Keep your whole band on the same page

Yes. There is no billing, subscription or paid tier anywhere in the app today — start a session and invite your whole band at no cost.

No. Anyone with the session code can tap “Just watch” and follow the lyrics and vote on what plays next with no sign-up at all. What needs a free Coda account is joining as a performer — the role that puts you in the room’s line-up of players — which takes a 6-digit email code or a Google sign-in and drops you straight back into the session. In Open Mic sessions a watcher can still do more than watch, though: request a song, back one, sign up to fill an open part on someone else’s request, and edit or withdraw their own — no account needed for any of it.

Guitar Pro tab files (.gp, .gpx, .gp5, .gp4) and MusicXML that every phone in the room reads as the same synced tab, chord charts you paste or write in the chord editor — including a sheet pasted with LRC timestamps, which times the chords to the recording the same way — and timed lyrics, fetched automatically for songs that have them.

Yes. Start a tab from a blank page or from a Guitar Pro file, type frets onto the strings, and add techniques like palm mutes, hammer-ons and slides from the toolbar. A new tab stays private until you choose to share it, and you can attach it to a song so your band can open it in a session.

Yes. Coda runs in any phone or desktop browser, so joining or watching a session needs nothing installed at all — open the link and you’re in.

Yes. The audience screen at a session’s watch link shows the lyrics scrolling in time with the song, a beat visualiser, and the setlist — and needs no account at all. Open it in any browser and point it at the room.

Yes. Build a playlist once in your playlist library, then pick it as the source playlist when you start (or reconfigure) a session — its songs sit ready one tap from the queue, so the same setlist is there next time without rebuilding it.