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The whole gig, one link.

Share a set and the entire night — every song, in order — becomes a single link you can text to the band. A bandmate taps it and the set opens. That's the whole workflow.

What the other end sees

What our server sees

Not your songs. A set is encrypted on your device before it leaves; what we store is ciphertext we cannot read, addressed by a random id. Links expire on their own after about 90 days, and an expired link says exactly that — ask them to send it again. There are no accounts and no analytics; the label on the App Store listing says "Data Not Collected" because that is literally the design.

Sync your library

Paid libraries mirror across every device signed into the same Apple Account — iPhone, iPad, Mac. Edit a chart on the iPad at rehearsal and the iPhone already has it by soundcheck. Sync runs through your own private iCloud, the same place Apple already keeps your photos — no server of ours in the loop, nothing we can read.

A quiet row at the foot of the library, next to Back up, is both the status and the switch: Synced with iCloud when it's working, a plain nudge to sign into iCloud when it isn't. A bad night for iCloud never costs you a gig — songs stay put on the device and the row just shows the last time sync ran clean.

Free libraries stay single-device, same as always. Sync switches on the moment you unlock — nothing to set up beyond already being signed into iCloud.

Back up your library

Free, your library lives on your device only — not in a cloud, not on our servers. Paid and synced, it also lives in your own iCloud (that's the mirror above) — still no server of ours, still nothing we can read. Either way, one habit is worth keeping: Back up, at the foot of the library, exports everything — songs, sets, keys, capos — as one file. Park it in Files or iCloud Drive. Restore backup brings it all home.

Deleting the app deletes the library — free, or paid with sync off. The purchase follows your Apple account and restores free either way. Paid and synced, your songs come back too: sign into the same Apple Account and the library reappears on its own. Otherwise, back up before you delete, before a new iPad, before anything dramatic.
Paid and synced, a new iPad doesn't need a backup at all: sign in with the same Apple Account, buy or restore, and the library appears on its own — Restore purchase lives under the Unlock everything row if it doesn't happen automatically. Backup files are the way to move a library out instead — to someone else's device, a different Apple Account, or just a copy in hand before anything dramatic: export on the old device, restore on the new one. (Restoring never marks a bandmate's songs as your own — the free-tier counter can't be gamed with a backup, by design.) Free libraries keep the export-and-restore path for new devices too — sync is what the unlock adds.