MonkeyChords

For Android

Every player reads the same setlist.
Nobody reads the same chart.

Import chord sheets from the web, fix them up, arrange them into a setlist, and play straight from your screen. The guitarist sees capo shapes. The pianist sees the key it actually sounds in. The bass player sees bars and root notes. One setlist, one tap.

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Amazing Grace
John Newton · B♭ · capo 3 (shapes in G)
Start acapella · band in at verse 2
G           G7      C     G
Amazing grace how sweet the sound
G                   D
That saved a wretch like me
G        G7      C      G
I once was lost, but now am found
Em         D        G
Was blind, but now I see
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One setlist, the whole band

The same song, written for whoever is holding the instrument.

A capo is a guitar's control. Show a pianist a chart in G for a song that is audibly in B♭ and you have handed them the wrong chart. So everybody who is not holding a guitar reads the chords as they sound — and the header only mentions a capo on a sheet that was actually shifted by one.

Guitar

Capo 3

Open shapes, and a suggestion for where to clamp. Chords as played.

G           G7      C     G
Amazing grace how sweet the sound
G                   D
That saved a wretch like me

Piano / keys

Sounding

The key the song is really in, with correct sharps and flats.

B♭          B♭7     E♭    B♭
Amazing grace how sweet the sound
B♭                  F
That saved a wretch like me

Bass

Bars · roots

A bass part is a rhythm and the words are somebody else's problem.

Verse
| B♭  | B♭  | E♭  | B♭  |
| B♭  | B♭  | F   | F   |
| B♭  | B♭7 | E♭  | B♭  |
| Gm  | F   | B♭  | B♭  |

Singers get lyrics only, and chords reduced to major or minor. Pick your instrument once and the app sets sensible defaults — then every one of them stays a setting you can change on its own. It is a shortcut, never a lock.

On stage

Built for when both your hands are busy.

This is the screen the app is actually used from. Nothing in it leads to a settings menu you have to go hunting through mid-song.

  • Turn a page without aiming

    Either outer third of the screen turns a page. A Bluetooth pedal works too, as long as it sends volume or arrow keys — the volume keys are swallowed so no ringer pops up over your chords.

  • Lock it against a sleeve

    A brushed cuff cannot lose your place. Press and hold to unlock. The status bar hides, the controls fade, and the screen stays awake.

  • Change key mid-set

    A semitone either way, or a full key-and-capo dialog, without leaving the song. The change is written to the setlist — so it survives, and it is what gets printed afterwards.

  • Count in, and cue notes

    Tap along to set the tempo, or type a BPM. "Start acapella", "chorus ×2" — attached to the song in this setlist, shown while you play and never printed.

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Blessed Assurance
Crosby / Knapp · D · 96 bpm · 4/4
D           A       D
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine
D        G          A
Oh what a foretaste of glory divine
D          F#m      Bm
Heir of salvation, purchase of God
G        D       A       D
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood

Everything else

From "I found a chart" to "the band has it".

Import from the web

Search chord sites from a native list and pick a version by rating and key, without ever seeing a browser. Sites that need an account open in the built-in browser, where you sign in yourself.

A real editor

Imported charts are rarely clean. Fix them as plain ChordPro text with a live preview of the actual printed sheet beside it.

Transpose and capo

Any key, spelled correctly — E♭ not D♯. Guitarists get capo suggestions scored by how many chords land on open shapes, and capo 0 can win outright.

Chords from audio

No chart anywhere for it? Let the app listen and work the chords out, then tidy the result in the editor.

Bars and Nashville numbers

Hide the lyrics and chords float where the words used to be. Bar view sets them on a grid instead — reading the barlines the sheet drew, and working them out from the spacing where it drew none.

Reuse last week

Duplicate a setlist, or add from your library with "last played 3 weeks ago · 5 times" beside every song — so the same four don't come round every single time.

Send it to a bandmate

Share a whole setlist as one file. The songs arrive as songs — editable, transposable, with the key overrides and cue notes attached. It never overwrites a song you have already corrected.

Backup that actually runs

A snapshot written to a folder you pick, a few seconds after any change, keeping the last five. Google Drive as a second destination if you want one. It refuses to overwrite a good backup with an empty library.

Print for whoever still prefers paper

A two-up PDF with every song fitted to a single sheet. Save it, or share it straight to the band.

Your library is yours

There is no server to send it to.

Not "we don't sell your data" — there is genuinely nowhere for it to go. The app has no backend, so no song, setlist, setting or search has anywhere to travel to.

  • No account, ever. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to sign in to, no password to lose.
  • No analytics SDK. No tracking library is compiled into the app at all.
  • Backups go where you point them. A folder you pick, or your own Google Drive. Never anywhere else.
  • The trial is counted on your phone. No date is checked against a server, because there is not one to check.
  • Works on a plane. Everything but importing a new chart runs with no connection at all.
  • Your songs stay yours if you stop paying. Nothing is deleted or hidden, and you can always export the lot.

The details are in the privacy policy — it is a plain page, not a wall of clauses.

Price

Buy it once. It stays bought.

Free for 30 days.
Then one payment, and it's yours.

Not a subscription. Not a monthly fee for software that runs entirely on your own phone. Thirty days because this app gets used weekly — that is four Sundays, or four weekends, which is long enough to actually know.

During the trial you get the whole app, not a sample of it. When it ends, your library is still there and still exportable — a paywall is never the reason somebody's songs went missing. The purchase is tied to your Google account, so it carries to your next phone.