For working bands

The band book,
on every stand.

Charts, setlists and rehearsals for the whole band, in step on every phone, tablet and laptop. Change it once and everyone has it. In any key, with every harmony marked. Even with no signal. And Claude or ChatGPT can do the chart chores for you.

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Danny Boy on an iPad: the harmony marked under the words, each singer in their own color and line, and Lou’s pads on lines of their own.

The schedule on an iPad: the rehearsals and gigs coming up, each a tap from the calendar, and the best days the whole band can make.

Every harmony in its color and its own line

One chart, and everyone reads the same one. Change a chord on your phone and it’s on every stand in the room. Every earlier version is kept.

Always in sync

Change it in the room.
Everyone has it.

Halfway through rehearsal the singer wants one more verse. They type it in on their phone, or ask Claude to, and moments later it’s on every stand: the drummer’s iPad, the bass player’s phone, the keys player’s laptop. No PDFs passed round, no “which version are you on?”

Everything, not just chartsSetlists, keys, notes, rehearsal times: one change, and the whole band sees it.
Nobody’s work lostTwo people saving the same chart? The second is told, with their text kept. Nothing is overwritten.
Still on stagePerform mode holds the gig you opened. Nothing moves under your fingers mid-song.

Maya · vocals · phone

Verse 3
G                C
We played it twice and wrote one more
G             D       G
And sang it out the open door

Saved · version 6

Sam · drums · iPadVerse 3 is here
Lou · bass · phoneVerse 3 is here
Jo · keys · laptopVerse 3 is here

Charts

Chords right where
you sing them.

Every song is a clean chord chart, every section written out in full. Move it to any key with a tap (chords and notation move together) and set the text as big as your eyes need.

A song page: Danny Boy in C, with key and text-size controls, the horn line written out as notation, and chords like Cmaj7 and Fm6 in crimson over the lyrics.

− F +
Any key

A semitone at a time. Each device remembers the key you chose.
Any size

Small A, big A. Readable from three metres away.
PDF
Paper too

A PDF of any song or the whole set, in the set’s keys, stamped with its version.

Chord diagrams

Tap a chord.
See how it’s played.

Every chord opens its notes on a keyboard and a fingering for guitar, with other voicings a swipe away. The sub who learned the set this morning will love you.

On a phone, an F minor sixth chord opened over the chart: its notes highlighted on a keyboard and guitar fingerings.

Harmonies and backing vocals

Every harmony,
in its own color.

Write the harmonies and pads right under the lyric they go with. A harmony on the lead’s own words is marked right in the lyric, a bar under it in each singer’s color, so the chart stays short. Pads and answers keep a line of their own. Pick your part and your lines light up while everyone else’s step back, on the chart, on stage and on paper.

Or [Am]when the [Em7]valley’s [F]hushed and white with [G7]snow
& Lou (pad): ooh ____ ahh
It’s [C]I’ll be [C7]here in [F]sunshine or in [Fm6]shadow
& Sam, Ray: in sunshine or in shadow
Oh [C/G]Danny [Am7]boy, oh [Dm7]Danny [G7]boy, I love you [C]so
& Lou, Sam, Ray: oh Danny boy, I love you so

In the picture: Lou’s pad keeps its own line. Sam and Ray’s harmony is marked under the lead’s words, a bar for each of them, and all three sing the last line: three bars.

In the words, or on linesHarmonies marked in the lyric, or each on its own line: your choice, on every device.
Your part, litChoose whose part you sing and the rest dims. It starts on yours.
Print your partThe PDF prints anyone’s part in bold, to learn from or hand out.
Or just ask“Add Lou’s harmony on the chorus, a third above.” Claude or ChatGPT writes it in.

On a phone, Danny Boy's chorus: Sam and Ray's harmony marked right in the lyric, a bar under it for each singer in a line of their own (Sam's dashed, Ray's dotted), and Lou's pads on lines of their own.

Written-out parts

The riff and the horn line,
right there in the chart.

Riffs and horn lines fold away, so the chart stays easy to read on stage. Open one while you’re learning it: sheet music for horns and keys, tab for guitar and bass.

A horn line in F written as notation, with chord names above the staff. — Notation that transposes with the chart

A bass riff shown as four-string bass tab, with a switch between notes and tab. — Tab for guitar and bass, notes a tap away

Performance mode

Perform.

Open the setlist, press Perform, and the whole gig is on your stand: chart only, in the set’s keys, with the singer’s note on top. Tap for the starting pitch and a metronome at the song’s tempo to count it in.

A setlist on a phone: Sunday’s gig at Riverside Park, two sets with their times, a break, and each song’s key and note.

Performance mode on a phone in dark: the chart for Danny Boy with the set position, text size buttons and the next song.

Pedal-ready

Any Bluetooth page-turn pedal. It turns the page, then the song.
Pages or scroll

Fitted to an iPad in columns, or one long column on a phone.
No signal? Fine.

The whole book lives on your phone or tablet and keeps itself current. One bar or none, the gig opens at once.
Stays awake

The screen never dims mid-song. Dark for the stage, light for rehearsal.

Open the demo setlist

The whole band

Everything that gets lost
in the group chat.

Your own cues

Notes, a photo of a few bars, or notation, pinned anywhere on a chart. Only you see them; the band’s chart doesn’t change.

Cue mode on a phone: personal notes pinned to the chart with buttons to add a cue at any section.

Every version, kept

Anyone in the band can fix a chart. History shows who changed what, line by line, and puts an old version back.

A song’s history: a list of versions with who saved each, and a marked-up comparison between two.

Rehearsals everyone can make

Everyone marks the days they can and can’t. Bandstand finds the ones that work and names who hasn’t answered. Set the weekly rehearsal once and repeat it. Every gig and rehearsal is on the schedule, with a map and your calendar a tap away.

The schedule: the gigs and rehearsals coming up with their place and time, and the next days everyone can make.

The whole book, in your pocket

Find any song by title, singer or writer. The book is in sections: Gig-ready, Rehearsing, Learning and Not started. A song’s first time at a rehearsal is marked New, so the band knows to give it time.

The song list on a phone, in Gig-ready, Rehearsing and Learning sections, with search and filters, each song’s writer and lead singer.

Vote songs in

Propose a song; when enough of the band votes for it, it joins the book to learn.

Song proposals with each one’s votes and a Vote button.

Told when it changes

Get the app, or add it to your home screen, and get a notification when someone edits a chart, a setlist or a rehearsal.

On the home screen

On Android, it’s an app: get it on Google Play. On an iPhone or iPad, add it to the home screen and it opens full screen, like any other app.

Learn it from the recording

Record a take at rehearsal, or keep the original or a part to learn with the song. It plays right on the chart, slows to 0.75× or 0.5× without changing the pitch, and goes round again while you get it.

A recording on a song’s chart: play, the name Rehearsal take, a bar to move through it, the time, the speed and the loop.

Switching

Bring your
whole book.

Paste a chart or the words from anywhere, or share them to Bandstand from your phone’s browser: they’re made into a chart, sections and all.

Drop in your OnSong backup and tick the sets you play. Their songs come along, in the keys you play them. Nothing already in the band is touched, so run it twice if you like.

OnSongThe backup file, with its sets and books.
Google DocsDownload the folder from Drive, drop in the zip.
ChordPro and text filesA hundred at once, or a zip of them.
A spreadsheetYour song list as CSV. Charts can come later.
A setlist from the group chatPaste it. Sets, breaks and keys understood.

Files are read on your device; only the songs you pick are sent. And one click downloads the whole band again, to keep or to take anywhere.

The Import page after dropping in an OnSong backup: three sets listed newest first with Riverside Festival ticked, an OnSong book, and the songs with eleven of sixteen chosen. Down by the Riverside is marked as already in the band, left as it is.

Ask Claude or ChatGPT

Fix the chart
by asking.

Connect your AI assistant to Bandstand and it works on your band’s book with you: fixing charts, adding songs, building setlists, setting rehearsals and pinning your cues, as you.

Chart chores, doneSpell the chords right in every song in E, write a repeated chorus out in full, move a verse up a step.
The rest of the band’s weekBuild Friday’s setlist from last Friday’s, set a rehearsal for the songs you’re learning, ask what changed this week.
Nothing lostEvery save is a new version under your name, refused if a bandmate saved first, with the old one kept in History. It can’t delete a song, a setlist or a band.

Works in Claude (web, desktop, phone and Claude Code) and in ChatGPT (developer mode, on paid plans). Add a custom connector with https://app.bandstand.info/api/mcp and sign in; Account in the app walks you through it. It sees only your bands; changing your password disconnects it.

In Oh! Susanna, the second chorus just says “repeat chorus”. Write it out in full.

get_chart · Oh! Susanna · version 4

save_chart · version 5 · “Chorus 2 written out”

Done: chorus 2 is written out with every chord, as version 5. Version 4 is still in its History.

- (repeat chorus)
+ C               G                 D
+ Oh, Susanna, oh don’t you cry for me
+       G                        D           G
+ For I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee

Compared

The whole band,
for less.

Bandstand charges for the band, not for each player. What a year costs, with the band’s charts shared and rehearsals scheduled:

A year, in US dollars
App	A band of 5	A band of 8
Bandstand	$24	$24
BandHelper Plus	$60	$90
OnSong Essentials each player buys it	$150	$240

Bandstand’s price holds up to 25 people. Others’ prices as their sites list them, October 2026.

The full comparison

Pricing

$2 a month.

For the whole band, billed yearly at $24. One person pays; everyone in the band, up to 25 people, gets it. In more than one band? Three bands are $4 a month, ten are $8. Your first band starts with 30 days free.

One band

$2 a month, billed yearly ($24)

1 band, up to 25 people

Start free

Three bands

$4 a month, billed yearly ($48)

3 bands, up to 25 people each

Start free

Ten bands

$8 a month, billed yearly ($96)

10 bands, up to 25 people each

Start free

2 GB for each band’s files and recordings. Need more room? Extra storage from $1 a month.

Every plan

One person pays; everyone in the band, on every device
30 days free, no card needed
We run the server, the backups and the updates
Join another band? Move up any time
Stop paying and it goes read-only; nothing is deleted

Never locked in

Imports OnSong backups with their sets, Google Docs, ChordPro and spreadsheets
Charts are plain-text ChordPro
One click downloads the whole band, to keep

The band book, on every stand.

Change it in the room. Everyone has it.

Chords right where you sing them.

Any key

Any size

Paper too

Tap a chord. See how it’s played.

Every harmony, in its own color.

The riff and the horn line, right there in the chart.

Perform.

Pedal-ready

Pages or scroll

No signal? Fine.

Stays awake

Everything that gets lost in the group chat.

Your own cues

Every version, kept

Rehearsals everyone can make

The whole book, in your pocket

Vote songs in

Told when it changes

On the home screen

Share it in, from any app

Learn it from the recording

Bring your whole book.

Fix the chart by asking.

The whole band, for less.

$2 a month.

The band book,
on every stand.

Change it in the room.
Everyone has it.

Chords right where
you sing them.

Tap a chord.
See how it’s played.

Every harmony,
in its own color.

The riff and the horn line,
right there in the chart.

Everything that gets lost
in the group chat.

Bring your
whole book.

Fix the chart
by asking.

The whole band,
for less.