Tofu: Chord Chart Maker

Tofu 灯譜 is an iPad app for making chord charts, just chords and lyrics, in a hurry, and playing from them.

There is no staff notation. You never enter a single note, so copying a song from your printed music is quick. You can also import your PDFs and photos of paper charts, so everything for the show lives in one app.

ENTER CHORDS QUICKLY
- Tap a measure, then pick a root and a chord type. The pad stays open, so you can move on to the next measure
- Chords you have used in the song are listed by how often you used them. Repeat one with a single tap
- Choose jazz style (C-7, CΔ7) or standard style (Cm7, Cmaj7) for each song
- Add repeats, first and second endings, segno, coda, measure repeats and more

LYRICS
- Paste the lyrics all at once and pour them into the measures
- Read the text from a photo of a lyric sheet (the reading happens on your iPad)
- Keep verse 1 and verse 2 in the same measures

CHANGE THE KEY
- Move up or down a half step at a time to fit the singer
- Go back to the original key any time, however often you change it

PLAY
- Show the chart full screen. In landscape, two pages sit side by side
- Turn pages with a foot pedal, by tapping the left or right edge, or by swiping
- Tap D.S., To Coda and other signs to jump to the right page
- The time is shown in a corner, and the screen stays on while you play
- Metronome with sound, a swinging meter and a glow at the edge of the screen
- Tuner for your instrument, with a reference tone
- Zoom the chart, or pinch with two fingers
- Mark syncopated (pushed) chords

PDF SCORES
- Import PDFs, or take photos with the camera or from your library. Pick many PDFs at once in the Files app
- Reorder, crop, rotate, straighten and retake pages
- Clean Up makes the paper white and the pencil darker in photos of handwritten charts
- Write on the pages by hand while you play

SETLISTS
- Line up songs and PDF scores in the order you play them. Add the same song twice if you need to
- Turn pages straight from one song to the next, and set the key for each song

EXPORT AS PDF
- Chords and lyrics, chords only, lyric sheet, or UTAHON Style (chords over the lyrics)
- The lyric sheet and UTAHON Style lay out repeats in the order you sing them
- Add the title, the credits and your memo

WORK WITH AN AI
- Copy instructions for an AI, give it a photo of your printed music, and paste its reply back to get the song
- Ask an AI to translate the lyrics into your memo
- The app never talks to an AI by itself. You copy and paste

AND MORE
- Write on the chart by hand (three pens and an eraser)
- Find songs by title, sort them, and share song files with other apps
- Back up your songs, PDF scores, setlists and settings to one file, and restore them
- Choose from four lyric sizes

No account, no ads, no analytics. Your songs, PDFs and photos are stored only on your iPad.