- Any harmony instrument can now be selected for the harmony part in the mixer
- Renamed "Default Instruments" to "Reset Instruments" in the mixer
- Resetting instruments no longer resets embellish chords
- Mixer instrument selector now shows "(Default)" text label instead of color highlight
- Faster startup by skipping unnecessary file I/O when building drum sample library

- Fixed looped selection getting mistakenly changed when scrolling the song
- Fixed selection dismissed after dragging to adjust looped section
- Fixed back gestures conflicting with looped bars selection
- Improve handling of floating keyboard on iPad
- Rewritten MusicXML export with support for MusicXML v3.1 (v4 has no improvements that are relevant to our type of chord chart)
- Added date, app version, and OS metadata to playlist and backup exports

Fix rare startup crash

Fix crash when connecting to external displays or Screen Mirroring

# New Features
- VoiceOver now announces bar numbers when reading chord charts
- VoiceOver users can select bars for loop playback or start playback from any bar
- Redesigned in-app style packs store with richer genre cells and lock/unlock indicators
- Style packs store is now integrated directly into Settings

# Bug Fixes
- Fixed a rare launch crash on iOS 26
- Fixed Data not saving when user force quit the app

New Features
- iPadOS 26 menu bar with Player, File, Edit, and View menus
- New keyboard shortcuts: Find Song (⌘F), New Song (⌘N), Duplicate Song (⌘D), Edit Song (⌘E), Save (⌘S), Next/Previous Song (→/←), and more
- ⌘E now toggles the editor open and close
- Guitar and ukulele left/right hand preference moved to App Settings

Design
- Updated for iOS 26 Liquid Glass
- Modernized library view — iPad uses sidebar style, iPhone uses grouped style
- Modernized playlist view with integrated search bar
- Improved editor keyboard styling and layout
- Increased library cell height for better readability

Improvements
- Default instruments and click sounds are now highlighted in the mixer
- Edit and Share buttons are disabled when no song is selected
- Renamed 'Info' to 'Song Info' and 'Edit' to 'Edit Song' for clarity
- Improved reorder mode on iPad
- Simplified 3/4 piano part in Jazz Bossa

Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash on iOS 18 related to the navigation bar layout
- Fixed Forums web view content appearing under the navigation bar
- Fixed song view and song list getting out of sync
- Fixed space bar not restarting playback when regeneration is needed
- Fixed changing swing style resetting instrument selections in the mixer

Minor bug fixes

Minor bug fixes

- Fixed issue with missing Fermata and wrong Segno symbols when exporting to MusicXML
- Fixed bug where changing the style during playback wouldn’t update to the default tempo
- Adjusted piano volume so that it’s even across all Swing styles

Fixed issue with sometimes wrong sound patch used in Swing styles when changing tempo

- Faster playback startup times
- Fall back to MIDI drums when tempo is below where real drums sound good when time stretched
- When changing tempo during playback the real drums now switch to midi drums instead of click track until track is regenerated
- When a Jazz Swing style is selected at a tempo far from its default, the app now automatically switches to a more suitable Swing style for that tempo

- New: REAL DRUMS! All Jazz styles now include the option to play with real drum audio recordings for a more realistic sound
- Rename Double Time / Half Time feature to Double Bar Length / Half Bar Length
- Tweaks to the Jazz Afro 12/8 piano part
- Tweaks to the Jazz Latin piano part

Minor fixes to chord scales

Added the option to play any song in Half Time in addition to Double Time

- Tweaks to the editor keyboard to make better use of space and allow more room for the chord chart
- Fixed capitalization issue with custom song style correcting 50’s to 50’S
- Fixed AirTurn settings window size on iPad
- Fixed issues with text layout in player controls with very large system text
- Added instrument names to wind instrument transposition menu

Minor bug fixes

- New count-in click option to sound the root of the key of the song (useful to singers)
- Player controls now only occupy the needed space. This improves reachability for small controls and on iPad you get to see the whole mixer and more of the styles.
- Fix loop underline showing even is position marker was disabled
- You can now change practice settings during loop playback and restart without re-selecting the loop

- Added option to play any song in any style in Double time

- Fixed iPad bug with bar selection

New in 2024.10.1:
- Fixed importing backups

New in 2024.10:
- New 11 Brazilian styles available for In-App purchase
- New: When looping a section of a song, the whole loop stays highlighted
- Improved online search for a song (Lead Sheet, YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify)
- Added dark mode app icon
- Fixed issues where it was possible to write emojis in the song title, composer or style

- New 11 Brazilian styles available for In-App purchase
- New: When looping a section of a song, the whole loop stays highlighted
- Improved online search for a song (Lead Sheet, YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify)
- Added dark mode app icon
- Fixed issues where it was possible to write emojis in the song title, composer or style

Minor bug fixes

- Disable auto scrolling when selecting loops in landscape (You can now manually scroll and re-adjust the selection)
- When selecting a starting measure or loop section, moving the right selection handle ahead of the left handle now moves the whole selection and vice-versa. This is how the selection in the editor also works.
- The editor pasteboard is now cleared on app startup
- Editor: double tapping now starts a selection if the pasteboard is empty instead of failing silently
- Editor: with external keyboard you can press and hold the arrows keys for continuous cursor movement, or continuous selection when also holding down Shift
- Added support for o^ as alternate notation for o^7
- Fixed crash on iPad when sharing a song as PDF to a third party app like for example PDF Viewer
- Fixed non-allowed URLs opening in the internal Forums browser
- Fixed an issue with external keyboards becoming unresponsive for 5-6 seconds after starting playback

- Added additional song chart background theme colors
 - Improved piano voicings for all chord qualities used in the playback tracks

 Added new chord qualities: min13 , min^11 , min^13 , maj13#11 , maj7b5 , maj7#9 , min7b6 , min9b6 , maj(add4) , min(add4) , 7(add13)

 - Updated all styles to support the new chord qualities
 - Added chord diagrams for the new qualities for guitar, ukulele, piano and chord scales
 - Updated MusicXML export to support new chord qualities

 - Added support for alternate notations for some chord qualities:
    -^ for -^7
    alt for 7alt
    7+ for 7#5
    9+ for 9#5
    ^+ or ^#5 for ^7#5
    ^#11 for ^7#11
     ^b5 for ^7b5

 - Changed recommended notation of some qualities (old notation will still work)
    use add2 instead of add9
    use -add2 instead of -add9
    use sus4 instead of sus
    use sus2 instead of 2
    use 7susb9 instead of 7b9sus
    use 7susb9b13 instead of 7b13sus

 - Accessibility: disable cursor blinking in the editor when Reduce Motion is enabled

- New Feature: customize common odd time signatures. Choose if 5/8, 5/4 should be played as 3+2 or 2+3 and if 7/8, 7/4 should be played as 4+3 or 3+4, by adding the text 2+3, 3+4... in the desired measure in the song.
- Improved song search by ignoring apostrophes: search for Im, Its, well... instead of I'm, It's, We'll...
- Editor: Single bar repeat symbol adheres to the S ‘small’ command to fit in a single space
- Editor: Start and change a selection with Shift+Arrow keys on external keyboard
- Fixed issue with exported Midi file containing volume data