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Songbook

Role

Product Designer & Builder

When

Jul 2026 – Sep 2026

Product link

Songbook
Collage of Songbook screens: the lyric editor, strum pattern editor, inspiration panel, draft folders, theme picker, recordings and the chord looper
Songbook's top bar with the song title and the inspiration line
Songbook's lyric editor with chords above the words
Songbook's strum pattern editor with bpm, beats and feel controls
Songbook's theme picker: Warm Paper, Midnight, Noir & Gold and Sea Glass
Moving a draft between Songbook's lyric, melody and finished folders
Songbook's recording options: rename, make official recording, edit audio, record over this and delete
The cloud icon in Songbook's top bar with the inspiration panel open
Songbook's chord looper with tempo controls and draggable chords

Overview

I built Songbook for songwriters to consolidate a lyric journal, chord looper and multi-track recorder into one place. I designed the product end to end and directed its AI-assisted development, from the data model to the interface.

The Challenge

As a songwriter myself, I noticed that the process was scattered. Ideas would come to me and I would scramble to store them in voice memos, my notes app, or even in my camera roll. Since those apps all serve other purposes, I found myself losing track of old verses I had written and composed. There was no intuitive hub for me to digitize my ideas, and I couldn't store melodies in my paper journal without strong knowledge of musical notation.

The Goal

Replace the scattered notes-and-voice-memo workflow with a single tool a song could live on from the first line to a finished demo.

The Solution

I built a web app where the lyric journal, chord looper, and multi-track recorder work side by side, with annotations and inline chords attached directly to the lyrics.

Key Features

  • Lyric journal: inline chords, instrument settings, strumming patterns, private line notes, and color-coded rhyme groups to use in the case of unstructured rhyming.
  • Folders: keep lyrics, melodies, and finished songs organized.
  • Inspiration bar: loops through self-written lyrics and manually entered inspiration lyrics; appears and rotates through lines at the top of the web app to keep user inspired throughout writing process.
  • Chord looper: tempo controls and draggable chord sequences, no instrumental knowledge required.
  • Multi-track recorder: build and manage takes on the same page as your lyrics.
  • Hide Annotations, Inspiration, Sidebar: Users have the chance to toggle on/off any added feature from the journal at any time.

Next Steps

Next, I want to make Songbook shareable. Today it combines a GarageBand-style recorder, a notes app, and voice memos. Adding social features would turn it into a SoundCloud for songwriters, where anyone, regardless of music level, can create a song on their own and share it with the world.

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