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Set List Creator vs BandHelper

BandHelper has been going since 2012 and it is deep — it will fire MIDI patches, run backing tracks and trigger lighting cues song by song. That is a serious piece of engineering and Set List Creator does not go near it. What BandHelper does not claim is the thing Set List Creator is built around: pacing the person singing. If your show is automated, BandHelper. If your show is four humans and a tired vocalist, read on.

BandHelper pricing, as published

Subscription tiers; see their pricing page for current rates.

Set List Creator

NZ$7.95/month (about US$4.75). Band members included at no extra cost. 30-day free trial, no card.

BandHelper's details checked on 2026-07-15 against their own site. Prices change and ours is in New Zealand dollars — check theirs before deciding. Where a row says “not listed among its features”, that means exactly that: it is absent from their published feature list, not that we tested it and it failed.

Capability
BandHelper
Set List Creator
Trigger MIDI patches per song — advantage: the other one
Yes
No
Run backing tracks — advantage: the other one
Yes
No
Trigger lighting cues — advantage: the other one
Yes
No
Lyrics and chords with auto-scroll — advantage: the other one
Yes
No. Charts attach to songs and export in the gig pack
Stage plots and contracts — advantage: the other one
Yes, plus multi-act bill scheduling
No. Set times, venue map and dress code only
Pace the vocalist — advantage: Set List Creator
Not listed among its features
Never stacks more than two demanding vocal numbers in a row
Shape an energy curve — advantage: Set List Creator
Not listed among its features
12 presets or a custom curve, shown as a live energy graph
Auto-generate a set — advantage: Set List Creator
Not listed among its features
Generates against pacing and freshness in seconds
Harmonic key mixing — advantage: Set List Creator
Not listed among its features
Camelot-wheel key matching for smooth transitions
Learning curve — advantage: Set List Creator
Deep feature set, correspondingly more to configure
One job. Songs in, paced set out

When BandHelper is the better buy

If your show has automation in it — patches changing per song, tracks running, lights following the set — BandHelper is in a different league and Set List Creator simply does not compete. It also handles the business end: stage plots, contracts, multi-act bills. It has had well over a decade to get deep. Set List Creator is the opposite bet: one job, done carefully, with the singer's night as the thing it optimises for.

BandHelper wins 5 of the 10 rows above. We would rather you knew that than found out after paying us.

Read: setlist pacing and vocal health

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