I build Fretlist on my own. It's a chord sheet and setlist app for gigging musicians: store your chord charts, transpose to any key, organize setlists, and pull them up offline on stage, on any device. After six months of building steadily, I pulled these numbers together the other day, and honestly, they made me a little proud. So I figured I would share them. (All figures are as of July 2026.)
The library so far
Across everyone using Fretlist, there are now over 18,000 songs and 384 setlists built for gigs and rehearsals.
Here is the number that stopped me: 94% of those songs were imported from other apps. Roughly 17,000 of them came in from OnSong, SongbookPro, Chordie and Ultimate Guitar, plus ChordPro files, PDFs and plain text. Musicians are not adding a song here and there. They are moving whole chord sheet libraries across, sometimes hundreds at a time.
That tells me something I care about. Switching apps is a pain, and if people are willing to bring their entire catalog, the import has to be genuinely good. It is the part of Fretlist I have spent the most time on, for exactly that reason.
How musicians actually use it
The features that get used most are the ones built for the moment you are actually playing.
- Play Mode is where most musicians live, on stage and in rehearsal. 87% of active players run their songs straight from Fretlist: full-screen, distraction-free, with the screen kept awake. Inside it, 67% let the chart scroll itself hands-free and 29% keep time with the built-in metronome. → How Play Mode works
- The app on the phone. 47% installed Fretlist to their home screen for one-tap, fully-offline access on stage. → Install the app
- Print and export. 23% send a clean PDF to the music stand or hand a chart to a bandmate. → Print & Export guide
- Sharing. 21% send a song or a whole setlist by link, with no account needed on the other end. → Sharing guide
What this tells me
Fretlist is still early, and I like it that way. The people using it now are the ones shaping it: every song imported, every setlist built, and every bit of feedback in my inbox goes into what Fretlist becomes next. A working musician telling me exactly where a chart broke on stage is worth more than any roadmap I could write alone.
So if you are one of the people in these numbers: thank you. You are the reason this thing keeps getting better.
New here? Bring your songs over in a couple of minutes. There is a guide for OnSong, SongbookPro, Chordie and Ultimate Guitar, or just drop in a folder of files. Start with Fretlist.