Campfire

Songs · Setlists · Metronome · Tuner · Chords · Scales

A free songbook for your lyrics and chords.

Campfire helps you organize your repertoire and keeps it ready for rehearsal and the stage, on whatever screen you play from.

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Setlists on a MacBook, each with its songs, their key, tempo, and length, and the running time of the set.
A song on an iPad, its chord diagrams and verses in columns.
The song list on an iPhone, grouped by artist, with tags on every song.

Columns that follow your text size

Set the text as large as you need to read it from the stand, and the song is laid out in as many columns as fit at that size.

  • Turn pages with a tap or a page-turner pedal, a whole page or one column at a time.
  • Chord diagrams sit at the top of the song.
  • Auto-scroll plays the song in one column, timed to its length, with a speed you can adjust.
  • A lyrics-only mode hides the chords for singers.
A song on a MacBook at the default text size, laid out in four columns under the diagrams of its chords.
Use the slider to change the text size

Import and edit

Paste a song copied from any website, however messy, and it opens in the editor with the chords lined up over the lyrics and the verses and choruses picked out.

  • Import text files, PDFs, Word documents, zip archives, and backups from other apps.
  • The editor points out mistakes and shows a live preview as you type.
  • Color a song’s chords or lyrics with the editor’s color buttons.
  • Look up a song’s album, year, songwriters, and cover art online.
An imported song in the editor on a MacBook, with a mistake flagged and its live preview beside it.

Setlists and sharing

Play through a set in order, with the next song always one tap away.

  • A setlist stores the key, capo, and tempo of each of its songs.
  • The app counts down to the date of the gig and adds up the running time.
  • Print songs or the whole set from a PDF, with the running order.
  • Send a set to other Campfire users as a zip file, or as a link with a QR code they scan to open it.
A song shared as a PDF on an iPad, its page previewed beside the options.
A setlist on an iPhone, with the key, tempo, and length of each song, its running time, and the days left until the gig.

Metronome and tuner

Each song stores its tempo, time signature, and accented beats, so the click starts from the song’s screen with one tap.

  • In a set, the tempo switches to the next song’s on the next bar.
  • Tempo changes written inside a song are followed too.
  • The tuner opens over the song you’re about to play and ticks off each string once it’s in tune.
  • The sound is analyzed on your device and never recorded.
A song on an iPad with the metronome panel open under its title.
The Metronome tab on an iPhone, with the tempo, the beats of the bar, and its settings.

Chords and scales

Pick your instrument once, and every song’s chord diagrams are drawn for it: guitar, ukulele, mandolin, banjo, or keyboard.

  • Diagrams and tabs follow the tuning you play in, from drop D to open G.
  • Search the chord database by key or name, and see recommended scales for each chord.
  • The Scales tab draws every scale and mode in any key, from pentatonic and blues to bebop, symmetric, and world scales, on any fretboard with any tuning, or on the keyboard.
I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) on an iPad, with the shapes of a B chord on a guitar offered over the song.
The Chords tab on an iPhone, showing the chords of C on a ukulele.

Notation

Show chords as letters, German, Latin, Nashville numbers, or Roman numerals, in any key. Melodies written in ABC notation are drawn as sheet music, and tabs move their frets with the key. Underneath, every song is a plain ChordPro text file, so nothing is locked in. Try it on the example below.

# Raw .cho file
{title: Amazing Grace}
{artist: John Newton}
{key: G}
{start_of_abc}
X:1
M:3/4
K:G
D2|"G"G4BG|"G7"B4A2|"C"G4E2|
w:A-ma-zing_ grace how sweet the
"G"D4D2|G4BG|"Em"B4A2|"D"d6|]
w:sound that saved a_ wretch like me
{end_of_abc}
{start_of_verse}
I [G]once was [G7]lost, but [C]now am [G]found
Was [G]blind, but [D7]now I [G]see
{end_of_verse}
{start_of_tab: Outro}
   G       C       D7      G
G|-------|-------|-------|----|
D|-5-----|-----5-|---7---|----|
A|---5---|---7---|-5---9-|-10-|
E|-----7-|-8-----|-------|----|
{end_of_tab}

Amazing Grace

John Newton

Sheet music

A-ma-zinggracehowsweettheEE7AsoundthatsavedawretchlikemeEC♯mB

Verse

I Eonce was E7lost, but Anow am Efound
Was Eblind, but B7now I Esee

Outro

EAB7EGDAE2242426745

What else is in it

Everything a songbook needs, and nothing that gets in your way.

  • Search and filter

    Search by title, artist, or tag, with the closest matches first, and filter by language. Select many songs at once to add them to a setlist or share them.

  • Tags

    Give songs your own tags in 14 colors, many at once, and list the songs that carry any or all of the ones you pick. Tags are saved in the song files.

  • Sharing

    Send songs and setlists to the musicians you play with, as a zip file or a link any Campfire user can open.

  • Real-time Dropbox sync

    Edit a song on your laptop and see it change on your phone a moment later, with everything stored in your own Dropbox folder.

  • Read-only mode

    A simple toggle locks editing on stage, so a stray tap can’t change a song or a setlist in the middle of a set.

  • Hide what you don’t use

    Turn off the features you don’t need, and Campfire hides them to keep your experience simple and free of distractions.

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