BandHelper

Much more than a "songbook" app, BandHelper can organize your band and power your live show.

COMMUNICATE EFFORTLESSLY
• Distribute songs and set lists automatically to your bandmates
• Send standardized gig invitations and confirmations
• Maintain one organized source for gig details
• Give sub players all the charts and recordings they need for a gig

REHEARSE EFFICIENTLY
• Sync set list, lyric and chord updates as you work
• Play reference recordings instantly, with speed and loop controls
• Transpose chords for different singers, capo positions or horn keys
• Review notes and voice memos from previous rehearsals

PERFORM SEAMLESSLY
• Configure keyboards, effects and lighting as you change songs
• Play backing tracks, click tracks and video presentations
• Customize the interface or use foot switches for hands-free control
• Add custom fields for personal notes and reminders

MANAGE YOUR BAND PROFESSIONALLY
• Track income/expenses and let band members view their earnings
• Organize your booking and industry contacts
• Build stage plots to send to venues
• Generate invoices to send to clients

*** If you have a problem or a suggestion, please contact me before writing a review. I can't troubleshoot problems through the review system, but I respond promptly to all help tickets and posts in my support forum. ***

Version 2025-06-06 release notes

* Added a Separate Line setting to the Share Set List page. If you select a field here, that field will appear on a separate line, with the other fields sharing a line as before. This allows you to display fields with longer text on printed set lists. This setting is disabled if the Email Format is set to HTML. * Added an option for transparent stickie notes in the lyrics and document annotations. (The color selector will be black in the dark color theme and white in the light color theme.) ! Renamed Select Next Song On Song Completion to Auto-Advance Through Songs, and moved it from the layout details to the Settings > App Control page. That makes this setting device-specific instead of layout-specific. * Added Other > Start/Stop Auto-Advance to the app control actions, and added Top Toolbar Buttons > Auto-Advance to the layout details, to quickly toggle the Auto-Advance Through Songs setting. You can turn this on or off during a song to change what will happen at the end of the song. * Added Recordings > Record/Save In-App Recording to the app control actions, to quickly make an in-app recording. Triggering this action skips the recording levels preview and starts recording immediately. Triggering it again skips the save prompt and saves the recording with the default filename. You can use this action in a layout that doesn't include the recording controls. If the layout includes the single recording button, that will highlight and show a timer while recording. • Renamed the Start/Stop Automation app control action to Play/Pause Automation to better reflect its behavior. • Updated the volume and recording speed sliders in the set list view to allow clicking on either side of the current position to nudge the position in 1/32 increments. Clicking too quickly will be considered a double-click, which resets the slider to the default position. • Updated the set list view to allow pinch-zooming a document while annotating it. • Updated the stage plot Edit Layout page to allow dragging a zoomed stage plot with two fingers, instead of with one finger after a long-press, for consistency with the set list view. • Updated the event edit page to allow adding one or more set lists to the event, which is more convenient when reusing an existing set list for a new event. You can still add a set list to an event from the set list edit page, which is more convenient when creating a new set list for an existing event. • Updated the event list to show the user response counts instead of the event category names. • Added Settings > Appearance > Stage Plot Date Updated to include the last saved date on stage plots. • Updated the text search fields to ignore punctuation marks except apostrophes, to match the website search functionality. • Updated the Settings > App Control > Actions list to include the document scroll amount if the Document Scroll Up action but not the Document Scroll Down action is added. • Stopped adding an automatic Start marker to lyrics that have a marker before the first line when the first line contains ChordPro chords. • Closed the "reconnecting" message automatically when the Live Sharing function automatically reconnects to a lead device. • Enabled the Save button in picker windows after adding a new item with the + button. • Disabled the Clear Formatting button on formatted text fields when no text is selected. • Hid the renewal button in accounts that have been deleted.