SongKit 4+

Guitar & Piano SongBook

Thomas Grapperon

    • 3.0 • 2 Ratings
    • $12.99

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Description

SongKit is an AI-powered songbook app for your iPhone and iPad.
It helps you organize, view, and edit your songs sheets on any of your devices.

With SongKit, you can edit or display songs with chords for pianos or guitar-like instruments (guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele, mandolin). The app can generate chord voicings for these instruments with complete control. Tablatures are also supported for guitar-like instruments.

SongKit works on musical intervals internally and all musical computations are exact. You can transpose a song to any key without losing the musical meaning of notes and chords. Tabs and chord voicings can be automatically transposed by its exclusive voicing engine.

The app uses a unique layout engine with automatic avoidance, line wrapping, and information density optimization. The engine supports multiple columns, pagination, content-aware rescaling, and much more. Styles are fully customizable and can be shared with other users. The app also allows exporting songs as professional-looking full-vector PDFs.

Songs are edited with a unique text-based view. You can type lyrics naturally, add suggested chords, insert some tablatures, drag and drop a chorus from one place to another, copy a verse and paste only the chords over some other lyrics, or insert one of the thousands of musical symbols that are shipping with the app.

The app fully supports multitasking on the iPad. You can save collections of chords, symbols, and tabs and reuse them in other songs, with automatic transposition.

With SongKit, each song is an individual file. You can organize them as you wish, let them sync using iCloud, back them up, or share it with your friends in two taps.

The app ships with an AI-powered extension that allows you to import songs directly from your web browser or many other apps in a few taps.

You can also share chord collections, templates, musical instruments, voicing generator configurations.

The app currently supports:
Songs with several instruments, in several keys;
Chord voicings generation for Piano;
Chord voicings and tabs for guitars, basses, banjos, ukulele, mandolin, with or without capos, right and left-handed;
Automatic transposition of tablatures;
Import songs from web pages, text files, or even any selected text, using Machine Learning;
Import from ChordPro format.
Thousands of SMUFL musical symbols;
Custom Fonts;
Multitasking on the iPad;
Scribble with the Apple Pencil on the iPad (starting with iPadOS 14);
Export to full-vector PDF files;
Complete sync with iCloud;
Unlimited instruments, voicing generator configurations, custom chords & voicings, layout styles, or chord collections.

What’s New

Version 1.2

This update fixes an issue when editing voicings search parameters for guitars.
Other minor bugs have also been fixed.

As always, your feedback is highly appreciated.
Feel free to reach me if you have any issue or suggestion.

Ratings and Reviews

3.0 out of 5
2 Ratings

2 Ratings

Candlelight2007 ,

Terrific! (with a couple of suggestions)

It’s a 5 star app! Not sure where that 1 star rating came from. I bought SongKit/Chord! Bundle, although I am finding that I like SongKit better suited for my needs.
I was looking for a tool to simply transcribe (chords and lyrics) my own songs and turn them into sheets - mostly for my own use, so I don’t forget how I played them originally. I do know majority of the chords and am fairly familiar with the chord theory but I am not super fluent so I usually need a fretboard to try different fingerings.
Overall I like the app; I think it’s great and it does suit my needs quite well. A few things that I particularly like I like the overall setup. It’s pretty clean. Songs are easy to create. The sheet view is fantastic - all I ever needed. The chord selection is very extensive and the song is very easy to edit I love the fretboard view to reverse search/build the chord! It’s by far my favourite feature. I like that it auto Caps first letters when you type in the song name! Very useful! Import from chord-pro also works like a charm!

Bugs: the app froze (became completely non-responsive) on me 3 times - both times when I was in song View mode. I could not consistently reproduce it, so from the developer’s standpoint there is not a lot you can do, but you might keep an eye on it, in case other users bring it up.
It also often gets a little laggy.

I also have a couple of suggestions
Sheet view
This one is minor: when I tap on the chord above the lyrics, what I expect to see is an enlarged diagram for the selected chord. Instead it shows the entire strip of all chords in the song. It does the job but my suggestion, perhaps bring up the individual chord diagram by default and let user tap to see next or previous, if they choose.
While we are at it, another suggestion. I understand that sheet view is for viewing - not for editing. But as a user sometimes I would like to correct a particular chord, so instead of going back to Edit mode and finding that exact line and exact chord, it would be nice to be able to tap on the chord in the View mode and then have an option to switch to edit it. Perhaps a popup menu?
Edit View
When typing the lyrics, I have noticed that there are no auto suggestions for some reason, yet when you enter song info, for instance, they show up! It would certainly help to have auto correct/suggest enabled when you type the lyrics!.

Entering chords: The chord strip to select from is great and easy to use for basic chords but if I need Bm, I have to scroll all the way to the end. Perhaps adding a search, where user types “Am7” or “Esus2” and it sends them to the chord editor, would be a good feature?
My biggest pain however is Chord Edit. Use case: I enter, say D7, but I often like to play it x-3-5-4-0-x, so I need to change it. I would like to simply tap and edit it on the fretboard view, just like I can when adding a new chord, but for some reason I can’t - at least I have not found a way to do it! All it gives me is the chord selector, which makes it more tedious for me (to find the right chord, I’d have to monkey around with the chord settings, like disabling barres, allowing bass other than root, limiting fingers to 3, etc.). I often end up simply deleting the chord and use “+” instead to add a new chord using the fretboard view.
I know you have a Current Song option for chord selector strip, but I thought that perhaps adding a “recently used” option would be a good idea.
You also have Suggestions option, but it’s hard to tell what it actually is based on, so perhaps you providing a description would be helpful.
I still can’t figure out what the “lighting” button does. When I tap on it I don’t notice any changes, so perhaps adding some sort of explanation would be a good idea as well.
Documentation. It is a bit scanty and perhaps could be better organized, although as a developer, I know that writing documentation is like pulling teeth for most of us :). That’s why I’m a big fan of making things more intuitive, to avoid writing 50 page manuals LOL.
Playback. I know it is probably not the purpose of this app but I thought that if you considered adding a ‘play chord’ button so user can actually hear what the chord sounds like, it would make the experience much better.
Overall though I think it’s a great app. Happy to spend the $$ and support the developer.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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