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MySongbook - Lyrics & Chords app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 4528 ratings )
Productivity Music
Developer: Or Sharir
1.99 USD
Current version: 1.3.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 16 Feb 2009
App size: 1.73 Mb

MySongbook is an app for collecting and viewing your chord sheets, and as its name suggests - it is a digital songbook - your songbook.
It supports showing the chord diagrams right within the chord sheet, and can display diagrams for many string instruments: Guitar, Ukulele, Banjo, or whatever custom tuning you wish! (Look at the Settings app for details)

The app supports the popular (albeit old) ChordPro format. For complete description see my website apps.sharir.org/mysongbook.

(IMPORTANT: This app is only as good and accurate as whats out there on the web. Please try to look for your favorite songs before buying, so you wouldnt be disappointed)

MAIN FEATURES:
• Finding New Chords from within the app using the built-in browser and search function
• Support ZIP files for automatically adding multiple ChordPro files
• Supports landscape mode for better viewing
• Auto Scrolling for playing with the song
• Chord Diagrams just by tapping on chords
• Transposing Chords
• Basic Editing & Manually Typing of songs chords
• Right-To-Left support (defined per song)
• Import/Export of your entire library in easily readable format.

How to get chords for songs into the app?
1) Built-in Browser - The best way is to use the built-in search that uses Chordie.com or Google, but you can also go to any page containing chords in the ChordPro format. When chords are detected* in a page (website or text file), the "Save Chords" button would become active.
2) Manually - You can also manually type in a chord using the "+" button at "Artists" or "Songs" tabs, and edit the chords using the ChordPro syntax (more info at my site).
3) Download Zip File - If you already have a large collection of ChordPro files, you can compress them to a zip file, upload the file to the web (webmail, website, ftp, etc.), and download the file to the app through the built-in browser, and all the chords it can find will be added (without duplicates) to the your library automatically.

Pros and cons of MySongbook - Lyrics & Chords app for iPhone and iPad

MySongbook - Lyrics & Chords app good for

With Reverse ChordPro, that convert any html/txt to .chopro format. Freeware.
I dont understand the bad comments because I never had any problem with this app even when I updated my OS. I really like this app and if there was an iPad version I would buy it again. Love the way you can transpose the chords (chordpro) in one tap and the autoflow feature too. What else can you ask for that price?
I use this for all my learning of new songs. You can easily create your own Chord format files, and now with import/export I can finally backup my app data. Been using this app for years - its a must have for musicians of all levels :)
I find this a good app that lets you search and import songs from chordie. You have to check what you select, but it is much better than some other apps that dont even let you search for song lyrics and chords at all. Could always be better, but very functional for the most part
You can choose the chord diagrams shown from guitar to ukulele. With all the ukulele madness going on, this should be a featured feature! It works a treat. I do with it were a bit easier to get my own existing songs in...
I have about 15 apps and I have to say this is by far my favorite... I use it all te time as an avid guitarist... The only thing that is kind of annoying is when u search tabs in google, I have to go in and cut out all of the mumbo-jumbo in the search box... Its not a big deal but its the only thing I would fix... Otherwise, keep up the good work fellas

Some bad moments

You would think that youve fixed the issue 2 years later. Program ist useless like this.
This program stopped working, so I synched my iPhone and reinstalled it. All my previous entries were swiped out . I am very disappointed. I had spent hours entering songs, lyrics, chords, etc. and now to use this program, I shall have to do it all over again. I may just not use this app ever again.
I wish it worked, but there are too many bugs to make it usable. If you type in your own song and it does not fit in the viewable area, it disappears behind the keyboard and you cant scroll to it. Boneheaded programming. This app was obviously not tested very much for such a glaring error to survive.
You need an Internet to search for lyrics and download it. I thought its already stored in the apps. Not really user friendly. Sorry.
Would be great, except you can only ever use the first search result because it wont scroll down.
Cant get half the songs i want.... There is always something wrong in every song i download.... Its not considering chorus or solos.. It just keep roling down so you loose rythm.... Do not download this app.. You will be disapointed!