The Best Setlist Apps for Gigging Bands in 2026 (Honest Comparison)

A setlist app has one job on stage — show the songs, big, in order — and a harder job off stage: timing your set, keeping keys and tunings straight, and getting the same list into every bandmate's hands. Here's how the 2026 field actually stacks up.

Set List Maker: the frozen classic

The long-time default stopped active development in May 2024, with users pointed toward a subscription successor. If you're one of the many bands still on it, you're on borrowed time — we wrote a full migration guide.

BandHelper: powerful, priced per band size

Genuinely deep (MIDI, documents, per-member sync) and genuinely complicated — its own reviews say so. Pricing scales with band size, and the setlist basics sit inside a suite many bands never use a tenth of.

Setlist Helper: solid freemium

A fair free tier with set breaks and live total time; device sync is a one-time purchase. Worth a look if you want lyrics and chord charts attached to every song.

Web builders: watch the share-link paywall

The newer web tools are slick, but almost all of them charge for the thing bands need most — sharing the set with everyone else. One popular option puts band collaboration at $4.99/month; another's full band features run $25/month.

The free option we'd suggest (because we built it)

Musavise setlists are free with the parts competitors gate: set breaks with per-set timing, key and BPM per song, a target-length check ('you're 6 minutes over'), a big-type stage print view, and — the big one — a read-only share link anyone in the band can open on any device, no app, no account, revocable any time. Durations and keys prefill from the last time you played each song, and your set prints automatically on tour day sheets.

It's one tool of more than two dozen in the free account, alongside the stage plot builder your sound engineer will want and the gig tracker that turns the night into bookkeeping.

Everything above lives in one free Musavise account — no credit card, no trial clock, and your data exports any time you want it. Create your free account and it's yours in about two minutes.