set in order • Start, stop, change speed and skip songs with a MIDI or Bluetooth page-turner pedal (Lifetime) A STUDIO IN YOUR POCKET Hit record, switch back to your lyrics and keep writing while the take rolls. Listening back, drop a marker with a note like "better chorus here," loop a section, or play it from quarter speed to double with the pitch intact. With Lifetime, stack up to four overdubs on your first take, set each layer's volume, and mix it down to one track. Lifetime also adds lossless recording. PRECISION TUNING. ZERO FUSS. The tuner reads to the cent, with presets for guitar, bass, violin and voice, plus a noise filter for loud rooms. Land within 3 cents and you feel a tap. The mic turns off when you leave the tuner. The metronome floats over your lyrics while you play, with tap tempo, 48 time signatures and each song's tempo saved. SEE HOW YOUR SONG FITS TOGETHER The harmony view arranges the seven chords of your key around the tonic, color-coded by function. Tap one to hear it, or jump to a related key and see which chords the two keys share. EXPORT TO PDF, CHORDPRO AND MORE Export a PDF chart in three layouts with chord diagrams and one-tap fit to page, or export ChordPro, ASCII or plain text (Lifetime). Your old charts come with you. Import ChordPro or text files and SongScribe sets each chord over its word and labels your verses and choruses. ONE PRICE FOR EVERYTHING Free, for as long as you like: • 10 songs and 5 recordings per song • Every chord tool, the tuner, metronome and harmony view • Setlists, Performance mode and iCloud sync • All 17 themes, light and dark SongScribe Lifetime, one purchase: • Unlimited songs and recordings • Export, multi-track recording, lossless audio and footswitch control Try every Lifetime feature free for 7 days. Nothing renews and there's nothing to cancel. If you don't upgrade, your songs stay safe: SongScribe never deletes or hides them. Built by a musician, for people who write songs and then get up and play them. Questions or ideas: support@songscribe.io Terms of Use: https://songscribe.io/terms

  • 5.0
    out of 5
    1 Ratings

The recording screen got a rebuild in 2.2. Drag the playhead to any moment in a take. It lifts under your finger so you know you've got hold of it. Slow a take down to quarter speed or speed it up to double without changing its key. This works on layered takes too. Drop a marker while you listen and playback keeps going. Add a note later, like "good chorus idea" or "this is the bridge", and tap the marker to jump back to it. Markers stay on the right moment when you crop a take, and SongScribe tells you first if any would be lost. Layer, Trim, Loop and Marker now sit in one row that's always in reach. Performance Mode has a new speed rail you drag instead of tapping, and the screen stays awake while you play. Your settings now follow you between devices over iCloud. The full-screen fretboard now mirrors for left-handed players. Tap a .songscribe file in Files to open it straight in the app. Better on iPad: nothing slides under the sidebar anymore. With Lifetime, you can turn pages hands-free with a MIDI or Bluetooth footswitch, record in lossless quality, and mix your layers with a volume slider on each one and a master fader.

The developer, Sergei Lekoutovich, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Purchases
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More

  • Supported Features

    • VoiceOver

    • Voice Control

    • Dark Interface

    • Differentiate Without Color Alone

    • Sufficient Contrast

    • Reduced Motion

Seller
Sergei Lekoutovich
Size
9.9 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
Copyright
© 2025 Rasputin Software