Songs - The App For Musicians

I started using this on my iPad about 8 months ago and it quickly became my favorite app ever purchased/paid for. It’s truly unbelievable how robust and full-featured this is and now I’m taking it for a spin on macOS. The main thing I used it for is pretty simple. I have about 500 write-ups of songs in mixed formats, Word, PDF, etc, andI wanted a simple way to create an evening Set List and be able to quickly pull up the documents. Some of the other cool features are impressive, but I’ve not actually used except for a quick test to see how they work.

There exists user interface idioms and conventions for reason. This app attempts to re-invent these. Clicking around to figure things out causes the app to hang (spinning beach ball).

I was told that this was THE app to get to chart my songs, as I could upload the mp3 files into the program. WRONG. Every time I try to upload from my Dropbox, the mp3 isn’t supported. I even upgraded to the “pro” version, but wasn’t able to get what I needed, rendering this app useless. I just need my money back.

Yes this app has a lot of features and I don't use most of them. But, for what I use it's great! On my macmini I add songs and build setlists. It then transfers them seemlessly to my iPad for the gigs. Since I perform most songs from memory, the set list is the main feature I use. But, when it's a song I don't quite have memorized, I touch the song in the list and there it is. I can swipe to get to the next song. I mainly use PDF's and it's great for that. And when there is a problem, the support has been great with fixes turned around quickly

Aside from a few nit-picky items, I am very happy with the app. I like that it is a single payment and not recurring subscription - that was the main reason I chose this over some other competing apps.

I’ve sort of enjoyed using song one, but I’m not having much luck bringing songs over from Ultimate Guitar. I have exported a lot of songs from UG, sometimes they come over, more often they don’t. I have no idea why.

I’ve asked these questions numerous times via you webpage and e-mail. To date NO response. - One more time…can I add music from i-tunes? - Will the music PLAY? - Can I THEN modify the selected song to add lyrics? - Can I additionally include the score, including chords and chord diagrams? Your previous answers to potential customers were, I’ve found, ambiguous, vague and off topic. Hopefully, by my SPECIFIC questions, it will help you provide the information to help decide whether to purchase your product.

This is an awesome app. It does SO much, although I got it just to organize charts. Searching charts, transposing, creating sets, and so much more are all so easy. I had a printing issue and Peter, the developer, addressed it so refreshingly fast. I love this app.

After using another software for years, that after making big changes, went totally haywire on me and I ended up losing my entire library of songs--which had taken me years to build, I switched to Song One and never regretted it. It's rock solid stability, incredibly rapid support response, and its worry-free automatic backup of everything to the iCloud make it just a few of the reasons I love Song One and rely on it to manage my repertoire, lyrics, chords and backing tracks.

It really is a lovely app and looks great in print preview. But it is so needlessly complicated that if you don't use it for awhile, it's so frustrating to do simple things like edit chords, add a capo (which at least finally functions as expected), etc. But the worst part about it is that by design it rewrites your chords to its own sensibilities (e.g., you can't have a D2... it is immediately converted to add9). And there is NO way to override it. So if you are using chord sheets, but you have band members using lead sheets, you cannot match what they have if you use this app and the app disagrees. I had such high hopes for this app, and that's why I paid the substantial price for it... but if you want to voice chords, you know, YOUR way... it's unusable, and sadly I didn't figure that out before paying for it.