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Campfire Songbook

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Songbook for your lyrics and chords with ChordPro editing, transposition, tuner, metronome, setlists, PDF export, QR sharing, and optional Dropbox sync. Imports text, PDFs, Word files, and backups; works offline on any device without an account.

Your songbook, synced to every screen

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  • Updated Oct 2026

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  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
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Campfire Songbook was added to AlternativeTo by Peter Pandula on and this page was last updated . Campfire Songbook is sometimes referred to as Campfire. 

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What is Campfire Songbook?

Campfire is a dedicated digital songbook crafted for live performance and practice. It neatly formats your lyrics and chords for hands-free playing, featuring an integrated metronome tailored to each song's tempo and an on-screen tuner ready right before you start.

Designed around your personal collection, Campfire lets you create songs in its built-in editor, paste chord sheets directly from the web, or import your existing library—including backups from other songbook apps.

Key Features:

  • Smart Reading: Place chords directly over lyrics with multi-column layouts to minimize page turns. Navigate via keyboard arrows, clicks, Bluetooth pedals, or smooth auto-scroll. Includes collapsible sections, lyric-only mode, read-only performance protection, and ABC sheet music rendering.

  • Chords & Scales: View diagrams for guitar, ukulele, banjo, mandolin, and keyboard—supporting alternate tunings and custom shapes. Features automatic transposing, capo matching, scale suggestions, interactive scale playback, and support for standard, German, Latin, Nashville, and Roman notations.

  • Integrated Tuner & Metronome: String-by-string tuning for multiple instruments alongside chromatic detection and reference pitches (audio is processed only on-screen and never stored). The metronome handles custom tempos, time signatures, beat subdivisions, visual flashes, and five distinct click sounds.

  • Setlists & Organization: Assemble gapless setlists with per-song capo/key overrides, gig countdowns, total runtime tracking, and archiving. Organize your library using tags with 14 custom colors, batch edits, and fast search.

  • Rich ChordPro Editing: Write and refine songs with syntax highlighting, live formatting previews, and instant chord-parsing.

  • Import, Export & Sharing: Import text, PDF, Word, ABC, or ZIP files. Export print-ready custom PDFs, generate shareable links or QR codes that stay synced, and back up your full catalog.

  • Customization: Choose between light, dark, and sepia themes across 10 accent palettes. Disable tools you don’t need, and switch across eight supported languages.

Privacy-First & Open Source: Your songs belong entirely to you, stored locally on your device as standard ChordPro files. Campfire operates completely offline with no accounts, ads, or telemetry. It only accesses the internet when you choose to sync via personal Dropbox, open shared links, or fetch song metadata. Campfire is free and open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.

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