Campfire

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, with a metronome that knows the tempo of every song and a tuner for the minute before it starts.

Chords sit right above the syllables they belong to, and a song flows into as many columns as the screen has room for, so you turn as few pages as possible.

Campfire doesn't come with songs of its own. It is a home for yours. Write them in the built-in editor, paste a chord sheet copied from a website, or bring the ones you already have, even another songbook app's backup.

Reading

• Turn the page with a tap, a key, or a Bluetooth page-turner pedal, and reach every line with Up and Down alone

• Or one column that scrolls by itself, at a speed set for each song

• ABC tunes drawn as sheet music, in the PDF too

• Adjustable text size, foldable sections, cover art, and links to recordings

• A lyrics-only view for the people who only sing

• Read only mode keeps a stray tap from changing a song mid-set

Chords and scales

• Chord diagrams for guitar, ukulele, mandolin, banjo, or keyboard, in alternate tunings too, in the shapes you actually play

• A Chords tab with every key's common chords, and a Scales tab that draws and plays every scale on your instrument

• Every song suggests the scales that fit it, and its tabs are moved to your instrument

• Transpose and set the capo, and Campfire names the key the band hears

• Chords in standard, German (H), Latin (Do Re Mi), Nashville, or Roman numeral notation

Tuner

• Tune a guitar, bass, ukulele, violin, mandolin, or banjo string by string, in many tunings, or any instrument chromatically

• Reference tones to tune by ear, opened over the song you are about to play

• It listens only while it is on screen, and keeps nothing it hears

Metronome

• Every song keeps its own tempo, time signature, and accents, tempo changes included

• Tap tempo, subdivisions, and five sounds

• A flash on every beat, and it keeps clicking with the screen locked

Setlists

• Play through the whole set without stopping, the tempo changing on the next bar

• Every setlist keeps its own key, capo, and tempo for each song

• A gig date with a countdown, and the set's total running time

Organizing and editing

• Search by title, artist, or tag

• Select several songs at once to add them to setlists, tag them, or export them

• Tags and languages stored inside the song files, with 14 tag colors

• Find a song's cover art and details online, only when you ask

• A ChordPro editor with syntax highlighting, error marks, a live preview, and bold, italic, and underline

Import, export, share, and sync

• Paste, drop, or share a chord sheet into Campfire, and chords written above the lyrics become real chords you can transpose

• Import ChordPro, text, PDF, Word, and ABC files, zip archives, and other songbook apps' backups

• Print-ready PDF export with your paper size and columns

• Share a song or setlist as a link or QR code that anyone opens in Campfire, kept up to date with your changes

• Optional sync through your own Dropbox, automatic after every change

Make it yours

• Light and dark themes, a sepia slider, and ten color schemes, or your wallpaper's colors

• Switch off any feature you never use

• English, Hungarian, Romanian, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Hebrew, 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: no analytics, no tracking, and no ads. It goes online only for what you ask of it: to sync and share through your own Dropbox, with no server in between, to open a shared link, and to fetch cover images and song details. You can export everything at any time.

Also on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows, Linux, and the web: https://campfire-songbook.com

Campfire is open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0: https://github.com/pandulapeter/campfire