The JustChords team

JustChords is developed by a small volunteer team of musicians and tech enthusiasts who combine their love for worship and music with software development.

Marek – Founder & piano‑playing dreamer

Marek is 41 years old, from Slovakia, married with three children and one dog. After turning 40, he finally fulfilled his teenage dream of playing in a band, joining a worship choir where all his children sing and beginning to play the piano. When he could not find a good chord & lyrics app without a subscription, he started building JustChords in July 2022 with zero prior mobile development experience.

He soon teamed up with Timo to “serve the Lord” together by helping musicians. Since then, Marek works on JustChords daily, focusing on features, stability and serving the growing community — even though he and Timo have never met in person and do not share a common spoken language.

Email: marek@justchords.app

Timo – Designer, bassist & stay‑at‑home dad

Timo is 41 years old, from Germany, married to a music and biology teacher and father of four children (two boys and two girls). He started with classical guitar at age 5, later shifted to chords to play in church, youth groups and camps, and spent his late teens in a punk/hard rock worship band. Today, he mainly plays bass and guitar in church about once a month and looks after his kids as a full‑time stay‑at‑home dad.

While searching for a way to organize his sheet music, he discovered JustChords. After trying other apps, he came back, joined the Discord server and quickly became deeply involved in design and UX. Timo now invests much of his free time into refining JustChords’ look and feel, collaborating with Marek via translators and long message threads on his iPhone.

Email: timo@justchords.app

Ben – Worship leader, keys player & power user

Ben is 40 years old and lives in the south of Germany. He works in cyber security and leads worship in his church. Having grown up in a Christian family, he experienced the “overhead projector and transparencies” era and has always felt a strong connection to musical worship. Today he plays keys, combining JustChords with tools like Multitracks Playback and Sunday Sounds to support modern worship setups.

In the past, Ben used SongBeamer to project lyrics for the congregation. Since JustChords introduced StageView and LyricsView, he has fully switched to JustChords for both stage and congregation displays and no longer uses SongBeamer. In his search for a chord chart app that can transpose on the fly without subscriptions, he discovered JustChords and quickly fell in love with its potential and community. Ben actively contributes ideas and feedback, helping shape JustChords as a practical stage and worship tool that aims to make life easier for both musicians and congregations.

Email: ben@justchords.app