Terms of Service
Last updated: 2026-09-06
These terms govern your use of bandcue, provided by Gabriele Proietti Mattia. That is two things and they are covered by one set of terms:
- the Android app (
name.gpm.bandcue), from Google Play or from the self-hosted repository; - the web app at https://bandcue-app.gpm.name, which opens the same cloud library in a browser.
Installing or using either means you accept them. If you do not, do not install the app — and uninstall it if you already have — and do not sign in to the web app.
What bandcue is
bandcue displays chord sheets you put into it, scrolls them at a speed you set, transposes them, and — if you point it at one — reads and writes them as files in a folder you already sync. It runs on your device.
It is not a catalogue. bandcue supplies no songs, hosts none and fetches none on your behalf. There is no library of anybody else’s material in it or behind it, and nothing is downloaded in the background — a search you type opens one page of that site in a view on your phone, and what you keep from it is kept in your library and nowhere else.
The songs are yours, and so is the responsibility for them
This is the most important paragraph on this page.
Lyrics and the chord arrangements over them are, in most cases, somebody’s copyright. What you may do with a copy — make one for your own use, print it, keep it, share it with the people you play with — is decided by the law where you are and by the terms of wherever you got it, not by this app.
So, plainly:
- You choose what goes in. Every song in your library arrives because you pasted it, opened it, typed it or shared it in. bandcue never obtains one on your behalf.
- You are responsible for having the right to keep and use what you put in, including for anything you place in a shared folder, where you are the one distributing it.
- The “search a chord site” button opens a browser view inside the app, on their site, under their terms and over your own connection. It used to hand off to your browser and take a share back, and this page still said so: what happens now is that you type a search, the app loads that one page in a view on your phone, reads the results and draws the list itself, and loads the one page you pick. Nothing is fetched before you ask for it, nothing is crawled, no catalogue is kept, and nothing is stored anywhere until you press keep — but the reading and the drawing are the app’s, and saying otherwise would be describing an older version of it. What you do on their site is between you and them.
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A takedown is not something the app can perform. Your files are on your device and in the folder you bound, and nobody reaches those from here.
The cloud library is the exception, and it is yours to answer for. If you turn it on, the sheets you put in it are held on a server run by Gabriele Proietti Mattia, as you typed them, and can be read there. Nothing about them is public and no library is listed or searchable across accounts — but a copy exists off your device, and a request from whoever holds the rights to a song can be acted on there. See “The cloud library and the web app” below.
The cloud library and the web app
Both are optional, both are off until you open them, and neither changes what bandcue is: a library you filled yourself.
- What the cloud library is. A backup and a sync of your own library, opened from Settings in the app. Your sheets are stored as you typed them on a server run by Gabriele Proietti Mattia, which means the service can read them. They are not public, not indexed, not searchable across accounts, and no library can see another. What you can share is bounded: a band you name, whose members you invite one at a time.
- What the web app is. The same library, in a browser, at https://bandcue-app.gpm.name. It reads and writes the cloud library and nothing else — it never touches the folder on your device, and it has nothing of its own.
- A browser is a device. The free plan syncs one device, and on most people’s account that device is the phone; signing in to the web app on the free plan therefore opens an account and not a library, and says so. Lifting that is what the paid plan is.
- You are responsible for what you put in it, in exactly the way you are for what you put in a shared folder — including having the right to keep it and to let the people in your band read it.
- You can take it back. A library and everything in it can be deleted from the app, together with the secret that opens it. What is deleted is gone; there is no copy kept for you.
- It is a personal project, not an archive. Keep your own copies. The app holds the whole library on the device whether or not the cloud is on, and that is the copy to rely on.
Licence
You get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on devices you own or control. You may not sell, rent, sublicense or redistribute it, and you may not remove or alter attribution or notices in it.
Where the source code is published, its own licence governs the code — these terms cover the distributed app, not the repository.
No warranty
The app is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. It is a personal project, not a commercial product with a support obligation.
On a stage, it is still a phone
bandcue is built for the moment it matters: the sheet works with the radios off, the screen stays on while one is open, and the scroll keeps its own clock. These are properties of the app, not promises about your device. A phone that runs out of battery, is killed by a manufacturer’s battery manager, rings, overheats or is dropped will stop showing you a chord sheet, and no software here prevents that. Bring paper for the set you cannot afford to lose.
What is outside anyone’s control
- What a sync provider does with your folder. Whether a change reaches the rest of the band, when, and what happens when two people edit one song is your provider’s behaviour. bandcue writes one file per song and never resolves a conflict for you, precisely because that decision is not this app’s to take.
- What a chord site’s text contains. The parser reads two dialects and keeps the original either way; a sheet that is wrong where it came from is wrong here too.
- Chord diagrams are a reading aid. They are drawn from ordinary shapes and the app declines to draw one it would be guessing at, but no diagram is a substitute for your own ear.
Acceptable use
Do not use the app unlawfully, and do not use it to store or distribute material you have no right to. Do not attempt to make it fetch material from a service that does not permit it — the app is deliberately built not to, and working around that is outside these terms.
Paid features
Some features may be offered as a paid unlock, through Google Play Billing in the Play version. Prices, currencies and taxes are shown by the store at the moment of purchase, and refunds follow Google Play’s own policy. What is sold is storage, sync and the devices they run on — never songs, and never access to anybody’s catalogue. The web app is part of that: it is a second device, and the free plan syncs one. Whatever is available free today stays free for installs already using it. The version distributed outside Google Play contains no purchases and no cloud library of its own to sell.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Gabriele Proietti Mattia is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, nor for any loss arising from a sheet that failed to display, a scroll that ran at the wrong moment, a song that could not be read, a file written into or missing from a folder, or any claim arising from material you chose to put into the app.
Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. Consumers keep their mandatory statutory rights, which these terms do not limit.
Availability and changes
The app, the web app and the service behind them may be modified, suspended or discontinued at any time, and these terms may be updated; the current version always lives on this page, with the date below. Continuing to use any of them after a change means you accept it.
Governing law
These terms are governed by Italian law. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, and may bring proceedings in the courts there.
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Last updated: 2026-09-06