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SongCat – An Amazing Chord Sheet Manager for Worship Musicians (iPad)

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If you are a worship leader using an iPad, there are loads of apps that can help on stage in terms of providing a tuner, displaying your lyrics, chords etc. Here’s a powerful app with an intuitive WYSIWYG-editing enabled interface that you might want to look at.

SongCat facilitates creating/importing new songs with chords, make set-lists and access them on stage or during rehearsals. Here’s a run down of the feature list:

• WYSIWYG Song Editor- simple drag and drop interface.
• Built-in workflow maximizes your productivity.
• Edit or Perform your songs/sets from multiple places: Top 5, Search-bar, Favorites and Tag Cloud.
• Powerful tagging mechanism allows you to easily group and personalize songs/sets.
• Add multiple users and flick between them.
• Monitor your activity via the Top-5 History for songs/sets.
• Push songs to your iPad from your PC/Mac via the web interface.
• Import large numbers of songs from pre-prepared ChordPro .zip files.
• Import songs in 2 line chord/word format.
• Create a song from scratch using either the in-app editor or using a web browser from any PC/Mac over WiFi.
• Search for songs based on title/artist/favourites/key.
• Create a set list and rearrange song order via drag and drop.
• Low lighting toggle button.
• Incremental auto-scroll.
• Transpose the chords of a song on the fly in edit mode.
• Add comments to chord sheets in edit mode.
• Email a song/set as a PDF.
• Print a set list.
• Easy access to help videos from home screen.

Here’s a video to better understand how SongCat works during a performance:

SongCat is not a free app, but for $2.99, has to be a keeper.


What is your favorite iOS app?