The reader is the part of Vercast that matters most. It is built to be read at arm's length, under stage lighting, by someone holding a microphone.
Chords and transposing
Chords sit directly above the words they belong to. Use the floating control rail to transpose, switch between guitar, keyboard and ukulele, and show or hide chord diagrams.
The rail's ♪ button hides chords for a single song. If you never want to see chords anywhere, turn them off entirely in Settings and the reader becomes a clean lyrics view.
Some songs don't officially carry chords. Those always render as lyrics only, whatever your settings.
While chords are showing, the song's key is printed in small type under the title — the key it sounds in after any transposing.
Nashville numbers
The rail's 123 button turns chord letters into scale degrees: in G, a G is 1, a C is 4, a D is 5 and an Em is 6-. The numbers follow the key, so one chart works however the band transposes it. Tap 123 again for letters. Songs always open in letters.
If you never use numbers, turn off Nashville numbers under Settings → Display & stage and the button leaves the rail.
Your notes
The notes button in the header keeps a note on each song — a capo position, who sings which verse, where to repeat. A note opens to be read; tap Edit to change it. The toolbar adds headings, bold, italics, underline and five colours.
Notes are stored only on the device you wrote them on. They are never sent to us and are not shared with your organization.
Reference videos
When a song has a reference recording, a ▶ appears in the header. It opens the video in your phone's own app or browser.
Size, colour and contrast
A− and A+ in the header change the text size and remember it. Colour schemes are in Settings under Appearance and reading. On a new install the lyric colours follow your phone's light or dark mode; once you choose a scheme, it stays yours. Whatever colour you pick, contrast is clamped so the words stay readable — you can't accidentally make them disappear.
Left- or right-handed
Set your handedness in Settings and the control rail moves to that side, the header turns over to match, and the lyrics align to suit. If you hold a mic in your right hand, put the controls on the left.
Finding a song
Search takes a song number — any part of it works — a title, a line from the lyrics, or the name of anyone credited on the song: lyricist, composer, music director or artist.
The screen stays awake
While you're reading a song the device won't sleep. You don't need to touch it between verses.