What's new
Every release of the studio, newest first.
- v1.99.1
Small fixes
- Fixed a couple of the song page's popups (the song brief and the paste-a-chart preview) rendering with a broken, off-screen backdrop instead of the usual centered, softly blurred one.
- Widened the "paste a call link" field so a full meeting link isn't cramped.
- v1.99.0
The words get their own analysis — and search, diffs and a feed
- The Structure tab now reads your WORDS, not just your melody: does the title land in the chorus (and how often is it sung), which line keeps returning as the refrain, and which short phrase repeats like a hook.
- Search your whole catalog by lyric: the Songs page grew a search box that looks through titles AND every lyric line — "which song had the kitchen-light line?" now answers itself, with the matching lines shown under each hit. The Studio Assistant can run the same search in chat.
- Restoring a version is no longer blind: Restore first shows exactly which lines come back and which of your current lines it removes — nothing is replaced until you've seen the diff.
- With the rhyme colors on, the editor now shows everything it already knew: a stressed-beat word marked when a weak word carries the downbeat, and a quiet wave on a line whose flow is worth a second look.
- Songs with a melody get singability marks in the lyric view: a breath sign on a line that runs too long without a pause, and a dotted mark under a word that holds a long note on a closed vowel (a long “ee” is hard to sing — “ah” isn't).
- Co-writers now hear about lyric work: after a writing burst on a shared song, they get one quiet “reworked Verse 1 & Chorus” notification — chord edits never ping anyone.
- v1.98.0
The drafting layer — alternates, phrases, and whole-section drafts
- Every line can now keep alternates: park a candidate you're not sure about (from the ✦ suggestions with the new ⊞ button, or right-click a line → “Keep as alternate”) and it waits greyed under the line — click it to swap it in, and the line you had parks in its place, so toggling between takes never loses either one.
- Select a few words in a line and a small menu appears: “Say this differently” rewrites just that phrase with AI (the rest of the line stays word-for-word), and “Rhymes for this phrase” looks up multi-word rhymes — “all alone” can find “on my own”.
- A blank section's ✦ button now says Draft: it writes the whole section in one go — echoing an earlier same-kind section's rhyme shape and line lengths so verse 2 sings to verse 1's melody — shown as one block you apply (or regenerate) with a single click and a single ⌘Z back.
- Pasting a chord chart now shows a preview first — the sections, line and chord counts, and a key check — and nothing lands until you choose: add it, replace an empty song, or paste as plain text.
- The voice-note review is now editable: fix a misheard word or rename a section right in the preview, before the song is created — untouched lines keep their word-perfect timing.
- Lines (and parked alternates) can be sent to the song's Snippets drawer, so a good line you can't place yet is never lost.
- Fixed a crash: selecting a whole line and typing over it while the rhyme colors were on could break the editor — it no longer does.
- v1.97.0
How we measure — without tracking you
- Creating an account now asks one friendly question: “How did you hear about us?” It helps us know which corners of the internet our fellow songwriters come from — nothing more.
- We still don't track you: no ad pixels, no analytics cookies, no consent banner on the way in. What little we measure is counted first-party on our own servers in the EU and only ever as anonymous totals.
- Under the hood: the source that brought you in is remembered in memory only and written to your own record after you sign up — never parked on your device.
- v1.96.0
The launch waitlist — with queue-jumping
- Lyrora's launch waitlist is open at lyrora.studio/waitlist: leave your email for early access and you'll get a spot in line plus your own personal invite link.
- Jump the queue by sharing that link — every fellow songwriter who joins with it moves you further up the list.
- No account needed, we only email you about your spot and the launch, and every message has a one-click unsubscribe.
- v1.95.0
Rework any line — and a rounder lyric workshop
- The ✦ line popover grew moves: next to Next line you can now Rework a line (say it differently), Tighten it (same thought, fewer syllables) or Fit meter (resize it to sit with its neighbours) — every rewrite keeps the line's rhyme landing where the scheme needs it, and applying replaces the line in place with one ⌘Z back.
- Coach suggestions now land in one click: every suggested line in a section thread has an “Apply to line N” button — no more copy, scroll, select, paste.
- The Rhymebook finally edits: double-click a word, hit “More in the Rhymebook →”, and every result there gets a Use button that replaces the word in your lyric.
- ⌘D duplicates a line (chords travel along), the Rhymes overlay remembers that you keep it on, and the Share modal gained a words-only print sheet and a lyrics .txt download for the vocalist.
- Writing in Dutch (or any non-English language)? The rhyme colors now step aside with an honest note instead of painting wrong families — syllable counts still show. Real Dutch rhyme support is on the roadmap.
- v1.94.0
Your sounds, remembered — and a coach that knows the brief
- The brief's “Sounds like” now remembers itself: every reference sound you use is saved to your own palette, the next song starts pre-filled with your last one, and the field is a combobox — type something new or pick from what you've used before.
- Behind the scenes, a reference like “John Mayer meets Norah Jones” is translated once into the craft it stands for — imagery, diction, warmth — and reused from then on, so suggestions aim at the feel instead of imitating names.
- The Song coach (the report and the section threads) and the Studio Assistant now read your brief too: feedback lands against what you said the song is about, not a guess.
- v1.93.0
Line ideas that follow your rhyme scheme — and a brief to aim them
- Line ideas now read the section's rhyme scheme. In an ABAB verse the next line rhymes with the right earlier line — not blindly with the one above it — and when the scheme leaves a line unrhymed, the suggestions let it end free.
- A new verse inherits the shape of your earlier verses: verse 2 echoes verse 1's rhyme pattern and line lengths from its very first line.
- Tell the studio what the song is: the first time you ask for line ideas on a song, a small optional form asks what you want to say, what it should sound like (name artists as shorthand), and anything to keep. Every field optional — the more you give, the sharper the suggestions. Edit it any time via “Brief” on the suggestion popover.
- Suggestions also know the section's job now — a verse suggestion advances the scene, a chorus suggestion distills — and each candidate commits to its landing word before writing the line, which lands rhymes far more reliably.
- v1.92.0
A tension curve for your song — and sharper ears for your worktapes
- The Structure tab now draws your song's harmonic tension, bar by bar: where the chords settle, where they lean, where they pull. Dominants rise, borrowed colors glow, and a resolution visibly lands — hover any bar for the chord and its read.
- It sits right under the energy arc, so you can see at a glance whether the harmony and the dynamics tell the same story — or whether the bridge never leaves home.
- “Find chords from this hum” and voice-memo analysis now use the sharper chord recognizer by default: it isn't locked to the key anymore, hears borrowed chords and key changes in the recording, and honestly leaves a bar blank rather than guessing.
- All local analysis — deterministic, offline, never behind the AI switch.
- v1.91.0
Song DNA — your hooks, phrases and the lift
- The Structure tab now reads your song's DNA: it spots the small melodic shape that keeps returning (“one small tune keeps returning — 4 times in Chorus”) — your hook, found by the math, transposition and all.
- It hears whether your verse and chorus sing different tunes or grow from the same material — both are real strategies; Lyrora just tells you which one this song is using.
- It measures the lift: “the chorus changes chords faster than the verse” — the classic engine of a chorus that takes off — and quietly notes sections with unusual lengths (a 7-bar verse can be a signature or a slip; your call).
- Observations, never corrections — and always in your chosen register (Feel/Craft). All local analysis of your own melody and chords.
- v1.90.0
Easy shapes — the capo that plays itself
- New in the Chord kit: “Easy shapes”. Lyrora tries every capo position against your song's actual chords — scored on the real guitar fingerings — and offers the setups that are genuinely easier to play: “Capo 3 · G · C · D — sounds the same”.
- Same sound, easier hands: the one-tap apply rewrites the chart down and moves the capo up by the same amount, so the song rings exactly as it did — barre chords become open shapes.
- If you've captured a melody and set your vocal range, the advisor couples both: it only offers setups your voice can live with, and says so (“sits in your voice”).
- It stays quiet when your current setup is already the easy one. Local math over real fingering data — no AI anywhere.
- v1.89.0
Can I actually sing this?
- “Your voice” in the Chord kit now reads how the melody *sits*, not just whether the highest and lowest notes fit: it finds the band where the tune spends most of its time (the tessitura) and compares that with your comfortable range.
- It tells you things like “it rides the top of your voice — most of all in the Chorus”, with the detail on hover: how much of the singing sits above your comfort band and how long the highest stretch runs.
- It also notices leap-heavy writing and lines that run ten seconds without a place to breathe — quiet observations, never corrections.
- One tap on the existing key/capo options brings a high song down into your voice. Local math over your own melody and profile — nothing leaves the device, no AI involved.
- v1.88.0
Hear your section three other ways
- New in the Chord kit: “Hear it another way” — pick a section and Lyrora writes three complete alternative chord progressions for it: one close to home, one sadder, one lifted.
- When the section has a captured melody, the alternatives are written *under your tune*: every bar is scored against the notes you actually sang, so the chords carry the melody instead of fighting it.
- Press play to audition each one at your song's tempo, then Apply to lay it onto the section — one chord per bar, and one ⌘Z takes it back.
- This is the same kind of engine research showed can match human harmonizations — and it's local math: deterministic, offline, never behind the AI switch.
- v1.87.0
Lift the final chorus — key changes in one tap
- The section key control (“+ key”) now opens with a “Lift this section” block: one tap takes the section up a half or whole step — the classic final-chorus gear change — moving its chords and melody with it.
- Each lift lands an approach chord on the last beat of the section before (the new key's V7), so the change announces itself instead of jumping cold.
- Where the two keys genuinely share a chord, there's also “the smooth way”: a pivot path like Em → A7 into D, explained in plain language — Em is iii where you are and becomes ii where you're going.
- All local music intelligence — deterministic, offline, never behind the AI switch.
- v1.86.0
Chord suggestions that know where you are in the song
- The chord picker on the grid now reads the whole neighbourhood of the spot you tapped — everything played before it AND the chord that comes after — instead of only the previous chord on that line. Suggestions rank for that exact place, and the label says so: “fits between C and Am”.
- It hears your loop: when a section rides a repeating chord cycle, the chord that keeps the loop turning goes to the top.
- New slash-chord ideas make walking bass lines: between C and Am it offers G/B (the bass steps C → B → A), between C and F it offers C/E, and between two home chords it suggests the F/C pedal.
- A new “works right here” row when you edit a chord: a sus4 that melts into a cadential V, a 7th where it sharpens the pull home, maj7/sus2 on long-held chords — and colors your melody asks for, like add9 when the tune leans on the 9.
- The end of a section now prefers chords that land it home (or hold the breath before a chorus), and section openers follow their role — a pre-chorus moves away from home, a chorus arrives on it.
- The progression builder uses the same brain: each slot's ideas consider the whole progression around it.
- All of this is local music intelligence — deterministic, offline, and never behind the AI switch. Fixed along the way: transposing a slash chord (like C/E) now moves the bass note too.
- v1.85.0
A free split-sheet generator — no account needed
- There's a new free tool at lyrora.studio/tools/split-sheet: fill in every writer and their share, and download a clean, signable split-sheet PDF — no sign-up, no email, no paywall.
- “Split evenly” shares 100% across all the writers in one tap, and the total keeps a running tally so the splits always balance.
- The sheet prints with a signature line for every writer and covers the composition (songwriting) side — the same tidy document Lyrora makes for your own songs, now open to anyone.
- v1.84.0
A quiet Lyrora credit on the pages you share
- Every shared song page and every split-sheet PDF now carries a small, discreet “Made with Lyrora” line linking back to the site — quiet and tasteful, never a loud badge.
- On a signed split sheet, that credit is a real clickable link, so a co-writer who receives it can find their way to Lyrora with one tap.
- v1.83.0
Small truths, tidied
- The Song coach now reads your rhymes by sound, exactly like the highlights in the editor — so a rhyme like “time / by” is grounded as a real pair instead of being missed on spelling.
- The “splits changed since the signed sheet” nudge no longer fires just because you reordered the writer rows — only a genuine change to a name, split or detail counts.
- The welcome setup now runs only once — if you've been through it, you go straight to your board instead of seeing it again.
- v1.82.0
Suggestions that read your voice more closely
- AI suggestions now pick up on whether you write in past or present tense, and whether your lyrics include profanity — so they never sanitize your voice or introduce language you wouldn't use.
- Your writing-style profile now refreshes the moment you add or remove a song, instead of waiting up to a week.
- v1.81.0
Smoother co-writing
- You can now see, resend or cancel a pending co-writer invite right from the Settings tab — no more wondering if it went through.
- Adding an existing Lyrora user as a co-writer now emails them too, not just an in-app notification.
- Comments are readable and writable in solo mode again — they're async, not a live collab feature, so switching modes to check them is no longer necessary.
- Fixed a bug where two co-writers with the same initials could end up with the wrong avatar letters after a series of invites.
- v1.80.0
Housekeeping you can trust
- Split-sheet reminder emails now replace the old signing link instead of adding another — only the newest link works, exactly as you'd expect.
- Our data-retention promises now run on a weekly schedule instead of by hand: lapsed invites, stale codes, abandoned signing rounds and old analytics are cleaned up automatically, and completed signed agreements stay untouched for their full legal retention window.
- The Ideas inbox loads its most recent 500 ideas instead of everything you've ever captured — faster for heavy collectors, identical for everyone else.
- v1.79.0
Fairer limits
- A failed AI request no longer costs you a free assist — if the model errors out, your monthly count is put right back.
- Sending a split sheet for signatures now follows the same rule as inviting co-writers: the song's owner, or a co-writer on Pro. Free co-writers can still sign, comment and write — they just can't start signature rounds on someone else's song.
- v1.78.0
Honest grouping, and a few small truths
- ✦ Group in your Ideas inbox is now the real thing: the AI reads your loose scraps — voice-memo transcripts included — and files them into a few named collections that could each grow into a song. Ideas that don't clearly belong anywhere stay put, and "nothing groups yet" is an honest answer.
- Escape now actually leaves focus mode, like the tooltip always claimed.
- Adding a snippet or note line to your song now lands in the section you're working in, not silently at the bottom of the document.
- The onboarding genre step now promises exactly what it does: your genres steer the AI line, title and chord ideas.
- v1.77.0
The studio learns how you write
- The chord palettes now know your hands: chords you demonstrably reach for across your songs float up in "Chords that fit" and the Spice list — measured from your own catalog, fully offline, no AI involved. New writers see the classic order, and nothing ever hides.
- The Song coach can now hear when a song departs from your usual habits — "shorter lines than your usual, deliberate? it works" — as an observation with the wheel in your hands, never a nudge back to your average.
- The Studio Assistant knows your voice too: when you brainstorm lines or titles in chat, it writes toward your measured style instead of a generic one.
- v1.76.0
Transcription that knows your songs
- Voice-memo transcription now gets a heads-up about your world before it listens: the words and images you often sing and your song titles. Names, slang and mixed-language memos come out right more often.
- Transcribing a sung take is even sharper — Lyrora hands the recognizer the song's own lyrics first, so the words land the way you wrote them. Singing into a still-blank song falls back to your usual vocabulary.
- v1.75.0
Sharper suggestions, everywhere they appear
- When a line suggestion has a rhyme waiting to land, Lyrora now looks up real rhyme options first and offers them to the AI as a menu — so rhymes arrive on the right sound instead of near misses. (Slant rhymes stay welcome; nothing is ever forced.)
- "Sort for this song" in the Rhymebook now knows your voice too: it reads the whole song and your writing habits, and puts the words you'd actually sing on top.
- The Song coach's alternative lines pass the same quality gate as the line-ideas popover — anything leaning on worn-out lyric clichés or wildly off your meter is dropped before you see it.
- Drafting a lyric from a voice memo got its own craft: the AI now distills the strongest phrases from your rough take — keeping your own words and language — instead of treating the transcript like a song section.
- v1.74.0
Line ideas that sound like you
- The AI line, title and chord suggestions now know who's asking. Lyrora reads your own songs and distills your voice — how long your lines run, how often you rhyme, the words and images you return to, the person you write in — and every suggestion is asked to match it, with a few of your actual lines as reference.
- Suggestions also read the whole song now, not just the section you're in: the story so far, where the new line lands, how many syllables its neighbours carry, and whether a rhyme is still open — so a suggested line sits in the song instead of beside it.
- Behind the scenes each ask generates more candidates than you see; Lyrora keeps the three that fit your meter, land the open rhyme when one's due, and don't lean on worn-out lyric clichés.
- Everything stays under your AI switch: assists off means no model ever runs, and your songs are only ever read to help you write yours.
- v1.73.0
Open in your studio — hand your song to a DAW
- One new export does the producer handoff: "Open in your studio" in Share & export builds a session package — a MIDI session with your chords (played and plain), the melody, section markers, a lead-sheet PDF, a lyric cue sheet, your best take as reference audio, and a README that explains exactly how to import it into Logic, Ableton Live, Pro Tools and more.
- The session breathes like your demo: Lyrora follows the tempo of your best recorded take — every push and pull — so the DAW's grid lines up with your worktape instead of a robotic click. No usable take? You get an honest flat tempo and the README says so.
- Recorded parts on the multitrack lanes? Each lane ships as a stem, pre-aligned so you drop every file at bar 1 and the whole arrangement stands up.
- Playing with a capo? The MIDI sounds in the real key, the chart stays written for your capo shapes, and the file names spell out which is which.
- "Open in your studio" is part of Pro, next to Print/PDF.
- v1.72.0
Writing on Android? Join the waitlist
- Lyrora is iOS-only for now — if you're on an Android phone, your account page now offers a quick "app for Android?" waitlist so we can reach out if one ships.
- v1.71.0
A calmer editor: two views and a tidier toolbox
- The editor now has two clear views instead of three: Lyrics and Chords. Rhymes is no longer a separate view — in the Lyrics view, tap "Rhymes" (next to the Chords toggle) to light up the rhyme colors, meter and stress right where you're writing.
- The tools rail is grouped and labelled. Your writing tools sit together at the top (Chord kit, Rhymebook, Structure, Song coach, Notes, Snippets, Comments, Recordings); the song's paperwork lives in one "Song file" folder below — Next steps, Split sheet, Versions and Settings — with a little switcher inside.
- Tool names now say what they are: "Chords" is the Chord kit, "Rhymes" is the Rhymebook — so a word means one thing whether you're picking a view or opening a tool.
- Labels are on by default, so you can read the rail instead of guessing at icons. Prefer the compact icon strip? Collapse it and it stays collapsed.
- v1.70.0
Meet the Studio Assistant
- A new chat panel that actually knows your studio — open it from the ✦ button in the top bar, or with ⌘K → "Ask the assistant". It's part of Pro.
- Ask it to find things across everything you've captured, including what you hummed into a voice memo: "which idea was that one about the sea?" and it searches your ideas and quotes what it found.
- Ask about a song and it reads the real thing — your words, chords and the studio's own harmony and rhyme analysis — instead of guessing. "What's the harmony doing in the chorus?" gets a grounded answer in your Feel/Craft language.
- It can take small actions for you — start a new song with a structure, drop an idea, move a song's lane, tweak a title or tags — but it never just does it: every action is a card you confirm, and nothing happens until you tap "Do it".
- It won't touch the lyrics or chords of a song you've already written (that stays in your hands), and it can't delete, share or bill anything — for those it points you to where you do it yourself.
- v1.69.0
The studio finds its first voice — a whisper
- When you've been staring at the same line for a while and the studio has something genuinely useful — like "these chords seem more at home in E" — one quiet sentence appears at the bottom of the editor. Never mid-typing, never a pop-up: it waits for a pause, and typing again makes it fade.
- It knows when to stay silent: at most a few hints per session with minutes between them, never twice for the same spot, and ✕ means that hint is gone for good on this device. A ⋯ menu can mute a whole category in one tap.
- "Show me" takes you straight to the place it's talking about — the section, or the Chords panel for key suggestions.
- Write far off your usual map — a key you've never used, a tempo unlike anything in your catalog — and the welcome-back card adds one calm observation about it. Only when your catalog is big enough to actually have a "usual" (ten songs or more), and only as a fact, never advice.
- New in the editor's Settings tab: an "Ambient hints" switch. Flip it off and the studio says nothing unprompted — no card, no dots, no whispers — on this device.
- v1.68.0
The studio starts to just know — quietly
- Come back to a song after a few days and a small card at the top picks up the thread: where you left off, whether a co-writer changed anything while you were away, and whether your coach read is still current. One tap jumps you back in; any edit makes it disappear. Once per visit, never again that session.
- In Chords view (and Lyrics with chords showing), a section whose ending never quite lands — stays open, hangs on the tension chord, or fakes the landing — gets a tiny, still dot in the right margin. Hover it for one sentence about what the ending is doing, in Feel or Craft language per your setting. No animation, no badge counts, nothing pops.
- Silence is the default: a normal writing session sees none of this. Nothing ever interrupts your typing, appears under your cursor, or opens on its own — and zen mode stays as bare as ever.
- Everything runs locally from your own chart — it works with AI fully off (only the coach-report line follows your coach toggle), and dismissing anything is remembered on your device, never written to the song.
- v1.67.0
Choose how Lyrora talks about your music
- New in Account: "How insights speak" — pick Feel (plain language, no theory terms), Craft (numerals and proper terms), or Both. Play by ear? You'll never see a Roman numeral unless you ask. Love the theory? It's all there.
- Every insight can explain itself: chord suggestions, the spice palette, stress and syllable notes, key hints and "Your voice" advice now carry a short plain-language why on hover — a quiet micro-lesson, concrete to your song, never a lecture.
- The Song Coach speaks the same language you chose: prefer Feel and it says "the faked landing" instead of "a deceptive cadence" — switch to Craft and it talks numerals. Same warmth either way, and never a score or a grade.
- The coach now also reads your song's full harmony analysis — cadences, borrowed chords, key changes — so its notes about the music are grounded in what your chart actually does.
- The setting follows your account across devices, works with AI fully off, and defaults to Feel.
- v1.66.0
Does it sing? The Rhymes view now reads stress
- Lyrora now understands how words are naturally stressed — "gui-TAR", "re-MEM-ber" — and checks it against where your syllables land on the beat grid. When a word would come out upside-down (its weak syllable on the strong beat), it gets a quiet wavy underline in the Rhymes view; hover it for a plain-English explanation.
- It's deliberately calm: syncopation and pushed phrasing never flag — only a genuine inside-the-word clash does, and only on lines you've anchored to the grid. No score, no grades, nothing to configure.
- The syllable badge in the Rhymes view now also shows each line's stressed-syllable count (like "7 · ˈ3") — a truer read on line length than raw syllables, since "Hallelujah" is four syllables but one real stress.
- The Song Coach reads these same stress notes in its reports and section threads, so its feedback about flow is grounded in what your grid actually says.
- Works fully offline on common lyric vocabulary and sharpens automatically from the dictionary when you're online. Never an AI feature — it's the same kind of local analysis as key detection.
- v1.65.0
Starting a call pulls everyone in
- When you start a co-writing call on a shared song, your co-writers now get a heads-up automatically — a notification in the bell that deep-links straight to the song (where the Join banner is waiting) and an email carrying the Meet link, so nobody misses that a session's begun.
- It only fires the first time a fresh call is started — re-sharing the same link or hopping back in doesn't ping anyone again.
- Nothing new to set up, and no video costs: it reuses the same Google Meet room you already share.
- v1.64.0
When and where you wrote it
- The split sheet now shows when a song was written — taken automatically from the day you started it, nothing to fill in.
- New optional "Written in…" field in the Credits & split sheet tab: add the place a song came to life (a city, a studio, "at the cabin") if you want it on the record. Leave it blank and nothing shows.
- Both the date and the place appear on the draft split-sheet PDF, so the sheet carries the song's origin alongside the writer splits. No location tracking — the place is always yours to type.
- v1.63.0
Your songbook starts to know itself
- The Ideas inbox now quietly spots loose ideas that might be the same song — shared imagery, a matching key or tempo — and offers to group them into one collection with a tap. It always shows you why, and dismissing a suggestion is a shrug, not a decision (it's remembered locally, never saved).
- New "Hum it" search on the Ideas page: hum a few bars and Lyrora finds the voice memo that matches, by melodic shape — so "that tune I recorded last spring" is findable again. If nothing's a clear match it says so honestly rather than guessing.
- Voice memos get a light melodic fingerprint the first time you record or play them, which is what powers hum-search. It's computed on your device from audio you already captured — nothing new leaves your library.
- Your dashboard shows one calm "From your catalog" nudge when there's a genuinely useful connection — the strongest idea cluster, or unfiled ideas that fit a song you're finishing. One card, never a feed.
- All of this is local and completely AI-free — it reads only your own songs and ideas, never anyone else's, and shows reasons instead of scores.
- v1.62.0
The song coach can talk back
- The Song coach is no longer a one-shot report you can't reply to. Open any section and work it in conversation — ask what's dragging, push back on a note, and the coach reads your live lyric fresh every message (edit a line between messages and it reacts to the change).
- Each reply can offer up to three alternative lines, with a one-line reason each. They stay copy-only — tap to copy or jump to the line, but the coach never rewrites your words. Keep a reply with "Save to notes".
- Start a thread from any section in the report, or pick one from the coach tab directly. Threads live for your writing session; nothing chat-shaped is saved to the song.
- The whole-song report is grounded more deeply now too, and a time-signature change (not just words and chords) correctly marks a report as written for an earlier draft.
- As always: the coach is optional and fully off-switchable under Settings → AI, and every underline, rhyme colour and meter flag keeps working with AI off.
- v1.61.0
Play voice snippets in place, fix a stuck spacebar
- Voice-note snippets filed to a song now have a play button right in the Snippets tab, so you can hear one without leaving the editor.
- Fixed a bug where pressing Space to start/stop playback did nothing after editing a field like BPM and clicking back into the lyrics — clicking the play cue now properly hands keyboard focus back to the editor.
- v1.60.0
Your melody is part of the song now
- The tune you sing finally persists with the song — not just the words and chords. Start a song from a voice note and the sung melody is captured onto the bars automatically; or open a hummed take in Recordings and hit "Save melody" next to the detected chords.
- Chords view shows the melody as a quiet contour strip above each line's beat grid, and lines with a melody carry a small ♪ badge in Lyrics view. Remove a line's melody with "✕ melody" in its bar controls.
- Press play and the song sings itself: the captured melody plays over your chords (toggle it with the ♪ button next to the click track). On a capoed song it sounds at the right pitch automatically.
- Transposing the song now transposes the tune too, and the MIDI export gains a Melody track alongside the chords — a real hand-off into a DAW.
- New on Account: your vocal range (set it by hand or sing into the mic). With it, the Chords tab answers the eternal question — "what key should I sing this in?" — with one-click transpose or capo suggestions that fit your voice.
- Everything here runs on your device — plain math and your microphone, no AI anywhere, works offline.
- v1.59.0
Start a call, right from the editor
- A new phone icon in the toolbar starts a Google Meet call for a shared song — no accounts or setup, just a room your co-writers can join.
- The first person to start a call shares the link once; after that, everyone's button joins the same room instead of opening separate ones.
- Only shows up for songs you're co-writing (not solo songs), and not for view-only collaborators.
- v1.58.0
Fixed a layout glitch on shared song pages (mobile)
- On a phone, the top bar of a shared song/version page (the one you get from a share link) could overflow off the top of the screen, cutting off the "Start writing" button.
- That bar now wraps cleanly on narrow screens instead of clipping.
- v1.57.0
True live co-writing — edits now merge instead of overwrite
- When two writers work on the same shared song at once, their edits now weave together live: you see a co-writer's words appear as they commit them, and nobody's work gets overwritten on save anymore.
- That includes the beat grid — placed chords, bar lines and syllable anchors follow their lyric line even while someone else reorders sections around it.
- Undo is now personal in a shared session: ⌘Z takes back your own last change, never your co-writer's.
- Lose wifi mid-session and keep writing — your edits merge in cleanly the moment you're back online.
- Rolling out gradually: live merge is on for shared songs on the test environment first; solo songs are untouched.
- v1.56.0
Voice-note drafts now hear the chords you actually played
- Starting a song from a voice note now recognizes the chords from your strummed instrument itself — including chords outside the key, sus and seventh colors, and even a mid-song key change — instead of only picking from the seven chords of one guessed key.
- The key on your draft now comes from the harmony you played, which is far more reliable on a rough phone take than guessing it from the sung melody.
- Every detected chord is still a suggestion you can edit: when the recording is genuinely unclear for a bar, Lyrora now leaves that bar empty rather than printing a guess.
- As always, this runs entirely on your device — plain math, no AI, works offline.
- v1.55.0
Voice-note drafts follow your actual playing
- Starting a song from a voice note now listens for the real beat of your recording — including the way a live take naturally speeds up and slows down — instead of assuming one fixed tempo throughout.
- Lyrics and chords land in the right bars far more often (roughly four out of five bars on our test worktapes, up from about half), so the draft needs much less shuffling around.
- It also makes a careful guess at the time signature (4/4, 3/4 or 6/8) from where the downbeats fall — shown as a suggestion you can change, never a hard claim.
- Everything still happens on your device: the beat tracking is plain math, no AI involved.
- v1.54.0
A clean printout from a shared song link
- Printing or saving a PDF from a shared song link now gives you the same clean, branded chord sheet you get inside Lyrora — just the title, key, chords and lyrics on white paper.
- Before, printing a shared link captured the whole web page — the card outline, the share banner and the sign-up panel all came along. Those are gone now, and the saved PDF is named after the song.
- The same goes for a shared saved-version link, whose printout is named after that version.
- v1.53.0
Share one saved version of a song
- In Share & export you can now share a specific saved version by its own read-only link — send someone "the radio edit" while you keep reworking the live draft.
- You choose each version to share one at a time, and can turn a link off again whenever you like — publishing a song never exposes the rest of its version history.
- Whoever opens the link sees that exact snapshot of the lyrics and chords, and can save their own copy to Lyrora.
- v1.52.0
Split a section right from the lyrics
- Select one or more lyric lines, right-click, and choose "Add section" to pull them out into a brand-new, named section — handy when a chorus grew a bridge you didn't plan for.
- Every chord, syllable anchor and bar you'd already placed on those lines moves with them.
- v1.51.0
The Live screen can follow your singing
- The Live screen has a new "Follow" mode: instead of scrolling on a fixed timer, it listens through your mic and scrolls the chart to wherever you are in the lyrics.
- It's forgiving — a mis-heard word or a skipped section self-corrects on the next few words — and it's off by default, so your manual and timed scrolling work exactly as before.
- Only shows up in browsers that support voice recognition, and it uses your microphone just to track the words, nothing else.
- v1.50.0
Your chords, right where you change a chord
- The change-a-chord popover now opens with a "Your chords" row — the chords already used in this song — so you can reuse them in one tap instead of hunting for them.
- Tidied the spacing in the split-sheet's one-stop clearance section so the heading no longer crowds the fields below it.
- v1.49.0
Pasted songs that change key now keep up
- When you paste a full lyrics-and-chords sheet into a new song, Lyrora now spots where the song shifts to a new key mid-way and marks that key change on the section for you.
- As before, it only sets the key — it never transposes your chords, and it stays quiet unless a section clearly modulates.
- v1.48.0
Song coach now talks about the music too
- The Song coach has two tabs now: Lyrics (the feedback you already know) and a new Music tab.
- The Music tab reads your chords and key and offers musical ideas — like trying a different chord under a particular line — but only when it has something genuinely worth saying, never filler.
- Change your chords and the coach's report is flagged as written for an earlier draft, so a quick re-read keeps the music notes current.
- v1.47.0
Easier imports and a few rough edges smoothed
- You can now drag a voice-memo file straight onto the New-song window to start a song from it — no need to open the file picker first.
- The editor's "Change history" tab is now simply called "Versions", so it's clearer where your named song versions live.
- Sending beta feedback no longer flickers: the window stays open with a small loader until your "thanks, that's on its way" confirmation appears.
- v1.46.0
Small fixes around setlists, imports and pop-ups
- The setlist song-picker no longer lists archived songs — only your active songs show up when you add to a set.
- Starting a song from a worktape no longer adds a stray period at the end of each lyric line.
- Pop-ups (New song, Share, and the rest) no longer close by accident when you select text inside them and let go of the mouse outside — they only dismiss on a real click on the dimmed background.
- v1.45.0
A "Released" lane on your Songs board
- The Songs board has a new "Released" column for songs that are out in the world — the finish line after Ideas, Writing, Done and Recording.
- Connect a release to a song (in its "Next steps" tab) and it moves to "Released" automatically — with the cover art shown on its board card and list row, a "Live" badge and quick links to where it's streaming.
- Cards now also show a song's next move at a glance — what you're waiting on and when — so the board tells you what needs you without opening anything.
- v1.44.0
Connect a song to its real-world release
- Once a song is out, paste one streaming link in its "Next steps" tab — Spotify, Apple Music, anything — and Lyrora finds everywhere else it lives (Apple Music, YouTube, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon and more) and links them all in one place.
- It also fills in the song's ISRC, UPC and release date automatically, and shows your IPI from the split sheet alongside — so the song's release details live with the song.
- A "Re-check" button refreshes the links later, as more platforms pick the release up.
- No accounts or setup needed. (It shows where a song lives, not stream counts.)
- v1.43.0
Next steps: keep a finished song moving
- A new "Next steps" tab on every song, separate from your board lane: set the one next move, who owns it (you, a co-writer, or anyone outside Lyrora — a producer, a sync contact), whether you're waiting on them, and an optional follow-up date.
- Tag where a song is headed — self-produce, an external producer, pitch for sync, pitch to another artist, your own release, or on hold — and these can run side by side.
- A "Ready to move?" checklist fills itself in from the song (lyrics, chords, a demo, credits & splits, clearance) — nothing to maintain by hand.
- Your dashboard gains a "What's next" panel that gathers every song with a next action, most urgent first, so good songs don't quietly disappear into the folder.
- v1.42.0
Worktape drafts: the words now land in time
- When you start a song from a worktape, the lyrics are now placed on the bars you actually sang them over — so the words and the chords line up on the same timeline and you can play the recording along with the draft.
- Lines break roughly two bars at a time and split into parts where your singing pauses, instead of being shaped only from the text.
- It's still a rough draft to refine — but the timing should feel a lot closer to how you sang it.
- v1.41.0
Voice notes now bring their chords too
- Starting a song from a worktape now also listens for the chords your guitar is playing and lays the progression onto the new song — alongside the words, key and tempo.
- You see the chords it heard before creating the song, and they're seeded so you've got something to play over straight away.
- It's a best-effort read of a rough recording — kept in your key so the guesses stay sensible — and like everything here, easy to fix in the editor.
- v1.40.0
Start a song from a voice note
- Got a phone worktape — you and a guitar in one take? Upload it (or pick an existing voice memo) and Lyrora drafts a song from it: the lyrics, laid out into verses and choruses, plus a best-effort key and tempo.
- Find it as “Start from a voice note” in the New song window, an Upload button in Ideas, or “✦ Song” on any voice memo.
- Nothing is set in stone — you review the key, tempo and words first and edit anything before the song is created, with your recording kept alongside it. Chord detection from the guitar is coming in a later update.
- v1.39.0
Sing into a blank song — your words land in the lines
- Record into a new song and actually sing the words: when you stop, Lyrora transcribes the take and drops the lyrics into the lines that grew, each one on the part you sang it over.
- Already have a recording on a track? Tap the new pen on any take to transcribe it, check what it heard, then “Fill in” that part or the whole song.
- It uses one of your AI assists and can be switched off with the rest of AI; the auto-filled lyrics are their own undo, so one ⌘Z clears them while keeping the lines.
- v1.38.0
Record into a blank song — it lays down the lines for you
- Start a new song, hit Record on a track, and just sing: a count-in leads you in, then blank lines appear in time with the beat as you go — the song writes its own timing.
- Stop whenever; you're left with a tidy run of empty lines the right length, with your take sitting underneath, ready to type the lyrics straight in.
- The whole recorded skeleton is a single undo, so one ⌘Z clears it if you want to start over.
- v1.37.0
Find chords from a recorded track
- Recorded a melody onto a track? Hit the ✦ on a take to detect its key and get chords that fit — the same offline magic as the hum tool, now on your tracks.
- Fill them straight into the editor: a part recording fills that section, a whole-song take fills chords across the whole song, each on the right bar.
- You see the detected key and chords first; nothing changes until you tap “Fill in”.
- v1.36.0
Tracks: live volume + record part by part
- The track volume fader and mute now work live — slide or mute while the song plays and you hear it change instantly, no need to restart playback.
- Build a track up part by part: each track has a “Record onto” picker, so you can lay down Verse 1, then later the Chorus, all on the same Vocal track — each part sits in its own spot on the timeline.
- Recordings are now grouped by part inside a track, and you pick the keeper version per part. They play layered when you hit Play.
- v1.35.0
Record your own tracks, in time with the song
- New in the Recordings tab: up to three tracks you can record onto — perfect for catching a melody, harmonies, or strumming the chords on your own guitar.
- Hit Record on a track and you get a count-in, then the click and chords play on your earbuds so you can sing or play along — the take lands in time with the song.
- Play the song and your tracks play with it. Mute or unmute each one, set its volume, and layer several at once.
- Want to write over your own guitar instead of the built-in chords? Just switch the Chords toggle off — the metronome and your tracks keep playing.
- Keep several versions of a part on one track and pick the keeper; a quick − / + nudges any take's timing if it lands a hair early or late.
- v1.34.0
“Find chords from this hum” actually hears you now
- Humming a take and tapping “Find chords from this hum” was almost always answering “couldn't hear a clear melody”, even on a clear, steady hum. Fixed — it now reliably picks up the tune.
- The pitch detection is sturdier: it no longer mistakes a hum for a note an octave off, so the key it lands on and the chords it suggests are far more trustworthy.
- v1.33.0
Grab a line, duplicate a line
- Selecting one line is now effortless: press in a line's empty space and give a little drag — that line is selected. No more sweeping over a neighbour and back.
- Copy a line and paste to duplicate it: select a line, ⌘C, then ⌘V drops an exact copy — words, chords and timing — on the line right below. Keep tapping ⌘V to stack more.
- Works for a block too: select several lines, copy, and paste to duplicate the whole run just beneath it.
- v1.32.0
A warm welcome for beta testers
- If you're in the closed beta, a short welcome now greets you the first time you sign in — what the beta's about, and a quick nudge that nothing you try can hurt a real release.
- It points out the Feedback button (always there, bottom-right) and explains it grabs a screenshot and the details for you, so reporting a bug or sharing an idea takes seconds.
- Want to read it again? Open Feedback and tap “What's the beta about?”. It stays out of the way of the guided editor tour — you'll never get two pop-ups at once.
- v1.31.0
Key changes — modulate mid-song
- Lift a section into a new key: hover any section header, hit “+ key” and pick the key it changes to (the bridge in B♭, the last chorus a step up). A clear “Key change → …” banner marks the spot.
- From a key change onward, the chord suggestions, the “chords that fit” palette and the Roman numerals all follow the new key — no more being offered chords from the key you just left. The Chords panel tells you which section's key it's suggesting for.
- Just changing the key relabels everything and leaves your chords untouched — or tap “Move chords” to slide that section's existing chords into the new key in one go.
- Changing the whole song's key still works as before, and now carries every mid-song key change along with it.
- v1.30.0
Words tuck up against their anchored beat
- When you pin a word to a beat in the chord grid, the words just before it now sit right in front of it instead of stranding at the start of the line — “So” snuggles up to an anchored “take”.
- Pin the second word of a line to the first beat and the word before it slides left into the pickup, so the anchored word lines up exactly on the beat — “When I…” now puts “I” right on beat 1.
- v1.29.0
Select, cut & paste whole lines
- Work with more than one line at a time: triple-click a line to grab it, then Shift-click another (or hold Shift and press ↑/↓) to select a whole block — or drag down the side of the lines.
- Cut, copy and paste those lines like in a real text editor — and the chords and timing come along, so you can move a section of a verse into the chorus without re-typing or re-charting anything.
- Press ⌘A (Ctrl+A) once to select the section you're in, again for the whole song; Backspace clears the selected lines, and a single ⌘Z puts everything back.
- Paste plain words into another app — Notes, a message — and you just get the lyrics, neatly one line each.
- v1.28.0
Song coach fixed + clearer toolbar
- The Song coach's “Read my song” works again — a longer read of your whole song no longer times out before the report comes back.
- Hover any icon button in a song's top toolbar — metronome, focus mode, share, click track, play and the rest — and a little label now tells you what it does, just like the toolbox on the side.
- v1.27.0
A clearer writing canvas
- Lines now gently highlight as you move over them, so it's obvious where you can write — and a brand-new song shows a “Start writing…” cue right where your first words go.
- Click anywhere on a line to drop your cursor in: tap the empty space to the right of a line and the cursor lands right after the last word.
- v1.26.0
A guided tour of the editor
- The first time you open a song, a quick 60-second tour now points out the essentials — where to write, the Lyrics/Rhymes/Chords views, your toolbox and how to play your song back.
- Want to see it again? Open the keyboard-shortcuts panel (press ?) inside a song and choose “Take the guided tour.”
- As always, AI stays optional and fully off-switchable — nothing in the tour needs it.
- v1.25.0
Private beta: invite-only access & in-app feedback
- Lyrora is in private beta. New accounts are invite-only for now — open the beta link from your inbox and you'll go straight in.
- Every screen now has a Feedback button in the corner: report a bug, leave a comment or suggest an idea in a few taps. You can attach a screenshot, point at the exact element you mean, and we automatically include the page, app version and browser so we can reproduce it.
- Your account settings show a Beta tester badge while you're helping us shape Lyrora — thank you.
- v1.24.0
Section names travel with your MIDI export
- Export a song to MIDI and your section names (Verse, Chorus, Bridge…) now ride along as markers — so when you open it in Cubase, Logic, Reaper, Pro Tools or Studio One, your song's structure is laid out on the timeline, not just a wall of chords.
- Tip for Cubase: select the imported Chords track and choose Project → Chord Track → Create Chord Symbols to turn the chords into a real Chord track in one step.
- v1.23.0
PDFs save with the song's name
- Saving a chord sheet as a PDF now suggests the song's title as the file name instead of "Lyrora — songwriting studio" — and if you've saved a named version, it's added too, e.g. "Midnight Train — version Final mix".
- v1.22.0
A cleaner chord sheet to print
- Printed and exported chord sheets are now sharp and easy to read — lyrics print in solid black instead of soft grey, with tighter line spacing that fits more on the page.
- Every sheet now carries the Lyrora mark and a little sign-off, so your exports look like they came from the studio.
- v1.21.0
A proper welcome after you upgrade
- After you subscribe, Lyrora now takes you to a dedicated confirmation screen that waits for your payment to clear and then welcomes you to your new plan — instead of quietly dropping you back on the settings page.
- v1.20.0
Lyrora is open to everyone
- Lyrora is officially live at lyrora.studio — the warm studio for writing songs is open to all.
- Everything on one page: lyrics with the chords laid over the exact word, a bars-and-beats grid, music theory that stays out of your way, rhymes, ideas, takes, setlists, a stage-ready Live mode, co-writing, and split sheets you can sign by email.
- Free to start, with optional AI assists you can switch off completely. Welcome in.
- v1.19.0
Pricing that matches the product
- Public share links are now a Pro feature — songs you've already shared stay public, nothing gets unpublished.
- Tidied the plan comparison so every line reflects what's actually in the app: live co-writing presence is available on every plan, and a couple of not-yet-built claims were removed.
- v1.18.0
Download your recordings
- Pro and Studio members can now download any voice take straight from the Recordings tab — a download button sits next to each take.
- v1.17.0
Clearer yearly pricing
- Yearly plans now show exactly what you save: the monthly price is crossed out next to the lower per-month yearly rate, with the savings called out on each plan.
- Pricing still defaults to yearly billing, where Pro saves 22%.
- v1.16.0
Invite co-writers — even before they're on Lyrora
- Invite anyone to co-write by email — including people who aren't on Lyrora yet. They get a link, create a free account or sign in, and land right in your song.
- Co-writing is no longer Pro-only: free accounts can invite co-writers on up to 2 of their own songs (and join any number of songs they're invited to). Pro adds up to 5 co-writers per song; Studio is unlimited.
- Invites come from the song owner or a Pro/Studio co-writer, and everyone can read, comment and write together right away.
- v1.15.0
Clearer split sheets, and AI you can always switch off
- Split sheets now say plainly what they cover: the song’s composition (the songwriting) — not the master recording or other rights — on screen and in every PDF.
- We describe the signing as what it is: a simple electronic signature you verify by email, with the same audit trail behind it.
- On the pricing page: chord suggestions and key detection are music theory, not AI — and any AI assist switches fully off. Band library and stems export now read “coming soon”.
- v1.14.0
Split sheets that remember you and your co-writers
- Set your songwriter details once — legal name, IPI/CAE, PRO and publisher — under Account → Publishing details, and they fill in automatically as the first writer on every new song. No more retyping yourself for each split sheet.
- The writer field is now a smart picker: start typing and Lyrora suggests co-writers you’ve worked with before (and the people sharing this song), filling in their email and details in one tap.
- Co-writers are remembered automatically as you add them, so the next song is faster. Manage or remove saved co-writers any time under Account → Publishing details.
- v1.13.0
Connect Lyrora to your own tools
- Lyrora now has a private connection (an API) for personal automation — think a home-assistant setup that can see your songs and how long they’ve sat in each stage, drop new title, lyric or voice-note ideas, and now read your ideas inbox back too.
- It’s entirely opt-in and off by default: nothing changes unless you create a personal key. More to come — including opening this up beyond power users.
- v1.12.0
Know when a signing email doesn’t arrive
- If a signing email can’t be delivered — a wrong address, a full mailbox — that writer now shows “couldn’t reach” in the signing panel, so you can fix it instead of waiting on a sheet that will never get signed.
- You’ll also see when a link was delivered, so you know it landed.
- v1.11.0
Manage your split-sheet signing
- Changed the splits after a sheet was signed? Lyrora flags it and lets you send a new version for everyone to re-sign — the previous signed copy is kept and marked “Replaced”.
- Give a co-writer who hasn’t signed yet a nudge with “Remind”, or “Cancel” a signing round you no longer need.
- Each round shows its version and who’s signed; find all your split sheets in one place on the account page, with a download for every signed copy.
- v1.10.0
Sign your split sheet — for real
- Send your split sheet for a quick e-signature, right from the Split sheet tab. Every writer gets an email link — no account needed — reviews their split, and signs in under a minute with a quick code sent to their inbox.
- Once everyone has signed, we email all parties the signed PDF and keep it with the song, complete with a signature audit trail (who signed, when, and verified by email).
- Track signing live: see who's signed and who's still pending, and download the signed PDF any time.
- Free includes one signed split sheet a month; Pro and Studio are unlimited. Drafting credits and exporting a draft PDF stay free for everyone.
- v1.9.0
Credits & splits — sort out who wrote what
- New Split sheet tab in the editor: add every writer, mark what they wrote (music, lyrics, or both) and their split percentage. Lyrora keeps a running total so the splits always add up to 100%.
- Add optional industry details per writer (publisher, PRO, IPI) and a one-stop clearance block — who controls the recording and the song, and who to contact to license it — kept right with your song.
- Export a clean draft split sheet as a PDF to share with your co-writers.
- Coming soon: agree and sign the split sheet digitally, right inside Lyrora.
- v1.8.1
Restoring a version keeps your chords & bars
- Saved versions now capture the full beat grid — so restoring an earlier version brings back your chord placement and bar layout too, not just the lyrics.
- This fixes a case where going back to an older version could quietly drop the chords-on-the-grid work on parts of a song.
- v1.8.0
Co-writing, with roles and live cursors
- Set a co-writer to “Viewer” to share a song read-only — they can see everything but can’t change it. “Editor” (the default) keeps full access. Change it any time from the song’s Settings.
- Co-writing is more alive: you’ll see a bandmate’s cursor move through the lyrics in real time, and the part someone’s editing is gently marked so you don’t talk over each other.
- Fix: splitting or merging a lyric line no longer knocks the chords or syllable timing off the lines below it — the grid follows the words.
- v1.7.0
Tune up, practise, and start faster
- A real tuner: tap “Tune by ear”, play a string, and the Chords tab shows the note and how many cents sharp or flat you are — using your mic, no app to install.
- Practise tools: turn on a one-bar count-in before playback, and a tempo trainer in the metronome that nudges the speed up every few bars.
- Find-chords-from-a-hum now follows your melody bar by bar (a chord per bar), and you can download the hum and its chords as a MIDI file.
- Remove a co-writer — or leave a song yourself — from the song’s settings, with clear Owner / Co-writer labels.
- Print a whole setlist as one chord booklet (one song per page) from the “↓ Booklet” button.
- Share a setlist as a read-only link — a clean public songbook of the songs you’ve chosen to make public (private songs stay private).
- A new Activity page collects every comment, take and invite in one place (open it from the bell).
- The editor now works on a phone: the tools become a bottom bar and the panel slides up as a sheet.
- While co-writing, a small avatar shows on the section a bandmate is editing.
- Start a new song from a chord loop (The Axis, 50s doo-wop and more) — it lands on the page ready to write over.
- Co-writing fix: a bandmate’s chord-grid edits are no longer quietly overwritten.
- v1.6.0
Hum it, export it, loop it
- Find chords from a hum: record a take, tap “Find chords from this hum”, and Lyrora hears the pitch, guesses the key and suggests a progression that fits — then drops it straight into a section. It’s all on-device, no AI required.
- File a take to a part of the song, and play that part’s take right from its header while you write.
- Loop one section: tap the ↻ on a section to repeat just that part over and over while you practise or write.
- Export your song as a MIDI file — the chords land on the right beats at your tempo, ready to drop into any DAW.
- Print / PDF now produces a clean chord sheet with chords sitting over the exact syllable, instead of a screenshot of the editor — and shared and printed songs keep that precise placement too.
- v1.5.0
Play a real accompaniment, not just chords
- New “Feel” picker in the Chords tab: choose how playback sounds — block Chords (as before), a rolling Arpeggio, a rhythmic Pattern, or a gentle Ballad.
- On guitar the same feels become a fingerpick, a strum and a ballad pick; on piano, a broken chord, a bass-and-chord groove and a flowing ballad.
- The accompaniment follows your song — it adapts to the time signature (4/4, 3/4 and 6/8) and tempo, and the bass always lands on the downbeat.
- Tap a feel to hear it right away on your progression. Your choice is saved with the song.
- v1.4.2
Special chords play as written
- Fixed playback sounding the plain chord (e.g. a bare A) when a special chord like Asus2, add9 or maj7 was set from the Lyrics view — it now plays exactly what's written.
- Songs already affected correct themselves the next time you open them.
- v1.4.1
Clearer rhyme colours
- Rhyme colours are now easier to tell apart — two non-rhyming words (like “day” and “moment”) no longer share a near-identical hue.
- v1.4.0
Truer voicings & rhymes in colour
- Chords now play with real voice leading on piano, and the open and barre shapes a guitarist actually uses in standard tuning.
- Chord highlights snap exactly to the beat they sound on — even through fast changes.
- Rhyme view colours hard, soft and inner rhymes apart, grouping words by how they truly sound rather than how they're spelled.
- A new Quick / Advanced chord editor lets you build any chord: root, type, tensions and bass note.
- Transpose the whole song up or down in semitones, with one tap back to the original key.
- Press ⌘S to save a named version — your versions and the automatic backups now live in separate tabs.
- v1.3.0
Playback & arranging
- Press Space to play and pause, starting from the cued line.
- Drag chord chips anywhere across the grid, not just within a single line.
- Reorder sections by dragging them.
- Every line has a play cue in the margin — start playback from exactly there.
- Set a song-wide grid resolution and add wordless instrumental lines.