PocketSongbook vs ShowRecorder

PocketSongbook helps you write chord charts quickly, transpose songs, and organize setlists for rehearsals and live performance on iPhone and iPad. WRITE CHORDS FASTER Enter roots, accidentals, chord qualities and extensions, numbers, slash notation, bar lines, spaces, and line breaks using a keyboard designed specifically for chords. BUILD CLEAR CHORD CHARTS Organize each song into sections and choose between Bar Grid View and No Grid View. Add time signatures and repeats where needed. ORGANIZE YOUR SONGBOOK Find songs quickly with search and arrange them in setlists in the order you want to play them. Your active songbook and setlist are saved automatically and restored when you reopen the app. READY WHILE PLAYING Transpose songs, adjust text sizes and colors, and move quickly from one song to the next during rehearsals or performances. MORE ROOM ON IPAD View your songbook or setlist alongside the selected song in portrait or landscape. Adjust the column widths or hide the list to give your chord chart more space. IMPORT, EXPORT AND BACK UP Import songbooks or selected songs from compatible JSON files. Export your songbook and setlists as JSON for backups and sharing, or create PDF copies for printing and reference. Automatic saving keeps your current work on the device; JSON export gives you a separate copy outside the app. FOCUSED AND PRIVATE • No in-app purchases • No subscriptions • No advertising • No account • No analytics or tracking • No cloud service or backend PocketSongbook works offline. Songs and settings are stored locally on each device, with no automatic synchronization between devices. Available in English and Italian.

Record every channel of your mixer, with no recording laptop at the gig. Plug a compatible mixer into your iPhone, iPad or Mac, press record, and get one 24-bit WAV file per channel, named after what's on it and ready for your DAW. EVERY CHANNEL, ITS OWN FILE One Broadcast WAV per USB channel, at the mixer's 48 kHz or up to 96 kHz on interfaces that offer it. From an 18-channel mixer you get 18 Stems in step with each other. NAMED FROM THE MIXER With Pro, on the mixer's network, ShowRecorder reads your channel names and colors, so channel 3 arrives as "03 Snare.wav", not "USB 03". If you re-patch an X Air's USB outputs, each file is named after what's really routed there. Find Mixers finds it on the network; no IP address to type. A SECOND COPY AS YOU RECORD With Pro, add a USB drive and every Take is written to the device and the drive at once. If the drive drops out, the missing part is filled back in from the other copy after the Take. NOTHING LOST TO A CRASH Files are saved every 2 seconds. If the app is closed mid-Take, it finishes that Take the next time it opens. A phone call or another app taking the input leaves silence of the exact length, marked, so every file stays in sync with your video. PRE-ROLL AND MARKERS A Take starts with the seconds before you pressed record, so the count-in isn't lost. Tap the flag to mark a song or a moment; Markers go into the files and your DAW project. READY TO MIX With Pro, each Show gets a report (Takes, levels, any gaps) and a Reaper project with every track and Marker in place. TEMPLATES FOR EACH VENUE With Pro, save a room's setup (channel names, mixer, Show name and Pre-roll) and start a Show from it in one tap. BUILT FOR THE STAGE Big level meters with a target band, clip marks you can see across the room, a Sunlight appearance for bright stages and a Dark one for dark rooms. Works with VoiceOver. AUTO-GAIN With Pro and an X Air mixer, Auto-gain sets each channel's preamp so it records at a healthy level, and moves the faders, sends and thresholds so the mix stays where you set it. One tap puts it all back. Never during a Take. ON YOUR WRIST With an Apple Watch, see that you're recording and for how long, drop Markers, and start or stop a Take from the stage. Stop takes a press and hold, so a stray tap can't end a song. Free for everyone. THE SHOW-SAFE PROMISE A Take never stops, and your audio is never held back, because of a Trial, a limit or a license. Limits are checked only when you press record. Your past Shows are never locked. FREE, 14-DAY TRIAL AND PRO Free records every USB channel to your iPhone, iPad or Mac, with generic file names ("USB 07") and up to 3 Markers per Take. Pro is a one-time purchase, shared with your family: names and colors from the mixer on the files, typed names, a second copy on a USB drive, unlimited Markers, the Show report and Reaper project, 96 kHz and Templates. No subscription. A 14-day Trial of everything in Pro costs nothing. When it ends, every channel still records. WHAT YOU NEED - A Behringer X Air XR18 or MR18 for 18 channels with names and colors. - Other class-compliant USB audio interfaces record too, without names. - A USB-C iPhone, an iPad, or a Mac with macOS 26. - On an iPhone or iPad, a powered USB-C hub lets it charge while the mixer and a drive are plugged in. - About 9.3 GB per hour for 18 channels at 48 kHz. The app shows the recording time left. PRIVACY ShowRecorder collects no data. Your recordings stay on your device and your drive, and the app talks only to your mixer on your local network. ShowRecorder is not affiliated with or endorsed by Behringer, Midas or Music Tribe. Behringer, Midas, X Air, XR18 and MR18 are trademarks of their owners and are named only to describe compatibility.