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Someone uploads a demo and drops the link in the band chat. Everyone records their part at home with headphones, on a phone or a computer. CollaBand lines the recordings up precisely and turns them into a video for TikTok, Reels, Shorts or YouTube.

No. CollaBand runs in the browser: Safari on iPhone and iPad, Chrome on Android, Chrome, Edge or Safari on a computer. Add the page to your home screen and it opens like an app.

Nothing. You just need an account with a passkey, so Face ID, fingerprint or your device PIN. No password, no email required.

Without headphones the microphone picks up the demo from the speaker, and you hear it twice in the mix. Wired headphones are best.

Only in a pinch. Bluetooth adds a lot of delay, and as soon as the phone uses the Bluetooth mic, the recording sounds like a phone call. CollaBand detects this and warns you. Wired headphones (USB-C or Lightning too) are much better.

Yes, and it sounds best. Plug the mic or interface in via USB-C or Lightning before you start the camera. In the step with the level meter you see which mic is recording and can pick another. Set the gain on your interface so the meter doesn’t turn red on the loudest part. CollaBand records without noise suppression or automatic volume, so your sound stays as it is.

Every device has a small delay between what you hear and what gets recorded. Hold one earpiece to the microphone and tap Start: CollaBand measures the delay in three seconds and corrects it in every take. If you switch microphones, check again.

Yes. If the demo has a tempo, you can turn on “Click while recording”. Every take starts with a four-beat count-in.

Choose “Just a part” and mark the section on the waveform. You only record that section and appear in the video exactly then. A solo automatically gets the big stage.

Just record again. CollaBand asks whether to replace your previous take. The old one is only deleted once the new one is safely uploaded.

After recording, the “Timing” slider moves the take by up to 120 milliseconds, and you can listen before you upload.

In the song, tap “Invite the band” and drop the link in your chat. Whoever opens it sees which parts are missing and can record right after signing in.

As many as you are. There’s no fixed size: new instruments, solos or guest parts can join at any time.

Whoever started the song can create a new invite link, and the old one stops working. Someone already in the band can be removed via “Show the band”, together with their takes if you like.

At the bottom of the song, “Leave band”. Your takes stay in the song unless you delete them first.

9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, 4:5 and 1:1 for the feed, 16:9 for YouTube. Plus three cuts: grid, join-in (whoever plays appears) and auto-cut (the cut follows the beat).

On a phone, “Share” opens the share menu, where you pick the app. On a computer the video is downloaded and you upload it in the app or on the website.

Whoever started the song can create a page for a finished video, like collaband.com/v/… The link shows a preview in WhatsApp, Instagram and elsewhere, and anyone who opens it sees the video right away, no account needed.

Everyone who plays in the video can take it offline at any time: in the song under “Public videos” or in your account. The page and the video are gone immediately.

Covers need a licence from collecting societies (SUISA, GEMA and others). YouTube, TikTok and Instagram have those deals, CollaBand doesn’t yet. Export your cover and post it there; that way the songwriters get paid too. Your own songs, public-domain works (e.g. folk songs) and licensed works (e.g. Creative Commons) can be published.

Everyone who plays, automatically with their instrument. When publishing you say who wrote the music and lyrics and can add more credits: production, mixing, video, arrangement. People with a CollaBand account get a profile page with everything they played on or wrote.

“Explore” shows all public videos, newest first or most popular, filtered by genre. If you choose “link only” when publishing, only people with the link see it.

A heart works without an account, once per device. Commenting and reporting need an account. You can pin a comment to a moment in the song; tapping it jumps there. The band can hide comments on its videos.

Reports never remove anything automatically. A person decides, supported by an automatic check. If a video is hidden, you see the reason and can appeal once. Many reports in a short time from new accounts count little, so nobody can get rid of a band with fake reports.

Under “Account” you build playlists from any videos and turn your band’s videos into an album, EP or single, with order and description. Every collection has its own page that plays all songs in a row.

30 days, then the demo and takes are deleted automatically. You keep the finished video on your device. Published videos stay online until you take them offline.

Passkeys are usually synced via iCloud or Google, so you simply sign in. Otherwise, the recovery key you got when signing up helps.

At the very bottom of “Account”. This deletes your songs with all takes, your takes in other songs and the public videos you play in.