Paste a URL, get chords, lyrics, tuning, and capo.
Today's practice, ready when you are.
Built-in tuner — no second app, no clip-on needed.
Learning your first handful of songs. Song Hive makes them easy to keep and easy to come back to.
Paste a URL, get chords, lyrics, tuning, and capo.
Today's practice, ready when you are.
Built-in tuner — no second app, no clip-on needed.
You've got a guitar, a few chord shapes, and more enthusiasm than stamina. You've watched a lesson on YouTube, learned half a song, gone to sleep, and discovered the next morning that you've forgotten exactly which half. That's normal. Song Hive makes it not matter.
Ultimate Guitar, Songsterr, a lyrics site — paste the URL into the URL field on the song editor and Song Hive pulls the chords, lyrics, and the tuning and capo. The song opens ready to play. You didn't have to type anything out, and the capo's on the right fret so the chords actually sound like the record.
You rate lyrics and music familiarity on a 0-5 scale when you're done playing a song. Song Hive uses spaced repetition to surface the ones you half-know before they slip away. Open the Practice tab and the songs due today are waiting — not a course, not a curriculum, just "here's what you're forgetting, let's go through it". Tap Start practice session and Song Hive sweeps you through in order.
Track lyrics and music separately, because at first they ratchet up at different speeds — you'll know the words to Country Roads before the chord changes are clean. Watching both climb from ⭐ to ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ over a few weeks is some of the best motivation the app has.
If daily ratings feel like homework, flip practice off for a song or the whole library — the song defaults screen lets you say "new songs don't track familiarity by default". Song Hive stops being a practice planner and becomes a lyrics-and-chords fridge. Flip it back on whenever you're ready.
Start free. No subscription. If you pass the free-tier song limit, there's a one-time in-app purchase to unlock the whole library — no ads, no ongoing cost. You'll know you're invested when that moment comes.
The built-in tuner lives on the Perform screen. Mic-based, cents needle, six strings. No second app, no buying a clip-on, no asking someone whether that's actually a B or if you've gone up to C.
