What changed in each JustChords release, newest first. Dates are approximate. For a closer look at the bigger releases see What's new in 9.35 and What's new in 9.36; what is coming next is on the Roadmap.
| Version | Release Notes | Approximate Date |
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| 9.36 |
- Setlists: Events became Slides and Sections became left-aligned Dividers; new divider / slide editor (see Setlists)
- Sidebar: separate Floating / Fixed style for portrait and landscape on iPad (see Themes)
- Right-to-left language support
- MIDI on Song Appear: send the song's key and scale, MIDI chords ignore the capo, note-offs for the first chord on song load, section-break MIDI messages go to the first / last part, deselect anticipation is shown in beats (see MIDI)
- New pedal / MIDI action Autoscroll | Start, Scroll Down (see Bluetooth Pedal)
- Chord Beats: beat width scales to the longest chord in the song
- Pinch-to-zoom now zooms around the centre of your fingers
- Piano chord diagrams follow the chord diagram zoom
- Storage: new < 7 days group in Autobackup, safer bulk delete (see Storage and Backup)
- The add-song menu moved to the + button in the navigation bar
- The selected section stays selected after transposing
- Warning when importing a song with the same name as an existing one
- iPhone Duo layout support, Stage Monitor text fix on external displays with iOS 27, many small fixes and improvements
|
October 2026 |
| 9.35 |
- Capo Dual Chords – show the fretted and the sounding chord together
- Smarter Add to Setlist – create a new setlist right in the list, new Sort button; imports can be added to an existing setlist
- Visual Storage Browser – thumbnail grids for Backgrounds, Images and Notesheets
- Receive MIDI in Background; Chord Beats Sync with MIDI Clock keeps following the clock in the background
- Dark Mode ABC notation and white PDF sheet music in Dark Mode
- Sing Along – PlayTogether leaders can share lyrics with a web audience; followers highlight the currently played chord
- Metronome: Other beats volume slider for the stressed first beat
- AUv3: per-project Beats Source for Chord Beats Sync (Off / AUv3 Transport)
- Song Editor: collapsible Tags & Song Structure, section label width picker
- Shared setlists import as synced setlists; performance optimizations
- See What's new in 9.35 for details
|
October 2026 |
| 9.34 |
- More reliable iCloud file access and a fix for duplicate setlist import
- Fixed a Tuner crash on Macs without a microphone
- Fixed a missing Song Viewer menu on macOS Sequoia
- Bug fixes
|
September 2026 |
| 9.33 |
- Tonic Pad – ambient pad matched to the song's key, with pad library management and live volume / pan / filter / reverb / crossfade (see Pad Player)
- Redesigned Quick Buttons and a metronome quick panel
- MIDI: MSB / LSB support for Jump to Song by MIDI ID, option to stop the metronome at the end of the song in Chord Beats Sync, MIDI Library improvements
- ChordPro section directives
{soc}/{eoc}, {sov}/{eov}, {sob}/{eob} - Chord Beats editor: ← / → move between chords, ↑ / ↓ change the beat count
- Scroll Up / Down: animation can be turned off
- Transpose / capo quick buttons are disabled when a song has no key
- Fixed external display support on iOS / macOS 27
|
September 2026 |
| 9.32 |
- Setlists – shuffle, mark songs as played
- QuickButton adjustments
- Song Editor – integrated ABC Notation editor
- Small bug fixes and improvements
|
September 2026 |
| 9.31 |
- OCR: convert images to chords-over-lyrics
- New Chord Beats style: Dots – hide full measures
- Various stability and performance improvements
|
August 2026 |
| 9.30 |
- New Chord Beats styles and PlayTogether improvements
|
August 2026 |
| 9.29 |
- Hotfix – occasional app crash when closing the app
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July 2026 |
| 9.28 |
- Sticky attachments in Notes & Drawings
- Chord highlighting
- Improved metronome granularity
- More improvements and bug fixes
|
July 2026 |
| 9.27 |
- Bug fixes
- Smaller improvements
|
July 2026 |
| 9.26 |
- Fixed text formatting bugs
|
July 2026 |
| 9.25 |
- New inline chord display options
- Improved PDF sheet music
- Song text formatting now supports font size
- Projection: apply song format for projection
- Improved MIDI Library
- Setlist events now support text and a countdown component
- Smaller improvements and bug fixes
|
July 2026 |
| 9.24 |
- Bug fixes
- Smaller improvements
|
June 2026 |
| 9.23 |
- PlayTogether (first version) – become the Leader and share your setlist with band members. All connected devices stay in sync and display the same song section
- Improved drawing – better support for Apple Pencil
- Improved Chord Library with chord diagrams for alternate guitar tunings
- Chord Beats Sync – highlights the current chord and song section and sends MIDI messages on time, all driven by MIDI Clock
- Sends the song tempo as a custom MIDI message
- Bug fixes and other improvements
|
June 2026 |
| 9.22 |
- Read-only mode for shared setlists and folders
- Lyrics projection improvements (logo, blackout media scaling)
- Song editor toolbar customization – define custom shortcuts
- Song section coloring rules
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April 2026 |
| 9.21 |
- Bug fixes & UI improvements
|
March 2026 |
| 9.20 |
- Bug fixes & UI improvements
|
February 2026 |
| 9.19 |
- MIDI improvements, bug fixes & UI improvements
|
February 2026 |
| 9.18 |
- Fixed lyrics projection for improved stability during live use
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January 2026 |
| 9.17 |
- Fonts: more configurable weights (light, medium, semibold, heavy)
- Lyrics projection improvements
- MIDI in song structure
- MIDI devices configuration (source – destination)
- AudioUnit plugin improvements
- Bug fixes
|
January 2026 |
| 9.16 |
- Improved metronome
- Improved adding songs to setlists
- Group songs by first letter
- App icon follows theme
- Bug fixes
|
January 2026 |
| 9.15 |
- Improved lyrics projection
- Added data file conflict resolution
- Bug fixes
|
2025 |
| 9.10 |
|
2025 |
| 9.04 |
- Fully compatible with the iOS 26 and macOS 26 design
- Chords-over-lyrics support (switch between ChordPro and the new format)
|
2025 |
| 9.03 |
- Improved lyrics projection
- Added data file conflict resolution
- Bug fixes
|
2025 |
