# Nashville Numbers — The Nashville Numbers

> Digital tool for creating song charts using the Nashville Number System. (iPhone/iPad app by Music City Apps.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nashville-numbers/id1475438302 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Music City Apps](https://appshunter.io/developer/1475438301)
- Category: Music, Productivity
- Price: $9.99
- Rating: 4.50/5 from 101 App Store ratings · 73 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 11 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2019-08-16
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nashville-numbers/id1475438302/reviews.md

## What is Nashville Numbers?

Music notation is made simple with this shorthand system which puts chords into numbers 1 though 7 and streamlines the page into a simple and clean format.  Forget about pencil, erasers and photocopy!  This app combines technology with tried and tested methods; allowing users to create song charts with the ease and speed of pen and paper.

For over 60 years, the Nashville Number System has been the standard for musicians in live performance, recording sessions, and teaching environments.  The published book has become required reading in many of the most prestigious music schools, including Belmont, ETSU, Lee and Liberty University, while also being required reading for anyone when they get their first gig in music city.

This innovative app brings the must-read instructional book by Chas Williams, with well over 50,000 copies sold, into our digital age by seamlessly allowing charts to be written on your digital device!

Please give feedback of a 5 star review, or contact us directly.  If you’re not happy with the app, we will issue a full refund of your purchase price (in exchange for not writing a bad review) and insure your issues are reviewed and fixed. You can keep your version and be notified when an update has been made.

Thank you for your business.  My name is Leland and I’m on the development team along with Chas. My personal email is nashvillenumbers1@gmail.com so you can contact me with issues or great musical stories!

Chart Everything My Friends!!!

## Key features

- Digital song chart creation
- Nashville Number System implementation
- Streamlined notation format
- Replaces pencil and paper
- Suitable for live performance and recording

## Chart rankings

- #132 in Top Paid · Music (US App Store)

## What do users think of Nashville Numbers?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
- 🚀 Fast charting and creation
- 💡 Great for Nashville Numbers System
- 🔄 Easy transposition to chord letters
- 📄 Exportable to PDF
- ✍️ Useful for real-time charting
- ✅ Developer responsiveness
- 🌟 Good value for price

**Cons**

- 🐛 Data loss issues
- 🤔 Lacks clear instructions/tutorials
- 🗂️ Poor organization of charts
- ✍️ Annotation can be messy/wonky
- 🖱️ Cumbersome on desktop with mouse
- 📱 Keyboard issues on smaller screens
- ↔️ No landscape mode on iPhone
- ❓ Confusing clear/delete functions

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Loses data/charts
- Website has a virus
- No tempo changing available/meter changes
- Issues retrieving saved charts from cloud storage
- Stylus writing has latency/wonky rendering
- X's don't line up underneath numbers
- Copy/paste section feature crashes app
- Section edit pop up menu glitches
- All songs gone after update
- Inputs to charts not saved
- Starter Kit option does nothing
- Cannot save as you go
- Measures shift and are out of sync
- Keyboard doesn't fit on iPhone 8 screen
- Freehand drawing annotations appear sloppy

**Most requested features**

- Add landscape view
- Split page into 2 columns
- Copy sections or series of measures
- Add text notes/annotations
- Swipe left/right for next/previous song
- Create set lists
- Pinch zoom
- Folders for song organization
- Add text annotations
- Support for time signature changes
- Ability to add text for repeats (e.g., 'x4')
- Tap to enter tempo
- Ability to add parenthesis in keyboard for chords
- Double line underneath chords for passing chords
- Ability to copy an existing chart to experiment
- Arrows for anticipating or delaying
- Time signatures available to add to chart
- More options for insertable rests and headless note stems
- Maj/min key notation (e.g., 2maj)
- More traditional notation on second page
- Rhythmic notation above Nashville numbers (quarters, eighths, triplets)
- iCloud integration
- MacOS companion app
- More specific spacing adjustments for measure alignment
- Line to put artist name
- Bass line notation for chords (e.g., C/G)
- Support for different beat counts per bar
- Share charts between musicians within the app
- Ability to add different bass numbers in a chord
- More frequent updates

## Recent user reviews (10 of 73)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nashville-numbers/id1475438302/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Fast way to chart lots of tunes fast!

*2026-06-17*

I was called to do a cover band gig on bass recently where I had to learn *a lot* of songs fast and Nashville Numbers was perfect for this task. I used it to chart blues, rock, country, and kept all of the songs to one page. Sending NNS charts to forScore for organization and more detailed editing is quick and easy. Thanks, Chas and Leland!

**Developer response:** Hi JFB! Thanks for the good words. We're glad you're liking the app. Sounds like you're using it well for charting, organizing and sharing.
Keep your eyes out for a new update coming soon.
Thanks,
Chas

### 4/5 — Good for NNS charts

*2026-05-20, version 1.14*

The developer contacted me and let me know about their plans to improve the app (like adding landscape view).  Looking forward to future updates.

### 4/5 — Layout Options

*2026-04-02, version 1.14*

Liking the app so far, but I’m wondering if there’s a way to split a page into 2 columns so I can fit more on one page?

### 4/5 — Copy sections or series of measures, possible, or not?

*2026-02-04*

I’m new to writing out Nashville charts.  Mostly worship songs so I can fit charts onto a single page.  Is there a way to select a block of measures or song section, to copy and paste them?
Second, on editing the chart, it would be sweet if one could add text notes, like an asterisk to play and alternative chord, with text, not a handwritten note.

Please advise

**Developer response:** Hi! Yes, you can copy and paste sections.
Long press the section title box that you want to paste and select Copy Section. Then, long press and empty or new section and select Paste.
Yes, a movable text box is something we really want to add. It would be nice not having to use handwriting. Anyway, handwriting is what we have for now. Keep an eye open for updates. They keep coming.
Thanks for checking out the app!

### 4/5 — Getting Better

*2026-02-02, version 1.14*

The next update needs to add pinch zoom, and the ability to swipe left or right to the previous or next song.

### 4/5 — Set list

*2025-11-21, version 1.14*

I love this app a lot. The only thing I would like to do is be able to put songs in a set list. The online distribution says you can but I haven’t found it yet. Otherwise I choose this app over 1 chart

### 1/5 — Loses data constantly	!!! Beware!!! It may not keep your charts!!!

*2025-09-21*

I almost never review apps, but just want to save somebody else from the headache. I was excited to see this app, as all the other notation apps can’t do the simple Nashville numbers charts that I find most helpful. I’m joining a wedding band and have to chart out about 60 songs. I’ve charted out about 30 of them so far, went back and checked a few of them earlier ones I did and saw that the app will randomly lose information that I’ve entered in. This app fail at the one and only thing that it needs to do: saving the charts that I write. I can’t trust this app, and will be requesting a refund. I’ve wasted hours going back and redoing charts that I have already written once, sometimes twice.

**Developer response:** Hi Jacob, sorry about the delay getting back to you. 
So sorry about losing charts that you've already written. It has happened to me when I deleted the app before backing it up. I lost a ton of charts; a lot of work.
As a result, we added the ability to batch back up all of your charts in the .nns file format.
However, I've not lost any data or chart since then.

Can you be more specific about what information was missing when you opened your earlier charts?
We've actually never had anyone tell us about this problem?
Are you on the latest version? Looks like it?
iPad?

Let us know how we can help you figure this out and track down the reason you lost information?
Thanks,

Chas


We will, of course refund you if we can't find a solution. You can email me from my website:
nns_store@comcast.net

### 5/5 — NNS app rocks

*2025-09-03*

So useful, really intuitive once you get familiar with the layout. Would love to see more organizational tools for saved songs in updates (folders to sort by artist or something?). The option to export as a pdf AND the editable NNS file is really useful too.

(UPDATE: so they did EXACTLY this with their update. So awesome, thanks yall!)

**Developer response:** Hi Crumb88, Thanks so much for the great review! So sorry for the delay in resonding to your review.
We have an update that now includes folders to organize your charts. Definitely check it out; free update on the App Store.
Let me know if there's anything I can help you with.
Thanks,
Chas

### 4/5 — Bass line

*2025-09-03*

I’ve spent a couple of hours looking through the tutorials but there is no reference to the most basic function of placing one number above another to denote the bass line. There are examples, so it must be possible. But a well kept secret that makes the app useless for me. Else, brilliant.

Update: Finally found the secret! Very happy now and I’ve done many charts with the app.

**Developer response:** Hi, Bass Line! Thanks for checking out the app. So sorry to be this late seeing your review.
We've had a few complaints about instructions how to use the app. Sorry for that. 
Different bass parts of chords make the chord an Inversion. To write one, enter your chord, press "INV" then enter your bass note. It'll show as a fraction.
I think there's a new update on the App Store since June. It smooths out a lot of things. Let me know if there's anything I can help you with. Thanks, Chas

### 5/5 — Outstanding Concept - Almost 5 Stars

*2025-09-03*

What a useful app. Aside from the occasional bug this app is incredibly useful for professional musicians. It allows for very quick charting with  good arrangement detail. There are a few minor updates that will make this app outstanding:

1) The app needs to support landscape mode, at least on on iPad.

2) When copying sections, it would be great if it copied annotations too.

3) Annotations get easily wonky if any edits are made above them, ie adding a diamond pushes the chart down but not the annotations. Ideally the annotations should stay aligned with the row they are written on. 

4) I would absolutely love the ability to add text. For
Repeats I often type things like “x4” but this is not ideal because the numbers used in this way will still turn to chords in ABC mode. I prefer this over annotations because of the issues in #3 above. 

5) A better way of showing time signature changes would be really useful.  Annotations is also tough here due to #3 above. 

6) Thr clear/delete functions are slightly confusing. This is manageable now but there could be some UX adjustments here to make it a bit more intuitive. 

7) Allowing a tap to enter tempo would be amazing. This currently requires a second app. It’s nice to store the bpm in the chart, and it would be cool just to tap a box or something while transcribing and it picks up the tempo. 

These are somewhat picky suggestions. The app overall is really useful, and these enhancements would solve most of the gaps I’ve encountered when using this for gig situations.

**Developer response:** Hi, breisdor! Thanks so much for the good review! Sorry for the delay in responding.
Excellent points you bring up. We've been updating since this review.
Yes, copying annotations is really necessary. Also the whack movement of editing a chart where annotations don't follow. One thing we've updated is the annotation section. We now have a lasso tool so you can select a notation and move it intact wherever you want.
Yes, moveable text boxes have been on our wish list for a while. We're a small bunch working on the app and that's a pretty hard one, but will happen.
I see what you're saying with the x3. Sounds like you're writing one line and repeating it 3 or 4 times for a section? The X is actually a bar of "No Chord". You'd have to handwrite "x3", but I understand the trouble with that.
Changing Time Sig is a quirky Nashville thing. Most of the time, in a pop/country song, you're just adding a partial or half bar at the end of a phrase. We use the hash marks and box the extra measure in; a bar of 3, 3 hashmarks and a box. Box is optional, but helps draw attention to the Sig change.
otherwise, if you're changing for the rest of the song torso, a new Sig would indeed be helpful.
We have updated the Clear/Delete functions. I think they are a little easier to get.
Not sure I understand you with the Tempo entry requiring a 2nd app? Did you mean a 2nd Tap? I kind of like the scroll wheel? Do you find that slows you down?
Thanks so much for the feedback! Please contact me if there's anything I can help you with.
Chas

## Frequently asked questions about Nashville Numbers

### What is the Nashville Numbers app?

The Nashville Numbers app is a digital tool that simplifies music notation by using the Nashville Number System. It allows musicians to create song charts quickly and easily on their digital devices, replacing traditional pen and paper methods.

### What are the key features of this app?

The app's primary feature is the digital creation of song charts using the Nashville Number System. It offers a streamlined and clean format for notation, making it ideal for live performances, recording sessions, and teaching environments.

### How much does the Nashville Numbers app cost?

The application is a paid app. The description mentions a refund policy if you are not happy with the app, suggesting a one-time purchase price.

### What kind of devices is this app compatible with?

The description implies the app is designed for digital devices, allowing charts to be written on your digital device. Specific operating system compatibility is not detailed but it is designed for modern digital use.

### Who would benefit from using this app?

This app is designed for musicians, songwriters, and music students who are familiar with or wish to learn the Nashville Number System. It's particularly useful for those involved in live performance, recording, or music education.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.14 — 2025-06-23

Fixed not being able to import or share charts. Also fixed imported charts not displaying in the chart list. Imported charts will now be in an "Imported Songs" folder on the main screen

### 1.13 — 2025-04-24

When enabling numbers to letters conversion, a chart in the key of E major was not displaying any of its chords. This has been fixed and the E major key should now display properly.

### 1.12 — 2025-04-21

* When in Letters mode (ABC), the chord keyboard will now display the correct chord for the key the song or mod is in. Made some additional corrections to chord conversions.
* The clear button now properly backspaces through a split bar by first emptying the bar item, and then a second tap of the clear button removes that bar item. You can clear out any item in the split bar without deleting the entire split bar.

### 1.11 — 2025-04-03

* Fixed an issue where zoom was disabled when in drawing mode on a chart
* Merged the "X" and "trash" buttons into a single "Clear" button for removing items from a chart

### 1.10 — 2025-03-26

Fixed an issue where some icons were not appearing on iOS versions prior to iOS 17.

Several performance optimizations when navigating song folder lists

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