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Features

Rehearsal-born. Stage-ready. The work you do in rehearsal carries into every gig.

The app is free on every device. Only one thing in BandBinder ever costs money: keeping every device - and every bandmate - in the same book. During early access, even that is free. See the full comparison

Practice Mode

A BandBinder chart showing chord symbols, section labels, and lyrics together on one screen

Custom charts + import

Import ChordPro, OnSong, text, and PDF, then keep the arrangement your band actually plays. Bring a text-layer PDF and convert it to an editable chart, or keep the original and perform straight from it - scanned or photographed pages included.

Guitar tab, right in the chart

ChordPro tab sections render alongside your lyrics and survive transposition. See the authoring guide

A guitar tab section rendered inside a BandBinder chart, above the song's own chord and lyric lines
Two open BandBinder practice notes, one private and one shared with the band, each anchored to its own lyric line

Line-anchored notes

Drop rehearsal notes on the exact line they're about, so fixes survive to next practice. Keep a note private, or pin it and it travels with the chart to every device in the band.

Reference playback

Dock a YouTube video, Spotify track, or your own mp3 beside the chart, so you hear the reference and read your chart at once.

BandBinder's reference-track transport bar docked beneath a chart, playing a track with a seek slider and elapsed time

Looks right on every stage

12 curated themes tuned for legibility, not decoration - dark for stage lighting, warm for the practice room. And when the gig is outdoors at noon, Paper Stage flips Performance Mode to a print-like page that sunlight can't wash out.

Count-in, tap tempo & TV display

Tap tempo and run count-ins right from the chart screen. Plug into any TV or monitor over HDMI and mirror Performance Mode for the whole room.

The chart editor

BandBinder's chart editor with the ChordPro directive autocomplete popup and inline help box open

ChordPro editor with syntax highlighting

Edit the same ChordPro source your chart renders from - chords, directives, and sections highlight as you type, so mistakes stand out before they hit the stage. Type { and the editor suggests directives, with inline help for each. See the authoring guide

Sections & section editor

Mark verses, choruses, and bridges once, and the chart carries its own structure - retag, relabel, or resize a section without retyping a line.

The BandBinder section editor, setting a verse/chorus/bridge type, label, and line range for a chart section
The BandBinder comment editor, attaching a plain, italic, or boxed comment to a chart line

Comments & comment editor

Attach a comment to any line for arrangement notes, cues, or reminders that live right where you'll see them mid-song.

Chords, transpose & capo

BandBinder's Chord Help strip showing guitar diagrams for D, D/F#, G and A, labelled with the EADGBe tuning

Chord Help - 7 instruments

Tap any chord for a diagram, no tab switching. Guitar, piano, 4-, 5-, and 6-string bass, ukulele, and baritone ukulele are covered.

Piano diagrams, slash chords included

Keyboard players get real piano voicings, including slash chords like C/E - not just a guitar shape guessed at.

BandBinder piano chord diagrams for D, D/F#, G and A, with the slash chord's bass note picked out in a separate color
BandBinder bass diagrams for D, D/F#, G and A on an EADG neck, with root, fifth, other chord tones and the slash-chord bass note each marked differently

Bass diagrams with roots, 5ths & tones

4-, 5-, and 6-string layouts mark the root, the 5th, and every other chord tone right on the neck.

Ukulele, standard and baritone

Real uke diagrams in both tunings - GCEA for soprano, concert, and tenor, plus DGBE for baritone - drawn for four strings, not squeezed-down guitar shapes. Turn on only the instruments you play; the rest stay out of your way.

BandBinder ukulele diagrams for D, D/F#, G and A in standard GCEA tuning, drawn for four strings
BandBinder baritone ukulele diagrams for the same D, D/F#, G and A chords in DGBE tuning, showing visibly different shapes from the GCEA set

Baritone is its own tuning, not a relabel

DGBE shapes are worked out for DGBE - compare them against the GCEA set above and they are different chords under the fingers, which is exactly why a baritone player cannot just read the soprano diagram.

Transpose & capo

Shift the whole chart to a new key in one tap, or dial in a capo position - chords, diagrams, and tab all update together.

Band Sync

Fix the chart once. The whole band has it in seconds.

The fix lands in seconds, not eventually

Your band manager corrects a wrong chord and saves - every member who's online has the fix in seconds, on whatever device they're holding. Nothing to press, no texting the fix around.

BandBinder's Band Hub screen, listing two bands - The Loose Cables (current) and Velvet Static - with doors to start a new band or join one with a code

The rehearsal work travels, not just the setlist

What your band decided on Tuesday - the chart, the arrangement, the key you actually play it in - is on everyone's device. Pin a note and it travels to the whole band too, not just you.

It keeps up on stage too

A bandmate fixes a chart and your Performance Mode view updates mid-song, without leaving the chart or interrupting autoscroll.

Sync is a convenience, never a dependency

Your device's own library is the source of truth, so Performance Mode still runs with no signal, no login, and no sync at all - instant online, independent when you're not.

The market leader for bands is Apple-only, which excludes any band with a mixed lineup - which is most bands. Windows, macOS and Linux are available now, with Android and iOS in early access. One band plan covers every one of them.

The songbook your band builds in rehearsal is the one you perform with.

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