Tipelodeon v2

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.

9:41AUDIENCE

Search 312 songs

Piano Man$5+

Tiny DancerRequest

Fast Car$5+

Free Bird$1,000

Wagon Wheelplayed

No app. No account.

Their phone

The performer's iPad: requests and tips settings

Your iPad · tap for the full slide

For your audience

Scan a QR code. Browse your songs. Pick a request. Add a tip. Done.

For you

See requests as they come in. Bigger tips float to the top. Pull up your charts. Play what works for the room.

See what Grayson made in tips last week.

Grayson uses Tipelodeon at his own gigs. We share the proof with y'all every Monday.

$[X] in requests

[N] songs requested

[N] gigs played

Watch the latest Monday Earnings Breakdown

Video thumbnail, loads and plays on click: latest Monday Earnings Breakdown

Inside the app

Here's what it looks like.

Let the room say thanksRequests and tips

A venmo link doesn't tell them what you can play.

People want to hear what they know, what they're in the mood for. A payment link can collect a tip. Tipelodeon gives people a reason to tip: they browse what you actually play, find the song they want, request it, and pay from their phone.

An engaged audience pays more.

Easy for the audience.

No app to install. No account to make. Just scan the QR code.

Wicked fast, even on a slow connection
Smart search by title, artist(s), and writers, with filters by decade, genre, and mood
Suggested request amounts
Send message with requests
Pay however they already pay: 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

Sample quote. Wanted here: quote from an audience member.

Run your gig from any device.

Request queue, prioritized: bigger tips first
Charts autoscrolling, in your key
Your queue is yours. The audience never sees it.

You always choose what you play.

Someone requesting Free Bird does not mean you have to play Free Bird. You pick what you play, when, and whether it fits the room.

Every request is a suggestion and you decide what you play.What the audience page tells every fan

"Queue on the iPad, charts in my key, pedal turns the page. I stopped carrying a binder."
Danny V. · solo acoustic, Nashville

Sample quote. Wanted here: user quote about gigging features.

Keep 100% of your tips.

Yep. All of them.

You pay nothing, it's absolutely free. No subscription, no monthly fee, no "free for 14 days and then surprise."
The audience pays a small platform fee with each request. It covers the credit card fees and we keep what's leftover.
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.

Get Tipelodeon, free

"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

Sample quote. Wanted here: user quote about earning.

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, then 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.

Get Tipelodeon, free

"Dropped 180 PDFs in, went to lunch, came back to a repertoire with keys and tempos filled in."
Cole B. · duo, Denver

Sample quote. Wanted here: user quote about set up.

But wait, there's more...

You came for more tips.
You'll probably stay for the gig tools.

Everything Grayson needed to make his own gigs easier, free, no premium tier.

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 charts

Setlists 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 setlist

Projects for bands and duos

One repertoire, one setlist, one queue, shared with everyone on stage. Switch projects when you switch acts.

Share with your bandmates

Gig 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 stats

Trends

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 trends

Works 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

Invisible intelligence

Request cool down with minimum tip override that you set, so one enthusiastic human can't hijack your whole night
Learn which songs earn most

Tuned for bigger tips

The platform fee is not a percent. It starts at $2 and steps up in brackets, with break points hand tuned to encourage bigger tips.
Gamified with free request bonuses: every third paid request earns the fan a free one, so they stay in the game all night. (You can turn this off, but we wouldn't.)

See every feature

"The setlist builder took 'patio, sunset, mostly 90s' and handed me a full hour. It was right."
Jess T. · guitar and vocals, Boise

Sample quote. Wanted here: user quote about utilities.

Built on stage, not in a conference room.

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)

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...)

PHOTOPerformer

PHOTOProgrammer

PHOTOChicken Farmer