Stage Proof vs Chartless
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stage Proof
This app helps musicians memorize song lyrics and chords through active recall and spaced repetition. It offers practice modes, performance tools like auto-scrolling lyrics and chord displays, and song organization features.
- Active recall with spaced repetition
- Smart practice with mistake tracking
- Auto-scrolling performance view
- Chord display and transposition
- Song library with readiness ratings
- Practice streaks
- Recording feature
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Stop blanking on lyrics mid-song. Stage Proof turns passive reading into real memory. Active recall, spaced repetition-style drilling, and automatic mistake tracking mean you'll actually know your songs — not just recognise them when you see the words. Learn smarter - Smart Practice tracks every line, flags trouble spots, drills them more, and graduates a song when you nail a clean mistake-free run - Active recall with reveal & rate — just like the world's best memory techniques - Exercise mode: fill in the gap, word bank, multiple choice, sentence builder - Practice streaks to keep you consistent Perform confidently - Auto-scrolling Performance view with chords, transposition, and diatonic display (I IV V) - Automatic key detection from chord sheets - Multiple backing tracks and video with adjustable start times and snap-to-marker scrubbing - Four display modes — full lyrics to section headers only - Built-in metronome - Record yourself to hear how you sound and build confidence Organise like a pro - Song library with readiness ratings, key, and BPM - Gig setlists — build them, rehearse them, perform from them - Import from YouTube playlists, Spotify, PDF setlists, or plain text - Export and share your entire library with bandmates - Export your sheets as PDF Built by a gigging musician who got tired of blanking on verse two.
Chartless
Analyze songs in real-time to display chords, key, tempo, and downbeats. Features a deep tuner with multiple modes and intonation tools. Offers practice modes and stage view for musicians.
- Real-time song charting
- Deep guitar tuner
- Multiple input methods (mic, browser, file)
- Customizable tunings and instruments
- Practice room with looping and instruments
- Stage mode with large chord display
- Chord sheet export
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A seriously deep guitar tuner, and the whole song charted before it plays. Point Chartless at a song and it reads the entire thing first: the key, the tempo, the meter, the downbeats, and the chord on every beat. Then it plays the song back with the chart already on the screen, one bar lit at a time. No guessing at the edge of the audio. Tap any bar to loop it. THREE WAYS IN Mic: chart what your band or your own guitar is playing right now. Browser: chart a video straight from the player's audio, ahead of time. File: chart a whole recording before you press play. Share a link from any app and Chartless picks it up. THE TUNER Here's what deep means. Four modes: a single-note needle, a strum mode that reads all six strings from one strum, a strobe, and a 3D mode with thirteen ways to watch pitch. Equal, sweetened, and just intonation, with just tuned to the key of the last song you charted so open chords ring pure. Capo-aware, so you tune with it clamped. Thirty-plus tunings from standard through DADGAD, baritone, 7-string, 5-string bass, mandolin, banjo, cello, and dobro, plus your own. Then the setup tools: a guided intonation check with a saddle verdict, string freshness that hears when a set has gone dead, a stretch-tuning pass for new strings, a drone to tune by ear, and octave stretch curves for guitar and piano. SWEETENED TUNING A guitar tuned dead-on to the needle is not in tune with itself. Sweetened is one tap: each string nudged by an amount you'd never hear alone, and the chords you actually play stop fighting and start singing. It's not magic. It's arithmetic, done for you. ANY TUNING, ANY INSTRUMENT Pick your instrument and tuning in Settings and every chord diagram follows. Guitar, baritone, ukulele, baritone uke, mandolin, banjo, bass, piano, and Nashville numbers. Drop D, drop C, open G, open D, DADGAD, 7-string, left-handed. Standard shapes stay hand-made. CAPO ADVISOR Song in D-flat on a DADGAD guitar? "Capo 6, play G shapes," with the key you'd play in listed next to every fret. Recommendations only until you say so. TIME 4/4, 3/4, 6/8, and compound meters detected from the audio. Wrong? Pick it. Downbeat off? Tap the 1 while it plays. Tempo locked on the wrong pulse? Tap along and the decoder re-reads the song around your tap. PRACTICE ROOM Build a progression or import it from any charted song, set the tempo, pick a time signature, and loop it. Voice-led chords from a synth pad or 120 sampled General MIDI instruments, an arpeggiator, a click, and a fingering diagram that follows your instrument. STAGE MODE Chord as big as the phone, the next one underneath, beat dots, key and tempo, and your own brightness slider so a dark stage stays dark. Turn the phone sideways and it opens by itself. CHORD SHEETS Every chart becomes a chord sheet you can clean up, then export as a PDF. Or send it to the practice room, or look the song up on Ultimate Guitar, SongSelect, or Google. STRINGS Add your instrument and the set that's on it. Fingerprint a fresh set, and every check after that tells you how far the strings have drifted and about how many days are left. PRIVATE Classic signal processing on the phone. No AI, no cloud. Audio is never uploaded, never recorded, never used to train anything. Songs you chart stay on your device. Questions or a song it got wrong: chartless@creedysolutions.com CHARTLESS PRO Free for your first 7 days. After that the single-string tuner, the drone, and 10 minutes a day of Simple charting stay free. Pro is $39.99/year with a 7-day free trial, or $9.99/month, charged to your Apple Account. Renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://chartless.creedysolutions.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chartless at 5.0 against Stage Proof's 3.0. Stage Proof's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Chartless sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Stage Proof asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chartless holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Stage Proof ships an update every 5 days, Chartless every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stage Proof | Chartless |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Timo Andreas Holzherr | CREEDYSOLUTIONS, LLC |
Customer experience
Stage Proof
Chartless
In-app purchases
Stage Proof
No in-app purchases
Chartless
- Chartless Pro (Monthly)$9.991 Month
- Chartless Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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