The JustChords team

JustChords is built and maintained by a small, passionate team of musicians and tech enthusiasts who love serving worship teams, bands and music communities.

Marek

Hello, dear friends! My name is Marek, I'm 41 years old, married with 3 children and 1 dog. I’m from Slovakia. After turning 40, I felt like God started fulfilling my dreams. As a teenager, I always wanted to play in a band, but I never got the chance. Now I have the opportunity to play in a band with great musicians in a choir where all my children go. So, I started playing the piano — and I’m not stopping!

What was missing for me? A good chords & lyrics app without a subscription. So, in July 2022, with zero knowledge of mobile app development, I started creating one! Then Timo reached out to me — he wanted to join as a "service to the Lord", to do something good together for musicians. From that moment, the app started transforming visually and in terms of user experience.

We became best JustChords friends, working on the app daily to improve it. The funny thing? We've never even met in person, and we don’t even share a common language! I’m so thankful to Timo — and to all of you, this amazing community, for your daily support and the great ratings on the App Store. You keep us going!

Email: marek@justchords.app

Timo

Hello everyone! My name is Timo, I’m 41 years old and was born in Germany. I have a wonderful wife who teaches music and biology, and together we have four children aged 2 to 10 — 2 boys and 2 girls. Right now, I’m a full-time stay-at-home dad.

My musical journey started when I was 5 years old with classical guitar lessons. However, I wasn’t very diligent, so I made little progress for years. As a teenager, I started learning chords so I could play guitar in church, at youth meetings and at summer camps. Since then, I never really stopped.

At around 18 or 19, I joined a punk/hard rock worship band. Those wild days are long gone — marriage and kids took their place. After that, I mostly made music at home for myself and my family. Three years ago, I bought a bass guitar, and for the past two years I’ve been playing in church once a month — either bass or sometimes guitar.

While searching for an app to organize my sheet music, I discovered JustChords. I liked it immediately, but I felt something was missing, so I tried other apps first. In the end, I came back to JustChords. When I saw the Discord link in the menu and the invitation to contribute ideas, I joined right away. That’s how I ended up here — and I quickly got involved in the app’s development.

Since then, I’ve been putting a lot of my free time into JustChords, just like Marek. In fact, my message history with Marek is the longest one on my iPhone! I speak German, and I only learned English in school — but I wasn’t very diligent there either. To communicate with Marek, the Apple translator has become my best buddy. At least I’m improving my English along the way!

I’m excited to continue improving the app with you all and can’t wait to hear your ideas!

Email: timo@justchords.app

Ben

Dear all, I did not yet say “Hello” to everyone. I am 40 years old, live in the south of Germany and, while searching for a great app that can handle chord charts (transpose on the fly) and does not bug you with subscriptions, I was greatly encouraged to take a look into JustChords — and I love it. It not only has great potential, but also dedicated developers and a community on Discord that make the whole tool wonderful.

Now back to me: I am working in cyber security and lead worship in church. I grew up in a Christian family and always felt especially drawn to worship in the musical realm. I remember the good old days with transparencies projected on the wall and one person leading worship with a guitar. My wife teaches in church — I am very proud of her (“he who findeth a wife…”).

I play keys and combine this with a handful of tools — currently Multitracks’ Playback app, Sunday Sounds for stunning keyboard sounds, and JustChords for stage display, as well as SongBeamer for the congregation. I have looked into ProPresenter, but this is very costly if you “only” want to display lyrics (plus chords). FreeShow seems to be becoming a budget-friendly ProPresenter alternative.

With JustChords I am trying to make life easier for the musicians and maybe (once MIDI integration for setlists/songs/sections is available) for the congregation as well. So far I see huge dedication behind this project and I am glad I came across this solution, which truly is a solution and not just another application that can handle charts.

Email: ben@justchords.app