Description
Manage your band. Perform with confidence.
Band Central keeps your lyrics, chords, and setlists organized and ready to go — whether you're rehearsing, gigging, or jamming.
BUILT FOR BANDS
Create and manage multiple bands from a single account. Invite band members by email and share the same song library in real time. Each member can set their own default lyric version for any song — the guitarist sees the chord chart while the vocalist sees the lyrics. Changes sync instantly across all devices so your whole band stays on the same page.
SETLISTS THAT WORK ON STAGE
Build setlists with drag-and-drop reordering. Insert timed breaks between sets with countdown timers. Swipe through songs during a performance and see total set time at a glance. Add a gig date, location, and notes to keep your schedule organized.
LYRICS & CHORDS YOUR WAY
Enter lyrics in ChordPro format with a dedicated editor, or attach a PDF, Word document, or image. Search the web for chords and lyrics and import them directly into your library. Transpose on the fly with sharp and flat options. Scale text size to fit your screen and set auto-scroll speed so your hands stay on your instrument.
METRONOME
Tap tempo or dial in BPM with a slider. Choose from wood block, digital click, stick, or silent mode. Set time signatures and count-in measures. Each lyric version can override the song's tempo — perfect when you play the same song at different speeds.
FILE ATTACHMENTS
Link audio tracks (MP3, WAV, M4A) and documents (PDF, Word, images) to any lyric version. Play audio with full controls right from the lyrics screen. Connect your Dropbox account to sync files across devices and automatically download updated versions.
FOOT PEDAL SUPPORT
Keep your hands free on stage. Works with AirTurn Bluetooth pedals and standard Bluetooth keyboard pedals. Configure up to 6 pedal ports for scrolling, page turning, auto-scroll, and navigating between songs.
CUSTOMIZE YOUR VIEW
Format chords, lyrics, section headers, and more independently. Choose fonts, sizes, colors, and styles. Save formatting at the user, band, or individual lyric level. Full dark mode support.
ORGANIZE WITH TAGS
Create custom tags to categorize songs by genre, set, mood, or anything else. Filter your library instantly.
WORKS OFFLINE
Songs, lyrics, and setlists are cached locally so you're never stuck loading on stage with a weak signal. Data syncs automatically when you're back online.
EXPORT
Export songs in ChordPro format to your device or Dropbox. Batch export your entire library with one tap.
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Nouveautés (v3.0)
Band Central 3.0 -- The New Lyric Viewer
This release replaces the lyric viewer end-to-end. Lyrics render natively now, not through a web view, so everything is faster, smoother, and more reliable.
What's new:
- Brand new native lyric viewer. Pinch-to-zoom that just works on the first try, smoother scrolling, and your zoom level is remembered separately on each device.
- Chorus and bridge sections marked with a left-margin bar. Sections opened with {soc} or {sob} get a vertical reference bar, while the existing section banner stays as the label.
- Bold, italic, and underline in lyrics. Wrap any part of a lyric in {start_of_bold}, {soi}, {sou}, or the HTML aliases , , , and have them nest with the existing {soh} highlight.
- Tappable URLs in lyrics. Long links wrap at logical break points and open in your browser when you tap them.
- Author-controlled pauses for auto-scroll. Drop {pause:5} into a lyric and auto-scroll waits five seconds at that spot.
- Format Lyrics syncs live across your devices. Change a font, color, or section style on one device and see it on the others in about a second and a half.
- Pedal scroll improvements. Quarter, Half, and Full scroll amounts are now sized to your screen, with a 15 percent overlap on Full so you keep your place. At the end of a song the pedal needs a second confirming press before it advances, so
you never skip past a lyric by accident.
- Smoother swipe between songs in setlists. The swipe gate is stricter, so a pinch-zoom or scroll motion won't accidentally turn into a song change.
- Adding a new lyric makes it your default automatically. Importing, saving from Lyric Search, or manually adding a lyric version makes it your starred default for that song. Other band members keep their own defaults independently.
- Section header background "None" now actually clears the band instead of falling back to the default light blue.
- Subtitle (artist name) now matches your lyric text color when you haven't customized it.
- Windows-imported lyric fix. Lyrics that came in with mixed line endings no longer show a blank line between every line.
- Cleaner Lyric menu. Reorganized into Edit, Attach Audio, Attach Document, Text Size, Transpose, Format Lyrics, Metronome, Show Audio Player, and a Settings submenu so nothing gets cut off on iOS 26.
- Upgrade picker. When you launch 3.0 for the first time you'll see a brief sheet describing the new viewer, with options to try it now or stick with the previous view. You can switch any time from Settings, Lyrics.
- Smaller fixes for setlist loading, swipe-between-songs reliability, pinch-to-zoom needing two or three tries, and various crashes.
If you hit anything that doesn't look right, please reply to the release email or write to tim at setlisthelper dot com. Thanks for using Band Central.