OnSong is the best app for musicians. Get ready to prepare, practice and perform with ease. Download the app for free, create your account, and get started importing and viewing up to 30 songs. You can even receive sets and play with other OnSong users. When you're ready to go to the next level with more songs and features, subscribe to OnSong Essentials or OnSong Premium.
ALWAYS READY
Import and build your library of chords and lyrics with built-in support for Dropbox, Google Drive, SongSelect, Planning Center, and more to work the way you do. Even scan your paper charts directly and extract text¹. OnSong supports text-based chord charts, Adobe PDF and many other file types you can import from any supporting app like Safari. OnSong Console¹ lets you manage your library from your Mac or PC in any web browser. Whether you have ten or ten-thousand songs in your repertoire², it's always lightweight and mobile so you can play anytime, anywhere.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Play more gigs with planning made easy. Pull your set lists in moments² and gather the band. Transpose, capo, and format your text-based chord charts² to look just right and then annotate or draw on the page to make special notes¹. When you're all done, share wirelessly with your team in real-time¹, or print, email, and export too². OnSong is as flexible as it is powerful.
BUILT FOR PERFORMANCE
OnSong is built for the stage. Tap to turn pages or go hands-free with wireless foot pedals or intelligent autoscrolling². No more clumsy page turning on cluttered music stands. Every aspect of the song is at your fingertips. Assign tempo and time signature for a reassuring click², sing a cappella with a digital pitch pipe², link to backing tracks to play along², or even send MIDI events to automate your stage¹, all without complicated or confusing equipment.
BE SEEN AND HEARD
OnSong features powerful video features that go well beyond other apps. Display lyrics on a projector or an HDTV with a video adapter, AppleTV, or Google Cast-compatible device¹. Compose custom backgrounds with still or motion graphics, or live video¹ feeds for dynamic performances. Stay on the same page with your band with confidence monitors you control on-stage. While you're at it, run stage lighting too¹. OnSong is the ultimate creative tool for musicians.
GET STARTED WITH ESSENTIALS
Add an unlimited number of songs to your library and enable the features that let you perform with confidence including:
• Pulling sets and organizing songs into books.
• Hands-free control with foot pedals and actions.
• Writing your own songs with custom formatting.
• Transposing charts, applying capo and diagrams.
• Sharing with your team.
PREMIUM MEANS MORE POWER
While OnSong Essentials has many of the basic features you need, there are a few that are only available with a Premium subscription including: advanced actions, annotations such as sticky notes, clips, text, and drawings, timeline, backing tracks, click tracks, multitracks, video tracks, Connect and OnCue, Console, document scanner, live video and motion videos backgrounds, MIDI automation, scenes, and premium technical support.
Want to learn more? Visit http://onsongapp.com/features to find out if OnSong is right for you.
¹ Requires an active Premium subscription.
² Requires an active Essentials subscription.
Subscribed for last 1 years, very happy with ever
Upgraded to 2024 version…..It’s been ruined app freezes / crashes iPad ( running latest iOS, before you say anything.)
Developers should check all this before realise.
Some songs work fine, others get a freeze page…all with same settings
Do Not Upgrade yet!!!!
Not able to find
How to easily save or how to move songs into a different play order.
Works great
Very small Uke Group and works great for us. As we get more used to it it makes everything so much easier.
App repeatedly asks to Upgrade when the subscription is purchased
So premium features remain locked.
£5 Bribe for 5* Reviews
Yes OnSong are offering to pay users £5 if they provide a 4* or 5* Review. Until recently, OnSong had a review rating of just 1*, basically because it’s a lousy program. Surprise, Surprise it has suddenly jumped to 4*. It seems some people are easily bought.
MY ORIGINAL REVIEW This App has a lousy rating which will put potential users and also existing users off. The recent 2023 upgrade was full of bugs and is very disappointing. OnSong is expensive for the limited amount of functions it provides. The annual subscription for the full package is almost £50 depending whether you pay monthly or annually. I have made numerous suggestions to the developers but sadly these have been ignored.
UPDATE 23 JUNE 2023 OnSong has generally received lousy reviews which I suspect is damaging their sales. To combat this the OnSong Developers are now offering a £5 payment to OnSong Users who leave a 4* or 5* Review. Surely Apple will not allow this. This also means the 4* and 5* reviews cannot be trusted and should be regarded as suspicious.
UPDATE 30 NOV 2023
Totally Broken
Doesnt want to work, wont connect to chromecasts wont cast and developers not responding to even fast tracked emails an £46.99 a year …
Looked so promising but…..
App fell at the first hurdle as I tested the lyric projection on a song from an iPad Air 2 before a service - swiped to the next song, and as I went down the sections of that song, the lyric projection was scrolling through the previous song instead! That’s a serious problem and one that made me lost my confidence immediately in this app.
Not Easy
It’s a dogs dinner of an app, difficult to navigate, doesn’t look worth a subscription
Linking iPads
I love this app so much I just wish it wasn’t such a problem sharing my set with other iPad users in the band.. it just keeps disconnecting from the router so I have to keep searching for the other iPads. I use iPad Pro 6th gen and my band members all have iPad Pro 2nd gen so I use my iPad Pro as master and 2 band member iPad Pro as slaves.. have you any idea why I can’t keep them connected ? Or do you have a gadget I can purchase to make this useable please. Many thanks