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BandHelper

by Arlo Leach

iPhone · iPad

Active Last checked 7 Aug 2026

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What it is
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  • From $3.00/mo
  • Free to download
  • In-app purchases

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Free app Yes Free Store published
In-app purchases Yes Limited free Store published

Screens

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Pricing & paywalls

App Store

  • Basic - Solo Artist (month) — $3.00/month
  • Basic - Solo Artist (month) — $18.00/year ($1.50/mo)
  • Pro - Solo Artist (month) — $4.00/month
  • Pro - Solo Artist (month) — $38.00/year ($3.16/mo)
  • Basic - 2-5 Users (month) — $5.00/month
  • Basic - 2-5 Users (month) — $46.00/year ($3.83/mo)
  • Basic - 6-20 Users (month) — $7.00/month
  • Pro - 2-5 Users (month) — $9.00/month
  • Pro - 2-5 Users (month) — $94.00/year ($7.83/mo)
  • Pro - 6-20 Users (month) — $14.00/month

Ratings & reviews

App Store

4.3 112 ratings · App Store

  1. 5/5Easy to get started, exciting Midi features

    The main reason I was interested in this app was to take advantage of its Midi capabilities. I use a guitar synth that has a very clunky interface, (looking at you, Roland) and was looking for a way to streamline selecting patches, mostly between songs. It works perfectly for this application, connecting to my synth using a bluetooth midi adapter, and after spending some time setting up program changes in the app, my entire song list now automatically activates the correct patch for each song. One non-obvious thing also, you can add as many Midi Presets to a song as you want, and use that song as a menu to select presets when a song is not on the set list… Brilliant! If that was all it did, it would be worth the monthly fee to me, but it has much more capability than I’ll ever need. I have found it easy to navigate, and getting started was a breeze. I can see that its mainstream value is in set lists, with lyrics and chords in your device in many different configurations, but the midi stuff is the thing that seals the deal for me. Also I would like to compliment the developer on the outstanding tutorials and support docs; very complete and easy to understand.

    5454stevef · 7 Aug 2026

  2. 5/5Great App, great support, love it...

    After carrying around binders of music for years in our 5 piece band, I decided last year to try a digital approach. My band mates were afraid at first and two of them continued to use binders. After a few months of seeing how easy and convenient my setup was (and realize how nice it is to have back lit music in a dark bar) they made the switch and we have not looked back. I am continually learning how to do new things with this app that push me further into automation (which, as a control freak guitarist scares me, but also allows me to focus on performing and less on nonsense). I should have made the switch years ago and I very much so appreciate this app. There is a yearly subscription fee to use the app, but once you realize you can bring a guitar and all the music you have ever learned in one guitar bag, you won’t mind. Plus, the developer is making constant improvements so I think of it more as an investment than a fee. Don’t listen to the negative comments. There is a little learning curve, as with anything, but invest the time off stage so that you can focus on the music on stage.

    Halfassedreviewer · 7 Aug 2026

  3. 5/5Great app for guitarists

    I love this app because of three important benefits: 1) Split screen option which allows you to see the set list on one side along with the chord sheet on the other. 2) Custom fields. Because I use up to four different presets on a song, I needed an app that can store the bank and preset number for each preset used for each song. BandHelper allows you to create a seemingly unlimited number of custom fields for each song - no more need to rely on an excel spreadsheet that shows the presets needed for each song. 3) Very flexible display options: pick what fields you want shown on the main display for a song chart as well as on the set list. When you create a custom field, it automatically creates two additional versions of the field corresponding to the next song in the set list and the one after that. So on the display for a particular song, it can show the bank and preset for the next song coming up, the title of the the next song, the key, etc. — very cool! I used it on a gig for the first time last week, with a Donner tablet page turner footpedal, and the combination worked flawlessly.

    Lesterh · 7 Aug 2026

  4. 5/5This is where you need to be

    I progressed from set using list maker to BandHelper and I do value this product line for the following reasons: 1. The midi control features allow me to seamlessly set up my pedalboard on the fly as each song is selected. I am able to use my looper unit as a backing track repository whilst being enabled through my beatbuddy pedal and both being controlled with midi from an iPad. 2. The interface for song library management is very intuitive once the familiarization cycle is over with. The use of ‘Projects’ allows for segregation of content for other ‘bands’ a musician might be part of. There are choices in how lyrics can be incorporated into each song, from pdfs to cutting and pasting directly from an external source. There are a myriad of features to enhance the operation and visual presentation of any song selection. This is indeed a layered and well thought out system; you use what you need. 3. The ability to share changes and content with band members instantly is marvelous and that tedious emailing, messaging and trying to update everyone in a band is now gone with BandHelper. I could list many more reasons on why this is a great product and the product specs can give insight to those features. The point I am making here is that if you just want a simple “display the setlist and view the lyrics”, there are programs that will do that for you. However, if you want a comprehensive package that will do whatever you need it to do, then BandHelper is totally worth considering.

    Fuddmyster · 7 Aug 2026

  5. 5/5Great for live MIDI control

    We have a cover band that has a keyboard player that uses multiple keyboards, multiple midi controlled sound modules, and a midi switch that can change the midi channel signals and routing on the fly. Every song has a different setup to be able to replicate the sounds that people expect from the original recording. We’ve been using band helper for over two years, and it has made the process SO MUCH better. Not only can we easily generate and distribute set lists on the fly depending on the gig, but it has made it possible to go from one tune to the next almost instantaneously and takes the stress out of getting all the settings right. We generally make edits to individual song settings and set lists with an iPad, but we do the live midi control with an iPhone interfaced to an iConnect MIDI 4 via the lightning connector. (The band helper software makes all the syncing btw individual band member’s phones and iPad easy, so we don’t have to use the iPad for the live performance.) For a gig, the kbd player has his phone open to the set list. He just taps the next song, and he’s ready to go. If we have a special request, no big deal as long as the song has been worked out before. Just go to the song library and tap it. For the rest of the band, we just print the set lists from the software and stick them on the floor. The formatting and big printing are good enough to see even under poor lighting conditions. We are really happy with this software.

    Bobdiddledoe · 7 Aug 2026

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Versions

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  • 2025-11-07

    • Updated Settings > Live Sharing > Speak Chat Messages to include messages sent from the device, so you can run the lead device's output to an IEM system. • When stepping through a custom marker sequence, stopped wrapping from the last to the first or the first to the last marker. • Fixed a problem where a long set list title would push the Save and Cancel buttons out of view in the Edit Set List popup on iOS 26.

  • 2025-11-21

    * Added a chromatic tuner to the set list view. You can edit your layout and add the Tuner button to show it, or trigger the Other > Show/Hide Tuner app control action. Using the tuner requires microphone permission on your device. If you open the tuner while BandHelper is playing other audio, that audio might be interrupted. * Updated the Notes button in the set list view to show all of the user's custom fields for the song, in addition to the shared notes and personal notes. This makes it easy to see custom field values that aren't displayed in the layout, without opening the song's edit page. If you want to leave any custom fields out of this display, you can go to Repertoire > Custom Fields > [custom field name] and turn off Include In Notes Popup. • Enabled manual scrolling on the Chords field when the chords are longer than the available display height. Scrolling from hotspots, app control, automation tracks or auto-scroll still requires putting long chord content into the Lyrics field. • Fixed a problem where the recording edit page didn't load the saved Users value, which made it seem like the value wasn't saving. • Fixed the styles of the bottom toolbar buttons on the stage plot Edit Layout page on iOS 26. • Fixed a crash when loading the Stage Plots > Notes page.

  • 2025-12-05

    * Updated the search buttons on the song edit page to open a web browser within a BandHelper popup window, with buttons to import the main page container, the selected text or the current page URL. You can use this to easily copy lyrics, chords, song facts or video links into the Lyrics, Chords or Notes fields. More details are in the Adding Lyrics tutorial. • Added a Notes - For Client field to the invoice edit page. You can use this to add notes for the client to the invoice PDF. The Notes - Internal field is not visible to clients. • Updated chat message popups to appear above a full-screen document viewer. • Fixed the display of shared notes in the notes popup when personal notes are also set. • Fixed the display of the notes popup from a Notes button in the song list. • Stopped selecting the song when clicking the Notes button for a different song in the song list. • Fixed a problem where the eraser tool would show as active in the annotation toolbar even though it was not active. • Fixed a problem that showed the Device Offline message for automatic syncs that were run after a manual sync. • Removed the fading from popup window titles in iOS 26.

  • 2026-01-16

    • Reduced the height of the top toolbar on phones in landscape orientation on iOS 26. • Fixed an incorrect page count after resizing the lyrics text in the set list view. • Stopped triggering pinned documents, recordings or MIDI presets when using an app control action to request a numbered item when the requested number is greater than the number of song-level items. • Stopped triggering pinned documents, recordings or MIDI presets when using the Next/Previous app control actions. • Updated the song copy function to include shared font sizes, lyrics annotations and automation tracks as well as the personal values when personal values are enabled. • Improved the scaling of layout elements with the Copy For This Size function on the layout Edit Details page. • Improved the set list view load time.

  • 2026-01-20

    • Fixed the empty Share Set List and Share Songs pages.

  • 2026-01-21

    • Fixed incorrect auto-scroll speeds.

  • 2026-01-22

    • Fixed a problem where edit pages didn't fully reload when adding a new item after editing existing items. • Fixed a problem that deleted a batch of songs when adding a new item and then immediately deleting it after editing existing items.

  • 2026-01-30

    • Fixed a problem where some edit pages didn't fully reload after saving. • Fixed a problem with the Next Page Or Song app control action that prevented it from changing songs. • Updated the Previous Page Or Song app control action to correctly move to the last page of the previous song when the previous song displays 2-column lyrics. • Fixed a problem that prevented automation track events from scrolling to some lyrics positions. • Fixed a problem that limited the drawing area for lyrics annotations. • Fixed a problem that showed the same text in both columns when showing lyrics in two columns and all the lyrics fit into the first column. • Fixed a crash when pinch-zooming lyrics that contain many markers, with the last one close to the end of the lyrics. • Stopped triggering a two-fingered tap action after pinch-zooming the Notes field. • Fixed the edit shortcut buttons in the top toolbar when viewing the All Songs list. • Fixed the Remove button for bottom toolbar fields when editing a layout. • Fixed a problem that caused the app to show a duplicate connection to Bluetooth MIDI devices on iOS 26. • Added Settings > Advanced > Audio & MIDI > Ignore Beat Clock Input. • Updated the Tempo field to support fractional bpm values entered with a comma as the decimal delimiter on devices that use a comma as the decimal delimiter. • Fixed a problem with incomplete color theme changes on iOS 26. • Fixed the document toolbar background color in the light color theme on iOS 26.

  • 2026-02-06

    • Fixed a MIDI optimization issue that could cause crashes when sending or receiving MIDI.

  • 2026-02-09

    • Restored the All and None buttons to the song picker. • Updated list pages on phones immediately when navigation back from edit pages. • Fixed a crash when sending many OSC messages at once when OSC was not already running.

  • 2026-02-13

    • Fixed the search button for list pages on iOS 18 and older. • Fixed a crash when viewing a set list when no layouts are set up. • Moved the Done button in the Live Sharing screen display window to the top right corner for consistency with other popup windows.

  • 2026-02-19

    • Fixed a crash when playing or recording automation tracks on older devices.

  • 2026-02-27

    • Added Settings > Advanced > Audio & MIDI > Ignore Control Change Input. • Tightened the decay on some of the tempo click sounds to reduce the sensation of a reverb effect. • Updated the Start Video and Start Automation app control actions to follow the Delay Actions setting. • Updated the file import functionality to handle a file that is already copied into BandHelper's data folder. • Implemented code updates required by upcoming iOS versions.

  • 2026-03-04

    • Fixed a crash when an external display is connected.

  • 2026-03-20

    • Updated the edit pages to stop any media players or hide the document viewer when selecting a different item to edit. • Fixed a problem that temporarily reset ChordPro positioning when resizing text after transposing it in a 2-column layout. • Fixed a problem that prevented changes to the MIDI input port and channel from taking effect until the MIDI engine was restarted. • Updated the MIDI Learn function to update the existing control change row with the new value instead of adding new control change rows if you send the same control change with multiple values. • Updated the Show Labels In Recording Buttons function to fall back to the recording name if the number of recordings attached is greater than the number of recording position labels entered. • Fixed a problem that pushed the Save and Cancel buttons in popup windows off the screen when the toolbar contained a long title on iOS 26. • Fixed a problem that made the bottom portion of the filters in the Add Songs popup unclickable on phones in portrait orientation on iOS 26.

  • 2026-04-03

    • Updated the app to respond to universal links instead of custom "bandhelper://" links in notification emails and text messages. • Restored the scroll position of the second column when transposing lyrics in a 2-column layout. • Updated the formatting toolbars on the song edit page to include more buttons on phones in landscape orientation. • Hid the lyrics search buttons on the song edit page when the device has parental control restrictions that block web access.

  • 2026-04-08

    • Updated the intro page to correctly appear automatically on slower devices. • Hid the Invoices section on the Finance > Totals page if there are no unpaid invoices. • Removed an extra top toolbar from the checklist view.

  • 2026-04-24

    * Added support for attaching documents in Word (.docx or .doc) or RTF format. BandHelper will convert those files to PDF format when it uploads them to the server, so if you add a Word or RTF file while offline, you won't see the converted file until the app can sync. • Added a Chords Size setting to the set list Share Songs page. You can use this to change the chords size separately from the rest of the text. This can be especially useful when printing chord charts without lyrics. • Fixed a problem that scrolled the new song out of view when adding a song from the search button after the last song in a set. • Updated the Next/Previous app control actions to continue stepping through song-level items even after selecting pinned items. • Fixed the positioning of grouped fields on the MIDI preset edit page when opened in a popup window on a phone. • Fixed overlapping toolbar buttons after a rotation on a phone in iOS 26. • Updated the top toolbars in different kinds of popups to have consistent heights in iOS 26. • Removed the non-functioning Open/Close Full-Screen Document app control action. You can use the Show/Hide Document Viewer action in full-screen layouts instead.

  • 2026-05-22

    • Added the recording controls when playing a recording from the song edit page. • Removed the duplicate All and None buttons from picker windows. • Updated the Show Document Viewer action in an automation track to load the document for the current song if needed. • Updated the app control Hold detection so that if you press and release a button quickly before the end of the hold time, a click action will be triggered immediately without waiting until the end of the hold time; but if you release a button too slowly to be a click and not slowly enough to be a hold, no click or hold action will be triggered. • Updated the app control Double-Click and Hold detection to check for specific messages, to avoid delays if you click with one message and double-click or hold with a different message. • Stopped saving the list filters automatically and added explicit Save and Reset buttons instead. • Sped up the display of the App Control Status window.

  • 2026-05-28

    • Fixed a problem that dismissed the keyboard when typing into a search field.

  • 2026-06-12

    * Added a Text Styles page in the Repertoire module where you can define reusable styles with a set of formatting options. You can then apply these text styles to text in the Lyrics, Chords and Notes fields on the song edit page. If you go back and edit a style later, all the songs that use that style will update automatically. * Updated the ChordPro import function to convert from ChordPro environment directives to BandHelper's predfined text styles, based on the Map To ChordPro Style setting on the Text Style edit pages. * Added an Indent button to the text formatting toolbar, to indent text without manually adding spaces. * Replaced the Headings Fade setting on the Settings > Appearance page with a Headings Color setting. You can use this to set headings marked with a # symbol to any color. * Added Chords Size, Chords Bold and Chords Italic settings to the Settings > Appearance page. You can use these along with Chords Color to format chords detected in the Lyrics field. These settings do not affect chords in the Chords field. • Updated the new Live Sharing code to improve Bluetooth-only connections between iOS devices. However, wi-fi networking is recommended for better performance and cross-platform compatibility. • Fixed a problem that disabled the Done button in the status windows after navigating backwards in the main view.

  • 2026-06-19

    • Updated the Bluetooth input code for more reliable foot switch connections on iOS 26. • Fixed a crash when selecting formatted text in a field that contains Unicode characters. • Fixed a problem with the Hide Other Lyrics Sections setting for the document viewer. • Tightend the button spacing in top toolbars on iOS 26. • Fixed an empty space above the list filters on phones.

  • 2026-06-29

    • Restored the automatic display of the search field in the set list search popup.

  • 2026-07-10

    • Updated the Full-Screen Lyrics layout template to show some song content and buttons beside the song list instead of only a song list. This provides access to more info and will make the song list load faster. • Updated the Smart Copy functionality to allow moving smart copies into different projects than the original copy. • Added a Separate From Original button on the song edit page for smart copies. This breaks the link to the original song and makes the smart copy a fully independent song. • Fixed the sorting of a smart list by color when using project-specific colors. • Stopped iOS 26 from hiding all the set list view edit buttons when they don't all fit. • Fixed a problem where an app control action mapped to a Flic button trigger didn't show as selected in the trigger picker. • Disabled the response options for Require Response events for users who aren't invited to the event.

  • 2026-07-24 · 26 Jul 2026

    • Restored the automatic display of the search field in the set list search popup on phones. • Enabled the Change Another User's Response fields on the event edit page for users who aren't included in the event but do have editing permission. • Updated the lyrics pagination to avoid scrolling all the text out of view. • Stopped triggering song selections on following devices when loading a set list on the lead device with Live Sharing. • Improved the spacing of the Transpose Toolbar layout item. • Fixed the missing title in the app control action edit window. • Reduced the size of the Guitar Rack stage plot item. • Fixed the Cowbell tempo downbeat sound.

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