How your songs sync between devices

When the guitarist changes a chord at home, you want it on your screen before rehearsal. While you are both online with the app open, a change a band member makes shows on your screen within seconds, on every plan. If you were offline, it arrives as soon as you open the app with a connection, so open it once before the gig.

Many players edit on a computer at home and play from a tablet or a phone on stage. With Solo Pro or Stage Pro, your own bands follow you to every device you sign in on. On the free plan your own bands are kept on the device you use, while bands others share with you sync on every device. If you upgrade later, the songs you made come to your other devices too, so nothing is lost by starting free.

To check before you leave, open Settings and choose Storage and data. With Solo Pro or Stage Pro it shows Synced to cloud and the time of the last sync; on the free plan it shows Local only, because your own bands are kept on this device. If your version is too old to sync, a bar says Update available. and sync waits until you update, without losing anything you changed; see Get the latest version.

Sync can't merge two edits of the same song. If two people change one song at the same time, the change that reaches Stage Friend first is kept, and an edit made on an older copy of the song is replaced by it without a warning. So agree on who edits which song before a gig, and after a big change, check that it is still there once your device has synced. Changes to different songs never get in each other's way. To see where your songs are actually stored, and how to keep a copy, read Where your songs are kept.