For performers, the whole pre-show workflow

Most performers spend more time on the administrative spine of their gigs than on the gigs themselves. There's the repertoire to maintain in your head; the setlist to compose for tonight; the calendar that distinguishes the wedding from the wake from the rehearsal; the gear inventory you forget about until something goes missing; the receipts you stuff in a drawer for tax time. Generic productivity tools handle none of these well because they don't model what music is.

Crescender's performer surface is the productivity layer for actual gigging life. Build setlists by tapping songs from a library that knows what key you play them in. See your gig calendar with venue addresses pre-loaded into Maps. Track your gear with photos, serials and condition. Photograph receipts at the music shop and have GearGrabber turn them into structured records before you're back in the car.

Setlist building that respects musical reality

Build a setlist by dragging songs from your repertoire library. Each song carries the key you play it in, the tempo, the duration, and any capo position or transposition, so the total playing time is computed automatically and the transitions can be planned by key relationship rather than guesswork.

Confidence ratings on each song (1 to 5) make setlist-building defensive: filter to confidence-4-and-above for a high-stakes performance, see immediately which songs need rehearsal before they'd be gig-ready. Past setlists carry forward, most gigs reuse 70-80% of the previous list, and you start the new one from the last rather than from scratch.

A gig calendar that knows what gigs are

Every event in your calendar has a type, gig, rehearsal, recording session, lesson, and the type determines what fields are surfaced. A gig has venue with address, load-in time, soundcheck time, downbeat, set times, attached setlist, who's playing, expected fee. A lesson has the student, the repertoire focus, the location, the rate.

Recurrence is handled properly for weekly rehearsals and recurring teaching slots. Exceptions (cancellation, makeup, time shift) are first-class, you don't break the series to move one event. Notifications fire at configurable lead times; the default is 60 minutes before each event.

Gear inventory + tax-time-ready receipts

Catalogue every piece of gear with photo, serial, purchase date and price, condition history, and maintenance schedule. Generate insurance schedules in one click. Track depreciation per ATO schedules so the tax-time number is right.

GearGrabber receipts: photograph the music-shop invoice, the AI extracts line items + GST, one tap adds the gear to inventory and the financial record to your books. Same flow on the iPhone companion as on the web app.

Band-mate visibility where it matters

If you play in bands, the band collaboration features let you share a setlist with the band, schedule rehearsals into everyone's calendar, track shared expenses and split fees. Each band has its own shared space; you might be in two or three at once with totally different setups.

The model doesn't lock you to one band, your repertoire is yours and travels with you; what gets shared per band is the setlists and events specific to that group.