# Song Cage: Capture Song Ideas — Voice memos, lyrics & chords

> Voice memos, lyrics & chords (iPhone/iPad app by DIGITAL CANDY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/song-cage-capture-song-ideas/id6778730565 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [DIGITAL CANDY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY](https://appshunter.io/developer/6778730567)
- Category: Music, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 175 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-22
- Data updated: 2026-08-31
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/song-cage-capture-song-ideas/id6778730565/reviews.md

## What is Song Cage?

Song Cage is where songwriters capture ideas before they slip away.

A melody in the car. A line at 2am. A chord shape you don't want to forget. Open Song Cage, capture the fragment in seconds, and get back to your day. Everything you capture is waiting on your desktop when you're ready to turn it into a finished song.

FOUR WAYS TO CAPTURE
Record: hum or sing a voice memo with a single tap. No setup, no count-in.
Lyrics: type a line, a verse, or a whole song. Built-in rhyme, slant-rhyme, and synonym tools help when you're stuck for a word.
Chords: sketch a progression on a piano or guitar keyboard, in any key.
Inbox: every idea lives in one place, ready to pick up later.

SYNCS TO YOUR DESKTOP
Sign in once and everything you capture on your phone appears in Song Cage on your computer at songcage.com, where you can arrange verses and choruses on a full timeline, hear your chords played back, and shape a rough idea into a finished song.

WORKS OFFLINE
No signal? No problem. Capture anywhere and your ideas sync the next time you're online.

BUILT FOR THE MOMENT OF INSPIRATION
Song Cage isn't a recording studio or a DAW. It's the notebook you reach for first: fast, quiet, and always in your pocket, so the idea makes it home.

Capture your song before it's gone.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.8.14 — 2026-08-20

Rhymes, synonyms and related words load faster and use less data.

### 1.8.13 — 2026-08-16

Chords now go straight onto your words. Open a section's Chords lens on the Lyrics tab, tap the word a change lands on, and pick the chord — it joins your progression and sits on that word at once. Drag its rule to say how long it rings, and play the section back to hear the changes land where you put them.

Also in this release: name any chord you already know from the picker and it arrives correctly spelled, whatever case you type it in; the chord picker's search sits on the bar where every other search on the phone does; and a section's chord labels stay in sync when you add a lyric section above them.

The Melody tab has been taken off the Lyrics tab. Humming a melody into the Record tab and turning it into notes on the desktop remains the way to write a tune.

### 1.8.12 — 2026-08-12

Signing in with Google now works on a fresh install. If you had never signed in with Google on this iPhone, the button failed every time and there was no way through it. It now signs you straight in.

Also in this release: deleting one take no longer takes another take's audio with it, the number keys write chords into the row you are looking at, and taking back a melody note leaves the word where it is.

### 1.8.11 — 2026-08-06

Song Cage now opens when your phone has no signal. If you were signed in, the app could sit on the loading spinner instead of opening. It now starts straight into your ideas, with everything you have already captured, and syncs whatever changed once you are back online.

### 1.8.10 — 2026-08-06

Fixes: signing in with Google works again. On some iPhones it had started turning every attempt away, and retrying never helped. It now signs you in.

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