Know where every song stands — without the whiteboard, the spreadsheet, or the forty-tab Notion page.
SessionFlow is music project management built for how songs actually get made: every track on one board, moving from Idea to Recording to Mix to Master to Complete, with the audio, the checklist, and the notes on the card.
No account. macOS 14+.
"As an independent artist juggling writing, recording, and mixing across multiple songs, time gets away fast. SessionFlow makes it effortless to … track progress across different takes, and stay on schedule. It feels clean, responsive, and native to Mac."
— Amsundst87 · Mac App Store review
"Having BPM, song key, tracked parts, and stage checklists right on each song card is brilliant, but the built-in transport with waveform playback and timestamped notes is what makes it indispensable in the control room. … Native Mac feel, no subscription nonsense, and seamless iCloud sync."
— Hyffgu · Mac App Store review
You're not disorganized. Your tools weren't built for songs.
Trello doesn't know what a chorus is. A spreadsheet can't play the rough mix. Notion will happily become a second job. And the whiteboard on the wall — the one that's tracked your songs for years — can't tell you which take had the good second verse, or what the label actually said about the bridge, or where "fix the vocal" was pointing in the song.
So the real state of every record lives in six places: the DAW, the phone, a text thread, an email, a sticky note, and your memory. Which is why the question "what's left on this one?" takes twenty minutes to answer and never gets asked.
See the whole record at a glance, and what's left on each track.
Each song is a card that carries its BPM, key, due date, parts, and checklist progress, sitting in whichever stage it's actually in. Drag it forward when the stage is done. Look at the board and the album's status is simply visible — no scrolling a spreadsheet, no opening ten sessions to remember where you were.
Hear the latest bounce without opening the session.
Drop a WAV, MP3, or AIFF on any track and it gets a real waveform — click to play, click to seek. Record a voice-memo idea straight from the mic. The version you'd want to check is one click away, which means you actually check it, on the couch, before deciding what the next session is for.
"The vocal's buried at 2:14" — and the transport goes to 2:14.
Feedback is pinned to a timestamp, carries the author, and can attach a reference file. Click the note and the audio seeks there. Stage checklists sit next to the notes, so "what's left before mixing?" is a list, not a memory — and when every note is closed and every box is checked, the song moves on.
A board per band. An album that shows its own progress.
Sessions give each project, band, or client its own color and its own board. Albums group the songs and show a live progress bar as tracks reach Complete. When someone asks how the record is coming, one click copies a plain-text status summary you can paste into the reply. That's the whole update.
Three minutes to a board. No setup, no account.
Add your songs
One card per track, with a name, a tempo, a key, and the stage it's in right now. Drag in the latest bounce if you have one. Ten songs takes about as long as reading this section.
Work the stage
Every session, open the card: read the notes, play the bounce, work the checklist. Rename, recolor, or add stages so the board matches how you actually make records — the five defaults are a starting point, not a rule.
Move it forward
When the boxes are checked and the notes are closed, drag the card to the next stage. Watch the album's progress bar move. That's the feeling the whiteboard was trying to give you.
Music project management for musicians first. Engineers noticed anyway.
Finish the songs you've started.
- See all twenty half-finished tracks in one place, sorted by how close they are to done.
- Keep the demo, the voice memo, and the rough mix on the song, not scattered across a phone and three folders.
- Write yourself the note that saves next session: "chorus needs a real vocal melody — 1:02."
- Watch the album fill in. Progress you can see is progress you keep making.
Every client, every revision, one board.
- A session per client or band, with its own color, so the control room has one screen for the whole roster.
- Pin client feedback to exact seconds of the bounce — no more decoding "the part after the thing."
- Stage checklists for tracking, mix, and master handoffs, so nothing ships with a step skipped.
- One-click plain-text status for the update email. Sent in thirty seconds, not thirty minutes.
What you're probably using now, and where it breaks.
These are all good tools, and all of them get pressed into music project management for producers and artists who'd rather be making music. None of them know what a song is.
| Whiteboard | Spreadsheet | Trello / Notion | Notes app | SessionFlow | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plays the rough mix | No | No | Attach a file, open elsewhere | No | Waveform on the card, click to play and seek |
| Feedback tied to a timestamp | No | A cell that says "2:14" | A comment that says "2:14" | A line that says "2:14" | Click the note, transport seeks to 2:14 |
| Knows BPM, key, parts, stage | If you write them | Columns you build and maintain | Properties you build and maintain | No | Built in, on every card |
| Per-band / per-client boards | One wall | Tabs | Yes, generic | Folders | Sessions with colors; albums with progress |
| Client status update | Photo of the wall | Copy cells, reformat | Export, reformat | Copy, tidy | One click, plain text, paste |
| Works offline, no account | Yes | Depends | Account required | Yes | Yes — private iCloud sync, no account |
| Cost | Markers | Free-ish | Free tier, then monthly | Free | $9.99, once |
| Becomes a second job | No | Eventually | Reliably | No | No — it only knows songs |
No subscription. Ever.
One purchase on the Mac App Store, every feature and every future update included. The price is on this page because it's the whole price.
No accounts. No tracking.
Your library lives on your Mac and syncs through your own private iCloud database. There's no server to sign in to, because there isn't a server.
Feels like it came with the machine.
macOS 14 or later. Drag-and-drop, keyboard shortcuts, undo for everything, confirmation before anything destructive, full backup export and import.
Questions people ask first.
Is SessionFlow a subscription?
No. It's a one-time $9.99 purchase on the Mac App Store. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no account. Every feature and every future update is included.
Does it work on iPhone, iPad, or Windows?
SessionFlow is a native Mac app for macOS 14 or later, and syncs between your own Macs through your private iCloud database. There's no iPhone, iPad, or Windows version.
How is this different from Trello, Notion, or a spreadsheet?
Those track tasks. SessionFlow is music project management for songs: each card carries BPM, key, parts, a stage checklist, a playable waveform of the latest bounce, and feedback pinned to exact seconds of the audio. A generic board can't play your rough mix or seek to 2:14 when someone says the vocal's buried.
Where is my data stored?
On your Mac and in your own private iCloud database. No accounts, no servers, no analytics, no data collection — the App Store privacy label is "Data Not Collected." Full backup export and import are built in.
What if it isn't for me?
Refunds go through Apple's standard App Store process at reportaproblem.apple.com. Questions before or after: support@session-flow.app.
Where is every song right now?
If the answer takes more than a glance, that's the whole product. $9.99 once, no subscription, no account, on your Mac in about a minute.
Get SessionFlow on the Mac App StoreNot sure yet? Start with the free guides: how to finish songs and the music production workflow the app is built on.