Find a song on the web, or bring one in from a link

To bring in a song from the web, open Songs and press Find a song. Type the song's name, or paste a link, then press Search.

Search by name

The answers come in groups, each as soon as it's ready:

• In your library comes first, so you don't import a song you already have.
• Chord charts are Ultimate Guitar's free charts, best first by their stars. PraisePad reads them exactly, with no AI and no cost.
• Search more sites asks AI to look across the other chart sites PraisePad trusts. It costs about 5 cents from your church's AI allowance, so it runs only when you press it.
• Recordings looks on YouTube when you ask, and plays what it finds in the player bar.
• Licensed charts are SongSelect and PraiseCharts: download the file there, then drop it on Import.

Look, then import

Press a chart to see it in PraisePad's own style. The buttons under Preview in a key show it in another key; only the preview changes. PraisePad says what to check: Ultimate Guitar's charts are written by its members, a capo chart is saved in the key it sounds in, and a song you already have is pointed out.

Press Import for the usual review, where you can also pick its recording. The saved song keeps a link to the page its chart came from, and Find another song brings you back.

Paste a link

The same box takes a link: a chart page, a PDF, or a YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Music link (the button says Read the link). Ultimate Guitar is read exactly; other pages and PDFs are read by AI, which copies what's on the page and never adds to it, for about 3 to 6 cents. A recording plays in the bar, with Find its chart. Some sites don't let PraisePad read their pages; then copy the chart and paste it on Import.

A song with no chart yet has Find a chart on its page. On Android, once PraisePad is on your Home Screen, you can share a link from another app straight to it.