Trust your timing.
Pick a tempo, a time signature, and your bars. Or go Endless and just hit record.
Songwritingby Clay and KelsyAn idea.
A little time.
A song.
Feel a tempo, put the idea down, and it’s already looping. Stack your layers. Write the words. One sitting, one app, and you’re writing your next song.
On the App Store · iPhone, iPad & Apple Watch
Real app. Your next song.
The 4am problem
Ideas don’t wait.
At best they resurface.
Voice memos will record your idea, but you can’t build on a memo. A DAW will build it, but by the time the session’s open, the spark has moved on.
Songwriting is the missing middle: quick as a memo, with enough room to turn it into a song.
01 / Catch the spark
One little loop.
And then another.
Play it through once and it starts looping. Add the harmony. Try the odd idea. Keep the part that makes you feel something.
A little loop to play with
Something like a beginning.
4/4
Tempo Press play. Tap a layer to make it yours.
A real song idea, recorded in Songwriting. Your microphone stays off.
Make room for the harmonies.
Stack up to 12 layers. Every layer has its own waveform, volume, mute, and FX.
Your headphones are welcome.
Wired or Bluetooth. The app measures the delay and remembers your gear, so the layers land in time.
02 / Find the words
Hear it.
Write it.
See it rhyme.
As you type, rhymes find each other, matched by sound, not spelling. Each rhyme family takes a color, and you can see the shape of a verse the way you’d hear it.
And when you want them, chords go right over the words. Letters or Roman numerals. Whichever way you think.
Your words. A little more color. ↗SONG NOTES / 001
Velvet Night
Try your own line. Rhymes light up as you type.
03 / Take it with you
A song has places to go.
From the first hum to the rehearsal room. Keep the whole idea together, then take it wherever you’re headed.
Out of your phone. Into the room.
Your band will
like you more.
Export a mixed master, individual stems, or a beautifully set lyrics-and-chord sheet.
On your wrist
The idea got here
before your phone did.
Set a tempo with the crown. Feel the count-in. Hum it into your Watch. It’s waiting on your phone when you get home.
On iPad and iPhone Duo
Room to see
the whole song.
Your parts on one side. The lyrics and chords on the other.
Ready for iPhone Duo. Open it like a book, or stand it half open with the words on top.
Also inside
- Use our tuner, metronome & pitch pipe before a gig.
- Rhythm Helper: drums under your loop, from rock, Latin and electronic to real tabla thekas, on five special kits.
- Effects on any take: Vocal Tune, Compressor, Vocal Doubler, Chorus, Reverb, Delay and Distortion.
- Collaborate: invite a friend into a song, and their layers arrive in your part.
- Stuck on a line? Our built-in rhyming dictionary works in English, Spanish and Spanglish.
- When it’s time to play it, Perform puts your words up big like a teleprompter, with the ability to play your entire set list.
- Transcribe your vocals right from a take, on iOS 26 and later.
- The whole app is in English and Spanish.
Whenever the song shows up
For the ones who
write after dark.
A full dark mode for the late-night sessions.
Made by two people who make music
Your songs.
Your business.
Songwriting is made by Clay and Kelsy, our cute little software company. We build the instruments and the tools we need to keep producing music.
- Your recordings stay yours.On your phone, with optional backup to your own iCloud. We can’t hear them.
- No account. No tracking. No ads.We never collect your data, so there’s nothing to sell.
- Made to honor your creative time.No countdowns, no fake urgency. The free version stays free.
Leave a little room for the next one
Free to start.
Really start.
Everything the app does. Three recordings to make it yours.
Your first three
$0forever
The whole app. Room for three recordings.
- Every feature, from the first note
- Up to three recordings in your library
- No ads. No watermarks.
Songwriting Unlimited
$29.99a year
About $2.50 a month, billed annually.
- Unlimited recordings
- Every feature in the free version
- Everything we add next
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Good questions
A few
honest answers.
Will it work with my Bluetooth headphones?
Yes. The first time you use a new pair, the app plays a quick sound and listens for it to come back. It measures the delay, then remembers that pair for next time. Wired headphones work too.
Can I hear my own vocals in my headphones?
Yes, on wired headphones. Hear Yourself sends what you’re recording to your headphones, through the phone, with a small delay. Headphones plugged into an audio interface hear you with no delay at all. Most Bluetooth headphones are too slow for it, so slip your headphones off one ear. One ear on the mix, one on the room, just like tracking in a vocal booth.
Does it replace my DAW?
It’s the step before. Catch and shape the song while it’s still alive, then export your mixed master or stems into Ableton, or any DAW, when you’re ready for full production. You can also bring a rough mix or stems into Songwriting to work out your next part.
Do you keep or sell my recordings?
No. They stay on your phone unless you turn on your own iCloud backup, which is off by default, or share a song with someone. We never collect your data, so there’s nothing to sell.
On the App Store
Whatever you’re chasing,
we hope you catch it.
The whole app, with room for three recordings.
Made by songwriters for songwriters. Free to start.