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Every app wants your night for its feed.Except this one.

Chord is the app for live music: the moment and the song, kept for you, not posted for them.

No typing in the crowd. Find any night by song, artist or place.

Your best live moments
live in the wrong apps.

The moment and the song belong together, at the show. Here’s what each app keeps, and what it drops.

Apple Photos

TodayA dark clip. No song, no set, no venue. Sorted by date.
ChordPhoto or video + the song that played + the set and the venue. Find any night by song, artist or place.

Spotify Wrapped

TodayOnce a year. What you streamed. Not the night you lived.
ChordContinuous. Every show, every set, the moment you were actually there.

Setlist.fm

TodayThe setlist the band played. Not the part you were there for.
ChordThe setlist you and your crew caught, song by song.

Instagram

TodayThe night becomes content for other people's feeds.
ChordPrivate by default. A Night is shared only with the crew who joined it. No algorithm, no feed.

Shazam

TodayThe song without the moment: a list of titles you'll never scroll back through.
ChordThe song named from your clip, plus the crowd, the set and who you were with.
"A song takes you back faster than any photo. Researchers have a name for it; you've just felt it."

Ten things Chord does for a night out.

All ten are in the beta today.

01

Catch a song

Film the moment. Chord names the song from your clip and keeps the two together. If it can't, add it in two taps.

02

The song finds you again

Turn on Song-Triggered Recall and, when a song you caught live plays on Spotify or Apple Music (or anything that scrobbles to Last.fm), Chord sends a notification naming the song and the night. Opt-in, it respects Quiet Hours, and “Don’t bring back” mutes any night, person or song.

03

Your crew's night, in one place

One Night link; everyone's clips and songs from the same show land in one shared Night as soon as each phone has signal. The end of "send me your videos."

04

Night Recap

The morning after, your night is already cut: the moments, the songs you caught and a Save the setlist button.

05

Safety Mode

During a Night, start check-in timers, alert your crew, or call the local emergency number in one tap.

06

Reels and the Night Card

Make a reel of a Night: pick the length, then the clips. Or share the Night Card: your best moment and the songs you caught.

07

Today's Replay

A Night you kept comes back today, picked from your own library, not a feed deciding for you.

08

Crowd Setlist

Every song the crew caught, ranked by how many of you caught it. Counts, never names.

09

Ask Chord

Ask about your nights in plain words, like the artist you saw most, and Chord answers from your own moments. Never sold, never used to train anyone else's model.

10

Artists feel the room

Artists see, privacy-safe and aggregate-only, which songs actually hit in each city. The room's real reaction. Never the individuals.

Measured by the nights you get back.

We'd rather you open Chord the morning after than scroll it every night.

We don't want your night for a feed. We want to give it back to you.

That's Chord.

But don't take our word for it
Everything we designed is grounded in published research.

Evidence-informed. Never evidence-claimed.

The research behind our design decisions.

Music-Evoked Memory

Songs cue vivid, specific personal memories: roughly 30% of popular songs did in Janata's 2007 study.

Janata et al., 2007: music cognition & MEAM research

Live Hits Harder

Your brain treats a live show differently: a stronger response in the emotional centre, lifted further by the crowd around you.

Trost et al., 2024: live music & the affective brain

Revisiting It Lasts

Memories you return to gain texture and weight; the ones you never revisit fade. The whole point of Relive.

Frankland & Bontempi, 2005: memory consolidation

We use this research to decide what Chord brings back, and when.

Grows more valuable with every moment you save.

Apps can copy features. They can't copy your memories.

The longer you use Chord, the more of your live-music life it holds: every night, every song, every crew.

Or just ask Siri: “Show a memory on Chord.”

Your nights out deserve better than a camera roll.

Chord. Open beta on iPhone · Android is coming.

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