Stage Player runs your backing tracks, lyrics and scores on stage. Chord Analyser finds a chord under your fingers and writes the chart. Both are free, both are ad-free, and neither needs a signal to work. Stage Player is on Android; Chord Analyser is on Android and iPhone.
Nothing streams. Everything plays from the phone.
Backing tracks, on stage
Six to fifteen pads, one tap each, sized for a thumb in the dark. Live mode takes away everything you must not touch by accident. A song can start the next one by itself, count you in, fade out, and show its words or its chart while it plays.
Chords, both ways round
Press the notes you are holding and it names the chord. Ask for a chord and it shows every playable position on your instrument. Then write the chart, on the phone, and export a clean PDF for the rest of the band.
The industry has settled on a way of building phone apps: a streak to keep, a badge to collect, a notification to feel guilty about, a free tier arranged to be annoying. None of that is here, and none of it ever will be.
When something is paid, it is because it costs money to run: cloud storage, and the machine time behind audio analysis. Nothing that happens on stage is behind a paywall.
Say helloNo banners, no analytics sold on, nothing measuring you for someone else.
No streaks, no badges, no notification written to make you feel behind.
An account exists to hold your backups. There is no profile behind it.
Every way of triggering tracks live, from dedicated hardware to a phone, and which one suits how you play.
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