Built for working musicians
SetBook isn’t a one-size-fits-all setlist app. It’s built around the real-world workflows of the people who actually use it — cover bands, worship teams, touring artists, music directors, and freelancers. See how SetBook fits into your world.
Cover bands & wedding bands
You play 50+ songs across your repertoire and every gig has a different request list. The bride wants "At Last" in F instead of C. The corporate gig wants 80s only. Last week's setlist was on a sticky note on your dashboard.
- ✓Build a master chart library with every song you can play. Add tags like "first dance," "cocktail," "high energy," "80s," "slow jam" so you can filter and pull a setlist in minutes.
- ✓Create a fresh setlist for each event. Override the key for one song without changing your master chart — perfect for vocalists who need a different range each gig.
- ✓Send the gig details to subs in one tap. The shareable gig link works without an account, so you can call in a sub at 4pm for an 8pm gig and they have everything they need on their phone before they arrive.
- ✓Track per-member pay so the bandleader knows exactly who's owed what after the wedding.
Worship teams & music directors
Every Sunday is a different rotation of volunteers. You need to share charts and setlists with people who may or may not be at rehearsal. Half your team is texting you Saturday night asking what key we're doing "Goodness of God" in.
- ✓Create a Band for your worship team and store all your church's songs in the shared library. New volunteers see everything in one place.
- ✓Build the Sunday setlist on Tuesday. Override keys per service if you have rotating vocalists with different ranges. Share the setlist with the team — they get a notification.
- ✓Use Stage View on the iPad on the music stand: clean, dark background, large song titles, easy swipe between songs during service.
- ✓For larger churches, upgrade to an Organization to centralize billing for your whole music department, manage multiple worship teams, and assign role-based access (worship pastor, MD, volunteer musician).
Touring & original artists
You're booking dates across multiple time zones. Your tour manager has the spreadsheet, the band has the group chat, and your accountant has the invoices. Nobody has the full picture.
- ✓Schedule every show on the tour with venue, call time, dress code, pay, and notes. Sync to Apple Calendar or Google Calendar so you and your team see the whole tour at a glance.
- ✓Hand subs a pre-built chart library before a fly date. Send them the band invite link and they have your charts, setlist, and gig details on their phone before the plane lands.
- ✓Track per-member pay across the tour. At the end of the run, export your earnings to PDF or CSV and split it cleanly.
- ✓If you cross time zones a lot, SetBook stores the gig's local time zone offset so a 9pm show in LA doesn't show up as 6pm on your phone in New York.
Music directors & bandleaders
You're juggling availability for 15 musicians across multiple bands and projects. Everyone wants to know the call time. Half of them keep texting you for the chord chart you sent yesterday.
- ✓Create a Band for each project (corporate, jazz trio, soul band) with separate libraries so the wrong charts don't show up at the wrong gig.
- ✓When booking a gig, SetBook shows you each musician's availability based on their other gigs in the system — so you know who's actually free before you call.
- ✓Invite your usual lineup with the right roles and pay assigned. The setlist and chart library are already there, so you don't have to email anyone a thing.
- ✓Use the Message Band feature to send last-minute updates by email or SMS to everyone on the gig at once.
Session players & freelancers
You play 12 gigs a month for 8 different bandleaders. You need to know what you've been paid for, what's pending, and what to chase down. Tax time is a nightmare of receipts.
- ✓Mark every gig you accept as either yours or someone else's so SetBook knows what counts toward your earnings.
- ✓When you get paid for a gig, mark it paid. The earnings dashboard tracks paid, pending, and upcoming totals — broken down by month, year, or all time.
- ✓At tax time, export your earnings to PDF or CSV and hand it to your accountant. Every gig, every venue, every dollar — already organized.
- ✓Turn on mileage tracking with your home address and SetBook calculates round-trip miles for each gig. Useful for the IRS deduction.
- ✓Automatic payment reminder emails go out for gigs that are more than seven days overdue. Let SetBook be the awkward one for you.
Music schools & collectives
You run a music school or collective with dozens of musicians and multiple groups. Centralizing billing and managing everyone's gigs and access is a part-time job.
- ✓Create an Organization to consolidate billing for all your members under one tier-based seat plan ($6.99–$8.99 per seat per month).
- ✓Manage members with role-based access (owner, admin, contributor, viewer) so teachers can edit and students can view.
- ✓Track all the gigs your collective books in one place. See activity across the org: who's scheduling what, who's playing the most, who needs more bookings.
- ✓When a member leaves the org, SetBook automatically resumes their personal subscription if they had one paused, or grants them a 14-day trial — no manual cleanup.