Private beta â now recruiting
SureNotes is an iPad app built for working musicians: song charts, ChordPro, setlists, and a distraction-free Performance Mode with hands-free pedal and Apple Pencil control. We're looking for musicians to help stress-test it before launch.
Requires an iPad on iPadOS 16.6 or later. Free to test â no purchase required.
No account creation, no setup wizard â just install and start bringing in your own charts.
Tap the "Join the Beta" link above on your iPad. It opens Apple's TestFlight app (install it first from the App Store if you don't have it), where you'll accept the invite and install SureNotes.
On first launch, SureNotes sets up a default band workspace for you. Everything â songs, setlists, shows â lives inside a band, even if it's just you for now.
Import a PDF, a ChordPro (.cho/.pro) file, plain text, or a photo of paper charts (Settings â Bulk Attach, or Scan to PDF from the camera). Don't have any handy? Try pasting in a ChordPro song to see the chord/lyric rendering and transposition in action.
Add a few songs to a setlist, then attach that setlist to a Show. Attaching freezes a snapshot of the order â the safe, "what we're actually playing tonight" copy that survives later edits to the setlist itself.
Open your Show and tap into Performance Mode â the clean, full-screen view designed to be read from a stand. If you've got a Bluetooth page-turn pedal or an Apple Pencil, this is where they come in.
A tour of every major area â enough to know what you're looking at, and what's worth putting through its paces.
Your song catalog, organized by band. Import PDF, ChordPro, plain text, and image charts individually or in bulk â SureNotes suggests a matching song by filename so you're not hand-matching dozens of files one at a time.
Where you view and mark up a chart outside of a live show â practicing, prepping, or just double-checking a chart before a gig.
SureNotes parses and renders standard ChordPro natively â chords over lyrics, not just plain text.
Setlists are your working drafts; Shows are frozen, gig-ready snapshots that stay playable forever, even below your subscription tier.
A dedicated, distraction-free view for when you're actually playing â bigger charts, simpler chrome, and every hands-free control this app has.
Two things every working musician reaches for constantly, built in rather than left to a separate app.
SureNotes is local-first â your library is real data on your device, not just a cache of something in the cloud.
Real usage finds real bugs. The most valuable testing doesn't happen at a desk â it happens at a rehearsal or a gig.
Every report goes through one form â it takes about two minutes and it's how we track testing for the rewards below.
Open the Bug Report FormWe sort every report by severity:
The more specific your report â what you tapped, what you expected, what happened instead, and a screenshot if you can â the more useful it is, and the more it counts toward the tester rewards.
Not a discount code. Permanent access to every current and future Pro feature, for as long as you use SureNotes.
At the end of the beta, we'll rank every tester and hand-deliver Legacy Individual Pro codes to the top 10 â our way of saying thanks to the people who actually helped make this thing solid.
Finding something that crashes, loses data, or breaks a core workflow counts far more than a typo â but every valid report counts.
Steps to reproduce, your device, and a screenshot or screen recording turn a report into something we can actually fix.
Using SureNotes at an actual rehearsal or gig â not just poking around at a desk â is the single most valuable thing a tester can do.
Testers who cover a lot of ground â charts, setlists, performance mode, export, the tuner â rank higher than one deep dive on a single screen.
The beta runs for a few weeks. Testers who stay engaged throughout â not just one burst on day one â rank higher.
Workflow friction, missing features, and "here's how I'd actually use this on a real gig" feedback all factor in.
iPad only, running iPadOS 16.6 or later. There's no iPhone or Mac version during the beta.
Yes â TestFlight installs are free for the whole beta period, including every Pro feature, so you can put the full app through its paces.
Yes. SureNotes is local-first â your library lives on your device â and everything you build during the beta stays in place through updates and into the public launch.
We'll announce the close date on the same channels you found this page through. Testers who stick around for the whole window rank higher for the top 10 rewards.
Absolutely. Most of the app doesn't need either. If you do have one, we'd love feedback on that specifically since it's harder for us to test at scale.
Report it anyway â a second confirmation is genuinely useful. Rewards are based on your own testing depth and report quality, not just being first.