Leganote - Chord Charts
Lead sheets & backing tracks
Only for Mac
$5.99
Mac
Now prints. Send a chart straight to the printer, export it as a PDF, and right-click anything in the list. A native Mac chord-chart app with backing tracks.
A native Mac chord-chart app for practicing musicians. Lead sheets, ChordPro, MusicXML, and a backing-track player — your whole songbook on the Mac, with a source-list sidebar, a sortable table, and the keyboard shortcuts you'd expect. $5.99 once. No subscription. Ever.
Hey — Leganote is the app I wished existed.
I'm zhi, a solo dev. I built it in evenings and weekends because I was tired of paying yearly fees for music tools I just want to own — and tired of "lifetime" apps that quietly turned into yearly plans. So I made my own. Pay $5.99 once and it's yours. No subscription, no trial, no ads, no upsell screens.
— Built for the Mac
A real Mac app, not a port. System menu bar with File / Song / Playback / Practice menus and keyboard shortcuts: ⌘P play/pause, ⌘L loop, ⌘E edit, ⌘N new song, ⌘F find. A traditional source-list sidebar, a sortable table (Title / Key / Style / BPM), and multi-window so you can keep two charts open at once.
— What it does
Chord charts and lead sheets that look the way they should. Handwritten chord symbols, section markers, repeats and 1./2. endings. Click a bar, type a chord. Drag to reorder sections.
A backing-track player so you can practice without booking a band. Drums, bass, and SoundFont piano + guitar all playing along. Live transpose at the next bar boundary. Tempo control without changing pitch.
— Practice tools
A-B loop a tricky section. Tempo Ramp gradually steps the BPM up each time the loop comes around. Metronome with quarter, 8th, triplet, 16th, and shuffle subdivisions. Guitar, piano, bass, and ukulele fingering diagrams — pick a different voicing per chord.
— Open formats + sync
Import and export ChordPro and MusicXML — your charts stay yours, in formats other apps can read. Your library lives in iCloud Drive, so the charts you write on the Mac show up in the Leganote app on your iPhone and iPad (and the other way around).
— What's not here (yet)
PDF chart reading and Apple Pencil annotation are on the iPhone/iPad app, not this one. The Mac focuses on writing, organizing, and playing.
Made by one person who plays. If something's off, email me — there's a real human at the other end.
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This one's about the things the Mac version should have done from day one.
— Printing and PDF export
⌘P prints a chart. ⇧⌘E exports it as a PDF. Both go through the same renderer, so what comes out of the printer matches what you hand to the band.
— Your song list finally does what a Mac list does
Right-click any song for Play, Edit, Add to Setlist, Favorite, Duplicate, Export and Delete. Double-click to open it. ⌫ to delete. The table also stopped hiding its BPM column.
— PDFs open on the Mac
Imported PDF charts now open here too, with a page-thumbnail sidebar and zoom — including the Apple Pencil marks you made on an iPad. They used to open to an empty pane.
— Mac shortcuts that behave like Mac shortcuts
⌘P is Print, the way it is everywhere else. Space plays and pauses. Right-click a chord to see its other voicings — there's no long press on a Mac.
Annotations are now pinned to the page rather than to the window they were drawn in, so they stay put when you rotate an iPad or open the same chart on another device.
The developer, Chih Han Lin, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Chih Han Lin
- Size
- 31.8 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 2 more
- English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Nonotoday LLC
