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About Motif: Songwriting Assistant

Your musical ideas deserve better than Voice Memos. Motif is the songwriter's idea-capture tool, built for the moment inspiration strikes. Record a melody in the car, jot down a lyric in bed, snap a photo of a chord chart at rehearsal. Every fragment lives in one place, organized and ready to become a song. CAPTURE IN SECONDS Tap the Home Screen or Lock Screen widget and you're recording in under two seconds. Capture three types of fragments: • Text — lyrics, song notes, rhyme schemes • Audio — melodies, riffs, vocal ideas with a real-time waveform • Image — chord charts, setlists, handwritten lyrics More ways to capture: • Action Button (iPhone 15 Pro and later): start recording with one press • Siri: "Hey Siri, capture audio in Motif" or "Hey Siri, write a lyric in Motif" • Control Center control (iOS 18 and later) • Recording keeps going when your screen locks, and a Live Activity shows the time on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight (iOS 27 and later): create a lyric, add a line, rename it or move it to a project, and find your lyrics in Spotlight ORGANIZE YOUR SONGS Create song projects with genre and mood tags. Assign fragments to sections (Verse, Chorus, Bridge), drag ideas from your inbox onto projects, and link related ideas across projects. Your inbox keeps unassigned fragments safe until they find a home. • Song timeline view: see your fragments by section and spot what's missing • Version history for every lyric, with one-tap revert • On iPad and Pro Max iPhones in landscape, your songs sit beside the song you're working on ON-DEVICE INTELLIGENCE Motif listens to your recordings and tells you what you played: • Automatic key and tempo detection on every recording, free • Melody transcription: hum or sing a melody and see it written out in ABC notation (Pro) • Speech-to-text: turn a sung or spoken take into editable lyrics (Pro) • Rhyme suggestions: find the word that finishes the line (Pro) • Handwriting to text: turn a photo of handwritten or printed lyrics into an editable lyric, read on your device (Pro) LYRIC ASSISTANT WITH APPLE INTELLIGENCE (Pro) Get next-line ideas and title ideas, or develop an idea into a verse and chorus. On iOS 27, verse and chorus drafts can use Apple's Private Cloud Compute. Needs iOS 26 or later on a device with Apple Intelligence turned on. SHARE YOUR WORK • 1080×1920 share images for audio fragments with waveform, key, tempo, and a lyric snippet • Typographic lyric posters: single-line quotes or full-verse layouts • Vertical MP4 videos with an animated waveform synced to your audio • Light and dark PDF lyric sheets with melody notation alongside each section (Pro) TURN FRAGMENTS INTO DEMOS Stitch a project's audio fragments into a single M4A demo, in section order, with crossfades and an optional metronome count-in (Pro). Export a melody transcription as a MIDI file to open in GarageBand, Logic or your DAW (Pro). SONGWRITER'S TOOLKIT • Metronome from 40 to 240 BPM with multiple time signatures • Chromatic tuner with cents display SYNC ACROSS DEVICES With Motif Pro, iCloud keeps your projects, lyrics, and notes in sync across your devices. Audio and image files stay on the device that captured them. FREE TO START Motif Free includes 3 projects, 25 fragments, and 30-second recordings, plus key and tempo detection, share images and videos, version history, and the timeline view. MOTIF PRO: $3.99/month or $34.99/year • Unlimited projects, fragments, and recording length • Melody-to-notation transcription and MIDI export • Lyric assistant with Apple Intelligence • Handwriting to text • Speech-to-text transcription • Rhyme suggestions • Fragment linking across projects • PDF lyric sheet export • Audio demo export • iCloud sync Built by songwriters, for songwriters. Start capturing today. Terms of Service: https://motifpro.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://motifpro.app/privacy.html

What’s new

Version 1.3.1 · Updated October 17, 2026

New in Motif 1.3.1 LYRIC ASSISTANT (Motif Pro) With Apple Intelligence, get next-line ideas and title ideas, or develop an idea into a verse and chorus. On iOS 27, verse and chorus drafts can use Apple's Private Cloud Compute for longer drafts. Needs iOS 26 or later on a device with Apple Intelligence turned on. HANDWRITING TO TEXT (Motif Pro) Turn a photo of handwritten or printed lyrics into a text fragment you can edit, read on your device. MIDI EXPORT (Motif Pro) Export a melody transcription as a MIDI file and open it in GarageBand, Logic or your DAW. SIRI, SHORTCUTS AND SPOTLIGHT (iOS 27 and later) Ask Siri or use Shortcuts to create a lyric, add a line, rename it or move it to a project, and find your lyrics in Spotlight. MORE ROOM ON BIG SCREENS On iPad, an unfolded iPhone Duo and Pro Max iPhones in landscape, your songs sit beside the song you're working on. Optimized for iPhone Duo, with a tabletop layout for the recorder and metronome when it's half open on a table. ALSO • Redeem an offer code from the Motif Pro screen. • A new About screen, with a quick way to rate Motif. • Photo thumbnails show the whole photo. • Onboarding, the paywall and the capture screens fit short screens and landscape. • Silent recordings no longer get a made-up key and tempo. • The tuner no longer crashes, and it reads the right note.

App privacy

The developer, David Caswell, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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