# SongKit — Guitar & Piano SongBook

> AI-powered songbook for organizing, editing, and displaying music sheets with chords and tabs. (iPhone/iPad app by Thomas Grapperon.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/songkit/id1509076878 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Thomas Grapperon](https://appshunter.io/developer/606691233)
- Category: Music, Reference, Music
- Price: $9.99
- Rating: 4.39/5 from 36 App Store ratings · 35 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 14.1 · 96 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2020-09-23
- Data updated: 2026-07-21
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/songkit/id1509076878/reviews.md

## What is SongKit?

SongKit is an AI-powered songbook app for your iPhone and iPad.
It helps you organize, view, and edit your songs sheets on any of your devices.

With SongKit, you can edit or display songs with chords for pianos or guitar-like instruments (guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele, mandolin). The app can generate chord voicings for these instruments with complete control. Tablatures are also supported for guitar-like instruments. 

SongKit works on musical intervals internally and all musical computations are exact. You can transpose a song to any key without losing the musical meaning of notes and chords. Tabs and chord voicings can be automatically transposed by its exclusive voicing engine. 

The app uses a unique layout engine with automatic avoidance, line wrapping, and information density optimization. The engine supports multiple columns, pagination, content-aware rescaling, and much more. Styles are fully customizable and can be shared with other users. The app also allows exporting songs as professional-looking full-vector PDFs.

Songs are edited with a unique text-based view. You can type lyrics naturally, add suggested chords, insert some tablatures, drag and drop a chorus from one place to another, copy a verse and paste only the chords over some other lyrics, or insert one of the thousands of musical symbols that are shipping with the app.

The app fully supports multitasking on the iPad. You can save collections of chords, symbols, and tabs and reuse them in other songs, with automatic transposition.

With SongKit, each song is an individual file. You can organize them as you wish, let them sync using iCloud, back them up, or share it with your friends in two taps.

The app ships with an AI-powered extension that allows you to import songs directly from your web browser or many other apps in a few taps.

You can also share chord collections, templates, musical instruments, voicing generator configurations.

The app currently supports:
Songs with several instruments, in several keys;
Chord voicings generation for Piano;
Chord voicings and tabs for guitars, basses, banjos, ukulele, mandolin, with or without capos, right and left-handed;
Automatic transposition of tablatures;
Import songs from web pages, text files, or even any selected text, using Machine Learning;
Import from ChordPro format.
Thousands of SMUFL musical symbols;
Custom Fonts;
Multitasking on the iPad;
Scribble with the Apple Pencil on the iPad (starting with iPadOS 14);
Export to full-vector PDF files;
Complete sync with iCloud;
Unlimited instruments, voicing generator configurations, custom chords & voicings, layout styles, or chord collections.

## Key features

- AI-powered song import
- Chord and tablature editing
- Automatic transposition
- Customizable layout engine
- Vector PDF export
- Multitasking support

## Recent user reviews (10 of 35)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/songkit/id1509076878/reviews.md

### 5/5 — A Must Have

*2025-12-29*

I encourage every musicians, directors and teachers should have this app. Perfect for teaching, rehearsal and live performances.

### 5/5 — Good stuff

*2025-12-04, version 1.2*

Used it for a few yrs now. Decent app

### 5/5 — Extraordinaire !!!

*2025-08-03, version 1.2*

C’est exactement ce que je cherchais pour pouvoir écrire mes chansons et vu que je connais pas bien le Piano, avoir sous les yeux les notes à jouer sur le clavier, c’est royal ! je ne regrette pas de l’avoir payé, c’est une très bonne application. Merci beaucoup au développeur

### 5/5 — Great app for keeping track of songs learned

*2025-01-26*

Would love to be able to easily print off lyric sheets without chords, though. Closest I’ve been able to figure out is hiding the chords but it still leaves little boxes that look like this [OBJ] wherever a chord has been placed in the song sheet.

### 5/5 — Beautiful and no nonsense

*2024-02-14, version 1.2*

This app has really inspired me to get into writing more music, I definitely recommend reading the documentation first but once you understand the workflow its becomes second nature

### 5/5 — Enjoyable, easy to use

*2024-01-25*

I’m a 68 year old who decided to play guitar again after 20 plus years. I had some old yellowed paper (remember that?) chord charts and decided to use SongKit for the chord charts. Excellent functionality and presentation, plus the PDF output can provide me with quality paper copies as well. Using Siri dictation certainly speeds up the process.

### 2/5 — app freezes, no manual, chord editing (guitar) difficult, UI cumbersome

*2023-11-25*

This could be a great app. But you won`t understand this app really because there is no manual, just a basic first step help. There are many features, like all these strange icons with red dots and black dashes between them (has it to do with a circle of 5ths?) that go with every chord. I found no explanation whatsoever. Quite a few things in chord editing and detection just don’t make sense, the editing is a pita because the UI is all over the place here, and while you edit the chords the app can freeze, which.happened to me several times. Example: You enter a chord’s notes in the virtual fretboard, say Cmaj9 - often used by guitarists (Note C on the third fret). The app will recognise an “E7 (b13)no5/C”. Aha! But wait, you can look up 138 variations and find the Symbol you hoped for, the Cmaj9. If you tap on the shown chord, the window with the options disappears and the strange E7 thing did not change. Why show the options when you cant choose it? And so on and so on. (I tried to contact the developer three times to describe the quirks in detail and felt like a beta tester, but no reaction. So don’t try to get any help if you need it. I also have the first app of the dev. named Chord!, but could not get along with its cluttered UI, but this app looked so much better and I needed different features anyway. Wrong I was. Spent my money and cannot use the app. Very frustrating, because it could be such a great app and radio silence from the developer.

### 5/5 — Finally - lead sheets done right

*2023-10-20*

I’ve looked for an app like this for ages. I have downloaded and tried so many apps for creating basic lead sheets with chords and vocals to share with jam buddies and band mates. Until now none of them were very satisfying. Chord! is great and has a huge range of features including the ability to generate lead sheets, but SongKit focuses on its core function of creating lead sheets, without any extraneous functionality that would complicate the interface. The first time I opened it up on my iPad, it took only moments to create a new song, set the key, type some lyrics and add chords. I’m excited to see how tablature is supported, but even without that bonus feature this is an absolutely perfect app for quickly generating lead sheets and organizing songbooks. Well done - thanks so much for building this great tool for musicians!

### 4/5 — I’m Hooked

*2023-09-15*

I was a long time user of Chord! And had a couple of hundred songs in the app. When SongKit came out I was somewhat dismayed as I had put so must of an investment into Chord! and was used to it. It was familiar and easy to get around in, for me. However, I tried SongKit and now have close to 400 songs in it. SongKit has a much easier interface for song creation and maintenance. I am very happy I gave it a chance because it is now my app of choice for storing my music. Don’t get me wrong, I still use many of the features of Chord! also and think the two apps together make a winning team.

Kudos to the developer.

### 1/5 — Нет импорта

*2023-08-20*

Невозможно сделать импорт песен, хотя написано что можно.

## Frequently asked questions about SongKit

### What does SongKit do?

SongKit is an AI-powered songbook app that helps you organize, view, and edit your song sheets. It supports chords for instruments like piano and guitar, as well as tablatures. The app offers features like automatic transposition, customizable layouts, and export to professional-looking PDF files.

### What instruments are supported?

The app supports chord voicings for piano and chord voicings with tablatures for guitar-like instruments including guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele, and mandolin. It also handles instruments with or without capos, and for both right and left-handed players.

### How much does SongKit cost?

Based on the provided information, SongKit is a free application. There are no mentions of in-app purchases or subscription models.

### What devices is SongKit compatible with?

SongKit is available for iPhone and iPad. It fully supports multitasking on the iPad and Scribble with Apple Pencil on iPadOS 14 and later.

### Can I import songs into SongKit?

Yes, SongKit features an AI-powered extension that allows you to import songs directly from your web browser or other apps. It also supports importing from text files, selected text, and the ChordPro format.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.2 — 2022-10-18

This update fixes an issue when editing voicings search parameters for guitars.
Other minor bugs have also been fixed.

As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. 
Feel free to reach me if you have any issue or suggestion.

### 1.1 — 2021-09-19

- You can now bundle songs together in setlists. You can use them to quickly share songs with other members of your band.
- When reverse-searching, you can promote the current input as a voicing using the button next to the chord's name.
- Reverse-search results were also improved.
- A new extra-large size for the widget is also available on devices using iPadOS 15.

As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. 
Feel free to reach me if you have any issue or suggestion.

### 1.0.4 — 2021-04-24

- The app now allows to convert and import songs from OnSong to SongKit.
- You can also automatically import all ChordPro and OnSong songs contained in a ZIP archive.
Importing from a ZIP archive can be achieved from any app with the "Import into SongKit" extension, or from SongKit itself, by simply tapping on a ZIP archive in the document browser.
You can also specify how SongKit files are named when importing from an archive (same as original, Capitalized, Title-Artist, or Artist-Title).
- A few bugs and crashes were also fixed.

As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. 
Feel free to reach me if you have any issue or suggestion.

### 1.0.3 — 2020-11-09

This update is only a bugfix release as I'm continuing to work on the upcoming Mac version:
- Fixed associated chords issue when inserting/deleting columns in tabs
- Fixed a crash when importing tabs with tapped harmonics from the "Import into SongKit" extension. 
- Fixed tabs being exported to ChordPro with strings in the reverse order.
- Improved the widget memory footprint.
- Fixed the app being irresponsive when being resumed after a day or so and closing a song.
- Optimized the way files are handled internally, matching the upcoming Mac version.

Feel free to reach me if you have some issues or suggestions.
If you like SongKit, please rate it in the App Store, as it helps a lot!
Thank you very much!

### 1.0.2 — 2020-10-22

You can now export your songs in ChordPro format.
You can also convert multiple songs at once from the song list view, using the "Export to ChordPro" menu option.

This update also resolves a few issues:
- Fixed a crash when inserting columns in tabs with content near the end of the bar
- Fixed a crash when selecting text and editing text at the same time
- Fixed an issue with duplicated items in annotation collection
- Fixed an issue when reverse-searching chords with an alternative tuning.
- Added a setting to disable the "." keyboard shortcut in SongKit.
- Improved memory footprint and performance.

As always, your feedback is highly appreciated. 
If you like SongKit, please rate it in the App Store! Thank you very much!

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## More apps by Thomas Grapperon

- [Chord!](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chord/id606691230)

All apps by Thomas Grapperon: https://appshunter.io/developer/606691233

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