Release Notes

OnSong 2026.1

OnSong 2026.1 has not yet been released. The following items have been added, changed or fixed:

New

• AuxBox™ available for preorder in the OnSong pedal configuration.
• TalkThrough™ can be enabled from the contextual help menu and lets Jason walk you through using the app while we highlight the user interface components on the screen.

Additions

• Added the ability to configure Playback functions for controlling backing tracks, autoscroll, metronome, etc.
• Added the ability to change the base frequency for the tuner from 440 Hz to 432 Hz and other frequencies.
• Added the ability to choose the A2 paper size in the preferences document settings.
• Added AuxBox™ and TalkThrough™ to the What's New release notes screen.
• Added a screen that explains OnSong® Charts if you access without having signed up.

Changes

• Changed the Apply Styles screen to apply metadata display settings to other songs.
• Changed the context menu share option to open the new share menu when using the new share menu version.
• Changed the live settings setting screen to rename "Audio Playback" to "Backing Tracks".
• Changed OnSong Charts to be available for all U.S. territories.
• Changed the What's New screen to omit features that are not available in certain languages or countries.

Updates

• Updated the reason to use speech recognition to include contextual help.
• Updated various screens to align with the user manual for TalkThrough™ functions.
• Updated German translations in the app per user feedback.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the font slider in the diagrams tab does not disable when diagrams are not enabled.
• Fixed an issue where annotations don't clear due to the drawing being nulled and the original song drawing coming through.
• Fixed an issue where importing songs when picking songs for a set causes the imported songs to appear in the song viewer, changing the set view.
• Fixed an issue where console changes to font formatting is not being reflected in the app.
• Fixed an issue where the bold and italic buttons are not positioned correctly in Console.
• Fixed an issue where desk annotations are not scaling and moving when rotating the screen.
• Fixed an issue where some alternate tuning notes were not correct.
• Fixed an issue where the web services URL is displayed in system information outside of beta testing.
• Fixed an issue establishing alternate tunings.
• Fixed an issue where selecting all songs in the set picker after a search results in all songs being added to the set.
• Fixed an issue where importing songs when picking songs for a set doesn't select all imported songs.
• Fixed an issue where the multiselect menu is upside down.
• Fixed an issue where a chord placed in a work using the new renderer and inline chords causes the chord to be placed in front of the word.
• Fixed an issue where empty brackets in the new renderer would result in a single bracket being outputted as lyrics.
• Fixed an issue where drawings were not affixed to PDF files.
• Fixed an issue where the Create New Library button is editable in the manage libraries screen.
• Fixed an issue where chord diagrams are outputted with gaps if a chord diagram is not available in the original renderer.
• Fixed an issue where PDF files that have not had transposition enabled were being transposed when printing causing font changes.
• Fixed an issue where the get support screen closing when performing TalkThrough™.
• Fixed an issue where OnSong Charts is redirecting to blank page when an issue is encountered.
• Fixed an issue where linespacing is not correct on lines with chords in words in the new renderer.
• Fixed an issue where changes made in OnSong Console do not readily update on the app.
• Fixed an issue where some chord diagrams were not being outputted in the new renderer due to sus2 being used.
• Fixed an issue where the song picker for sets is small on macOS.
• Fixed an issue where the editor menubar icon appeared in the primary menubar on iPhone when enabled in editor menu settings.
• Fixed an issue where optional chords in parenthesis were being removed when transposing.
• Fixed an issue where the remove capo setting in print output settings has no effect.
• Fixed an issue where clients receive an OnSong Connect stream request but do not connect.
• Fixed an issue where the optional chord and ending parenthesis is superscripted in the new renderer.
• Fixed an issue where certain bracketed chord lines are being bracketed again causing brackets to be outputted in correctly.
• Fixed an issue where the sign in screen uses mixed colors when the default app color is set.
• Fixed an issue where the text labels on the account details screen would because cut off when the table refreshes.
• Fixed an issue where PDF files switch to a default key due to an attachment mismatch.
• Fixed an issue where the germanic "H" chord is not outputted when transposing.
• Fixed a crash condition when showing the navigation when the menubar appears with the auto show/hide songs list setting enabled.
• Fixed a crash condition when switching between PDF attachments with annotations.
• Fixed a potential crash condition when processing a zero length chord with enharmonic preferences.
• Fixed a potential crash condition caused by song set item identifier serialization.