Campfire: Songbook & Metronome

Campfire is a songbook for the songs you play: your lyrics and chords, laid out to be read while your hands are busy with an instrument, and a metronome that knows the tempo of every song. Chords sit right above the syllables they belong to. A song flows into as many columns as the screen has room for, and a long one carries on to the next page, so you turn as few pages as possible, with a tap, a key or a Bluetooth page-turner pedal. Campfire doesn't come with songs of its own. It is a home for yours. Write them in the built-in editor, or bring the ones you already have: text files, PDFs, Word documents, ChordPro files, whole zip archives, even another songbook app's backup. Reading • Turn the page with a tap, the arrow keys or a Bluetooth page-turner pedal, and reach every line with Up and Down alone • Adjustable text size, sections you can fold, and cover art and links to recordings with every song • Switch the chords off for the people in the room who only sing • Read only mode keeps a stray tap from changing a song mid-set Chords • Chord diagrams for guitar, ukulele or keyboard at the top of every song, in the shapes you actually play • Transpose and set the capo, and Campfire names the key the band hears • Read chords as letters, in German (H) or Latin (Do Re Mi) notation, as Nashville numbers or as Roman numerals, with sharps or flats Metronome • Every song keeps its own tempo and time signature, so one tap starts the click where the song needs it, following the tempo changes written into it • Tap tempo, accents, subdivisions and five sounds: click, woodblock, beep, hi-hat and cowbell • A flash on every beat, vibration on phones, and it keeps going with the screen locked Setlists • Put songs in order and play through the whole set without stopping • Every setlist remembers its own key, capo and tempo for each song • Give the gig a date, see a countdown to it and the set's total running time • Archive a setlist after the gig instead of deleting it Writing and editing • ChordPro editor with syntax highlighting, mistakes marked as you type and a live preview • One tap formats a messy song, and unsaved text survives the app being closed Import, export and sync • Import ChordPro, plain text, PDF and Word files, or whole zip archives. Chords written above the lyrics become real chords you can transpose • Moving from another songbook app? Bring its backup along, and Campfire will do its best with it • Export a song or a setlist as a print-ready PDF with your paper size, columns and options, its text searchable and copyable • Share songs and setlists with other Campfire users, or export your whole library as a zip • Optional sync through your own Dropbox, automatic after every change. It stays off until you connect it Organizing • Search by title, artist or tag, with the closest matches first • Tags and languages, stored in the song files themselves so they travel with them Make it yours • Light and dark themes, a sepia slider that warms the background, ten color schemes and your wallpaper's colors • The app icon follows the color you choose • Switch off the metronome, setlists, chords or cover art you never use, and the app gets simpler still • English and Hungarian, switchable inside the app Your songs are yours Your library is a folder of ordinary ChordPro text files on your device. Campfire works offline, needs no account and collects no data at all: no analytics, no tracking, no ads, no subscription and no in-app purchases. It only goes online to sync, connecting straight to your own Dropbox with no other server in between, and to fetch the cover images you choose, which you can switch off. You can export everything at any time, so leaving is as easy as arriving. The same app runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows, Linux and in the browser: https://campfire-songbook.com Campfire is free and open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Source code: https://github.com/pandulapeter/campfire