For road bands, tour managers and nightly set changes

Setlist app for touring bands staying synced on the road

Tonight's city has a different curfew and yesterday's encore is tomorrow's opener. SetSmith keeps the tour setlist, charts and backing tracks synced across time zones—with offline access when the green room has no signal.

Free · Web, iOS & Android · No card required

Tour tags
Organize sets by leg and venue type
Nightly updates
Reorder before doors from any device
Offline shows
Cache sets before load-in
Tour Master Set
Nightly edits synced
Offline

Road problems touring bands face

Version drift across cities, lost charts in vans and setlist debates at load-in waste precious soundcheck time.

Set changes every city but charts stay stale

Update the master setlist once. Cloud sync pushes the new order and chart versions to every band member's devices before load-in.

Wi-Fi in venues is unpredictable

Mobile offline cache downloads the full project at the hotel. Play Mode runs in arenas with congested networks or no signal.

Opening acts and festival slots vary length

Clone the full headliner set. Trim to a short festival slot, tag it and reuse the same song library without rebuilding.

Backing tracks and stems on a separate laptop

MP3s and separated stems live on each song. Keyboard tech and playback operator see the same attachments in the setlist.

Built for bands living on the road

Tour organization

One library, many nights

Tag setlists by tour leg, country or venue type. Clone last night's show, swap in a local cover song and search songs on the bus.

  • Tags for tour and venue
  • Clone previous shows
  • Cross-project search
Tour organization
Touring Bands
Road-ready sync

Everyone on the same version

Editors update from laptops or phones. Viewers on stage see locked charts. Pending changes sync when the bus gets a signal again.

  • Role-based collaboration
  • Offline mobile cache
  • Sync across web and mobile
Road-ready sync
Touring Bands
Stage performance

Play Mode for the long haul

Pedal navigation, auto-scroll, a full setlist drawer and read-only annotations visible to the whole production team.

  • Bluetooth pedal support
  • Continuous auto-scroll
  • Full setlist in performance view
Stage performance
Touring Bands

A touring week with SetSmith

Tour prep

Load the master setlist, tag the leg and invite the band to the project.

Travel day

MD tweaks order on the flight. Musicians sync offline at the hotel before load-in.

Load-in

Open Play Mode for line check. Confirm chart versions match the posted set order.

Show

Perform offline if needed. Post-show, clone tonight's set for tomorrow's shortened festival slot.

Common questions from touring bands

Can we maintain different sets for festivals vs headliners?

Yes. Clone and trim setlists, tag by slot length and keep one song library for both headliner and support sets.

Does offline sync work across international tours?

Mobile apps cache locally and sync when connection returns—useful on planes, buses and remote venues.

Can tour management edit without stage access?

Grant editor or owner roles to tour managers and viewer roles to musicians for read-only stage access.

Are backing tracks available offline?

Cached project data includes attached audio files for offline playback on mobile during the show.

How do we handle nightly encore changes?

Reorder the setlist from any device. Musicians refresh the setlist before the encore break to see the update.

Keep the tour set tight from load-in to load-out

Build the master setlist, sync the band across cities and perform with charts that survive bad venue Wi-Fi.

Free · Web, iOS & Android · No card required