# Òrain: Songbook and Chords — Gàidhlig, Scots and English > Gàidhlig, Scots and English (iPhone/iPad app by Callum MacLellan.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/orain-songbook-and-chords/id6808541376 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Callum MacLellan](https://appshunter.io/developer/6807685439) - Category: Music, Education - Price: Free with in-app purchases (on sale, was $7.99) - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 3 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-16 - Data updated: 2026-11-10 ## What is Òrain? Òrain is a song library for singers. The words, the chords sitting above the syllable they land on, and everything that goes with a song — kept on your phone, working with no signal at all. Because the places people sing are often the places without one. WHAT IT DOES • Chords above the words, wrapping properly on any size of screen • Transpose to any key — tap a chord, choose what you want instead, and every other chord moves with it. It saves as a new version, so the original is still there • Several versions of a song at once: a different key, a different set of words, someone else's arrangement. Name them, delete them, choose which one opens by default • Auto-scroll at a speed you set, so your hands stay on the instrument • Reveal mode, a line at a time, for learning words • Record yourself singing straight into a song, and play it back against the words • Bring in recordings, videos and PDFs you already have • Listen while you read: Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp play in a bar at the top of the song page, with an A–B loop for Apple Music to repeat the phrase you're learning. Search all three from inside the app, or paste a link to YouTube or anywhere else• Collections for songbooks, tags for anything else, and filters that answer real questions: what have I not learned yet, what has no recording, what is in Gàidhlig • One tap between the Gàidhlig and the English of a song that has both, and back again • Search the titles and the words • Export the whole library to a file and bring it in on another device FREE TO START Òrain is free to download, and you can add up to 10 songs of your own at no cost. A single one-time purchase then unlocks unlimited songs, for good, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It is not a subscription. If you reach the limit, everything you already have keeps working; only adding new songs waits until you unlock. ON ALL YOUR DEVICES Your library syncs through your own iCloud account, so the same songs, versions, collections and tags are on your iPhone, your iPad and your Mac, and your recordings travel with them. There is no account to make and nothing comes to us. If you would rather keep everything on one device, sync can be turned off. NOTHING IS COLLECTED No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no subscription. Òrain has no server of its own. With sync on, your library goes to your own private iCloud account, which we cannot read, and nowhere else. With sync off it does not leave the device at all. GÀIDHLIG, SCOTS AND ENGLISH Songs are marked by language and sorted properly, so accents do not throw the alphabet out — Àrd and Aird land where they should. A singing translation is another version of the same song rather than a second entry, so the Gaelic and the English sit together where they belong. IT ARRIVES WITH SOMETHING IN IT Eight traditional songs, all out of copyright, so there is something to open on the first day — Fear a' Bhàta, Ailein Duinn, Chì mi na Mòr-Bheanna, Griogal Cridhe, Loch Lomond, The Skye Boat Song, Auld Lang Syne and The Parting Glass. Chì mi na Mòr-Bheanna arrives with both its Gàidhlig words and an English translation, so the language switch has something to switch between on the first day. They do not count towards your 10 free songs. Delete them whenever you like; they will not come back. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Lifetime licence | $7.99 | one-time | ## Is Òrain safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Òrain. ## Is Òrain legit? Òrain: Songbook and Chords appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Òrain is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.3 — 2026-11-07 • Listen while you read. Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp links on a song now play in a bar at the top of the song page, so the recording stays in reach however far down the words you scroll. • Loop a phrase to learn it. With an Apple Music song, tap A at the start of a phrase and B at the end and it repeats; tap A–B to fine-tune either end. The loop is kept with the song, on all your devices. • Find a recording without leaving Òrain: + ▸ Search Apple Music, Search Spotify or Search Bandcamp starts with the song's name and adds the one you choose. • Spotify plays whole tracks once you sign in from the player's ⋯ menu. • Apple Music and Spotify links now come across when you export a library and import it on another device. ### 1.2.2 — 2026-10-28 • The eight sample songs that come with Òrain are back within reach. If your library is empty, tap Add the sample songs; if you already have songs of your own, choose Add the sample songs from the ⋯ menu. Before this, they only appeared when iCloud was off, so most people never saw them. • Chì mi na Mòr-Bheanna now carries its "slow air" tag, like the other slow airs. ### 1.2.1 — 2026-10-27 Better management of versions. Improved pasting from chord sheets: headings such as Verse 1 and Chorus are now recognised and marked as sections for you. ### 1.2.0 — 2026-10-20 Fold away what you don't use: • Every section of the Filters sheet — Tags, Progress, Recordings and links, Language, Tradition and Composer — can now be folded away. • On the Mac, each section of the sidebar can be folded away too, Tags and Collections included. • Òrain remembers which sections you closed, and a closed section still shows anything you've chosen in it, so a filter is never hidden. Offer your own recordings to an archive: • A recording's ⋯ menu now has "Offer to an archive with Tobar". It hands the recording to the Tobar app, which helps you describe it and prepare it for Tobar an Dualchais or rareTunes. Requires Tobar. Bug fixes and small improvements. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-15 Òrain is now free to download. • Add up to 10 songs of your own for free. The eight sample songs do not count towards the 10. • A single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited songs, for good, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. There is no subscription. • If you bought Òrain before it became free, everything is already unlocked. If it ever asks, tap Restore Purchase in Settings. • If you reach 10 songs, everything you have keeps working. 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