OpenSong

Lyric projection and chord charts for church musicians

OpenSong is a free software application for managing chords and lyrics sheets (lead sheets), presenting lyrics (and custom slides) using a projector, and much more! Great for worship leaders and musicians!

Features

Live presentation of any song, specifying the order of slides, such as verse 1, then chorus, then verse 2, then the chorus again, etc.
Present any passage of the Bible verse by verse
Present a timed loop of slides, for use in situations such as automatically displaying announcements, verses, Q&As, etc.
Present any combination of songs, scriptures, or loops back-to-back using sets.
Fully customize font styles and sizes as well as shadowing and outlining for easy reading against colorful backgrounds
Change the background color or background image to any image file
Chord and lyrics presentation for audience and musicians
Automatically transpose chords to any key
Print sheets with regular chords and capo-ed chords together
Customize any font face, size, bold, italic, underline, etc. for any sheet elements including title, author, chords, lyrics, copyrights, and more.
Keep track of a song's title, author, copyright, ccli #, tempo, time signature, theme, focus, capo position, user defined fields, and more!
***Please note that OpenSong is not compatible with macOS 26 (Tahoe) at this time.

Project Samples

OpenSong v1.6.1: Live Presentation helper

OpenSong v1.6.1: Main screen, song mode advanced properties

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dionsteele Posted 2026-05-01

Hi. I've been using this software for years at our local church. We have been using the 1984 NIV for years, but we are now using the 2011 NIV Bible and can't seem to find how to download it and add it to the program. The only link you have on the website is for the KJV. How do I do this?
justingbmcbride Posted 2022-05-14

Used this for almost a decade and very happy, really helped several churches that I was involved in. Thank you to the team, you have been a blessing to us.
larsosca Posted 2021-04-28

A really good Free of charge presenting program. I have been using it for many years and I have to admit that during some years the development and bug fixes just did not happen. But it seems to be good progress on new versions lately. I have a two brand new Windows 10 computers, one running Win 10 Pro and the other one Win 10 Home edition computer and it works really well. Some features could be a bit more logical, and other are on the waiting list. The design is a bit edgy but works OK. The support works fine considering that no one is getting paid to work. I was actually amazed that it could handle more that 2 monitors when we upgraded to be able to stream our services. GOOD WORK!
srgrass Posted 2020-10-13

Thank you very much for the program!
tgksrlamoais Posted 2020-01-31

Getting more and more wonky as time goes on. It seemed to be just barely adequate with Windows 7 on my old PC in the beginning, but after a while it started having problems . Now with Windows 10 and a new PC it is basically unusable. I tried to print a song I needed for rehearsal tonight and it wouldn't print. Or so I thought. I went to my church to print it there. When I got home, my document tray was full because it had printed out at LEAST a half ream's worth of copies. I did not tell it to do that. It basically assumed that I needed a copy for everyone in the congregation. My advice is to get a manual typewriter and make copies for your worship team. Or if you are bent on using some kind of software, look into Proclaim or something of the like. Apparently software that depends on donations to maintain it gets faulty after a while.