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BandHelper version 2026-05-28

Updated At: 2026-06-07

Changes: Version History • Fixed a problem that dismissed the keyboard when typing into a search field. 2026-05-28 May 29 • Added the recording controls when playing a recording from the song edit page. • Removed the duplicate All and None buttons from picker windows. • Updated the Show Document Viewer action in an automation track to load the document for the current song if needed. • Updated the app control Hold detection so that if you press and release a button quickly before the end of the hold time, a click action will be triggered immediately without waiting until the end of the hold time; but if you release a button too slowly to be a click and not slowly enough to be a hold, no click or hold action will be triggered. • Updated the app control Double-Click and Hold detection to check for specific messages, to avoid delays if you click with one message and double-click or hold with a different message. • Stopped saving the list filters automatically and added explicit Save and Reset buttons instead. • Sped up the display of the App Control Status window. 2026-05-22 May 24 * Added support for attaching documents in Word (.docx or .doc) or RTF format. BandHelper will convert those files to PDF format when it uploads them to the server, so if you add a Word or RTF file while offline, you won't see the converted file until the app can sync. • Added a Chords Size setting to the set list Share Songs page. You can use this to change the chords size separately from the rest of the text. This can be especially useful when printing chord charts without lyrics. • Fixed a problem that scrolled the new song out of view when adding a song from the search button after the last song in a set. • Updated the Next/Previous app control actions to continue stepping through song-level items even after selecting pinned items. • Fixed the positioning of grouped fields on the MIDI preset edit page when opened in a popup window on a phone. • Fixed overlapping toolbar buttons after a rotation on a phone in iOS 26. • Updated the top toolbars in different kinds of popups to have consistent heights in iOS 26. • Removed the non-functioning Open/Close Full-Screen Document app control action. You can use the Show/Hide Document Viewer action in full-screen layouts instead. 2026-04-24 Apr 26 • Updated the intro page to correctly appear automatically on slower devices. • Hid the Invoices section on the Finance > Totals page if there are no unpaid invoices. • Removed an extra top toolbar from the checklist view. 2026-04-08 Apr 8 • Updated the app to respond to universal links instead of custom "bandhelper://" links in notification emails and text messages. • Restored the scroll position of the second column when transposing lyrics in a 2-column layout. • Updated the formatting toolbars on the song edit page to include more buttons on phones in landscape orientation. • Hid the lyrics search buttons on the song edit page when the device has parental control restrictions that block web access. 2026-04-03 Apr 5 • Updated the edit pages to stop any media players or hide the document viewer when selecting a different item to edit. • Fixed a problem that temporarily reset ChordPro positioning when resizing text after transposing it in a 2-column layout. • Fixed a problem that prevented changes to the MIDI input port and channel from taking effect until the MIDI engine was restarted. • Updated the MIDI Learn function to update the existing control change row with the new value instead of adding new control change rows if you send the same control change with multiple values. • Updated the Show Labels In Recording Buttons function to fall back to the recording name if the number of recordings attached is greater than the number of recording position labels entered. • Fixed a problem that pushed the Save and Cancel buttons in popup windows off the screen when the toolbar contained a long title on iOS 26. • Fixed a problem that made the bottom portion of the filters in the Add Songs popup unclickable on phones in portrait orientation on iOS 26. 2026-03-20 Mar 22 • Fixed a crash when an external display is connected. 2026-03-04 Mar 6 • Added Settings > Advanced > Audio & MIDI > Ignore Control Change Input. • Tightened the decay on some of the tempo click sounds to reduce the sensation of a reverb effect. • Updated the Start Video and Start Automation app control actions to follow the Delay Actions setting. • Updated the file import functionality to handle a file that is already copied into BandHelper's data folder. • Implemented code updates required by upcoming iOS versions. 2026-02-27 Mar 1 • Fixed a crash when playing or recording automation tracks on older devices. 2026-02-19 Feb 20 • Fixed the search button for list pages on iOS 18 and older. • Fixed a crash when viewing a set list when no layouts are set up. • Moved the Done button in the Live Sharing screen display window to the top right corner for consistency with other popup windows. 2026-02-13 Feb 15 • Restored the All and None buttons to the song picker. • Updated list pages on phones immediately when navigation back from edit pages. • Fixed a crash when sending many OSC messages at once when OSC was not already running. 2026-02-09 Feb 10 • Fixed a MIDI optimization issue that could cause crashes when sending or receiving MIDI. 2026-02-06 Feb 6 • Fixed a problem where some edit pages didn't fully reload after saving. • Fixed a problem with the Next Page Or Song app control action that prevented it from changing songs. • Updated the Previous Page Or Song app control action to correctly move to the last page of the previous song when the previous song displays 2-column lyrics. • Fixed a problem that prevented automation track events from scrolling to some lyrics positions. • Fixed a problem that limited the drawing area for lyrics annotations. • Fixed a problem that showed the same text in both columns when showing lyrics in two columns and all the lyrics fit into the first column. • Fixed a crash when pinch-zooming lyrics that contain many markers, with the last one close to the end of the lyrics. • Stopped triggering a two-fingered tap action after pinch-zooming the Notes field. • Fixed the edit shortcut buttons in the top toolbar when viewing the All Songs list. • Fixed the Remove button for bottom toolbar fields when editing a layout. • Fixed a problem that caused the app to show a duplicate connection to Bluetooth MIDI devices on iOS 26. • Added Settings > Advanced > Audio & MIDI > Ignore Beat Clock Input. • Updated the Tempo field to support fractional bpm values entered with a comma as the decimal delimiter on devices that use a comma as the decimal delimiter. • Fixed a problem with incomplete color theme changes on iOS 26. • Fixed the document toolbar background color in the light color theme on iOS 26. 2026-01-30 Feb 1 • Fixed a problem where edit pages didn't fully reload when adding a new item after editing existing items. • Fixed a problem that deleted a batch of songs when adding a new item and then immediately deleting it after editing existing items. 2026-01-22 Jan 23 • Fixed incorrect auto-scroll speeds. 2026-01-21 Jan 22 • Fixed the empty Share Set List and Share Songs pages. 2026-01-20 Jan 21 • Reduced the height of the top toolbar on phones in landscape orientation on iOS 26. • Fixed an incorrect page count after resizing the lyrics text in the set list view. • Stopped triggering pinned documents, recordings or MIDI presets when using an app control action to request a numbered item when the requested number is greater than the number of song-level items. • Stopped triggering pinned documents, recordings or MIDI presets when using the Next/Previous app control actions. • Updated the song copy function to include shared font sizes, lyrics annotations and automation tracks as well as the personal values when personal values are enabled. • Improved the scaling of layout elements with the Copy For This Size function on the layout Edit Details page. • Improved the set list view load time. 2026-01-16 Jan 19 * Updated the search buttons on the song edit page to open a web browser within a BandHelper popup window, with buttons to import the main page container, the selected text or the current page URL. You can use this to easily copy lyrics, chords, song facts or video links into the Lyrics, Chords or Notes fields. More details are in the Adding Lyrics tutorial. • Added a Notes - For Client field to the invoice edit page. You can use this to add notes for the client to the invoice PDF. The Notes - Internal field is not visible to clients. • Updated chat message popups to appear above a full-screen document viewer. • Fixed the display of shared notes in the notes popup when personal notes are also set. • Fixed the display of the notes popup from a Notes button in the song list. • Stopped selecting the song when clicking the Notes button for a different song in the song list. • Fixed a problem where the eraser tool would show as active in the annotation toolbar even though it was not active. • Fixed a problem that showed the Device Offline message for automatic syncs that were run after a manual sync. • Removed the fading from popup window titles in iOS 26. 2025-12-05 12/07/2025 * Added a chromatic tuner to the set list view. You can edit your layout and add the Tuner button to show it, or trigger the Other > Show/Hide Tuner app control action. Using the tuner requires microphone permission on your device. If you open the tuner while BandHelper is playing other audio, that audio might be interrupted. * Updated the Notes button in the set list view to show all of the user's custom fields for the song, in addition to the shared notes and personal notes. This makes it easy to see custom field values that aren't displayed in the layout, without opening the song's edit page. If you want to leave any custom fields out of this display, you can go to Repertoire > Custom Fields > [custom field name] and turn off Include In Notes Popup. • Enabled manual scrolling on the Chords field when the chords are longer than the available display height. Scrolling from hotspots, app control, automation tracks or auto-scroll still requires putting long chord content into the Lyrics field. • Fixed a problem where the recording edit page didn't load the saved Users value, which made it seem like the value wasn't saving. • Fixed the styles of the bottom toolbar buttons on the stage plot Edit Layout page on iOS 26. • Fixed a crash when loading the Stage Plots > Notes page. 2025-11-21 11/23/2025 • Updated Settings > Live Sharing > Speak Chat Messages to include messages sent from the device, so you can run the lead device's output to an IEM system. • When stepping through a custom marker sequence, stopped wrapping from the last to the first or the first to the last marker. • Fixed a problem where a long set list title would push the Save and Cancel buttons out of view in the Edit Set List popup on iOS 26. 2025-11-07 11/10/2025 • Removed an empty line that displayed at the end of the Chords field. • Fixed a problem where the Chords field didn't save its text size correctly when it contained only one line of text. • Updated the new marker sequence functionality to work even if the layout doesn't contain marker buttons. • Fixed a crash when a document includes a marker sequence that doesn't contain every marker. • Updated the Previous Page/Marker or Song app control action to move to the last page of the previous song when viewing a document in two columns. • Fixed a problem that caused the search button to not highlight on iOS 26 when there are saved list filters. • Updated the Future filter on the Repertoire > Set Lists page to include events on the current day. • Fixed a slowdown of animations after the first time the on-screen keyboard appears on iOS 26. • Adjusted the opacity of the document toolbar and overlapping layout items on iOS 26. 2025-10-31 11/02/2025 * Added functions to create a custom sequence of document markers. For example, you might add markers for Part A, Part B and Coda, then create a sequence that goes Part A, Part B, Part A, Part B, Coda. Then you can step through the markers in that order from the Document Markers buttons, the Next/Previous Page Or Marker app control actions or the up/down hotspots. To edit the sequence, click the Edit Marker Sequence button in the document toolbar, then click the Add a Marker button to add as many instances of each marker as you need, then drag the "grip" icons to reorder the markers. • Restored the marker edit options on iOS 26. • Added support for .zip files in the Files module. You can copy a zip file from BandHelper to another app by clicking the Export button on the file edit page. • Updated the Show Tempo On Button setting to show the tempo field all the time, not just when the tempo is playing. • Fixed a problem that saved the lyrics font size incorrectly when the last line of the lyrics is a heading. 2025-10-24 10/26/2025 • Fixed some issues with lyrics display and auto-scrolling. 2025-10-23 10/24/2025 * Added functions to send chat messages through Live Sharing. You can predefine messages like "More lead vocal in monitor" or "Five minutes left" on the Repertoire > Chat Messages page. Then you can send these messages from the Chat Message Button or Multiple Chat Message Buttons layout items, or the Send Chat Message 1-10 app control actions. Following devices will display the messages in a popup, or in the Chat field if that's included in the layout, and can optionally read the messages aloud if Settings > Live Sharing > Speak Chat Messages is on. You can route the speech to a particular audio channel from Settings > Audio & MIDI > Speech Output Channel. • Added Settings > Tempo & Pitch > Show Tempo On Button. With this on, the current tempo BPM will display in a field on top of the tempo button whenever the tempo is playing. The field will also update if you change between multiple tempos within a song. • When showing a different document on an external display, stopped forwarding some actions, like scrolling to a lyrics line, that would be inapplicable to the other document. • Updated the event conflict checker to ignore events that have been cancelled. • Improved some page load times. 2025-10-17 10/20/2025 • Updated the Edit menu in the set list view with buttons to edit the current document, recording and MIDI preset. If you have multiple items attached to the song and want to edit an item other than the current item, you can still click the Song button and then access all the attached items from the song edit page. • Updated the Search popup in the set list view with a Set List tab. If you select that, the search and random song results will only draw from the songs in the current set list or smart list. • Updated the auto-scroll function to use Settings > General > Defaults > Song Duration if no default song duration is set for the set list and no song duration or auto-scroll duration are set for the song. • Turned on Settings > Advanced > Appearance > Use Strict Back Button by default for new installations. This means clicking the back button from the set list view will always navigate out of the set list view rather than showing the song list if that is hidden. • Added shortcuts to add a set list, smart list or song to the shortcuts page on tablets in Basic accounts. • Sped up the display of the Finance > Totals page. • Cleaned up the display of table rows with hidden separator lines. • Disabled the new popup number pad for numeric fields on iOS 26. • Fixed a crash when registering or logging into an account on iOS 26. • Fixed a problem that triggered a swipe gesture when dragging a slider on iOS 26. • Fixed a problem that made the search fields move out of view in the search popup in the set list view on iOS 26. • Stopped highlighting the first song in the set list when first viewing a set list, to indicate that you need to explicitly select a song to trigger layout actions, or to hide the song list in a Song List On Top layout. • Stopped showing the in-app help help tip if the song list hide/show help tips were already shown. • Slightly reduced the size of the icons in the menus. 2025-10-03 10/05/2025

BandHelper version 2026-03-04

Updated At: 2026-03-06

Changes: • Fixed a crash when an external display is connected.

BandHelper version 2025-09-26

Updated At: 2025-09-28

Changes: Sep 28, 2025 Version 2025-09-26 • Fixed a crash when playing SMF music files on iOS 26. • Fixed a problem that sometimes prevented the list popups in the song picker from opening on iOS 26. • Fixed a problem that caused some repeat event dates to be off by a day. • Added Settings > Advanced > Hide Warnings to hide some warning messages.

BandHelper version 2025-08-08

Updated At: 2025-08-10

Changes: Aug 10, 2025 Version 2025-08-08 • Added Settings > Audio & MIDI > Persist Paired Preset States to leave a paired MIDI preset in its active state when changing songs. • Fixed some problems with annotation positions when zooming a document. • Updated the annotation drawing so that a single tap won't draw a dot; only a movement will trigger the drawing. • Updated the document viewer to follow the lead device's current page if scrolling through a document with Live Sharing when the lead device is using a 1-column display and the following device is using a 2-column display. The following device should use the Fit To Height setting in this situation. • Updated the document viewer to ignore a saved zoom position when displaying in two columns. • Checked the account expiration date when opening the app, not just when syncing, to avoid problems if you keep your device offline for a long time and your account expires during that time. • Restricted the size of debug logs so the Send Troubleshooting Info function can run more quickly.

BandHelper version 2025-05-09

Updated At: 2025-05-11

Changes: May 11, 2025 Version 2025-05-09 • Fixed a problem where new devices didn't create a new layout automatically when needed. • Updated the Layouts list to allow users with no editing access to add layouts assigned only to them, and to edit the layouts they add. • Updated the Stage Plots list to allow users with Added Data editing access to add a stage plot. • Updated the Recording Controls and Automation Controls layout items to display both lines by default. • Updated the on-screen keyboard for the Tempo field on phones to allow typing commas and spaces for multiple tempos. • Updated the Send SMF Recording function to send All Notes Off messages on all channels if you stop the recording before it reaches the end. • Simplified the default Song List Fields setting to avoid slow page loading. • Fixed the display of smart lists sorted by Rating.

BandHelper version 2025-04-25

Updated At: 2025-04-28

Changes: Apr 28, 2025 Version 2025-04-25 * Added support for multiple tempos within a song. You can enter multiple tempos in the Tempo field, separated by a comma and a space, like "90, 120". You can then long-press the tempo button to select one of those tempos, or select them with the Previous/Next Tempo or Play Tempo 1-10 app control actions, or select them from an automation track. * Added Settings > Advanced > Other > Use New Tempo Looping. This reworks the tempo functionality to play more accurately, especially when flashing the button with no sound, and will eventually allow more subdivision options. * Added size and position guides while editing layouts and stage plots. When you size an item to match other item sizes, all the matching items will be highlighted. When you move an item into alignment with other items, all the aligned items will be highlighted. When you move an item into equal spacing with aligned items, all the equally spaced items will have lines between them. You can still select groups of items, click the group's Options button and click Apply Average Size, Align Centers or Space Equally. • Added a visual grid when editing layouts. * Added Settings > Appearance > Song List Fields and Settings > Appearance > Field Display Order to control which song fields appear in the Repertoire > Songs list, the set list Edit Songs list, the smart list preview and the song picker window. • Updated the Repertoire > Songs list and the song picker window to show the rating and usage fields whenever they're selected in Settings > Appearance > Song List Fields. Previously, they only showed when sorting by those fields. • Removed labels like "last performed" and "no rating" from the song fields to save space. * Added Settings > Audio & MIDI > MIDI Options > Send SMF Recording Data. If you turn this on, SMF files that you attach to songs will send their data out to other devices to be rendered into audio, instead of rendering into audio within BandHelper. • Added a conflict prompt that appears if you edit an item that was edited on another device and synced to your device while you were editing it. • Updated the Repertoire > All Songs button to select or create a new layout automatically if no layout is selected as the default. • Fixed a problem where a Personal Transpose setting would be applied twice when hiding and showing bracketed chords. • Fixed a problem saving MIDI presets to a song when the Interface Level is set to Simplified. • Fixed a problem with syncing the time signature and rating field selections on the Share Set List and Share Songs pages. • Fixed a crash when using auto-complete on text that contains multi-byte Unicode characters. • Fixed a crash when calling the Next/Previous MIDI Preset or Next/Previous Recording app control actions for a song with no MIDI presets or recordings when Settings > App Control > Wrap Next/Previous Attachments is on.

BandHelper version 2025-04-09

Updated At: 2025-04-10

Changes: Apr 10, 2025 Version 2025-04-09 • Added a Notes button to the Smart Lists list for smart lists that have notes. • Reverted an unintentional change that made functions started by an automation track stop when the automation track reached its End event. • Fixed a crash when sharing a song from its edit page and then editing it. • Enabled the Save button in picker windows when clicking the All or None buttons, and enabled the Continue button in the History picker when selecting history items. • Hid the Export Project Data button from users who aren't administrators.

BandHelper version 2025-04-04

Updated At: 2025-04-06

Changes: Apr 6, 2025 Version 2025-04-04 • Fixed a crash when transposing the Chords field when it contains headings and bar lines. • Stopped showing images in lyrics in the set list view that aren't assigned to the current user. • Added a placeholder image in the lyrics edit field for images that aren't downloaded to the current device. • When resizing a group of layout items, repositioned the items within the group in proportion to their new sizes. • When applying an average size to a group of layout items, ignored the Transpose Toolbar. • Updated the document button to play/pause and show the elapsed time when the current document is a video. • Updated the Increase/Decrease Tempo and Tap Tempo functions to change a currently playing tempo without stopping and restarting it. • Updated the Start Recording app control action to do nothing (instead of pausing the recording) if the recording is already playing. • Updated the Start Automation app control action to resume the automation (instead of doing nothing) if the automation is paused. • Updated the Stop Automation app control action to stop any recording, video, tempo or auto-scroll that was started from the automation track. This is consistent with the behavior of the automation button and the automation controls. • Stopped triggering Song Completion actions while recording or editing an automation track. • Added a Notes field to the smart list edit page. You can view the smart list notes from the main menu shortcuts or from the notes button in the top toolbar of the set list view if that's turned on in your layout. • Added a Date Updated sort option to the list of set lists. Also, updated a set list's Date Updated field when changing any of the set list details, not just the set list songs. • Changed the error message on the event edit page when the Repeat Edits field isn't set to a prompt asking which Repeat Edits option to use. • Updated the event edit page to use the Repeat Edits setting for deletions as well as edits. This means you can delete one of a series of repeating events without deleting the following events. However, deleting the first in a series of repeating events will still delete the entire series regardless of this setting. • Stopped showing events that were cancelled while waiting for your response as action items. • Added an iCalendar URLs section to the Settings > Account Sync page so you can more easily share your events to another calendar app on your mobile device. Also, added a Reset Open URL button that you can use to disable the previous open URL if you have accidentally shared it. • Tagged the login info fields to better connect to password managers. • Disabled the Save button in picker windows until items are selected. • Updated the trigger picker from the Settings > App Control page to allow deselecting a picker that was previously selected but is no longer allowed. • When leaving the Share Songs page for a single song, reselected the song you had been editing. • Updated the Image button above the Lyrics field to show a hint if no JPG images are attached to the song. • Updated the color of document markers to better match the color theme and document inverted settings.

BandHelper version 2025-03-21

Updated At: 2025-03-23

Changes: Mar 23, 2025 Version 2025-03-21 * Added support for drawing annotations onto the Lyrics field. Unlike document annotations, lyrics annotations do not scale if you resize the lyrics text, but they do scroll when you scroll the lyrics text. While editing annotations, you can use a two-fingered drag to scroll the lyrics. • Added a button on the song edit page to add the song to a set list, and added a button on the MIDI preset edit page to add the MIDI preset to a song. • Stopped bypassing the main menu on phones when any repertoire shortcuts are available. • Fixed a problem where the Continue After Count-Off setting didn't work unless Auto-Stop Bars was set. • Changed the Pickup Length setting on the recording edit page to be set in 0.01 instead of 0.1 second increments. • Fixed a problem where the completed song marks didn't update when reordering a set list. • Fixed incorrect sizing of bracketed chord text when the lyrics begin with an embedded image. • Stopped triggering the chord divider line when clicking the area of the document toolbar that overlaps it. • Adjusted the text length on the set list Edit Songs page to avoid overlapping the options buttons. • Updated the sync function to reload the current layout if that layout was edited on another device. • Improved the processing speed of the initial sync when adding an account.

BandHelper version 2025-03-14

Updated At: 2025-03-16

Changes: Mar 16, 2025 Version 2025-03-14 • Stopped showing the main menu in Basic accounts. Clicking a project in the Accounts list will now take you directly to the Repertoire menu since that is the only module available in Basic accounts. Also, removed the Upgrade button from the main menu in Plus accounts. * Added Settings > General > Interface Level. If you set this to Simplified, some less-used options throughout the app interface will be hidden. If you are an account administrator, you can set this for the other users in your account, but they can change it back to Full if they wish. * Added an All Songs button to the top of the Repertoire menu. This shows all active songs sorted by Title, which was previously available from the default Active Songs smart list. If your account also has an Active Songs smart list in the main menu shortcuts, you can keep it, remove it from the shortcuts by turning off its Favorite setting, or delete it and just use the All Songs button instead. ! Combined the set list view's Edit Song and Edit Layout buttons into a single Edit button with a pencil icon. * Added an Edit Set List option to the new Edit button in the set list view. You can use this to change the songs or the sequence of songs in a set list without leaving the set list view. ! Combined the set list view's Quick Add and Quick MIDI buttons into a single Search button with tabs to search for songs or MIDI presets. • Added Settings > App Control > Actions > Show/Hide Search Window to show the search window with a screen gesture or remote control device. After you start typing into the search field, you can't hide the search window with a keyboard message because the search field will capture the keyboard input. • Added Settings > Advanced > Open Keyboard for Set List Search, which opens the on-screen keyboard automatically when you click the Search button in the set list view. You can turn this on if you more often enter search text to find a song, or leave it off if you more often scroll through the list to find a song. • Changed the icon for the Random Song button to a "shuffle" icon to make it more distinct from the other buttons. • Changed the icons for the Save Zoom Level and Reset Zoom Level buttons on the document toolbar to a small and large document, since the magnifying glass icon is now used for the Search button. • Removed the Action Items button from the top toolbar for Basic accounts, since they can't access any of the functionality that would generate action items. • Turned off Settings > Appearance > Top Toolbar Buttons > MIDI for new installations by default and for existing installations that don't have any MIDI devices or MIDI input actions. • Added "more" buttons (three dots) to the main menu shortcuts for set lists, smart lists, checklists and stage plots. You can click these to go to the menu for the item, to edit or share it instead of viewing it. • Removed the layout options button from the set list menu to streamline the navigation. You can still change the layout while viewing a set list by clicking the Switch Layout button in the top toolbar, or by navigating to Repertoire > Layouts > [layout name] > Edit Details and clicking Set As Default. • Reordered the settings on the General, App Control and Advanced pages to be more logically grouped. • Hid the Personal Transpose Enharmonics setting on the song edit page unless the Personal Transpose is set. • Changed the Shares heading on the event edit page to be clickable to hide and show the share fields. • Added a hint about to the shortcuts page about marking set lists as favorites if there are no set list shortcuts. • Turned on Settings > Advanced > Use New Swipe Logic for existing installations, to make horizontal swiping in the set list view and calendar view smoother and more intuitive. • Updated multi-line text fields to scroll to the cursor position after pasting text in. • Improved the sorting of items whose names begin with non-Latin characters.