VenueSpy: Gig & Band Tracker
Bookings, setlists & 1099s
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
VenueSpy is a gig-tracking CRM made for performers. Whether you play music, do stand-up comedy, DJ, or perform anything else, it works the same way.
Track the venues you play, the ones you want to play, and everything in between: who you talked to, when you last reached out, what they pay, and when you're booked.
VENUES & OUTREACH
• Keep every venue in one place with status tracking — potential, contacted, booked, completed
• See all your venues on a map, color-coded by status
• Save venue contacts with one-tap call, text, or email
• Log when you last reached out so no lead goes cold
BOOKINGS
• Book multiple dates per venue with times, pay, and arrival reminders
• Calendar view with gig dots so your month is readable at a glance
• Day-of-gig reminders and a "Time to Leave" alert based on live drive time
• Weather at showtime for outdoor gigs, so you know before you load in
• Send a gig to any calendar on your iPhone — including a Google or Outlook one you share with the band — and choose exactly what travels with it, so your fee stays yours
• Look 15 days ahead, or a month, or everything you have booked, and see at a glance which nights are solo and which are with the band
MONEY
• Track income, expenses, tips, and mileage per gig or on their own
• See what you actually took home after bandmate splits
• Manager and agent commission worked out automatically — set your rate once, override it on any single booking, and it lands in your books as a deductible expense instead of quietly shrinking your income
• Track what you owe bandmates and what you've paid them — sorted by year for tax time
• Save your regular lineups as bands, with splits that fill themselves in
• Generate PDF invoices for venues that pay against an invoice — with reminders so you never forget to send one (Business Pack)
• Export your books as CSV or a formatted PDF report
FIND ANYTHING
• One search box across venues, gigs, people, money and songs
• Money & Taxes gathers invoices, the monthly audit, 1099 summaries and exports in one place
SETLISTS
• Build setlists from your song library with total set duration
• Filter songs by artist, key, genre, and length
MADE FOR PERFORMERS
• Color-coded design that keeps dates, money, and people scannable
• Quick action buttons you can customize on every screen
• 25 app icon styles
• Automatic iCloud backup of your venue data
• No account required. No ads. No tracking. Your data stays on your device and your private iCloud.
FREE, PREMIUM & BUSINESS
The free version includes 5 venues, 5 income/expense entries, and 10 mileage logs — enough to get a real feel for the app.
Premium unlocks unlimited venues and income tracking, setlists, bandmate pay tracking, financial exports, outreach reminders, iCloud backup, and every future premium feature — less than a single drink at the bar you're playing.
The Business Pack adds professional PDF invoicing with send reminders and bandmate 1099 tax summaries — for performers who invoice venues and pay a band.
No subscription.
more I love how much easier this app makes it to keep track of all the logistics in one place! Thank you Venue Spy!!
I love how much easier this app makes it to keep track of all the logistics in one place! Thank you Venue Spy!!
Receipts you can actually read, bandmates you can settle up with, and a monthly breakdown that tells you whether a gig paid.
• Tap a bandmate's name on the gig sheet to see every gig they had a cut on and what was paid.
• Cut any gig by percent, band or not — type 20 in the % box and the dollars follow the pay.
• "Your take after cuts" on the gig sheet: pay plus tips, minus what the bandmates get.
• In the Monthly Breakdown, tap any line to open the entry or the gig behind it, and each gig now shows whether the night made money or cost you.
• Tap a receipt photo on an expense to open it full screen, and pinch to zoom in on the fine print. Settings › Backup › Receipt Photos can keep scans at full resolution if you'd rather trade a little storage for detail.
• A song saved without an artist just shows nothing there. Nothing is labeled "Original" any more.
• The "added to setlist" notice now sits just above the dock, so it never covers the drop zone and Undo is right where your thumb is.
1.8.1 Oct 1
Setlists that work like the note in your pocket, receipts that read themselves, and bands that pay out right.
• Paste a setlist. Paste the list from Notes straight into a setlist — numbering, dashes and "Title - Artist" all understood. Songs you already have are matched; the rest are created, with the tuning you choose.
• Sections. Split a setlist into Main, Extras, Second Set, Encore or names of your own. Sections collapse and drag as a unit, songs drag between them, and any move or removal can be undone for a few seconds. The grip is on the left, so scrolling from the right edge never reorders anything.
• Stage mode. Full screen, always dark: the title, the lyrics, and the next song on deck. Swipe anywhere to change songs, or let the lyrics autoscroll at the speed you pick. Turn it on under Settings › Setlists.
• Faster adding. Type two letters and your library suggests the song. Songs already on the setlist can be marked, sent to the bottom, or hidden while you build. Pick several songs at once. Duplicate a setlist in one tap.
• Scan receipts. On an expense, tap Scan Receipt: the camera reads the vendor, amount and date right on your iPhone — nothing is sent anywhere. The photo stays with the expense, and a separate toggle under Settings › Backup keeps a copy in your private iCloud so it comes back on a new phone.
• Bands, done right. Pick a band on any duo or band gig, from the booking form or the gig sheet, and the lineup and cuts fill in from the band's percentages. Change the pay and the cuts follow; a cut you set by hand stays.
• Your share. Income attributed to a band now counts your share only, on every screen and in every report.
• Fixes. Amounts typed on a comma-decimal keyboard save correctly. Settings sync is more careful on the first sync after an update. A calendar event you deleted is not re-created when you edit a gig's pay. Removing a receipt waits until you save.
Nothing about your data changes. Your setlists, songs and gigs are exactly as they were; every new way to work with them is optional.
1.8 Sep 24
Your settings now follow you, and the gig sheet can track the time you actually played.
• Settings sync. Colors, currency, home base, the leave-by buffer, notification choices, tab order — set them once and they show up on your other iPhone or iPad through iCloud. Things that belong to one device (backups, the iCloud toggle itself) stay put.
• Time played. A three-hour booking isn't three hours of playing. Turn on Settings › Gigging › Time Played and the gig sheet gets a field for what you actually played, plus an optional setup & teardown allowance. Every report then shows played, setup & teardown, and total time as separate lines — and your take per hour. Both off by default; nothing changes until you turn them on.
• Leave by, with an arrival time. "Leave by 5:40 · 25 min drive · arrive 6:05." Tap the drive line to see when you'd arrive if you left right now; tap Leave by to see the buffer it used. The buffer setting moved to Home Base & Location so it's easy to find.
• Setlist colors agree everywhere. The setlist screen now uses your tuning and capo colors instead of its own, and recoloring a tuning updates every screen at once. A song with no tuning set shows as Standard, in green, everywhere.
• Tap a setlist in the grid's dock to open it. Long-press to rename.
• Settings › Premium Unlocked and Business Pack Unlocked now open a page listing exactly what each pack gave you.
Nothing about your data changes. If you use one device and leave the new toggles off, VenueSpy looks the way it did — with the leave-by line a little more useful.
1.7 Sep 10
Two fixes for anyone using VenueSpy outside the United States.
• The bandmate payment summary is now named correctly for your currency. On a
non-dollar currency it's "Payments to Others — Annual Summary" everywhere it
appears — the menu, Settings, the exported file — rather than being labelled
a 1099, which is a US form with no equivalent in most countries. The document
itself already worked this way; now its name matches.
• Exporting invoices when you haven't made any said "there's no income or
expense data" — alarming and untrue if you've had a good year. It now says
what's actually missing, and how to make one.
Nothing else changed. If you're in the US, VenueSpy looks exactly as it did.
1.6.1 Sep 4
Your money, in your preferred currency.
• Pick your currency in Settings — euros, pounds, kroner, yen and the rest.
Every screen, invoice, PDF and CSV follows it.
• Changing currency changes the LABEL, never the amount. A gig recorded as 300
stays 300. Nothing is re-valued and no exchange rate touches your records.
• Fahrenheit or Celsius for the gig-day weather.
• Both are set from your phone the first time you open the app, so if they were
already right you never have to think about them. Onboarding shows you what
it picked and lets you change it.
The bandmate summary makes sense outside the United States.
• The 1099-NEC is a US form, and there is no equivalent in most of Europe — the
person you paid declares their own income instead. On a non-dollar currency
the report drops the $600 threshold column and the 1099 flag, and carries a
note that is true wherever you are.
• Same data, same document, honest in both places.
Smaller things.
• The sample data now fills in the current month, so tapping "Show Me With
Sample Data" early in a month no longer shows an empty one.
• Money amounts you type are read in your own currency's format.
• Prices shown in the app come from the App Store in your currency, rather than
being written into the app in dollars.
1.6 Sep 3
Setlists know your tunings now.
• Color your songs by tuning — Standard, Drop D, DADGAD and the rest, each
with its own color, and every one of them yours to change in
Settings › Setlists › Tuning & Capo Colors.
• Capo is its own field with a numbered dot, because a capo sits on top of a
tuning rather than replacing it.
• Drag a song straight onto a setlist. Your sets line the bottom of the song
grid, each in its own color, and a song shows one checkmark per set it is in.
• Rename and recolor a setlist without leaving the screen.
• Delete a song from the grid — and undo it, setlist entries and all.
The Monthly Breakdown became a place you can actually work.
• Add an expense or tips to a gig by typing a line, right there. No second
sheet over the one you were reading.
• Swipe any line you added to delete it.
• Tap a calculated line to open the gig with the pay field already waiting.
Undo, everywhere it matters.
• Four seconds to take back anything you delete — on the Income screen, in the
Monthly Breakdown, and when a song lands in the wrong setlist. Lines come
back where they were, with their category and notes intact.
Money and bookings.
• Filter income by month: tap the Income tab again for a month stepper.
• Tap a free night on the Bookings calendar to book it, and the date you tapped
now travels all the way through — search, Add Venue, everything.
• A just-booked gig is highlighted so you can see what you did.
• Amounts now read a comma decimal, so 12,50 means twelve fifty.
Fixes.
• Changing a gig's date moves its calendar event instead of leaving a stale one.
• Opening Settings on a Mac no longer crashes.
• An expense added from a gig attaches to THAT gig.
• Quick action buttons respond to an ordinary tap again.
1.5 Aug 31
VenueSpy runs on iPad now.
IPAD
• A real iPad layout, not a stretched phone. Built against the 13-inch iPad Pro and sized properly on every other iPad, in both orientations and in Split View.
• Your screens live in a top row by default, or move them to a sidebar with the button in the top-left. Whichever you pick, it stays picked.
• Settings, forms and lists sit at a comfortable reading width instead of running the full width of the glass.
SETLISTS
• A new grid view of your song library. Zoom out to see everything you know at once, zoom in when you want to read the titles.
• Drag songs into the order you want and it holds — the list view opens in the same order.
• Press and hold any song to add it straight to a setlist, or start a new one.
THE GIG SHEET
• Expenses for the night you're playing are right there on the gig sheet. No more logging the parking twice.
• Set the event type on a single booking. A room that does a music night on Friday and comedy on Tuesday is one venue, and now your bookings can say which is which.
• "Post-Gig Notes" is just "Gig Notes". You were always writing the door code in there before the gig anyway.
• Notes you keep for a venue now show their date, so you can see what changed since last time.
SUMMARY
• Each section is outlined in its own colour, so you can find the one you want without reading.
• Gigs you haven't been paid for are now red. They were the same orange as everything else asking for attention, and they shouldn't have been.
SMALLER THINGS
• Setlists now opens on your song library instead of your setlists — it's the screen you actually want when a room asks for something else.
• A Reminders row in More that tells you whether your alerts are actually on. Most people never found them under Settings.
• Bookings and the map are easier to reach from the bottom bar.
• The purchase screen no longer shows a price it hasn't confirmed with the App Store.
Thanks for using VenueSpy.
1.4 Aug 14
1.3.1 is a fix release. Almost all of it is money and calendar accuracy — the parts you shouldn't have to double-check.
MONEY
• Clearing a pay, tips or mileage field now actually clears it. Before, the screen said "Saved" and quietly kept the old amount.
• Setting pay from the pencil no longer wipes the number you just typed.
• Mileage you delete on a gig you've already played stays deleted, instead of coming back as the route estimate.
• "Pay received" saves from the gig sheet now, not only from the mark-complete prompt.
• Summary and Income can no longer disagree about the same month or year.
• The Monthly Breakdown stopped counting money from gigs that haven't happened yet.
• A gig awaiting payment no longer books a commission expense against income you haven't been paid.
CALENDAR
• Holding a date now genuinely puts a hold on your calendar. Before, it often did nothing and said nothing.
• Confirming a held date turns that hold into the real booking — on the night you held, not on today's date.
• Deleting a gig offers to remove its calendar event too, and says plainly that it can't be undone and that it disappears for anyone you share that calendar with. Every delete screen now words it the same way.
FINDING THINGS
• Bookings has a Completed / Upcoming filter.
• Income shows what you've paid bandmates this year, using the same figures as the 1099 prep so the two reconcile.
• Settings search finds the calendar settings. Searching "calendar" used to return nothing at all.
• The export screen is now "Taxes & Data Export", and says plainly that it isn't tax advice.
ELSEWHERE
• The Done key above the number pad is reliable now. It was intermittent for a time.
• Screens opened from More can always be closed again.
• Five new app icons — the microphone-in-a-pin from the website, in all five colours. 30 to choose from.
Thanks for using VenueSpy.
1.3.1 Aug 10
Manager and agent commission, actually calculated.
Set your manager's or agent's percentage once in Settings and VenueSpy works out what each gig owes them. Rates can be overridden on a single booking, because the same room might be booked by your agent one month and by you the next — and only one of those owes anybody a cut.
Commission is recorded as an expense, not as income you never earned. Your gross stays honest, the deduction shows up where your accountant expects it, and your exports still reconcile against what the venue says it paid you.
Send gigs to any calendar — including one you share.
Choose which calendar bookings go to, grouped by account, so a Google or Outlook calendar you've added to iPhone is one tap away. Then choose what travels with them: gig pay, the venue address, your act type, your lineup, load-in time and gear notes each have their own switch. Turn pay off before you share a calendar with your band. Contact names, phone numbers and email addresses are never exported, on any setting.
See further ahead, and tell solo nights from band nights.
Tap the heading on the Summary timeline to step from the next 15 days to a month, three months, or everything you have booked — press and hold to jump straight to one. Duo and band bookings are tinted so they stand out from solo ones, and a tap on "4 band" filters the strip to just those.
A manager or agent for one gig only.
Someone brings you a booking at a room you usually handle yourself? Add their name and cut on that gig alone, without attaching them to the venue.
One search box for the whole app.
Search venues, gigs, bandmates, money entries and songs from a single field in the new More tab. Money & Taxes now gathers invoices, the monthly audit, 1099 summaries and exports in one place instead of scattering them through Settings.
Easier to get around.
The bottom bar is now Setlists, Income, Summary, Venues and More. Bookings, Bandmates and Bands moved into More, where each row shows a live count so you can see what needs attention without opening it. Screens opened from More support the swipe-from-the-left-edge gesture to go back.
Also in this release
• Weather at showtime now shows its Apple Weather attribution everywhere it appears
• The restore button names what it restores — Premium and Business Pack (tips are one-time thank-yous and aren't restorable)
• "Meals" is now "Food & Drink" — your existing entries were renamed automatically, and nothing else about them changed
• Income and expense categories now have icons, and so does the gig type picker
• Income & Expenses groups into Gig Income, Manual Entries and Commission — each one folds away, and the arrow beside it reverses the order
• The More screen's groups can be reordered, and Bookings is now a button on the Venues screen
• Tap "This Month" on the Summary screen to open the Monthly Breakdown
• A gig that runs past midnight now exports to Calendar correctly, and stays on the Today card until it actually ends
• Fixed this month's and this year's totals counting anything you'd dated into the future
• Buttons across the app now give proper haptic feedback
• Fixed a lag in Settings that could erase a percentage as you typed it
• Fixed the missing Done key on number keypads in Settings
• Setlists no longer squeezes its own title off the screen
1.3 Aug 8
A big update — here's everything new since the last release:
ICLOUD SYNC FOR EVERYTHING
Your bandmates, income, setlists, songs, and lyrics now sync across your devices through your private iCloud — not just your venues.
REDESIGNED VENUE PAGES
• Bookings show as clear date cards — tap one to edit or delete it
• New gigs start from a single "Book Another Date Here" button
• A venue's status now sets itself from your bookings (Booked, Complete/Re-book), with a "Not Interested" option that keeps your history intact
SMARTER GIG SHEET
• Edit a gig's pay right on the sheet
• Recalculate mileage from your Home Base — great for venues you added before setting one
• Set indoor/outdoor in place
• Cleaner bandmate pay controls with clearer split math
SETLISTS
• Share or AirPrint a setlist as a PDF or plain text — perfect for sending to bandmates
• Songs now have a tuning field (Standard, Drop D, and more), shown right on the setlist
• Color-coded sections and a dedicated lyrics scratchpad for song ideas
MONEY & SUMMARY
• New Monthly Total breakdown — see income, tips, mileage, and hours per gig for any month
• Always-visible Today card showing your next gig
• Clearer tips breakdown and highlights for gigs still waiting on payment
• Mileage total now shows the date it started counting
MORE
• Optional tip jar to support development
• Haptic feedback with an on/off toggle in Settings
• Complete-but-waiting-on-payment tracking
• Lots of polish and bug fixes
Thanks for using VenueSpy!
1.2.2 Jul 31
• Log how each gig was paid — cash, Venmo, check, and more — right on the gig sheet
• Mileage now auto-fills from your Home Base
• Search your settings instantly
• Faster money entry: a Save button within thumb's reach, plus a one-tap keyboard dismiss
• Completed gigs now list newest-first
• Fine-tune what's included in your exports and reports, with an option to leave out cash
• Many reliability and reminder fixes
Premium and Business Pack are optional one-time in-app purchases:
• PDF and spreadsheet (CSV) exports of your income require Premium
• Business Pack adds PDF invoicing (and reopening past invoices in the app), the Annual Tax Summary and 1099-prep PDFs, a full-year invoice ZIP export, and Monthly Audit reports (PDF & CSV)
1.1 Jul 21
Receipts you can actually read, bandmates you can settle up with, and a monthly breakdown that tells you whether a gig paid.
• Tap a bandmate's name on the gig sheet to see every gig they had a cut on and what was paid.
• Cut any gig by percent, band or not — type 20 in the % box and the dollars follow the pay.
• "Your take after cuts" on the gig sheet: pay plus tips, minus what the bandmates get.
• In the Monthly Breakdown, tap any line to open the entry or the gig behind it, and each gig now shows whether the night made money or cost you.
• Tap a receipt photo on an expense to open it full screen, and pinch to zoom in on the fine print. Settings › Backup › Receipt Photos can keep scans at full resolution if you'd rather trade a little storage for detail.
• A song saved without an artist just shows nothing there. Nothing is labeled "Original" any more.
• The "added to setlist" notice now sits just above the dock, so it never covers the drop zone and Undo is right where your thumb is.
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