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Set List Creator vs Setlistly

Setlistly is the closest thing to a direct competitor, and it is a genuinely capable product. It is also aiming at a different job. Setlistly wants to run your whole band operation — shows, venues, earnings, a CRM. Set List Creator does one thing: build a setlist that paces your singer and reads the room. That difference explains almost every row below, including the ones Setlistly wins.

Setlistly pricing, as published

Free plan (unlimited songs, up to 3 band members, 5 shows). Pro US$25/month or US$250/year, per band.

Set List Creator

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

Setlistly'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
Setlistly
Set List Creator
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: roughly even
Remix Set reorders a set by energy
12 presets or a custom curve, shown as a live energy graph
Auto-generate a set — advantage: roughly even
Build For Me generates setlists
Generates against pacing and freshness, then you fine-tune
Harmonic key mixing — advantage: Set List Creator
Not listed among its features
Camelot-wheel key matching for smooth transitions
Keep sets fresh — advantage: roughly even
Song analytics flag overplayed and underused tracks
Freshness weighting is built into generation, not just reported
Free tier — advantage: the other one
Yes — unlimited songs, 3 members, 5 shows, free indefinitely
No free tier. 30-day trial, no card required
Price for a whole band — advantage: Set List Creator
US$25/month or US$250/year
NZ$7.95/month (about US$4.75). Band members included
Live on-stage view — advantage: the other one
Gig Mode — full-screen stage view for dark venues
No stage view. PDF export and an emailed gig pack
Crowd voting — advantage: the other one
Yes
No
Venue history, Band CRM, earnings — advantage: the other one
Yes — venue intelligence, CRM and earnings reporting on Pro
No. Set times, venue map and dress code only
Real-time sync across the band — advantage: the other one
Yes, live sync across devices
Read-only member logins and an emailed gig pack

When Setlistly is the better buy

If you want one system to run the whole band — booking history, venue notes, who owes what, a stage view in a dark room, and the crowd voting on the encore — Setlistly does all of that and Set List Creator does none of it. Their free tier is also genuinely free, not a trial, so a band playing five shows a year can simply use it and never pay. Take Setlistly if the job is running a band. Take Set List Creator if the job is building the set.

Setlistly wins 5 of the 11 rows above. We would rather you knew that than found out after paying us.

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