OnSong 2026 vs Set Manager

OnSong is the best app for musicians. Get ready to prepare, practice and perform with ease. Download the app for free, create your account, and get started importing and viewing up to 30 songs. You can even receive sets and play with other OnSong users. When you're ready to go to the next level with more songs and features, subscribe to OnSong Essentials or OnSong Premium. ALWAYS READY Import and build your library of chords and lyrics with built-in support for Dropbox, Google Drive, SongSelect, Planning Center, and more to work the way you do. Even scan your paper charts directly and extract text¹. OnSong supports text-based chord charts, Adobe PDF and many other file types you can import from any supporting app like Safari. OnSong Console¹ lets you manage your library from your Mac or PC in any web browser. Whether you have ten or ten-thousand songs in your repertoire², it's always lightweight and mobile so you can play anytime, anywhere. PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS Play more gigs with planning made easy. Pull your set lists in moments² and gather the band. Transpose, capo, and format your text-based chord charts² to look just right and then annotate or draw on the page to make special notes¹. When you're all done, share wirelessly with your team in real-time¹, or print, email, and export too². OnSong is as flexible as it is powerful. BUILT FOR PERFORMANCE OnSong is built for the stage. Tap to turn pages or go hands-free with wireless foot pedals or intelligent autoscrolling². No more clumsy page turning on cluttered music stands. Every aspect of the song is at your fingertips. Assign tempo and time signature for a reassuring click², sing a cappella with a digital pitch pipe², link to backing tracks to play along², or even send MIDI events to automate your stage¹, all without complicated or confusing equipment. BE SEEN AND HEARD OnSong features powerful video features that go well beyond other apps. Display lyrics on a projector or an HDTV with a video adapter, AppleTV, or Google Cast-compatible device¹. Compose custom backgrounds with still or motion graphics, or live video¹ feeds for dynamic performances. Stay on the same page with your band with confidence monitors you control on-stage. While you're at it, run stage lighting too¹. OnSong is the ultimate creative tool for musicians. GET STARTED WITH ONSONG® ESSENTIALS Add an unlimited number of songs to your library and enable the features that let you perform with confidence including: • Pulling sets and organizing songs into books. • Hands-free control with foot pedals and actions. • Writing your own songs with custom formatting. • Transposing charts, applying capo and diagrams. • Sharing with your team. ONSONG® PREMIUM MEANS MORE POWER While OnSong Essentials has many of the basic features you need, there are a few that are only available with a Premium subscription including: advanced actions, annotations such as sticky notes, clips, text, and drawings, timeline, backing tracks, click tracks, multitracks, video tracks, Connect and OnCue, Console, document scanner, live video and motion videos backgrounds, MIDI automation, scenes, and premium technical support. Want to learn more? Visit http://onsongapp.com/features to find out if OnSong is right for you. ¹ Requires an active Premium subscription. ² Requires an active Essentials subscription. Terms of Use http://onsongapp.com/premium/terms Privacy Policy http://onsongapp.com/privacy

Designed and produced by a gigging musician, this app contains tools to create a song library and sets of songs for your gigs. It has been designed to have just the functions you need for the job, and none you don't. When adding a title to the library, the song is empty. Simply tap the title to enter lyric view, then tap the mode change button, at the top of the screen, next to the 'more' menu (...), to enter edit mode. A song can be entered by manually typing lyrics and chords into the edit screen or by copying and pasting from some other source. Once entered, lyric and chord lines can be converted to a 'Chordpro' format to allow easy key change. Tap the mode change button to return to performance mode. If you created a Chordpro format file then returning to performance mode displays the song in conventional chord and lyric lines. In edit mode you will see the first three characters of a converted file are {!}. Set Manager adds these characters to easily check for Chordpro formats. If you type a new song in Chordpro format you must type these three characters at a the beginning. Once you have a few songs in the song library you can start creating sets. On the front screen, select Set Lists then '+ Add Set'. Give the set a name. Tap the name to move to set list view, which, at the moment, will be empty. Tap '+ Add Songs'. A popup list of your library songs appears. Tap the titles to add them to the set. Songs already in the set are shown in a lighter colour. Don't worry about the list order. The set can be re-ordered by long-pressing the title and dragging it to its new position. There are at least two ways of using Set Manager during performance. Firstly, if you have a bluetooth footswitch then Set Manager can page up and down in response to the switch. Alternatively, there is an auto-scroll 'play' button on the performance screen toolbar. If you prefer to use this then the display waits until about half the screen has been performed, then starts to smooth scroll. The wait time and scroll speed is determined by the tempo setting and the font size so some experimentation is needed. Swiping left or right on the song lyric display moves to the next or previous song in the set so you don't have to go back to the set list to see what's next. This only works if you are working through a set. A song lyric in the Song Library doesn't respond to swipes. Have you ever got into a new song and you find it's not really in the right key? The song toolbar has a key change button which is active if the file has been converted to Chordie. The key can be changed be selecting the number of semitones by which to increment the chords. Simple. Songs can be shared by Airdrop, email, iMessage or whatever messaging apps you use. The share function is in the more menu, '...'. Set lists and individual songs can be shared this way. They can also be printed for any band member who prefers hard copy. The app uses your iCloud to maintain a backup of your library and set lists. If you have an iPhone and iPad the library and sets are synchronised via iCloud. Change something on the iPhone, for example, and the change is reflected on the iPad on the next data sync. Context help is available on all screens. The help button, '?', can be turned off in settings. There is a feature in Set Manager which, if you have access to a web server, can be used to store and access songs. In the settings screen you can enter a web address and the name of the song listing script. The '+ Add' button in the song library now has an active option to download songs already prepared and uploaded to the server. This is great in that one person can create and upload to the web server, giving access to the rest of the band. Below the web server details in Settings is a link to a support page with more details of setting up the web server. For the avoidance of doubt, the app is a content-free system. Any songs shown here are for illustrative and educational purposes only.