What's New and Update History

V2025.2.1 (March 2025)

Simpler "Gig Duration Wizard" in Setlist

iCloud sync improvements

V2025.2 (Feb 2025)

Reverse Lookup.  From the Song or Gear library, view all Gig Setlists and Checklists that a particular song or gear item is assigned to.

You can also quickly and easily add or remove a song or gear item to multiple Setlists and Checklists.

V2025.1 (Feb 2025)

MIDI integration.  Hands-free control of your Song-Setlist  using your MIDI foot-pedals.  Step through songs, play/pause, turn on/off metronome, page through PDF documents, and more.

 Checklist Linking.  In your Checklist, LONG_PRESS to link a specific item to a specific Checklist.  For example, create one Gear item for 10M XLR Audio cable, set that cable to 10 items for Checklist 1, 5 items for Checklist 2.  Also add notes, for example a lighting controller setting for Checklist 3, a different setting for Checklist 4, both use the same lighting controller Gear item

New "Sunrise" Theme (Settings)

V2024.8 (Nov 2024)

* Introducing a new Floating button that allows you to visualize and switch seamlessly between grouping layouts. (Can be turned on/off in settings.)

* Gear and Song items now have an undo-all button on the toolbar.  This will return all edits to the saved version of your song or gear item.

* The Gear Detail view has been enhanced with a clearer and more elegant layout, providing you with all the necessary information.

* Enhance your task management by displaying your gear notes alongside your checklists. Choose Note 1, Note 2, or both to include additional information (set in the Checklist menu.)

V2024.7 (Oct 2024)

Home Screen

• Simpler Home Screen layout.  No more jumping in and out of Home Screen between Live and Edit modes 

Library enhancements

• New Song layout.  Edit, tune, and play your song in one location with the Edit/Audition/Play tabs.

• Search for song title OR artist name in Song Library

Setlist Enhancements

• New Checklist layout.  Select, check in, check out, filter and reset in one location

• New Setlist layout.  Select songs, edit setlist order, play setlist live in one location

• New menu options in Live Setlist Play/scrolling to hide or display various labels/elements

• Search for song title OR artist name when selecting/adding songs to your Setlist

• New "Count Off" feature;- Metronome button now has 3 states;- On, Off, and "Count Off"

 - Count Off mode stops the Visual Metronome 5 seconds after scrolling starts.  This is perfect if you need the metronome to get a song started, but do not want it distracting you for the entire song.

V2024.6 (Sep 2024)

• Bug fix

V2024.4 (Jun 2024) - Simpler, more logical layout

• Gig library added to Libraries.  You can now more easily access your Gigs in a list form.  Sort by  name, venue, or date.  Show/hide payments and get totals depending on chosen sort method (i.e. by month, by venue).  Easy access to reporting for all Gigs.

• Live Gig screen now has SELECT - LIVE button toggle at top.  All fields with a blue border are in Select Mode.  This means you don't have to jump back and forth if you need to make a quick change in your selections e.g. add a Gear item or Song to your Gig on the fly.

• Direct editing. Previously certain fields were locked in Live mode, and only editable in Setup mode.  Pretty annoying!  Now all fields can be freely edited and are automatically saved.  Changed fields will be highlighted in red until Save button pressed, so you have time to cancel.

All of the above changes hopefully make the GigBag Pro experience simpler, easier, and faster to use.

V2024.3 (Apr 2024) - Better sync,  more real-estate in Live Setlist

• Improved iCloud sync.

• More space when in Live Mode:  Playing a song will result in less clutter and more area for scrolling text or PDF display.

V2024.2  (Mar 2024) - Better handling of multi-page PDF's

• In Live Setlist mode, you can now swipe through a multi-page PDF.

V2024.1  (Feb 2024) - New display options when creating a Setlist

• When planning your Setlist (Song Selection and Setlist views), new display options are available.

Show/Hide: Artist, Style, Key, Time Signature, Duration Wizard, and Song Length.

V2023.3  (Nov 2023) - Sleep Mode

• Option in Settings to override device sleep mode.

V2023.2  (April 2023) - Home Screen Refresh

• Major refresh of Home Screen and app experience

V2023.1  (May 2023) - Pricing/feature changes

• All features now included in the initial purchase.  All current versions upgraded to full version.  Enjoy!

• Photos in Gear Library can now be viewed/zoomed in View Mode

V2022.10  (September 2022) - Feature changes

• Initial purchase of GigBag now has no limitations to Gigs/library/lists

● V2022.9  (August 2022) - New features, better workflow

• Scan your music sheets direct into your GigBag Song Library using your iOS device's camera, or import a PDF from your files. (Pro version)

• You can now choose between displaying a PDF or Text for each song in your live playlist (Pro version)

• Home screen completely re-designed for simpler and more logical layout.

• Themes now extend to Home Screen

• Gig Diary now displays multi-line content.

• More consistent navigation throughout GigBag

● V2022.8.1 & V2022.8.2 - MInor Bug-fixes🕷 - (Export Gear)

● V2022.8  (June 2022) - Across the board tweaks & improvements

Home screen:

• “New Gig” button added

• Gig "Tag" now displayed

Libraries

• Venue: URL (Venue Home Page) added

• Contacts: Import Contact  - now choose from multiple phone numbers and email addresses

Gig Modes

• Gear Checklist select:  “+”  button to add new Gear on the fly without jumping back to Library

Purchasing

• Free version removed from store.  Now GigBag comes in 2 versions

Semi-Pro - initial purchase with limitations (If you downloaded the previous free version, you get this upgrade)

Pro - single IAP to remove all limits

● V2022.7 (May 2022) - Dynamic Text Zoom + Folio

You may have perfect pitch, but maybe the eyes are fading a bit.  So this release will fully support Apple's dynamic text sizing.  All buttons, text and label font sizes throughout GigBag will change by simply adjusting the font size on your iPhone/iPad's control panel 🤓

See FAQ's

New Gig Folio

This feature is so important the only mystery is why it was not the first thing I coded🤔

You can now keep the Running Order (timed events), ToDo's and Notes for the gig all in one place.  No more swapping between notes/todo and calendar apps.

All items are specific to this Gig only.  If a Gig is copied, all items are also copied.

● V2022.6 (Apr 2022) - Themes

• Home screen buttons now populated with number of selections from Library

• Gig Setup - Populated Library buttons highlighted

• More polished/consistent displays & colors throughout GigBag

● V2022.5 (Feb 2022) - Redesigned Home Screen

• Simpler Gig Setup: No more jumping around when setting up your Gig - everything is now in one place, there where it should be on the Home Screen

• Reduced clutter.  If you only need one feature (say Gear Checklist) all other elements in your Gig (links and buttons for Songs/Venues/Contacts) are removed.

● V2022.4 (Feb 2022) - Enhanced Live Setlist view

New features: 

Enhanced Live Setlist view.  You may want to display the setlist and leave it there for the whole Gig (without the scrolling using lyrics/chords view), but need just a little bit more info than is currently available.  So...

LIVE mode

• Added metadata for setlist view (Key/Tempo etc.)

• Added a new song field "Live Prompt".  This will be a short note, separate from the lyrics/chords notes, which will be a handy place to place a short reminder/prompt for the current song.  This is be available in the Live scrolling view as well as live Setlist view.

• Added flashing visual metronome for Live Setlist view (can be turned off)

Also, added the ability to "fast edit" a song from the LIVE view.... e.g. quickly change start delay, scroll speed, zoom, then jump straight back to your LIVE gig.

 REPORTS: 

• Added a new fast and easy way to share your Gig song list to band members.  From the Home screen reports button.

● V2022.3 (Jan 2022) Contacts library, autoscroll, metronome

• Contacts library added.  Import from your device Contacts, assign contacts to a Gig.  Dial/message  a contact direct from GigBag

• Auto-Scrolling added.  Setup each song with individual zoom level, text alignment, scroll speed, and start delay.  All settings can be set in the song setup preview screen, so that when you select a song for your Gig the setlist, scrolling, speed, zoom are already set and ready to go.

• Visual metronome.  Border of text window pulses in time to song tempo - giving you a “spacial” tempo awareness without taking your eyes off of the text.  Border thickness adjustable, or can be turned off.

• New Home screen layout.  Clearer and more logical.

• Gig: Added load-in time and "PA Supplied" switch

• Reports: Added "Share Gig Details: as a fast & snappy way to share basic Gig info to fans & friends.

• Improved iPad layout - library lists now in windows rather than full screen.

● v2022.2 (Dec 2021) - support email link

Settings

• Added support email link

Song Library: 

• Changed song note font to monospace (helps lining up columns if chord charts are pasted)

• Added "Paste Clipboard into note" button.

• Added Full Screen option to view/edit song lyrics/chords and set correct zoom

• Bug fix: Now able to view/paste song into note (was previously hidden by keyboard)

● v2022.1 (Dev 2021)

• MASSIVE update to GigBag.  Now a complete Musician’s toolbox for your Gigs, Songs, Gear, and Venues.

•  - with a "Duration Wizard" to help you plan total Gig time, extensive reporting, and a slick new Home Screen to quick-launch to every area.

V2025.2  ( Mar 2025)
• MIDI integration.  Hands-free control of your Song-Setlist using your MIDI foot-pedals.  Step through songs, play/pause, turn on/off metronome, page through PDF documents, and more.

 • Reverse Lookup.  From the Song library, view all Setlists that a particular song is assigned to.  You can also quickly and easily add or remove a song to multiple Setlists.

 • New "Sunrise" Theme (Settings)

 • Improved Navigation - more intuitive Save/Cancel operations

 • Improved Fonts - for clearer Headers

2024.7.2  ( Dec 28th 2024)

• Sets now order correctly

• Fixed crash when adding a set

V2024.7  ( Nov 2024)

* Introducing a new Floating button that allows you to visualize and switch seamlessly between grouping views. (Can be turned on/off in settings.)

* Songs now have an undo-all button on the toolbar.  This will remove all edits to the saved version of your song item.

V2024.6  (Oct 2024)

New menu options in Live Setlist Play/scrolling to hide or display various labels/elements.

New "Count Off" feature;-

Metronome button now has 3 states;- On, Off, and Count Off ;-

 - Count Off mode stops the Visual Metronome 5 seconds after scrolling starts.  This is perfect if you need the metronome to get a song started, but do not want it distracting you for the entire song.

V2024.5.1  (Sept 2024)

Bugfixes plus some safety when editing a song.

GigBag Setlist has quietly moved from having to hit a save button when editing a song, to automatically saving in background.  This is good for speed and ease, but not so great if you make a mistake and save without knowing.  This release addresses that by having a warning dialogue when exiting your song after an edit (you can optionally turn this dialogue off).

There is now also a confirmation dialogue when clearing the song text/lyrics field (Thank you Kent for that suggestion)

V2024.5  (Aug 2024)

Major re-write.  The Home screen, navigating in/out of Prep Setlist and Live Setlist, and "Select Gig" terminology has been replaced with a simple;-

"Song Library" and "Setlist Library"

V2024.4  (Aug 2024)

Apple Music integration.  See more detail under Help & FAQ's 

V2024.3 (May 2024)

•Improved iCloud sync.

•More space when in Live Mode: Playing a song will result in less clutter and more area for scrolling text or PDF display.

•Improved Menus (Prepare Setlist)

V2024.2  (Mar 2024) - Better handling of multi-page PDF's

•In Live Setlist mode, you can now swipe through a multi-page PDF.

v2024.1  (Mar 2024) - New display options

•When you "Prepare Setlist" for your next Gig, new display options are available in Select and Setlist views.

As well as the song name, you can now show/hide: song length, artist, style, key, time signature, and (Setlist view only) duration wizard.

When song length is selected, selected song duration totals and total Gig times are now located at top of screen.

v2023.3  (Jan 2024) - Copy Gig

•New feature: Swipe a Gig left-to-right for "Copy Gig" function. All song selection/ setlist information copied. iPad SearchBar look improved

v2023.2  (June 2023) - PDF scanning

•Scan your song sheets into GigBag, or navigate to a PDF file on your device/iCloud.

v2022.1 (August 28th 2022) - Initial Release

V2025.2 (Mar 2025)

 • Checklist Linking.  In your Checklist, LONG_PRESS to link a specific item to a specific Checklist.  For example, create one Gear item for 10M XLR Audio cable, set that cable to 10 items for Checklist 1, 5 items for Checklist 2.  Also add notes, for example a lighting controller setting for Checklist 3, a different setting for Checklist 4, both use the same lighting controller Gear item

 • Reverse Lookup.  From the Gear library, view all Gig Checklists that a particular gear item is assigned to.  You can also quickly and easily add or remove a song or gear item to multiple Checklists.

 • New "Sunrise" Theme (Settings)

 • Improved Navigation - more intuitive Save/Cancel operations

V2024.1 (Nov 2024)

Updated to iOS 18, this version boasts numerous refinements and exciting new features;

* The term “Gig” has been replaced with “Checklist” for a more organized and intuitive user experience.

* The Home Screen has undergone a redesign, featuring a simpler layout with only your Gear and Checklist libraries.

* Say goodbye to “Setup” and “Live” modes! Now, you can effortlessly create or select a Setlist and perform all your operations in one convenient place.

* Introducing a new Floating button that allows you to switch seamlessly between Category, Rig, and Custom modes. (Can be turned on/off in settings)

* The Gear Detail view has been enhanced with a clearer and more elegant layout, providing you with all the necessary information.

* A new Checklists Category has been added, enabling you to edit a checklist name (swipe left to right) and assign it to a specific category.

* You can then list or group checklists alphabetically or by category, making it easier to manage your tasks.

* Enhance your task management by displaying your gear notes alongside your checklists. Choose Note 1, Note 2, or both to include additional information (set in menu)

v2022.1 (August 28th 2022) - Initial Release