What's New

You can now sign in to Choordinator without a Google or Apple account. Enter your email on the sign-in page, tap the link we send you, and you're in. The link is single-use and expires after 24 hours. If you've already signed in with Google or Apple, those still work — and if you switch to email later with the same address, we link the two so it stays one account.

We were able to replace some expensive infrastructure with our own custom tech. Thanks to this upgrade, we are able to offer Pro at a significantly better price. Pro is now $4.99/month or $39.99/year (an effective $3.33/month — save $20 vs. monthly). The 30-day Pro included on every new account is unchanged.

Pro sessions now cap at 25 viewers per session — comfortably above any band, jam, or rehearsal we've seen. If you ever hit that cap (worship leaders running large services, big open mics, music camps), there's an upgrade path to a higher-capacity tier for $12.99/month. Most users will never see it.

If the band is playing a song in E but today's singer needs it in F, the session leader can now bump the whole band up or down a semitone at a time. Open Settings and use the new Shift everyone control. It applies on top of each person's own transpose — so a capo player who normally sees the chart down two semitones still sees their preferred shapes relative to the new key. The shift is per-song and lasts only for this session.

Marking a song as played used to move it to a Played section at the bottom of your setlist sheet, which made it easy to lose. Now played songs stay exactly where they were — just dimmed with a strikethrough — so you can still find them and play them again with a tap.

We've removed the share-card feature — the button that generated a PNG of your session you could post to social. Not enough people used it to justify keeping it in the product, and what we had didn't look as good as it should. Your session history still shows what you played; we just don't generate a shareable card anymore.

Your personal library, bulk imports, practice mode, and joining any session as a viewer are now free for everyone — no time limit. Pro is for the moment that costs us money: leading live sessions (broadcasting charts to a band's phones) and creating bands (multi-user libraries). Every new account starts with 30 days of Pro included, and after that you keep everything you built and stay on Choordinator Free.

If you're the sole owner of a band and your Pro subscription ends, the band used to be stuck until you re-upgraded. Now: you can still promote a member to co-owner from the members list, even while on Free. That new co-owner can upgrade their own account to revive the band. The band's content stays intact the whole time.

New sticky top bar with the Get Choordinator free button always visible, simplified hero with the CTAs above the demo video, and tighter pricing cards reflecting the new Free-vs-Pro split.

The homepage hero now shows the live-sync video right between the headline and the primary sign-up button, instead of off to the side. The whole page is a single column now — same on phone and desktop — so the demo is the first thing you see after the headline. Pricing details moved from under the button down to the pricing section.

Free viewers who join sessions on the same device — the regulars at the Tuesday jam, the singer who always wants charts in E♭ — used to have to set their transpose every single time. Not anymore. Your phone now remembers each chart's key and font size for you per-device, no account required. Pro users with accounts already had this saved across all their devices via their library; we extended the same comfort to anyone joining a session.

The foot-pedal question no longer shows to signed-out viewers joining a session via a code. It'll ask you once after you sign in, same as before — 99% of walk-ins don't own a pedal, and it's a weird hardware question for a first impression.

Post-session share cards now render server-side with our real fonts (Fraunces for the big number, DM Sans for the body) instead of whatever the phone had loaded that second. Shared chord chart links (the “/s/…” URLs) also get a proper link preview in iMessage and Slack — title, artist, and a peek at the first few chord lines, instead of a blank card.

Privacy, terms, and DMCA pages are now the official versions (previously marked as drafts). Terms now spell out that Choordinator's software, graphics, logos, and wordmark are our own intellectual property — your chord charts and setlists still belong to you, unchanged.

Every session gets a shareable card — song count, band name, date, and the song you closed with. One tap on the session history page or at the end of a live session sends it through your phone's native share sheet, or saves it as a PNG. Single-song sessions reframe as “Kicked off with {title}” so the song becomes the hero, not the number.

If you signed up before the public launch, you now have a lifetime Pro entitlement. No credit card, no expiry, no fine print. Thanks for showing up early.

The onboarding wizard now gets you to a live session after a single song, not three. The welcome step echoes the landing tagline (“The whole room, same chart”), names the viewer-free hook, and the “Paste a song” card leads with the magic moment — we'll detect the title and artist for you.

Phones in the hero now stack vertically on iPad and tablet widths so the chord-chart previews are readable instead of squeezed into a 160-pixel split column. Mobile and desktop unchanged.

A health check now pings production every 10 minutes. If anything goes sideways with the database, session cache, or the app itself, we hear about it before you do. Just here so you know.

The /feedback page now accepts submissions from anyone — no account required. Pick what you were trying to do, write what's on your mind, leave an email if you want a reply, send. We read every one.

Plain-language legal pages with the actual list of sub-processors, what each one sees, how long we keep your data, and how to delete it. Linked from Settings and the sign-in page.

When you join a session before the leader picks a song, you now see a live status indicator, a sentence explaining what's about to happen, and the session code in big friendly type — not a one-line "waiting" message.

Anonymous viewers get a respectful one-tap sign-in bottom sheet after the leader ends the session, never mid-song. "Maybe later" dismisses it and remembers for that session.

Starting a welcome-wizard import no longer strands you on the import page when you're done — you're returned to the wizard with a count of what you imported and a "Start a session" CTA ready to go. The onboarding copy now names the use case honestly: "Import your library."

If your connection drops mid-session, a banner shows while we reconnect — and you automatically catch up to the leader's current song and scroll position.

Leaders can paste a new chord chart from inside the Songs sheet. It saves to your library and shows up on everyone's screen instantly.

When viewers request a song, leaders see an amber badge on the Songs button with the request count — and the requests are displayed prominently at the top of the Songs sheet.

New Chart page now has one-tap section buttons ([Intro], [Verse], [Chorus], [Bridge], [Outro]), an example skeleton for empty charts, and flags unrecognized chords so you can catch typos before saving.

First-time users see a one-time prompt asking if they use a Bluetooth pedal, with arrow-key mode tips.

Arrow-key pedals now work on iPad without needing fullscreen mode. Just tap anywhere to activate.

Viewers can use their own pedal to scroll independently from the leader.

Unified bottom dock with clearer leader/viewer controls and larger scroll buttons.

Three coexisting note types per song: shared band notes, per-member instructions, and personal notes.

Session leadership preserved across page refreshes, with smart reclaim on reconnect.

Fine-tune the countdown delay before auto-scroll begins.

14-day free trial, $9.99/month. Join sessions free, pay to organize and lead.

Guided flow for new users to add songs and start their first session.

Choordinator works as a PWA — add it to your home screen for an app-like experience.

Quickly switch between personal and band libraries with a collapsible picker.

See estimated total duration on setlist pages.

Bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough in chord chart lyrics.

Deleted charts move to Trash instead of being gone forever.

Color-code chart sections in band workspaces to cue different instruments.

Color individual notes and cues within chart lines.

Bluetooth page-turner pedals control auto-scroll with forward/backward nudge.

Built-in chromatic tuner and tap-tempo metronome on the Tools page.

Sign in with your Apple ID alongside Google.

Tap any chord name to see a guitar fingering diagram.

Viewers see the leader's scroll position in real time with smooth animations.

Configurable countdown before auto-scroll begins.

Screen stays awake during sessions.

Choose how band notes appear: popup, banner, or sticky.

Zoom in/out on chord charts with touch gestures.

Bottom sheet navigation, labeled controls, better mobile layout.

Tag and filter songs in band libraries.

Shift any chart up or down by semitone.

Import entire songbooks from PDF, DOCX, or TXT files.

Imported charts automatically get their alignment fixed.

Shared and per-member notes on band songs.

Paste a chord chart and Choordinator identifies the song title and artist.

Reorder setlists with touch-friendly drag handles.

Create bands, invite members, share song libraries and setlists.

Tag and filter your personal library.

Warm amber/tobacco visual design with day and night modes.

Hands-free chord chart scrolling at adjustable speed.

Create, edit, and store your chord charts.

Start a session, share the code, everyone sees the same chart.