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.
Easy as pie
Easy to use. Very intuitive. Knocked out my first transcription in an hour including having to look for the right chords for the arrangement. This app needs the ability to input a melody line in between the chord diagrams and the lyric line. Needs that asap. Thank you.
Great app for organizing all my songs
Is there a Mac version in the works? Even just an iPad port for Apple silicon machines would be fantastic. I literally use this app every day. I’ve never felt more organized about my music.
No rhythm notation
This app is missing any ability to notate rhythm or pitches using musical staff. The transposition feature is cool but no staff or rhythmic notation is a deal breaker. I was hoping to use this as a replacement for carrying around my fakebook to notate full song forms. All the visuals are cool but I could not recommend this to any serious musician. I really like the app chord! by this developer. Would consider updating review if musical staff and rhythm are addd.
GREAT APP
THIS APP IS KILLER AND THE-MOST EFFICIENT FOR SHARING WITH THE BAND. JUST WISH YOU CAN AUTOMATICALLY CONVERT FROM GUITAR TO PIANO REGARDLESS OF VOICINGS
Still on the search for my tab maker
Solid but doesn’t include 7 strings and PDF import. The import in general is a little spotty but I can see the use case.
Useful, Fun, Lots of Options
I’ll just say I’m very grateful this app exists. Makes it very easy to quickly sketch out a song, lyrics, chords and all. Easy to print, too. Awesome app.
Only one problem
I love this app so far! I’ve already put several songs in and transposed them and played around with them without problem. My only issue is that it doesn’t look like I can put words over or under tablature. From what I’ve been able to figure out I can only put it in a block with chords underneath the tab. Other than that though I love this app! Edit: One major thing is that this app doesn’t support traditional sheet music. Other than that and the above, gold!
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.
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