Comparison

Setlist Manager vs Aural Studio

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Setlist Manager

Organize chord charts, lyrics, and sheet music into digital songbooks. Create setlists for performances and access all your music in one place. Supports various file types and allows for annotations.

Highlights
  • Create setlists for gigs and rehearsals
  • Organize song repertoire
  • Import PDFs, images, and text charts
  • Keep chord charts and lyrics together
  • Reorder songs for performances
  • Add sticky notes and annotations
  • Search song library quickly
Features
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SongDeck is a free, simple, minimal setlist manager and digital songbook for organizing chord charts, lyrics, sheet music, PDFs, and rehearsal notes. Import your songs, build setlists, and keep every chart ready for practice, rehearsal, sessions, or live gigs. SongDeck keeps your repertoire in one clean library so you can find the right song quickly without digging through files, folders, messages, or paper sheets. Create a setlist for each performance and arrange songs in the exact order you need. Open the active set, move through your charts, and stay focused on the music instead of the setup. SongDeck supports PDFs, images, text charts, chord sheets, lyrics, and documents. You can also add quick sticky notes or handwritten markings to remember intros, endings, key changes, repeats, solos, transitions, or arrangement cues. Features: • Create setlists for gigs, rehearsals, sessions, or practice • Organize your song repertoire • Import PDFs, images, text charts, and documents • Keep chord charts, lyrics, tabs, and sheet music together • Reorder songs for each performance • Tap left or right to switch songs instantly while on stage • Open charts in a clean, distraction-free reader • Choose between smooth vertical scroll or traditional page-turning modes • Add sticky notes to any song • Draw or mark up charts with handwritten annotations • Search your library quickly • Export or share setlist files in order • Works across iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Clean, modern, minimal interface Open SongDeck, import your songs, build your set, and keep every chart ready when it is time to play.

About

Aural Studio

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Press play. Then make the sound your own. Aural Studio starts you inside a complete soundscape, not at an empty editor. Open one of four presets and listen. When a layer catches your ear, open the soundscape, reshape it, and save your version to keep exploring. MEET RESONANT TIDE A deep brown-noise bed rolls beneath two pink-noise breakers. White-noise foam brightens the surface, with a subtle binaural current underneath. Hear the whole five-layer soundscape first; then open it up. FOLLOW WHAT CATCHES YOUR EAR Mute Rolling Waves and notice what drops away. Reorder the stack or duplicate a layer before an experiment. Add sine, triangle, square, and sawtooth tones, plus white, pink, and brown noise. The controls change with the kind of layer you choose. SEND A WAVE ACROSS STEREO Give Rolling Waves a repeating path between left and right. Compatible tone and noise layers can hold a stereo position or move along a repeating path. Stereo headphones are recommended for the intended separation. DRAW HOW THE SOUND UNFOLDS Choose a value available for the layer and draw a curve across its duration. Scrub to a moment, then listen as playback follows the same rise, dip, or turn. DARKEN OR BRIGHTEN THE TEXTURE For tones and noise with filtering, choose low-pass or high-pass and adjust cutoff and resonance while you listen. LET ONE WAVE SHAPE TWO MORE When Rolling Waves swells, Sea Foam rises and the Binaural Current's beat shifts with it. In Resonant Tide, the changing volume of one layer can drive those two values. Shape one source instead of redrawing the same movement. Your original settings remain ready if you change course. KEEP YOUR VERSION Save and reopen the soundscape. Duplicate it before a new direction. Import or export editable Aural documents. Your documents stay on your device unless you explicitly export them. Aural Studio is free on the App Store. No account. No subscription. Built for iPhone; requires iOS 26 or later. Aural uses limited TelemetryDeck product analytics. See the Privacy Policy for the current data disclosure. No ads or cross-app tracking. Stereo headphones are recommended for binaural and stereo-motion playback. Listen at a comfortable level, stop if you feel discomfort, and do not listen where reduced attention could create risk. Aural Studio is creative and wellness-oriented sound software, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent a medical condition and does not guarantee a focus, relaxation, meditation, or sleep outcome.

Screenshots

Setlist Manager4 screens
Aural Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Aural Studio at fortnightly against Setlist Manager's every 3 months. Setlist Manager's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Setlist Manager ships an update every 3 months, Aural Studio fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Setlist Manager versus Aural Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSetlist ManagerAural Studio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBaturay KocAdam Horacek

In-app purchases

None

Setlist Manager

No in-app purchases

None

Aural Studio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Setlist Manager free?
Setlist Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aural Studio free?
Aural Studio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Setlist Manager or Aural Studio have ads?
Neither Setlist Manager nor Aural Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Setlist Manager or Aural Studio?
Setlist Manager ships an update every 3 months, and Aural Studio fortnightly. Most recently, Setlist Manager was updated on October 24, 2026 and Aural Studio on October 31, 2026.

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