https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes Beta release notes for Songbook Buddy — sign in required on the website. en-us https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.23 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT A sync-reliability release fixing a permanent resync loop and a false "library was repaired" prompt on wiped devices: Uploaded rows are no longer stored as pending . The generic outbox push uploaded the full local row without stamping its sync status, so pending — the local marker for "still waiting to be pushed" — was written into the server copy and pulled straight back down. https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.22 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT A fix release for chord spelling, enharmonic chord diagrams, silent DMX output and a stuck macOS modifier: Transposed chords keep their scale degree. The tonic moves a fixed number of letter steps and every chord moves with it, so a D in a song in E now transposes to Bb in C rather than A#. Borrowed and diatonic chords are both spelled the way a chart spells them; where the degree-correct name wou https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.21 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT A reliability release: multi-device sync integrity, uninterrupted playback, and a working update check: Sync updates carry only the fields you changed. An edit on one device no longer overwrites unrelated fields edited on another — every update path in the library now reports per-field changes. Conflicts resolve by edit time, not upload time. An offline edit no longer loses to an older change that https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+16 Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT The first public non-store build of 1.0.20, and the first with PayPal live: The update panel shows release notes as formatted text. It rendered the Markdown source, so this very list would have reached you as - **Bold lead-in.** Detail . Note that the improvement appears from the next update onwards — the panel you are reading now belongs to the version you already have. Quitting no longer ends in https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+15 Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT The first public non-store build of 1.0.20, and the first with PayPal live: Quitting no longer ends in a crash. Every shutdown aborted with SIGABRT — harmless to your data, but alarming, and the window could linger afterwards. Shutdown is clean, and it now reports that it is closing while it finishes writing. A plan that has not been confirmed yet is no longer read as "free". During the https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+14 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT Same content as 1.0.20+13 — this build exists only to get that content onto TestFlight. 1.0.20+13 uploaded and processed cleanly (valid, not expired, export compliance recorded) but never became available to internal testers: it stayed at "ready for beta testing" instead of moving to "in beta testing", and neither the Console nor the API could attach it to the internal group, w https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+13 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT Everything in 1.0.20+12, plus one fix that matters more than it sounds: on phones and tablets, saving a backup now opens a real file dialog instead of the share sheet. Backups are saved to a folder you choose, and restore can find them again. Until now the mobile backup handed the file to the system share sheet, which offers apps rather than places — so it was easy to end up with a backup in a clo https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+12 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT Everything in 1.0.20+11, plus two fixes in the places where an app has to be trustworthy: the backup flow and the warning you get before deleting something. Cancelling a backup no longer leaves the app stuck. Backing out of the save sheet used to leave "Creating backup…" on screen forever, with no way to cancel and no way back — force-quitting was the only escape, in the one feature whos https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+11 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT Everything in 1.0.20+10, plus three fixes that all come down to the same thing: the app deciding something on your behalf that was yours to decide. Your phone is no longer forced into landscape. Songbook Buddy used to lock phone-sized screens to landscape, on the reasoning that a chord sheet wants width. That is usually true, and it was applied as though it were always true. Hold your phone whiche https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+10 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT Everything in 1.0.20+9, plus the device limit finally behaving the way a device limit should — it asks instead of refusing quietly. Running out of device slots now asks which device to sign out. Signing in on one device too many used to be refused by the server and mentioned nowhere: the new device simply did not sync, and nothing on screen said why. It now asks straight away — here are your devic https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+9 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT This build closes seven reported defects. Most of them sit on the path a paying customer walks when they buy without first making an account — the moment right after the payment, where silence is indistinguishable from a lost purchase. Transposing into a minor key spells it the way musicians write it. A song in A minor moved up four semitones came out as D♭ minor, a key that would need eight flats https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+8 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT A cold start no longer mistakes "not signed in yet" for "no account". This build is 1.0.20+7 plus that one fix, which had four faces: Your plan is not read as the free one while the app is still signing you in. Restoring a session takes a moment longer than starting up, and in that gap the app answered "Starter" with confidence instead of "not yet known". On https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+7 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT Plans can now be renewed, switched and refunded without costing you time or money you already paid for, exporting reaches your phone and your selection, and quitting no longer crashes. This build carries everything since 1.0.20+2, the last one published: Quitting no longer crashes. Closing the app aborted every time on the normal quit path — the database was being closed while the engine had alrea https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+6 Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT Plans can now be renewed, switched and refunded without costing you time or money you already paid for — and four places that named the wrong plan have been corrected. This build carries everything since 1.0.20+2, the last one published: A plan that could not be checked is no longer treated as a free one. If the app could not reach your profile — a failed lookup, an empty response, no cached answe https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+5 Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT Plans can now be renewed, switched and refunded without costing you time or money you already paid for — plus the Starter fixes from the macOS pass: Plans can be renewed at all. There was no Renew button. The purchase screen was built as a ladder that only offers higher plans, so a Pro buyer saw nothing but Pro Cloud, and a Pro Cloud buyer saw "you have everything — thank you" and no but https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+4 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT Fixes from a full pass over the free Starter plan on macOS — everywhere the app offered, or nagged about, something that plan cannot do. The free plan is no longer asked to sync. Signing in on Starter produced repeated "shall I sync?" prompts and finally a red banner counting up unsynced changes, with a "Sync Now" that could not do anything. Starter is local-only by design, so https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+3 Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT A correctness pass over the plan screen and the "check library against server" dialog, found while rehearsing the purchase flow on real devices. The Basic plan description was wrong about import and export. It listed "import & export" as something Basic unlocks. Exporting your songs is free on every plan — data portability is never behind a paywall — and the free Starter pl https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20+2 Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT A refresh of 1.0.20 that makes it obvious which build you are running and where your plan came from. The About screen names your build's origin. The version line now reads e.g. Version 1.0.20 (Android direct download) or (macOS App Store) . Two builds of the same version can behave differently — the website download buys through PayPal, the store build through in-app purchase — and on Android https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.20 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT Songbook Buddy's first public (non-beta) release: the four-plan licensing model introduced across the 1.0.19 beta line goes stable, with account-less purchasing. Four plans, hierarchical. Starter (free) · Basic (€7.99 one-time) · Pro (€29.99/year) · Pro Cloud (€79.99/year); each plan includes everything below it. The upgrade screen leads with your current plan and offers only the steps above i https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+31 Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT Four-tier licensing, band-share lifecycle, Apple font collections, and setlist-printing fixes: Four license tiers: Starter / Basic / Pro / Pro Cloud (hierarchical: Pro Cloud ⊃ Pro ⊃ Basic ⊃ Starter). Basic €7.99 one-time (permanent), Pro €29.99/yr, Pro Cloud €79.99/yr, Starter free. Server-authoritative profiles.license_tier + owns_basic ; grants, refunds and expiry recompute the tier. Client gate https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+30 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT A reliability follow-up to 1.0.19-beta+29 that clears the last of the "app is lagging" reports: The song list no longer stalls or blanks in a band. A member whose band owner went offline before sharing the wrapped key stayed permanently key-less, so every song-list recompute (each edit or stoplight tap) paid one sequential server round trip per band song and held the list in a valueless https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+29 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT A follow-up to 1.0.19-beta+28 covering sync performance on long-serving devices, faster Band Mode publishing, and an option to hide chord-voicing numbers: Chord-voicing numbers can be switched off. The subscript that marks a repeated chord shape (C, C₂) is noise for players who never assign per-occurrence fingerings; a new preference under Preferences → Chords (default on, synced across devices) s https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+28 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT A follow-up to 1.0.19-beta+27 covering the setlists tab on narrow screens, chord-voicing notation, editor responsiveness on large libraries, and two ChordPro-export fixes: The setlist song picker collapses and resizes. The picker pane can be folded away with the same floating corner pill the sidebar uses, and the divider between the setlist and the picker can be dragged. Both the visibility and th https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+27 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT A sync-reliability and editor build that stops a runaway artist re-sync loop and keeps the editor steady during heavy syncing: Encrypted empty fields round-trip again. An off-by-one in the AES-GCM box-length check treated an encrypted empty string (a valid 28-byte box) as truncated, so songs with no artist were cleared and re-pushed on every sync — an endless heal loop that never drained the outbo https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+26 Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT A Theater-mode and setlist refinement build with same-network sharing and sync recovery fixes: Per-song Theater layout override. A setlist song can pin its own saved layout in Theater mode via a new "Override in Theater mode" checkbox in the Format sidebar; every other song keeps the global Theater layout. Setlist drag auto-scroll. Dragging a song near the top or bottom edge of the list https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+25 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT This songbook-export and printing release adds a stage run sheet, a unified songbook workspace, exact-value formatting sliders, and direct Pro purchases for non-store builds: Print Setlist run sheet. New dialog prints the setlist as a one-page run sheet — titles with optional artist, key, playtime, song notes and sticky notes, number/bullet position markers, plus band name and event date/location https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+24 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT A format, export, and chord-rendering build: All-sections master font row. A new row at the top of Format › Fonts edits every section's font at once — change one attribute (font, size, bold, italic, colour, line spacing) and it propagates to all sections, while untouched attributes stay per-section. "All styles" / "Body only" scope per edit; Reset reverts the whole snapshot https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+23 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT Chord-diagram clarity and appearance polish, plus a Windows numpad text-input fix: Numbered repeated chord voicings. When a song assigns more than one shape to the same chord name, the secondary voicings are numbered with a superscript on the chord name ("C", "C²", "Fmaj7²") in the on-screen render, the chord-chart panel, and the PDF. The chord overview is now shape-a https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+22 Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT Chord-diagram dot colours, an editor drag gesture, and a footswitch reliability fix: Per-song fingering-dot colours. The chord-colours dialog gains a "Match dots to line colour" toggle plus per-mode (light/dark) pickers for the fingering, root, and bass dots; per-song overrides win over the global General chord colours and the automatic semantic colours. New DisplaySettings fields ride i https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+21 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT Beta-channel groundwork plus reliability fixes: Dedicated Beta build. New prod/beta flavor with a single source of truth across Dart, Android, iOS/macOS, Linux and Windows: its own bundle ID, red-ribbon launcher icon, deep-link scheme, update channel and build tooling. The Beta flavor runs against the beta Supabase project; stable builds are unaffected. Reveal in Finder for the database path. The https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+20 Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT Chord-diagram colours gain light/dark modes, and printing stays light: Per-mode chord-diagram colours. Chord diagrams now hold separate line and background colours for light and dark mode (new chordDiagramLineColorDark / chordDiagramBackgroundColorDark fields); on-screen consumers resolve per Brightness, editing one mode auto-derives the opposite by flipping HSL lightness, and a manual edit pins i https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+19 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT A chord-diagram precision pass — on-screen and printed diagrams now share one geometry: Inline chord diagrams honor the frame switch. Diagrams shown "on top of each line" respect the frame toggle and use a shorter frame sized to fit, so they're no longer stretched. Overall Scale slider scales chord diagrams. The Scale slider now resizes chord diagrams along with the rest of the rende https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+18 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT Beta polish focused on chord charts, setlists, and print parity, plus several beta-report fixes: On-screen and printed chord charts now match. Fret numbers (plain, no "fr"), fingering-dot colours (theme primary, not always green), and block alignment are consistent across screen, print, and the Songbook Editor; long chord names scale to one line instead of wrapping. More barre chords. Ca https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+17 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT Spacing, print-fidelity, and per-tuning chord fixes on top of 1.0.19-beta+16: Print/PDF spacing now matches the screen renderer. Lyric line leading and the chord-to-verse gap in printed and exported PDFs were computed differently from the on-screen layout; both now use the same metrics, with a screen/PDF parity test guarding it. Chord-shape assignments namespaced per instrument + tuning. Assignmen https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+16 Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT Imported-sheet markup, bug-report attachments, per-device live leadership, opt-in usage statistics, and a batch of macOS support fixes: Opt-in anonymous usage statistics. A new Preferences → About toggle (default OFF) plus a one-time non-blocking banner let users share cumulative anonymous counts — launches, active days, songs imported/created/opened, and per-feature use. Upload is throttled to 1/ https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+15 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT Sheet-music markup, custom-tuning sync, and page-pedal reliability on top of 1.0.19-beta+14: Imported sheet markup now renders. PDFs imported from apps like MobileSheets had their annotation layer ignored by the page renderer; annotations are now flattened into the page content at import (only when present), and a guarded one-time startup sweep bakes in markup on sheets imported earlier and rewrit https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+14 Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT Stability and polish on top of 1.0.19-beta+13, with several launch-crash fixes and broader device support: Launch-crash fixes. Don't apply synced preferences mid-frame (Android "tried to modify a provider while the widget tree was building" crash), and swallow async mDNS/Bonjour discovery errors so Wi-Fi sync discovery can't take the app down at launch (iOS local-network DefunctC https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+13 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT Wi-Fi (peer-to-peer) sync for linked audio and sheet scores, preference sync, and a round of sync-direction and editor/render fixes on top of 1.0.19-beta+12: Wi-Fi sync is now peer-to-peer. Linked-audio files and sheet-song attachments copy directly between your own devices on the same Wi-Fi — every device both offers and pulls, with no fixed server/client and no cloud round-trip. Devices advertis https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+12 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT Onboarding, demo songs, and broader platform reach on top of 1.0.19-beta+11: Guided onboarding. First-run beginner spotlight tour (overlay + anchored steps), a Pro-features tour with an activation prompt on unlock, a getting-started checklist card, contextual one-time tips, and an empty-library call-to-action. All tours and the checklist restart from Preferences → General → Help. Downloadable demo https://songbookbuddy.com/beta/release-notes v1.0.19-beta+11 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT Song-management, chord-parity, and ChordPro build on top of 1.0.19-beta+10: Workflow status (Pro). New opt-in red/yellow/green dot per song — Songs tab and Setlists tab (picker rows + setlist entries), Status sort, 3-dot filter, bulk assign in multi-select. Enable in Preferences → General → Song list. DB schema v32 (songs.workflow_status, 1=red/2=yellow/3=green); syncs via full-row encode. {chord: