LeadSheets: Chords & Setlists
Peter Vandewalle Music iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
LeadSheets: Chords & Setlists is a free Music app for iPhone and iPad by Peter Vandewalle. Requires iOS 17.6. Updated October 24, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 12 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 24
- 2026 · v2.5
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About LeadSheets: Chords & Setlists
LeadSheets is the songbook for your whole band. Lyrics, chords, sheet music and setlists for every musician, ready on stage on your iPad, iPhone and Mac. CHORDS & LYRICS • Write chord charts line by line: lyrics, chords above lyrics, a bar-by-bar musicians grid, and section remarks. • ChordPro+: type a song once, with chords in brackets, and LeadSheets shows it three ways. Singers get chords above the lyrics, musicians get bars, and drummers get their cues. • Transpose a whole song to any key with one tap. • Tap any chord to see how to play it. • Paste a song from anywhere, or look up the chords online without leaving the app. SHEET MUSIC FOR EVERY MUSICIAN • Add PDFs, photos or scanned pages, or write a score yourself. • Assign each score to a band member: bass, drums, guitar, keys, vocals. • Each musician picks their own name and sees only their part. • Pages sit side by side in landscape and above each other in portrait. Swipe to turn the page. • Write on your PDFs with Apple Pencil: highlight, circle, add notes. THE SCORE EDITOR • Fast keyboard entry, as in the best desktop notation programs, plus a custom on-screen music keyboard on iPad and iPhone. • Notes, rests, ties, dots, triplets and chords, from whole notes down to 32nds. • Two voices on one staff, piano scores on two staves, and drum notation with a key for every instrument. • Slurs, trills, slides, grace notes, staccato, accents and ghost notes. • Repeats with "x3", first and second endings, bar repeats, Segno, Coda, D.C. and D.S. • Chord symbols, lyrics, section names and comments. • What you see is what you print: export clean PDF pages on A4 or Letter. PLAY & PRACTISE • Play your backing tracks from your music library, or from Apple Music or Spotify. • Set the key of each downloaded song once, and LeadSheets remembers it. • Slow downloaded songs down or speed them up to rehearse tricky parts. • A visual and audible metronome runs from each song's BPM. • Lock screen and Control Center controls for songs that play inside LeadSheets. SETLISTS • Build setlists by dragging songs into order. • See the number of songs and the total playing time at a glance. • Move through the set with a swipe, and play it song by song, each in its own key. • Print the setlist for the stage, or export it as a list. SHARE WITH YOUR BAND • Send a whole setlist, with every song, chart and score, as one file. Your bandmates import it and are ready to go. • Export chord charts, singer sheets and drummer sheets as PDF. • Back up or move your whole library in one go. YOURS, AND PRIVATE • Your songs live on your device and in your own iCloud Drive, in files you can open on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Or you can have a band file for your bandmates to collaborate on. • No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Made by a musician, for musicians. Questions or ideas? Write to [email protected].
What’s new
Version 2.5 · Updated October 24, 2026
LeadSheets 2.5: the whole band in one score. FULL SCORE • One notation score with every instrument of the band, in groups with brackets. • Each musician picks their name and sees only their own part, in their own key, with multi-bar rests. • Director's view: fold groups, hide instruments or resting instruments, large bar numbers and marks, concert or written pitch. • Written or concert pitch while you edit, for transposing instruments like sax and trumpet. • Mixer with mute, solo and volume per instrument and group, and a playback sound per instrument. • Print all parts, or the full score and all parts, as one PDF. Pages turn where the player rests, and lines spread evenly over the page. • MusicXML import and export with every instrument, its transposition, sound and groups. CHORD TRACKS • Chords live on their own track: on any beat, 8th or 16th, even in the middle of a long note. • Main chords for the band, or a chord track of its own for an instrument (guitar voicings, bass chords). • Per instrument: chords off, in its own key, or at concert pitch. Transposed chords show in italics in the full score. • Slash notation for rhythm-section parts. N.C. stops the chord. • Copy and paste take the chords along; copy a whole section and paste it before or after another. PLAYBACK • Chord playback: held, quarters, pop 8ths, swing comp, walking bass, bossa nova (also over two bars) and waltz. • Swing feel per bar, from straight to hard swing. • Tap a chord to see its diagrams and hear it strummed. PLAY ALONG WITH YOUR SONGS • Tuning: set how a recording is tuned (e.g. A = 442) and the A your band tunes to. LeadSheets matches them. • BPM detection: LeadSheets listens to the song and suggests its tempo. • Song not downloaded? One tap takes you to Apple Music; when it's downloaded, LeadSheets takes the song over so you can change its key, tuning and speed. • Playback pauses for a phone call or Siri. AND MORE • Tap a chord, lyric, section name or comment in the score editor to edit it. • Score pages show the song's title and artist.
App privacy
The developer, Peter Vandewalle, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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