Support MapSongs
MapSongs is free and always will be. What it costs is my time.
Figuring out how a song should look on a screen so you can see its shape at a glance. Testing it at the piano with a tablet on the music stand. Rebuilding the parts that didn't work there.
Most of that is design, not code. You try something, get it almost right, then do it again until it feels obvious. AI helps me write the code and I pay for that myself, but the design calls are mine.
Hosting is free at this size. The hours aren't. And free hosting has a ceiling. When a few thousand players are using this, there will be a real bill at the bottom of it, and I would rather that be a good problem than a reason to start charging for something.
So chipping in buys you nothing. No extra features, no tier, no badge. It goes to the next player instead. The next phase gets built sooner, and this stays free for whoever finds it after you and can't pay for it.
☕ Buy me a coffeeIf you've ever spent unpaid hours on something just because you wanted it to exist, you know the feeling.
What free means here
I would rather make a promise I can keep than one that sounds better. So, specifically:
- Everything MapSongs does today stays free, for everyone, permanently.
- Your songs and your lyrics are never behind a payment. Not now, not ever.
- No ads, and nothing about you is ever sold to anyone.
- If something is ever paid, it will be something new that doesn't exist yet, bought once rather than rented. Nothing you already have moves behind it.
What that's paid for lately
- Playback that follows the bar you're on, synced to YouTube
- Import straight from Ultimate Guitar, no copy-paste
- Two memorization drills built on the same map
Questions, ideas, complaints
Looking for how something works? Help is the page for that: the four modes, getting a song in, and what calibrating means.
Tell me what is missing, what is broken, or what song came out wrong on import. Suggestions from people actually playing along are what the next phase gets built from. I read everything, though I can't promise a reply to all of it.