Setlist: A Free Band Planning App Built for Gigging Bands
A working band is a coordination problem dressed up as a creative one. Songs in a group chat. Setlists in a Google Doc. Rehearsal times in someone's head. Venue notes in an email from three weeks ago.
Generic project tools don't fix it. A Kanban board doesn't help anyone learn a bridge. A shared calendar doesn't tell you which songs are stage-ready and which still need work.
Setlist is built for the specific shape of a gigging band's week.
What Setlist does
Setlist gives a band one shared place to plan gigs, manage rehearsals, build a song collection, create setlists, and prep for stage.
Bands add songs, vote on them, leave comments, and track readiness. When a gig is coming up, setlists are built with drag-and-drop and printed for the stage. Events live on a shared band calendar with venue details, comments, and attached setlists in one place. Practice tools — audio playback with section looping and tempo control, plus built-in lyrics and tab lookup — sit alongside the planning surface.
It's not a project tool with band features bolted on. It's a band tool.
What's broken about the alternative
Bands cobble together a stack. Group chat for decisions. Calendar for dates. Notes app for song lists. Spotify playlist for practice. Email for venue logistics. None of them know about each other.
That works for a few months. It breaks the moment the band plays more often, adds more songs, or rotates members. Information lives in five places and goes stale in all five.
Setlist replaces the stack with one workspace where songs, setlists, events, and rehearsals reference each other. The setlist for Friday's gig isn't a Google Doc — it's attached to the calendar event, built from the band's actual song collection, with status indicators showing what's ready.
How it works
Song collection — Voting, comments, and state tracking so the band sees what's ready and what still needs work.
Setlist builder — Drag-and-drop with print output for the stage or rehearsal.
Band calendar — Rehearsals, gigs, venues. Each event holds its own setlist, notes, and comments.
Practice tools — Audio playback with section looping and tempo adjustment. Lyrics, tabs, and album artwork lookup built in.
Personal practice — Private setlists, data export, and embedded YouTube video are also available for individual prep.
Who this is for
Working bands and gigging musicians who play often enough that "we'll figure it out" stops working. The app is built by a musician who's also a developer with 40 years of programming experience — built to scratch his own band's itch, not to be sold.
It's 100% free. No ads, no subscriptions, no data sale. Made for fun, not profit.
Try it
Open Setlist — or see the Setlist listing on ShipBoost.
