Changelog
A new version about once a week, listing what changed for you — not every repair under the floor. A quiet week gets no entry rather than a padded one, so everything below is something you can go and use.
A front door, a metronome, and a quieter reading screen
1.3- Newstrumfolio.com now says what the app is before asking anybody for a password.
- NewA metronome in the reading bar, with its tempo on the same control — keeping time no longer means a second app open beside the song.
- NewImport PDF and Word files. A document holding several songs is split into one song each, and a scanned page says so instead of arriving empty.
- NewThe free plan leads a Strum Together session, with one screen following along.
- NewTwo chord references anyone can open without an account, guitar and ukulele, with every shape and its alternatives.
- NewAdd the app to your home screen, from the menu.
- BetterNotes open over the sheet instead of pushing it sideways, and once you hide them they stay hidden from one song to the next.
- BetterFaint text on the reading screen is readable now, in both themes.
- FixedAuto-scroll plays on a song that fits one screen, plays again after a song has run to the end, and works above 100% browser zoom. The screen stays awake throughout.
- FixedSigning out ends the session straight away, on every device and inside the installed app.
- FixedItalian-style major sevenths — do7+, la7+ — give the note the song actually asks for.
- FixedA shaky signal no longer reloads the page from under you mid-song.
Your own marks on the song
1.2- NewAnchored notes: pin a private reminder to the exact syllable, or to the chord standing over it. Yours alone, and writable with no signal.
- NewFavourites — a star beside the title, and a switch that shows only the songs carrying one.
- NewAlternative chord shapes: tap a chord, flip through every playable fingering, and the one you pick is kept for that song.
- NewTwo more notations to read in — the German convention with H for B, and Nashville numbers, where each chord is written as the degree it plays in the key.
- NewKey, capo and chord display move onto the song itself, as chips under the title, with a choice of sharps or flats and four ways to draw a chord.
- NewImport reads far more: ZIP archives, OpenSong and SongbookPro backups, folders turned into sections, and the dialect each app writes.
- NewPrint the booklet in your key and with your capo, not only as written.
- NewEvery new account arrives with an example songbook of public-domain traditionals already in it, so there is something to play from the first minute.
- NewA public blog, and four small tools that do their whole job in the browser — no account, nothing uploaded.
- BetterBooklet pages fill like a newspaper: no pages holding only a title, no half-empty columns, and index numbers that match the sheet the song is on.
- FixedDragging a song to reorder it follows your finger, past the bottom of the screen and while the page scrolls.
Bring songs in, and put the chords where you want them
1.1- NewBring in a file at all — a new add-song screen with three ways in: write it, paste it, or import it.
- NewThe visual editor: tap the strip to drop a chord on the syllable under your finger, hold it to slide it a letter at a time, and undo anything.
- NewJump to any song in your account by title, artist or tag, without losing the one you are reading.
- NewThe printable booklet gets a screen of its own.
- BetterScrolling by hand pauses auto-scroll instead of ending it, and it picks up again once the page settles — going back a line no longer means hunting for the play button with a guitar in your hands.
- BetterA Strum Together follower reads the chords in the leader’s own notation.
- BetterSaving a song lands you back on the songbook, with it in the list.
- FixedChord diagrams draw a barre only where the hand really makes one, and two ukulele diminished shapes sit within the third fret where they belong.
- FixedCapo frets above the fifth are reachable.
- FixedSigning in with an email and a password brings the whole app up at once.
- FixedChords on neighbouring syllables stack into their own lanes in the editor instead of overlapping into something unreadable.
The first published release
1.0- NewRead your own lyrics and chords on stage: pinch to zoom, hands-free auto-scroll, and text that stays legible at arm’s length.
- NewTranspose into the key you actually sing in, and set a capo — the chords are rewritten for the shapes you are really playing.
- NewWorks with no signal. Once a song has been opened it stays readable offline, which is what a rehearsal room in a basement needs.
- NewOrganise a repertoire into songbooks, and a songbook into sections, in the order you play them.
- NewBring what you already have in, and take it back out again: ChordPro in, ChordPro out, nothing held hostage.
- NewTap a chord to see the fingering, ready to play — guitar on every plan, and the ukulele from Standard up.
- NewStrum Together: everyone opens a link on their own phone and reads the same song in your key, following your line.
- NewA printed booklet as a PDF, ready for the music stand: cover, index, one song a page.
- NewSign in with Google or with an email and a password, and pick the plan that fits — starting with a free one that has no end date.
Questions, or something that looks wrong? Write to info@strumfolio.com.