A usable chord chart keeps the words readable and the changes on the right beats. If the chords sit in a jumble above the wrong syllable, the band guesses. If you bury G and D inside the lyric, nobody can sing it.
Lyrics Library is built for that job: write the lyric, tap a syllable, and park the chord on the word. You can also paste a ChordPro chart you already have.
Why notes apps make messy charts
In a notes app, people usually do one of two things:
- Type chords on their own line (
G D Em) and hope they still line up after a font change - Stick the chord in the sentence: “we walk (G) home (D)”
The first breaks as soon as you rotate the phone or bump the size. The second is hard to sing at speed. A lyrics and chord chart app keeps the lyric as the line you read, and the chord as a mark on that line.
Write the lyric first
Start with the words. If you are drafting, keep lines short enough to read on a phone:
we walk the long way home
the porch light is still on
Do not worry about chords yet. Get the line breaks the way you will sing them. Verse, chorus, and tag each get their own space so you are not scrolling through a wall of text on stage.
Download Lyrics Library free if you want to tap chords onto a chart instead of lining them up in a notes app.
Tap the syllable, not a blank row
When the lyric is in, tap the word where the harmony changes. For a late change, tap the second half of the line — “the porch light is still on” — instead of dropping every chord on beat one.
A good placement rule: the chord belongs where your left hand changes, not where the sentence starts. If the band hits D on “light,” that is the syllable to mark.
Guitar diagrams in the app help you confirm the shape before you walk on. You are not hunting a separate chord book while the count-in starts.
ChordPro still works
If you already have charts in ChordPro, you do not have to rebuild them. Import or paste the markup — [G]we walk the long way [D]home — and the app turns those inline tokens into placed chords. For a full walkthrough, read how to import ChordPro lyrics.
That is useful when a worship leader or bandmate emails a file. Keep the file in your library, then transpose for the singer without reprinting.
Keep the page readable
A chart fails when the lyric disappears under decoration. A few habits help:
- One idea per line
- Repeat the chorus instead of writing “chorus (same)”
- Hide chords in stage view when you only need the words
- Use folders so drafts do not sit next to tonight’s set
If you are comparing tools, see notes app vs a lyrics app for gigs.
Save it once, reuse it every night
The point of a library is that you do not rebuild the same chart on Friday. Save the song, drop it in a setlist, and open it in stage view with large type.
Questions about accounts and backup are in the FAQ. The short version: sign in with Apple or Google if you want the same charts on the next device.