V11.13
⭐ Chord inversion overview
◾ Provides a quick reference to all chord inversions for each chord type
◾ Chord inversions allow you to add tonal variety, create smoother transitions and unlock new textures
🐞 Timer didn't stop
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V10.9
✔ Notepad:
◾ New way to organize notes for different items
▶ Watch our video about the notepad and the notes: https://youtu.be/hMIqXNRPniw
🐞 Set list: Problems to add songs into an empty set list
V10.7.2
✔ Songbook:
◾ Editor colors blocks and instructions to make the song text clearer
◾ Scroll bars when scrolling
◾ ChordPro annotations [*]
◾ Possibility to import songs from an arbitrary folder on Android 13 and newer
✔ Piano: Option to show scales and chords on the keys
🐞 Songbook: Corrections for scrolling
🐞 Songbook: Some songs could not be opened
🐞 Octavation corrected in some tunings
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V10.7.1
✔ Songbook:
◾ Editor colors blocks and instructions to make the song text clearer
◾ Scroll bars when scrolling
◾ ChordPro annotations [*]
✔ Piano: Option to show scales and chords on the keys
🐞 Songbook: Some songs could not be opened
🐞 Songbook: Corrections for auto scroll
🐞 Octavation corrected in some tunings
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V10.6.1
✔ Songbook scroll control behavior: Possibility to control the scrolling by defining a time from the start when automatic scrolling reaches the line
▶ Learn how to scroll: https://youtu.be/Aj6Zlc1gsJY
❗❗ Behavior change: Decide whether to save or discard on exit a feature
🐞 Songbook:
◾ Scrolling no longer worked for songs without a duration
◾ When using 'Replace chord' and the song was already transposed, the new chord was not transposed
◾ Internet song search problems with guitartabs
...
V10.6
✔ Songbook scroll control behavior: Possibility to control the scrolling by defining a time from the start when automatic scrolling reaches the line
▶ Learn how to scroll: https://youtu.be/Aj6Zlc1gsJY
❗❗ Behavior change: Decide whether to save or discard on exit a feature
🐞 Songbook: When using 'Replace chord' and the song was already transposed, the new chord was not transposed
🐞 Songbook: Internet song search problems with guitartabs
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V10.5.1
⭐ Song Writer
◾ Drag'n'drop support
◾ Drum Machine and Metronome integrated for parallel playback to the player
◾ The diatonic chords in the selection view are colored according to the color scheme
◾ History button to go back to the last used scales
❗❗ The hash sign (#) is now allowed in names
🐞 Circle of fifths: Switching the key by dragging works again
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V10.5
⭐ Song Writer
◾ Drag'n'drop support
◾ Drum Machine and Metronome integrated for parallel playback to the player
◾ The diatonic chords in the selection view are colored according to the color scheme
◾ History button to go back to the last used scales
❗❗ The hash sign (#) is now allowed in names
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V10.4
⭐⭐⭐ Song Writer is released ⭐⭐⭐
🛒 Shop: The Song Writer, the Lyrics Padand the Key Identifier are now available as an in-app purchase
✔ Scale: Option to show a resizable piano which also shows the name of the notes of the scale
🐞 Internet song search: Workaround for the changed response from Ultimate Guitar + Warning when browser blocks access
🐞 Song Writer: Scale wasn't stored
🐞 Table of contents and Backup: Long names weren't completely readable
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V10.3
⭐⭐⭐ Song Writer ⭐⭐⭐
✔ Possibility to get the key of every line or block or the whole song
✔ Possibility to loop a single song block in the player
✔ Menu item to open the piano
✔ The documentation is ready: https://smartchord.de/docs/song-writer/overview/
🐞 Song Writer: Fixes e.g. replacing chords
🐞 Songbook: Crashed on older devices (Android 4.x)
🐞 There was a short delay after a count-in
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V10.2.2
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Song Writer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
⭐ Player to automatically play song chords
⭐ Possibility to set the duration of chords and rests within a bar
⭐ Add or replace a chord by entering the name of the new chord
⭐ Possibility to change the instrument and tuning for the song
✔ Circle of Fifths and Scale-Circle: Piano is playable
🐞 Songbook: YouTube search and song search
🐞 Song Writer: Fixes move and delete chords
🐞 Set list: Crashed on older devices (Android 4.x)
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V10.2.1
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Song Writer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
⭐ Player to automatically play song chords
⭐ Possibility to set the duration of chords and rests within a bar
⭐ Add or replace a chord by entering the name of the new chord
⭐ Possibility to change the instrument and tuning for the song
✔ Circle of Fifths and Scale-Circle: Piano is playable
🐞 Songbook: YouTube search and song search
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V10.2
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Song Writer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
⭐ Player to automatically play song chords
⭐ Possibility to set the duration of chords and rests within a bar
⭐ Add or replace a chord by entering the name of the new chord
⭐ Possibility to change the instrument and tuning for the song
✔ Circle of Fifths and Scale-Circle: Piano is playable
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V10.1.1
⭐⭐⭐ New 'Song Writer' ⭐⭐⭐
... makes it uniquely easy to write and arrange songs. He helps you to find the chords that sound good together and write lyrics with the right words. New in this version:
◾ Option to display and use the diatonic chords of the selected scale
◾ Option to show the chord charts and the scale
◾ Split chord to create multiple chords in a bar
✔ Fretboard trainer:
◾ Option to hide fret numbers
◾ Larger fingerboard for ease of input
🐞 Circle Of Fifths was hidden
...
V10.0
⭐⭐⭐ New 'Song Writer' ⭐⭐⭐
The new Song Writer makes it uniquely easy to write and arrange songs. The Song Writer helps you to find the chords that sound good together and write lyrics with the right words
✔ Subscriptions are available again! Either annually or quarterly
✔ Circle of Fifths and scale-circle: Option to show the key's accidentals or just the selected chord's accidentals
✔ New themes: Waikawa Dark + Waikawa Light
V9.9.1
13 мар. 2023 г.
✔ Themes: Colors of toggle buttons have been changed for more contrast
🐞 Songbook: Analyze song with the Song Analyzer
🐞 Circle of Fifths and Scale-Circle: Signs weren't complete for some scales
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V9.9
20 февр. 2023 г.
✔ Circle of Fifths and scale-circle:
▫ New piano setting to mark the keys belonging to the scale with its note name
▫ Option to allow/disallow the rotation of the circle to switch the key
▫ Option to keep the display active even without touching it
▫ Improved sound
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
V9.8
31 янв. 2023 г.
✔ Custom color scheme:
▫ You can create your own color scheme
▫ Define the color for each degree or note. The color of the text can also be adjusted
▫ Whether the color is bound to the degree or the note is determined by the general appearance setting 'Color scheme binding'
✔ 10 new color schemes
✔ Scale-circle: Option to limit the scales to the church modes
🐞 Problems in lookup audio files on Android 13
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V9.7.1
23 янв. 2023 г.
✔ Android 13 compatibility
✔ Set-List-Link: Permission for 'Location' was needed for WifiDirect, but isn't needed in Android 13 anymore
✔ Lyrics pad: Ability to search for 'Meaning like'
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V9.7
17 янв. 2023 г.
✔ Fretboard trainer: New option with which you have to specify chords for any fingering
✔ Tables of contents: New option to sort the items by the part of the name after the '-'. This can be useful if you build your items e. g. according to the scheme 'title - artist' and want to sort by artist
✔ Songbook YouTube player: Changing the playback speed also affects the scrolling speed
🐞 Lyrics pad: Word-finding result was sometimes not visible
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V9.6.1
12 янв. 2023 г.
⭐ Lyrics pad:
The new Lyrics pad is an inspiring tool for poets, rappers, lyricists and songwriters. With it you'll easily keep all your ideas and the Word-Finder will help you with the right words. No matter if you are looking for a rhyme, a synonym, an antonym or even a word with a certain meaning or beginning or end.
✔ Translations for all languages
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V9.5
13 дек. 2022 г.
⭐ Songbook:
▫ New option to transpose a song using the capo and keep the fingerings
▫ New option to enable swipe gesture left and right to switch to the next or previous song
▫ Directives to repeat blocks
▫ Dependent on the 'Songbook 'mode', relevant options are disabled (e.g. 'Show chords' in mode 'Just chords')
✔ 22 new light and dark themes
🐞 Other improvements and fixes
V9.4.2
24 нояб. 2022 г.
✔ Scale fretboard screen: The fretboard range can be changed if none of the 'Pattern' modes is selected
🐞 Set list: Problems to open a set list
🐞 Songbook: The 'Printout' color scheme is used again for printing
🐞 With some themes, the text of slide switches was hardly or not at all readable
🐞 Songbook: Wrong sound for chords when tuning has a capo
🐞 Missing E in C Dominant 7th scale
✔ Other minor fixes
V9.4
7 нояб. 2022 г.
⭐ Songbook:
▫ Predefined color variants for the blocks ('Verse', 'Chorus',...)
▫ Preview screen for the color variants
✔ Scale Name and Key Identifier:
▫ Option to show also the scales/keys which are not complete
✔ Song analyzer:
▫ Ability to enter a song text or edit it in the text editor
▫ Option to paste the song text from the clipboard
✔ Chord: Now you can also enter "add" and "dim" chords in the text field
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
V9.3
20 окт. 2022 г.
✔ Circle Of Fifths and Scale Circle:
▫ Option to show the piano to visualize the chords
▫ Optimized sound
✔ New sound options for all instruments
✔ A further set of chord notations mainly used in South America
✔ Table of contents: Possibility to add categories
✔ Possibility to add single chords or chords from chord progressions and songs
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
V9.2
4 окт. 2022 г.
⭐⭐⭐ World first: Song analyzer is released ⭐⭐⭐
⭐ New 'Song analyzer' detects the chord progressions and keys of every song
⭐ A further set of chord notations mainly used in South America
✔ Songbook: Improved parsing of chord lines with brackets
✔ Synchronisation screens with uniform operation in terms of the cloud
🐞 Fixes
V9.1
27 сент. 2022 г.
⭐ A new set of chord notations mainly used in South America
✔ Improved synchronization
✔ Songbook with integrated Song Analyzer
✔ Minor improvements and fixes
V9.0
14 сент. 2022 г.
⭐⭐⭐ World first: Song analyzer ⭐⭐⭐
⭐ New 'Song analyzer' detects the chord progressions and keys of any song
⭐ Write your songs based on the chord progressions of successful songs
▫ It analyzes the songs in your songbook or any other song found by the internet search
▫ It shows the set of chords and the key of a song
▫ It shows the chord progressions and also their keys
▫ It lets you create your chord progressions based on the ones detected
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V8.22.2
16 авг. 2022 г.
✔ Scale Name and Key Identifier with context menus to:
▫ investigate a scale in the scale screen
▫ show the diatonic chords for the scale
▫ show the scale in the Fretboard Explorer
▫ add a scale to the scale favorites
▫ add a scale to the scale blacklist
✔ Circle of fifths: show the fingerings for the chords on a dedicated screen
🐞 Workaround for incompatibilities on devices with Android 4.x
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
V8.22.1
27 июл. 2022 г.
✔ Scale Name and Key Identifier with context menus to:
▫ investigate a scale in the scale screen
▫ show the diatonic chords for the scale
▫ show the scale in the Fretboard Explorer
▫ add a scale to the scale favorites
▫ add a scale to the scale blacklist
✔ Circle of fifths: show the fingerings for the chords on a dedicated screen
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V8.21.1
12 июл. 2022 г.
⭐ Scale name:
▫ Determines the scale for a song or a chord progression
▫ Determines the scale also for an arbitrary set of chords or notes
⭐ Songbook
▫ The musical key is automatically determined by the Key Identifier:
▫ New directives to repeat blocks:
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
V8.21
27 июн. 2022 г.
⭐ Scale name:
▫ Determines the scale for a song or a chord progression
▫ Determines the scale also for an arbitrary set of chords or notes
⭐ Songbook
▫ The musical key is automatically determined by the Key Identifier:
▫ New directives to repeat blocks:
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V8.20
9 июн. 2022 г.
⭐ New tool: Key Identifier
▫ Determines the key for a song or a chord progression
▫ Determines the key also for an arbitrary set of chords or notes
🐞 Sharing: The share link didn't open smartChord on some devices
🐞 Scale name: Fixed sound
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V8.19.1
23 мая 2022 г.
⭐ Redesign of the 'Chords' screen - the chord reference:
▫ Clearer user interface
▫ Chord dictionary integrated so that more than 1200 chord types are available
▫ Enter the root and bass by the 'note circle'
▫ New spinner to filter the chord types:
◾ Dictionary
◾ Expert
◾ Advanced
◾ Beginner
◾ Custom
◾ Favorites
◾ Augmented
◾ Diminished
◾ Suspended
◾ 13th
◾ 11th
◾ 9th
◾ 7th
◾ 6th
✔ Many improvements and fixes
V8.19
19 мая 2022 г.
⭐ Redesign of the 'Chords' screen - the chord reference:
▫ Clearer user interface
▫ Chord dictionary integrated so that more than 1200 chord types are available
▫ Enter the root and bass by the 'note circle'
▫ New spinner to filter the chord types:
◾ Dictionary
◾ Expert
◾ Advanced
◾ Beginner
◾ Custom
◾ Favorites
◾ Augmented
◾ Diminished
◾ Suspended
◾ 13th
◾ 11th
◾ 9th
◾ 7th
◾ 6th
✔ Many improvements and fixes
V8.18
26 апреля 2022 г.
⭐ Fretboard trainer:
▫ Three new quiz types to learn scales:
◾ Identify scales
◾ Locate all notes of a scale
◾ Locate all fretboard positions of a scale
▫ Get the chords and scales optionally represented in musical notation and learn them along the way
▫ Learn the fretboard string by string. New option to limit quizzes to a subset of strings
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V8.17
11 апреля 2022 г.
⭐ Modes for each scale
⭐ 'Note-circle' to visualize the distribution of a scale
⭐ Swipe gesture on the musical notation changes the scale
⭐ New 'Note-circle' view to select the root notes e.g. for the scales
⭐ Dialog to define the tools on the home-screen in one step
⭐ Songbook: Support for changes on chords-and-tabs.net
⭐ Many improvements and fixes
V8.15.1
1 марта 2022 г.
⭐ Circle of fifths
▫ Get triads, 7th or 9th chords
▫ Show the chord charts, scale on the fretboard, sheet music for the chords
⭐ 'Scale-circle'. New innovative mode of the Circle of fifths
▫ It can be used with each scale which does have all 7 degrees
▫ There are more than 300 scales beneath the modes of the major scale like Dorian, Lydian or Mixolydian
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
V8.14
1 февраля 2022 г.
⭐ Simplify chords
⭐ Songbook: Optimized transpose functionality
✔ Chord chart galleries are resizable
✔ 'Black bright' and 'Black dark' theme
✔ Dialogs are movable by dragging the title bar
✔ Transposer with color scheme support
✔ Charango tunings: Charango Hatun (six course and seven course)
✔ New color scheme
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V8.13.2
17 января 2022 г.
⭐ Fingering explorer to find the best fingerings for your needs
✅ Songbook:
▫ Fingering explorer is used to replacing a fingering
▫ New directives to embed links to images and PDF files
✅ Technical release with graphical improvements like better support for large fonts
✅ Android 12 compatibility
✅ 5 new color schemes
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V8.12.1
9 декабря 2021 г.
⭐ Songbook: Replace a chord or fingering by direct input on the fretboard
⭐ Improved handling of fingering favorites
⭐ 5-string Banjo with improved chord algorithm
✅ Set list: Possibility to add PDF or image files from GoogleDrive
✅ Scale favorites are now part of the synchronization
✅ Open a chord in the fretboard explorer by the context menu of a chord gallery
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V8.12
30 ноября 2021 г.
⭐ Songbook: Replace a chord or fingering by direct input on the fretboard
⭐ Improved handling of fingering favorites
⭐ 5-string Banjo with improved chord algorithm
✅ Set list: Possibility to add PDF or image files from GoogleDrive
✅ Scale favorites are now part of the synchronization
✔ Other improvements and fixes
V8.11
15 ноября 2021 г.
⭐ History is filterable to speed up access to the entries like songs
⭐ Songbook: MIDI support extended
✅ Songbook: Scroll breaks are recognizable as such and show the duration of the breaks in seconds
✅ Possibility to change the folder for import and search when 'Read storage' permission is granted
🐞 Online song editor, importer, viewer: HTTPS support completed
V8.10
8 ноября 2021 г.
⭐⭐⭐ 'Set list link' released ⭐⭐⭐
▫ Connects different devices of your bandmates during rehearsals and live performances
▫ Mirrors the set list of the 'Leader' to the devices of the 'Followers'
▫ Opens, starts and stops the song on the follower devices in synchronization with the leader so everyone is on the same song
✅ Online song editor, importer, viewer: HTTPS for all supported Android versions