Songbook opens on Today, which is built around your church's next service. From there, or from Plans, you can open any plan you're allowed to see and get to its songs.
Find your next service on Today
Open Songbook. Today greets you by name and shows your church's next plan on the large service card: the one happening now, or the soonest one still to come.
Read the top line of the card. If you're scheduled on this plan, it counts down to your call time, such as You're on in 45 minutes or You're on Sunday, and the line under the title shows your team and position, such as 9:00 AM · Band · you're on keys.
Tap See the plan to open the full order of service, Rehearse to open the first song's chart, or the songbook button to start Perform.
Tip: The card always shows your church's next plan, not only plans you're on. If you aren't scheduled, the card shows the date, the plan's subtitle, and its location instead of a countdown. The countdown appears only when you have a position on the plan with a time that hasn't finished yet.
What's on the Today screen
Service card buttons - the songbook button starts Perform, Rehearse opens the first song at its scheduled arrangement and key, the download button saves the whole plan to your device, and See the plan opens the order of service. The songbook button and Rehearse don't appear when the plan has no songs.
Your songs for this set - one small card per song on the next plan, in service order, with the scheduled key in large type. A dash means no key is scheduled. Tap a card to open the plan.
Later this week or Coming up - the next few plans after the one on the card. It says Later this week only when every plan listed falls in the same week as the main card. Tap the heading to fold the list away.
Recent activities - up to three charts you had open, newest first. Tap one to go back to the same song, key, page, track position, and metronome tempo. These cards stay on this device only and disappear after 14 days.
If Today says Nothing scheduled yet, your church has no upcoming plan you can see. If it says Couldn't load your plans., tap Retry. When you're offline, Today fills in from the plans you've downloaded.
Browse all your plans
Tap Plans.
Choose Upcoming for plans from today onward, grouped by week (THIS WEEK, NEXT WEEK, and so on), or Past for earlier plans, newest first, grouped by month.
To search, type in Search plans and press Return. The search matches the plan's title and the small label above it.
To show only certain kinds of services, tap the filter (funnel) button, choose one or more options under Service type, and tap Apply.
Tap a plan to open it.
Each filter you apply shows as a chip under the search bar. Tap the chip's × to remove it. Inside Filter Plans, Clear all empties the form, and you then tap Apply to put that into effect. More plans load on their own as you scroll.
If the list can't load, for example because you're offline, the plans you've downloaded still appear, as long as no Service type filter is on.
Inside a plan
A plan page shows the order of service the way it's set up on the website, with the title, date, and time at the top.
Rehearse - opens the first song's chart at its scheduled arrangement and key. It's missing when the plan has no songs.
Perform - starts the full-screen stage for the whole plan. It appears only when at least one song on the plan has a PDF chart.
Download button - in the bar at the top of the full-screen plan page. On an iPad turned sideways, the plan shown beside the list has no download button, so open the plan full screen to download it.
ATTACHMENTS - files attached to the plan itself. Audio and video uploads open in the practice player when the plan has at least one song, links open outside the app, and other files open in a file viewer (iPad and iPhone) or in your device's own app for that kind of file (Android).
Order of service - three sections, Before Service, During Service, and After Service, each showing its length, with Total Duration: at the end. Song rows also show the scheduled key and the arrangement's sequence (for example Intro, V1, C, V2, C, B, C, End).
Tap a song to open it at the arrangement and key the plan scheduled. If the song has exactly one PDF chart for that arrangement and key, the chart opens straight away. Otherwise the song's page opens so you can choose a file.
Reorder a plan from Songbook
You will need the Full Write Service Plans permission to perform this action.
Warning: A new order changes the plan for everyone, on the website and on every musician's device, usually within seconds. There is no personal or device-only order.
Open the plan.
Press and hold a row until it lifts.
Drag it to its new place.
Let go. The new order saves right away.
Section headers move on their own, and the rows under a header stay where they are, the same as on the website's order page. People who can edit plans also see empty sections, so there's somewhere to drop a row. If the save fails, Songbook says "Couldn't save the new order." and puts the rows back. Try again when you have a good connection. Anyone without the permission sees the same page with nothing to drag.