Songkeeper Studio vs Suno

Songkeeper Studio is a songwriting app for guitarists who want to keep recordings, lyrics, chords, and practice tools together. A song can hold multiple recordings for playback and multiple drafts that can be copied, moved between songs, renamed, or deleted. Guitar tools include chord diagrams, a chromatic tuner, tuning options, and chord transposition. The writing editor offers word suggestions, rhymes, a music keyboard, tablature stamp mode, and trackpad cursor control. For practice, users can set a tempo, use a metronome or drum loops, and enable tempo-based autoscroll. Reference videos can be linked and played in the built-in YouTube player. The free Basic plan costs nothing and allows five songs, two drafts and two recordings per song. Pro costs $0.99 a month and adds unlimited songs, drafts, and recordings, Cloud Vault, sharing, collaboration, import, and export; it includes a 7-day free trial. The app runs on Android and iOS. Songs are also stored locally, and the site warns they can be lost if the app is uninstalled or the phone is lost.

Suno creates complete songs from text prompts in under a minute. It supports vocal generation, audio uploads, multitrack editing, MIDI sequencing and stem export, with audio export in MP3 and WAV. Tracks can be up to eight minutes long. Users can share music with audiences ranging from a small circle to millions. The Free plan costs nothing and provides 50 credits per day, allowing up to 10 songs daily without a credit card; it does not include commercial rights or monthly song downloads. Free uploads can be up to eight minutes. Pro costs $8 a month and provides 2,500 credits and 20 song downloads per month. Premier costs $24 a month and includes 10,000 credits and 60 downloads. Paid subscribers can use songs commercially, including in videos, albums and other projects. Annual billing gives a 20% discount on both paid plans. Pro and Premier let users create custom models from recordings; Premier adds Suno Studio with MIDI, effects and automation. Suno is available on the web and on Android and iOS.