Questions, answered plainly.

No — and this is the most common thing people expect, so: Chordisplay isn't a place to find charts. It's where the charts you already have live, organised, shared with your band, and ready on stage. You bring your own.

$7 a month for the person whose library it is, or $6 a month if you pay for the year at once — $72. Everyone they play with is free, however many there are. It starts with 30 days free — a card up front, charged at the end unless you cancel first.

Enter your email and you're in. There's no password to create, forget, or reuse — you sign in with a link sent to your email each time.

Yes, and for writing charts it's the best place to be — a real keyboard beats a phone for typing out a chart. Everything you write there is on your phone the next time you open it.

Yes. Nothing is visible logged out, including charts. That's how your library stays private.

No. Only the person whose library it is has a subscription. Everyone they add to a setlist uses Chordisplay free, however many there are, each with their own account on their own device.

Yes, and it's what the access model is built for. Categories hold your charts — invent whatever names you like, and a chart can sit in several at once. People are added to a setlist rather than to your library, so the Tuesday covers band opens Tuesday's sets and nothing else. You can also say which category a set's Editors may add songs from, so they're only ever searching their own band's repertoire.

No. Someone you add to a setlist as an Editor can build and change that set — songs, order, tempo, arrangement — but can't touch the charts in your library. If someone needs their own charts, they can run their own library and you can send charts across to each other.

Yes. You have one library of your own, plus every setlist anyone has put you on — they show up together in one list, with whose it is on each row.

That works, and it's normal — two Owners means two libraries, each its own. You can send charts to each other one at a time, a whole category in one go, or your entire library; they have to accept it, and what lands is their own copy to edit. The libraries stay separate; they don't merge or sync, and an arriving chart can never overwrite one they wrote themselves. Whoever owns a given setlist is the one whose charts it draws from; the other joins it as an Editor.

Your name and email address, a profile picture if you upload one, and the charts and setlists you create. Nothing else — no tracking, no ads, no analytics SDKs, no advertising identifiers.

Yes — from inside the app, and everything in your library goes with it. You're shown the real numbers first: how many charts and setlists go, and how many people lose access.

Your subscription runs to the end of the period you've paid for. After that everything locks — every chart and setlist still listed, greyed out, not playable. Nothing is deleted, ever, however long it stays that way, and subscribing again brings all of it back unchanged. You can export the whole library at any point, locked or not.

Yes. A song added to a setlist is a copy of your chart, so change its tempo or rewrite the whole arrangement there and everyone playing that set sees it. The chart in your library doesn't move — and editing that chart later doesn't reach back into the set either. They're independent from the moment the song is added.

Yes, and each occurrence is independent — change the tempo on the encore without touching the first one.

Yes. A setlist is the part of this the band works on together — that's the point of it. Whoever's building the set can mark up a song's arrangement and everyone reads the same thing. What they can't change is a chart in your library.

Yes. Move a chart to any key while you're reading it and the chords come with it, spelled the way that key is normally written — transpose into Eb and you get flats. Your saved chart isn't rewritten; transposing is how you're reading it, not what's stored. Capo is a separate question and the answer there is no.

Yes, if they're ChordPro files or a Chordisplay export. Pick a folder's worth at once; the app reads what's inside each file rather than trusting its name, shows you exactly what it's about to do before writing anything, and skips anything that looks like a chart you already have. PDFs are the honest no — there's no PDF import, display or annotation anywhere in Chordisplay.

Yes, any time — export as Markdown, one chart at a time or the whole library as a zip with a file per song. Setlists export too, in running order, with that set's own tempo and arrangement changes in them, so what you get is the version you actually played. They're plain text files; they open anywhere. This keeps working even if your subscription lapses.

Plain text with light markup: [chord] for a chord line, {section} for a section title, &note& for an inline note. Everything else is a lyric line.

No capo, no chord diagrams, no autoscroll, no stylus annotation, and nothing at all with PDFs. Worth knowing before you sign up rather than after.

Yes, in the phone and tablet apps. Every chart and every setlist is pulled onto the device while you're online — whole charts, not just the ones you've opened — so reading works with no signal at all. There's nothing to switch on, and the cache clears whenever anyone signs in or out. The web app needs a connection.

No, deliberately. Editing needs a connection so nothing changes under you mid-show.

In the iOS and Android apps, yes — any pedal that acts as a keyboard, in page up/down or arrow key mode. Pair it in your device's own Bluetooth settings and open a chart. In a browser on an iPhone, no, and that's an iOS limitation no website can work around.

Anything that presents as a Bluetooth keyboard. Tested with a JOYO pedal on real hardware.

Yes — a tablet on the music stand is what the apps are built for.