ScorDial / User Guide

User Guide & Help Center

Sheet music, chord charts and setlists for performing musicians. Read and annotate PDF scores, build charts with one-tap transposition, and move everything faithfully between iPad, iPhone and Android.

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Features at a glance

What ScorDial does: PDF reader and annotator, chord-chart editor with transposition, and setlists for live performance.

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Creating chord charts

Bars, sections, repeats and navigation signs — plus notation rows and ink anchored to the chart's layout.

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PDF scores & annotation

Import, read and mark up PDF scores with ink, text, chord symbols and jump markers.

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Lighten PDF

Rebuild heavy, slow scans as compact scores that open and flip fast — annotations included.

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Setlists

Ordered lists for a rehearsal or gig, with per-song keys, duplication, and song-to-song navigation while playing.

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Transposition & key locking

One-tap transposition, an Original-key reference, key lock, and a different key per setlist.

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Mini staves

Resizable five-line staves you can place anywhere on a page or chart, with notes from the on-screen piano.

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Blank pages, canvas & manuscript

Empty A4 pages, a free-drawing canvas, and pre-printed stave paper for writing from scratch.

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Sharing & file formats

.scordial for one song, .scoreset for a whole setlist, plus standard PDF export for everyone else.

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Practice & performance tools

Metronome and tap tempo, per-song BPM, recording and playback, and the tools that keep a big library findable.

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iOS & Android guide

What's specific to iPad and iPhone, and what's specific to Android tablets and phones.

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Frequently asked questions

Quick answers on accounts, moving to a new device, importable file types, slow PDFs and sharing annotations.

Prefer to watch?

Eleven tutorial videos cover the same ground on screen, from the full walkthrough to individual features like inserted staves and setlist organising.

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