Earn more in tips by playing more requests.
Tipelodeon makes it easy for your audience to see the songs you can play, request one mid-song, and pay from their phone in two taps.
Built by a gigging musician. Used at real gigs every night of the week.
If you're playing for tips,
you might as well be good at it.
People want to hear what they know, what they're in the mood for, and a venmo link doesn't tell them what you can play.
Their phone
Your iPad · tap for the full slide
Inside the app
Here's what it looks like.
An engaged audience pays more.
We share the proof with y'all every Monday.
Conceived and Coded by a gigging musician.
Grayson Erhard.
Performer. Programmer. Chicken Farmer.
I feel you, this shit is hard.
We didn't choose to be musicians for the money.
Hell, we didn't choose to be musicians.
But we still need the money.
I'm tired of being broke.
I hate everyone sticking their cigar-stenched fingers into my pockets and acting entitled doing it.
I play, I work, and I want to do and be better.
Read the whole sob story (bring a drink)
Easy for the audience:
- No app, just scan QR code
- Wicked fast, even on a slow connection
- Smart search by title, artist(s), and writers
- Suggested request amounts
- Send message with requests
- Apple pay, Google pay, Amazon pay, Link, PayPal, Stripe, Venmo, Zelle, Cash App, and sure put out a hat for coins.
"I asked for Wagon Wheel from my seat and he played it two songs later. Never had to dig for a dollar."
Kate R. · audience member, Fort Collins
Run your gig from any device:
- Request queue, prioritized
- Charts autoscrolling, in your key
- You always choose what you play
"Queue on the iPad, charts in my key, pedal turns the page. I stopped carrying a binder."
Danny V. · solo acoustic, Nashville
Keep 100% of your tips.
- We pay the credit card fees.
- The audience pays a small platform fee.
- We keep what's leftover.
- You pay nothing, it's absolutely free.
- We get paid by the audience, same as you do
Tips clear in 2 business days and deposit on your schedule.
Need it now?
Cash out in about 30 minutes for a 1% fee paid directly to Stripe.
"First Friday with it I made $240 more in requests than the Friday before. Same bar, same three hours."
Marisol P. · piano and vocals, Austin
Fast set up - try it tonight.
The hardest part is making a list of every song you can play.
- Upload your song list with charts and lyrics.
- Set your minimum tip, globally and tweak per song
(Free Bird $1,000) - Claim your short URL (tipelodeon.com/your-name)
- Print QR code signs, cards, table tents - templates provided.
- Drum up requests between songs
- Earn more tips
- Buy better food.
"Dropped 180 PDFs in, went to lunch, came back to a repertoire with keys and tempos filled in."
Cole B. · duo, Denver
But wait, there's more...
Stacked with musician utilities:
For every gigging musician who plays for tips: guitar, keyboard, vocal, fiddle, saxophone, marimba, harmonica, nose flute, one man band contraptions. (but drummers? not so much. It's really a cymbal of a greater problem...)
Charts on steroids
Drop in a PDF, a photo, or a ChordPro sheet. Transpose on the spot, show chords or numbers, scroll hands-free with a Bluetooth pedal, mark it up with ink.
Upload your chartsSetlists that build themselves
Describe the gig, paste the show notes or snap a photo of last night's set, and the AI builds it for you. Share any setlist as a read-only link.
Build a setlistProjects for bands and duos
One repertoire, one setlist, one queue, shared with everyone on stage. Switch projects when you switch acts.
Share with your bandmatesGig history and stats
Every gig logged: earnings, songs played, audience behavior, your notes, an AI recap, and more detailed metrics than you'll ever need.
Dig into your statsTrends
What audiences across Tipelodeon are requesting and tipping on this week. Add a song to your repertoire or a setlist in one tap.
Browse the trendsWorks offline, syncs when it can
Bad bar wifi is not your problem. Charts and setlists are cached on the device and changes sync across your devices later.
Play without wifi"The setlist builder took 'patio, sunset, mostly 90s' and handed me a full hour. It was right."
Jess T. · guitar and vocals, Boise
Invisible Intelligence:
- Request cool down with minimum tip override that you set
- Set your minimum tip, globally and per song
- Learn which songs earn most
Engagement & conversion optimized:
- Platform Fee is not a percent. It starts at $2 and steps up in brackets as the tip grows, with break points hand tuned that encourage bigger tips.
- Gamified with free request bonuses: every third paid request earns the fan a free one. (You can turn this off, but we wouldn't.)
"Somebody tried to request Wonderwall four times in a row. The cooldown said no. I said thank you."
Ray O. · fiddle, Knoxville
What's up with Tipelodeon?
Grayson's Monday Earning Breakdown
What last week's gigs paid, every Monday
Watch the latestFeature walk thrus
One feature, five minutes
Watch the latestNew Feature Roadmap Roundtable
What's being built next, and why
Watch the latestPerformer Experiences
Musicians on what changed at their gigs
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Nina K. · keys, Tucson
What more do you need to know?
“I never play a gig without it”
Elvis Presley
Okay, you nerd.
You want to read absolutely everything? Here's the release notes since version 0.1.0. Knock yourself out:
- v0.226sample
- Imports: photos of charts are wrapped into one PDF and identified by the song, not the filename
- Queue strip: free-song reward tickets show their own count
- Fix: auto-scroll speed was not saved per sheet on iPad
- v0.225sample
- Trends: songs audiences across Tipelodeon are requesting this week, one tap to add
- Audience page: Spanish follows the link or the browser language
- Fix: cooldown chip stayed on after a song was marked played twice
- v0.224sample
- Setlists: build a set from pasted show notes or a photo of last night's list
- Payouts: instant cash-out shows the exact fee before you confirm
- Fix: 1,000-song repertoires load without the scroll stutter
- v0.223sample
- Charts: Nashville numbers beside or instead of letter chords
- Pedals: single-button pedals learn tap, double-tap and long-press
- Fix: dark charts kept light ink colours after a theme switch
- v0.222sample
- Gig history: an AI recap of each show, with suggestions on settings and audience behaviour
- Session PDF export: summary, timeline, funnel, payments, genres
- Fix: venue auto-detect picked the bar next door at two Denver venues
- v0.221sample
- Audience page: link previews with the performer's photo when shared in a text
- Embed widget: your song list on your own site, light or dark
- Fix: the free-request meter reset when a fan reopened the page
- v0.220sample
- Repertoire: song versions, so one song can keep two arrangements
- Bulk edit: select with drag, then tag, edit fields or copy to another project
- Fix: duplicate detection missed titles that differed only by 'The'
- v0.219sample
- Annotations: pen, highlighter, shapes with snap, stamps and text, synced to the band
- Fix: annotations on a rotated PDF landed on the wrong page
- v0.218sample
- Scheduling: plan gigs ahead with automatic start and end; a public Gigs page and calendar feed
- Cash tips: a reminder after any show logged with no cash total
- Fix: a show that auto-ended while the phone was locked now sends an alert
- v0.217sample
- Tip Jar: tip without a request, with its own amounts
- Request an original when the performer allows it
- Fix: Apple Pay sheet failed to open on older iPhones
- v0.216sample
- Practice: reference audio per song with waveform, A-B loop and speed control, on the performer's device only
- Guitar tuning editor with a catalog of alternate tunings
- Fix: auto-scroll kept going after the last line of a ChordPro sheet
- v0.215sample
- Desktop: Mac, Windows, and Linux builds that update themselves
- Keyboard command palette on desktop
- Fix: the queue strip hid behind the chart on short screens
Wow, you made it all the way to bottom?
I guess we'll give you the app for free then.