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1. Open the app. It loads empty, with a built-in sample you can open from File.
2. Go to Songs and add your songs (title, lyrics and chords, key, notes, categories).
3. Go to Sets, add song slots, and arrange them with the arrows or by dragging.
4. Open Perform for the big-type stage view. Use A+/A−, Line and Cols to tune readability.

Room to grow and the smart tools. Free covers a small gig (15 songs, 3 setlists, 1 set); Pro lifts every limit and unlocks the smart builder, all the auto-order recipes, the full planner, encores, A/B, medleys, dark mode and watermark-free files. A one-time unlock, no subscription. See the pricing page.

After buying on the pricing page you receive a license key. In the app, tap Go Pro in the top bar, paste the key and click Activate. Because your data stays in your browser, activate it on each device you use. Your key works on all of them.

In the app, tap the Pro chip in the top bar and click Turn off Pro on this browser. That frees the activation so you can use it on another device; your license key is unchanged and can be re-activated anytime. Your songs and setlists are not affected.

• Songbook: your whole file. It holds your song library and all your setlists, and it is what you save, open and back up.
• Setlist: a plan for one show or occasion, like "The Beatles @ Ed Sullivan Show". A setlist contains one or more sets.
• Set: one continuous block of the show (Set 1, Set 2, an encore). A set is an ordered list of song slots.
• Song slot: one spot in a set. Usually it holds a single song, but it can hold A/B alternatives (pick one on the night) or a medley (several songs played as one), plus talk cues and breaks.
• Song: one song in your library (title, lyrics and chords, key, BPM, energy, tags). A song lives in the library once and can be used in any setlist.

File → Start new songbook clears the editor and starts empty. Save your current songbook first (in the Open & save panel) if you want to keep it.

Song notes live on the song and are always true for it, wherever you play it: capo 2, piano intro, starts on a G. You set them once, on the Songs page.

Setlist notes belong to a song where it sits in a particular set, so they are show or arrangement specific: invite a guest up, acoustic version tonight, dedicate this one. You add them on the Setlists page, on that song's slot, and they only show there.

Type chords inline in the lyrics box, in square brackets, right before the word they fall on. They stack neatly above the lyrics in the stage view. For example:

[G]Twinkle twinkle [C]little [G]star

Section labels in brackets on their own line, like [Chorus] or [Solo], become headings rather than chords. Turn chords on or off any time with the Chords button in Perform.

In Sets → Paste a setlist you can type or paste one slot per line and SetlistFlow builds the set for you:

• Wildfire: a normal song slot.
• Matchstick / River and Rust: A/B alternatives (play one or the other).
• Coffee and Smoke + The Long Way: a medley.
• ?Last Call: an optional song (leading question mark).
• >Tune down, tell the festival story: a talk cue (leading >).
• [Encore]: starts an encore section.
• Open Road (capo 2): text in parentheses becomes a setlist note.

Anything missing or ambiguous is reported rather than applied, so nothing breaks.

On the free plan, lines that use Pro-only features (A/B, medleys, encores, optional songs, breaks and cues) are simplified to plain songs when you apply; unlock Pro to keep them.

The smart setlist builder (in Setlists) creates a set from scratch out of your whole song bank. Pick a recipe (the energy shape you want), a target length or number of songs, and whether you want an encore (or leave it on Auto), and it chooses the songs, orders them to the recipe's shape, spaces in talk cues, and shapes the encore. Try fresh variations on request; it always builds into a new setlist, so nothing you have is overwritten. It is a Pro feature and runs on the BPM, energy and song tags you set on the Songs tab, so the more of those you fill in, the better it gets.

The Planner reads a set before the gig: it totals the length (talk time included), draws the energy and tempo arc so you can spot a flat patch or a clumsy jump, and gives a friendly read on the flow (repeated keys, big tempo jumps, cover balance, a weak ending) alongside what already works. From there auto-order reshapes the set with a recipe (Balanced arc, Energy build, Double peak and more), with variations and a shaped encore. Fill in duration, BPM, energy and song tags to get the most from it.

It follows live-setlisting best practices to shape your set's energy, and each recipe shapes it a bit differently. BPM and energy make it sharper, but it still works from your tags and current order without them.

On the transition slot, set Transition attached to the previous or next song. It then travels with that song when auto-order moves it, even into the encore. Breaks stay put, and loose cues are re-spaced (any that don't fit wait in a Removed cues section).

On each song you can set tags that the planner, auto-order and the builder understand: Opener, Closer, Encore, Cover, Crowd favorite and Deep cut. These drive the smart features, so they live separately from your free-form categories, which are just for grouping songs the way you like in the stage view.

Tag it Archived on the Songs tab. Archived songs are skipped by the smart setlist builder and greyed out in your lists, while staying in any set you have already placed them in. Use it for songs you have retired but do not want to delete.

Any language. Type in English, German, Bengali or even right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew. Direction is detected automatically (and you can override it per song), and you can mix scripts in the same songbook.

• Fill in durations so the planner can total your set accurately; songs without one are estimated at about 3 minutes.
• Set song tags (Opener, Closer, Encore, Cover, Crowd favorite, Deep cut) on your go-to songs so auto-order and the builder know where each one belongs.
• Use categories (ballad, up-tempo, and so on) to group songs for yourself in the stage view. Edit the list in Settings; categories no longer affect the smart tools, so you can name them anything.
• Save often to your own file; the Unsaved chip in the top bar reminds you when there are changes to back up.

Your work is autosaved in this browser, but your real backup is one file you keep yourself.

• File → Save songbook downloads a single file. It is your editable backup and the standalone performer app in one.
• File → Open songbook loads a saved file back in to keep editing.
• Keep that file in your own cloud drive or backups. It opens straight into the stage view on a phone or tablet, offline.

Your songbook is one file you save and keep (File → Save songbook). Store it in a cloud folder so it is backed up and opens on any device. SetlistFlow also autosaves in this browser as a safety net, but that copy lives only here, so save to your file to be safe. Nothing is uploaded; no account.

Yes. In Perform, tap the clock to switch it to a stopwatch, then use the Play/Pause and Reset buttons beside it. Tap the clock again for the time of day; the stopwatch keeps its time.

File → Print / save PDF opens a clean, lyrics-free setlist for the browser print dialog. Print it or save as PDF.