PlayStems vs GigShed

PlayStems is an on-device multi-track stem player and AI audio splitter for musicians, vocalists, and bands to practice, rehearse, and perform with complete mix control. Import multi-track stems or split any stereo song directly on your device into independent vocal, drum, bass, and instrument tracks. Rehearse complex sections, isolate parts to learn by ear, or create backing tracks for live performance—all with zero audio uploaded to the cloud. MULTI-TRACK MIXER & REHEARSAL TOOLS • Synchronized multi-track playback with rock-solid transport stability • Per-stem mixer: adjust volume, solo individual parts, mute tracks, and tweak stereo pan • Variable tempo & pitch: slow down fast passages without changing pitch, or transpose keys • Precise waveform scrubbing and loopable marker ranges for repetitive practice • Master level control and clean library organization by title and artist ON-DEVICE AI STEM SPLITTING • Separate stereo tracks into vocals, bass, drums, and other instruments • 100% private: audio processing runs locally using your device's Neural Engine • No cloud servers, no account required, and no internet connection needed to split • Requires Apple Silicon or recent hardware: iPhone 13 or newer, iPad Pro (2018+), iPad Air (2022+), or Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) INCLUDED IN THE FREE VERSION Start practicing immediately with full core playback capabilities: • Full mixer, tempo adjustment, pitch shifting, markers, and range looping • 1 song in your library (up to 5 songs if you choose to enable anonymous usage analytics) • Up to 10 successful lifetime on-device stem splits • Standard stem-splitting quality models FULL VERSION (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) A single one-time unlock removes all library and processing caps with no subscriptions: • Unlimited song library capacity • Unlimited lifetime on-device stem splits • Access to downloadable High-Quality (HQ) neural stem-splitting models • Supports Family Sharing across your Apple devices Restore Purchases is available at any time in Help & Settings. Purchases are tied permanently to your Apple ID.

GigShed turns any recording you already own into a complete practice studio. Split a song into drums, bass, vocals, and "other," then mute or solo any part, slow it down, change the key, loop sections and build a chords-and-lyrics chart to learn it — all offline on your device. WHY GIGSHED Most tools that do this rent themselves to you by the month and ship your music off to a server. Or they have only one or two of these practice tools. GigShed does the whole practice loop in one app, on your iPhone or iPad, for a single price — no upload limits, no server lag, nothing to sign up for. It works on a plane or at your Grandpaw's with bad Wi-Fi. SEPARATE & MIX • One tap (and a couple minutes of waiting) splits any song into four stems: drums, bass, vocals, and everything else. • Mute, solo, and set the volume of each part. • Kill the vocals to sing it yourself, solo the bass to lock in a line, or drop the drums to play along. • Finally hear the guitar part the vocal was masking. CHANGE KEY & SPEED • Move the key up or down in semitones to fit your voice. • Raise the key on a song recorded in Eb so you don't have to de-tune your guitar • Slow a tricky passage to a crawl — or speed it up — with no "chipmunk" or "underwater" artifacts. • Key and speed are independent and change in real time. LOOP & DRILL • Loop any section with A/B markers that snap to bars and beats. • "Loop 8 bars" in one tap, add a beat-locked metronome and a count-in, and drill it until it's muscle memory. CHORD & LYRIC CHARTS • GigShed listens to the song and builds a chords-over-lyrics chart in standard ChordPro. • Paste the real lyrics for the most accurate result, or let it transcribe automatically (but really, just paste the official lyrics - the transcription is trained on speech so it kind of sucks for sung vocals but is sometimes better than typing from scratch). • Fix chords the smart way: tap a chord to loop and solo its exact moment, check it by ear, and correct it on the spot. TAKE IT ANYWHERE • Export your processed mix to an audio file, with your key, speed, and mix baked in. • Export the chart as ChordPro text or a print-ready PDF for your music stand. • Send it straight to GigScroll, the companion teleprompter app, for the stage. FREE TO START Every feature works free on up to 5 songs — nothing is crippled. Unlock unlimited songs with a single one-time purchase. No subscription, ever. BRING YOUR OWN MUSIC GigShed works on audio files you already own — purchased downloads, import songs you purchased from iTunes/Apple Music, CD rips, or your own recordings. There's no streaming or built-in downloader. Woodshed it in GigShed. Perform it in GigScroll.