Create A Song
From a folder, choose Create Song and select ChordPro, text, or HTML. Add a title, artist, key, tempo, duration, time signature, alias, album, copyright, and keywords as needed.
New editable songs can be opened in the editor immediately after creation.
In the native apps, you can also choose Create from camera. Chordy captures a photo, stores it as an image song, and then opens the song dialog so you can add the title and other details.
Import Files
From a folder, choose Add Song and select one or more supported files. Chordy reads metadata from formats that provide it, such as ChordPro, MusicXML, and Guitar Pro.
Backup, set, folder, and zip imports can restore or add larger groups of content.
Use Multiple Files
A song can hold alternate files, such as a ChordPro chart, a PDF scan, and a text version. Open the song dialog to add, name, duplicate, delete, or switch files.
This is useful when different players need different views of the same song or when you are replacing old scans with editable charts over time.
Write ChordPro
ChordPro songs use bracketed chords and metadata directives. Chordy can render chords, lyrics, comments, transposition, and guitar chord diagrams from this format.
Example:
{title: Amazing Grace}
{artist: Traditional}
{key: G}
[G]Amazing [G7]grace, how [C]sweet the [G]sound
That saved a [Em]wretch like [D]meConvert And Transpose
Plain text songs can be converted to ChordPro when the content is suitable. ChordPro songs can be transposed in the editor or viewer without rewriting the original chart unless you explicitly save the changed file.
Editor And File Annotations
The editor supports ChordPro, text, and HTML files. Open it from the current song menu.
PDF files have their own edit mode for annotations. There you can add highlights, text notes, and freehand drawings.
Image files also have their own edit mode with a separate annotation layer. There you can add freehand drawings with pen or pencil input and text annotations. Freehand drawings can be drawn with a selectable color and stroke width. Text annotations render as sticky notes with selectable color/style presets (Yellow, Blue, Mint, Peach, Outline). You can choose between Typed (rich text) and Handwritten (with AI handwriting recognition) input modes. Text annotations are created and edited through a dialog, and can be moved or deleted. The original image file stays unchanged while the annotation layer is saved explicitly with Save. Existing strokes can be adjusted in color and width via the edit-existing toolbar.