SongKit

I’ve looked for an app like this for ages. I have downloaded and tried so many apps for creating basic lead sheets with chords and vocals to share with jam buddies and band mates. Until now none of them were very satisfying. Chord! is great and has a huge range of features including the ability to generate lead sheets, but SongKit focuses on its core function of creating lead sheets, without any extraneous functionality that would complicate the interface. The first time I opened it up on my iPad, it took only moments to create a new song, set the key, type some lyrics and add chords. I’m excited to see how tablature is supported, but even without that bonus feature this is an absolutely perfect app for quickly generating lead sheets and organizing songbooks. Well done - thanks so much for building this great tool for musicians!

I was a long time user of Chord! And had a couple of hundred songs in the app. When SongKit came out I was somewhat dismayed as I had put so must of an investment into Chord! and was used to it. It was familiar and easy to get around in, for me. However, I tried SongKit and now have close to 400 songs in it. SongKit has a much easier interface for song creation and maintenance. I am very happy I gave it a chance because it is now my app of choice for storing my music. Don’t get me wrong, I still use many of the features of Chord! also and think the two apps together make a winning team. Kudos to the developer.

Wow. Wow. Chord! Is probably my favorite overall iOS app and now it is a struggle to decide if I like SongKit even better. And this is only a “preliminary version” with more content on the way, according to the documentation. If you play guitar you will learn so much about music theory and guitar theory (they are two different things, as you probably know) with both Chord! and SongKit along with all their other uses...so buy the bundle. Back to SongKit...the ability to find chord voicings, transpose, save song files and print out nice lead sheets is better than anything I have found on the App Store and I have tried a LOT of other apps of this type (Chord! does lead sheets, too, but it is kind of difficult to use...my only criticism of the Chord! app). SongKit is really optimized for creating lead sheets quickly and easily while Chord! shines at helping you find chord voicings and scales, do reverse-lookups of chords and scales, explore harmonies and much more). I will use SongKit when I want to write down ideas quickly rather than use a notation program like Finale. I like the feature that lets you identify piano chords with a keyboard diagram similar to the way guitarists use chord boxes. Also like the ability to customize tunings for guitar, or transpose, and everything updates automatically in your song. Like Chord!, the app has a learning curve but it’s very powerful and worth the investment of time. BTW, I emailed the developer with an issue I had with Chord! awhile back (that was actually my error) and got a nearly immediate, very friendly explanation of how to do what I wanted to in the app.