Getting Started

The first step is to create a free BandBook account. Tap Get Started on the home page and sign up with your email and a password, or use Google or Facebook.

Your account is how you sign in across devices and manage all your bands in one place.

Once you're signed in, tap Create a Band on the home page. You'll need three things:

• Band name — whatever your band is called
• Passcode — a shared code (4–8 characters) that your bandmates will use to join
• Nickname — how you want to appear in this band

Once you create the band, you'll get a shareable invite link to send to your bandmates.

To join a band, you'll need a BandBook account first. Once signed in, there are two ways to join:

• Via invite link — your bandmate sends you a link, and you enter the band passcode and a nickname
• Manually — tap Join a Band on the home page and enter the invite code, passcode, and your nickname

Once you join, you'll have full access to all of the band's songs, recordings, and lyrics.

The song catalog is your band's central hub. Every song your band creates shows up here with its status, version count, and when it was last updated.

You can organize your catalog with:

• Search — find songs by title
• Filter by status — show only Draft, In Progress, or Finished songs
• Sort — by last updated, title (A–Z), or date created

Each song card shows a status badge, how many audio versions it has, whether it has lyrics, and when it was last updated.

There are two ways to start a new song, depending on what you have first:

Start with Lyrics

Just enter a song title and you're in. You can start writing lyrics immediately and add audio later.

Upload a Recording

Select an audio file from your device first. Then choose whether to create a brand new song or add the recording to an existing one.

Each song can have multiple audio recordings — rehearsal takes, demos, rough mixes, or anything else. Every time you upload a recording to a song, it becomes a new version.

• Label your versions to tell them apart (e.g., "Garage rehearsal 3/15", "Studio demo")
• Add notes to remember what's different about each take
• Set any version as current — the one your band considers the definitive recording
• Versions are never deleted — your recordings are always safe

The lyrics composer lets you write structured lyrics organized by section. Instead of one big text block, your lyrics are broken into labeled parts.

Section Types

Each section gets a color-coded badge:

Editing Features

• Add new sections and pick their type
• Write multi-line text in each section
• Drag and drop to reorder sections
• Duplicate or delete any section

Every time lyrics are saved, BandBook creates a snapshot of all your sections. You can browse the full history to see:

• When each revision was made
• Who made the changes
• What the lyrics looked like at that point

If you want to go back to a previous version, just tap Restore — it becomes your current lyrics (and creates a new revision, so nothing is lost).

In Settings, any member can manage the band:

• Change the band name
• View or share the invite link — copy it to send to new members
• Regenerate the invite link — the old one will stop working
• Change the passcode — existing members stay signed in, but new members will need the updated passcode to join
• See all members — with nicknames, join dates, and last activity