Synced lyrics, and translation as you listen This is the feature only MonoBand can do properly: the lyrics are read from the isolated vocal stem, not the full mix. With no drums or guitars in the way, recognition is far better — and the lyrics stay in time with the music as it plays. Lyrics scroll with the song, with the current line highlighted. A translation under each line, in the language you choose — translated entirely on your device. Speech recognition isn't perfect on singing, so there's a built-in editor: fix a word, split or merge lines, nudge the timing, and play any line on its own to hear what's actually sung. Got the language wrong? Read the vocals again in another one. Back up and move your library Export the songs you choose — originals, separated channels and recordings — into a single ZIP. Import it back on any device. MonoBand shows what's inside first, so you pick what to restore. Songs you already have are detected, flagged and skipped — and the summary tells you how many duplicates it passed over. Also in this update: A scrub bar in Karaoke — jump back to a tricky phrase without restarting your take. The project screen is reorganized, so recording, karaoke and lyrics follow in a clear order. Lyrics need the song to be split first — that's where the vocal comes from. Note that speech recognition and translation aren't available in Hebrew yet; those are iOS limitations and will open up with system updates. Thanks for using MonoBand!

Much smarter chord detection — and MonoBand comes to the car Chord detection just leveled up. Analysis now runs on the separated stems — without the drums and without the vocals, the two biggest noise sources — so the harmony reaches the engine clean: The bass stem acts as an anchor — a chord whose root matches what the bass plays gets priority. The engine detects the song's key and favors chords that fit it — fewer major/minor mix-ups. The decision window adapts to the song's tempo, so changes land on time — including the final chord, which used to get swallowed. MonoBand is now on CarPlay: Browse songs, playlists and favorites right from your car screen. Practice while you drive — mute or solo any stem with a tap, karaoke mode to drop the vocals, loop and restart-song. Fully localized in all of the app's languages. Library backup & import: Export your whole library — songs, separated stems and recordings — into a single ZIP. Import a ZIP back to restore your library or move it to another device, leaving your existing projects untouched. Chords are recomputed automatically when you open a song. Split the song first — that's when detection is at its best. Thanks for using MonoBand!

MonoBand in your car — CarPlay! Connect your iPhone and MonoBand shows up on the car display: browse your songs, playlists, and favorites, and play them back-to-back. The Now Playing screen has a Practice Mix — mute the vocals for karaoke with a single tap, mute or solo any instrument, loop the current song, and jump back to its start. Everything is simple, drive-safe taps, and playback picks up right where you left off on the phone. One timeline — loop and sections on the waveform Press and hold on the waveform, then drag, to draw a practice loop — and grab either edge any time to fine-tune it. Everything outside the loop dims, so your practice section stands out instantly. Sections show up as small flags along the timeline — tap one to jump to it, press and hold to rename or delete. More room for what matters We tightened the spacing across the app — a lot more channels now fit on one screen. Continuous-play improvements Skipped to another song and came back? It resumes right where you left it. And next/previous track now work from the Lock Screen and your headphones too. Thanks for using MonoBand!

One timeline — loop and sections on the waveform Until now the practice loop and the section markers were separate text rows, and you couldn't see where they actually sat in the song. Now they live on the waveform itself: Press and hold on the waveform, then drag, to draw a practice loop — and grab either edge any time to fine-tune it. Everything outside the loop dims, so your practice section stands out instantly. Tap the x to clear it. Sections show up as small flags along the timeline — tap one to jump to it, press and hold to rename or delete, and press and hold the strip to drop a new section right there. More room for what matters We tightened the spacing across the app — the top of the main and project screens, the channel rows, and the playback bar. Together with dropping the two old loop/section rows, a lot more channels now fit on one screen. Thanks for using MonoBand!

Clean stem separation on iOS 26 We fixed an issue where stem separation came out as noise or distorted on iOS 26 devices (such as the iPad Air 5). Splitting is clean and clear again — Drums, Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Piano, and Other, each in its own track. Please note: this version requires iOS 26 or later. Thanks for using MonoBand!

Much more accurate chord detection We significantly improved the chord-detection engine. Before, a sequence could come out wrong or "jumpy" — the wrong root, or major where it should be minor. The analysis now runs at far higher resolution in the bass register, where the chord's root and third live, so chords come out correct and stable through the whole song. What actually changed: Chords no longer flip at random, major vs. minor is reliable, and ambiguous moments (transitions, drum-only sections) are marked as "N.C." instead of being given a wrong chord. Chords are recomputed automatically — next time you open a song and tap "Detect Chords," you'll get the improved result. Thanks for using MonoBand!

Scrub the song from any channel You used to be able to jump through the song only from the waveform bar at the bottom. Now every channel's waveform is a scrubber — tap or drag on the Drums, Vocals, Guitar, or any recorded take, and the song jumps right there. Volume percentage on every channel Each volume slider now shows the channel's level as a percentage, updating live as you drag — so it's easy to dial in a precise mix and reproduce the same level. Pull a take before the song start If a recording landed a little late, you can now pull it back past the start of the song. The part before the start is trimmed automatically and the rest lines up exactly. Thanks for using MonoBand!

What's new: - Synced metronome - a click locked to your song's detected tempo and playback speed. - Count-in before recording and karaoke — one or two bars so you come in on time. - Full chord chart — tap the chord bar to open a large view of every chord in the song, with the playing chord highlighted, a progress bar, timings, and tap-to-jump. - Up to 10 recording tracks per project (up from 4). - Smoother scrolling in the channel list.

New: Auto-Tune your recordings! Singing over a song? Your takes can now be pulled to the song's key — from a gentle, transparent touch-up to the classic hard-tune sound. Adjust strength and retune speed, and your original recording is always kept. Fixes & improvements: - Fixed an issue where stem separation produced noisy or silent results on some devices running iOS 26 - Stability and performance improvements

Minor bug fixes

- Cleaner, steadier separation We improved separation quality and fixed rare cases where a stem could come out distorted or garbled on some devices. The result is clearer, cleaner stems. - Choose a processing engine New in Settings: if a split comes out noisy or distorted, pick a different engine — Automatic (recommended), Neural Engine, GPU, or CPU. Everything still runs on your device, no internet needed. - Shuffle & Repeat in continuous play Continuous play now has Shuffle and Repeat, plus next/previous skip controls — full control over your queue. - Pull a take before the song start If a recording landed a little late, you can now pull it back past the start of the song. The part before the start is trimmed automatically and the rest lines up exactly — using the slider and fine step buttons. Thanks for using MonoBand!

- Pick up right where you left off MonoBand now remembers your playback position — close the app, reopen it, hit play, and the song continues from where you were instead of restarting. - Recording alignment controls New in Settings: a separate alignment slider for headphones and for the speaker, so you can dial in recording timing precisely on each device. And now you can also shift the timing of each recorded take on its own — with a slider and fine step buttons (10ms / 0.1s), plus a marker that shows where the song is playing. - Progress & playhead markers A new progress bar in the "Now playing" bar on the main screen, plus a clear playhead marker on the main waveform and on each channel's waveform — so you can see exactly where the song is. - Favorites Mark songs as favorites — from the song menu or with a swipe — and filter to show just your favorites. - Smoother speed & pitch drawer The side drawer's handle (speed and pitch) now slides open together with the drawer. - More compact grid view A new "Tiny icons" size for the grid view — see more songs at a glance. - Smoother, steadier playback Fixed cases where pressing play jumped the song back to the start, improved the reliability of recording and stopping, and polished a few on-screen details. - Playlists & continuous play Create multiple playlists, add songs to them (a song can live in several), and hit play to hear them back-to-back with automatic advance to the next track. You can also play a whole folder — or everything currently shown — in a row. Thanks for using MonoBand!

- Folders to organize your library Group songs into folders: create a folder, move songs in, rename and delete. When you delete a folder with songs, you choose — remove just the folder (songs are kept and moved to All) or delete the songs too. Importing while inside a folder files the song there automatically. - Multi-select Select several songs at once (including "Select all") and, in one action, delete them, move them to a folder, or split them into stems. - Batch import & split Import several files at once with a progress bar and Cancel, and split multiple songs into stems one after another. You can keep using the app while it processes. - Duplicate detection Try to import a song that's already in your library and you'll get a heads-up, with the option to skip or import anyway. - Search, filter & view Search by song title and by artist, filter by "Split / Not split", three icon sizes in grid view, and a badge showing how many channels each song was split into. - Thanks for using MonoBand!

- New: record vocals while the song plays — sing along and get your take as its own track. - Slide-out panel for quick Pitch & Speed control. - New volume control and a quick "Re-create" (higher-quality stems) button next to Export All. - More reliable stem separation on the latest iPads; deleting a track mid-playback no longer freezes. - Video import from Photos keeps the title and cover art; menus respond on the first tap.

- New: record vocals while the song plays, with a 3‑2‑1 count‑in and a headphones reminder. - More reliable stem separation on the latest iPads. - Stopping playback also stops an active recording; deleting a track mid‑playback no longer freezes. - Video import from Photos keeps the title and cover art; the import menu responds on the first tap. - Text is auto‑selected when renaming a song/artist.

What's new: - Pick up where you left off — Close the app mid-song and MonoBand remembers the last track you were listening to and exactly where you stopped. Reopen, tap Play, and you're right back in the groove. - Cleaner onboarding — The welcome flow now has a clearly-labeled Skip button right next to Next, so you can jump straight into the app whenever you're ready. - Smaller download — We trimmed the bundled demo songs to keep the app lean and quicker to install. - Universal copy — A few screens still said "iPhone" when MonoBand has been an iPhone, iPad, and Apple silicon Mac app from day one. All wording now matches. - UI polish — Small touches across the app to make it feel sharper and more responsive.

Added support for importing audio from a video file