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What syncMNFST does well, from its own website; what that site does not mention; and what Event Band Manager does instead: for bands where the fee is split between the players. Checked against syncMNFST’s website on 16 October 2026.
What syncMNFST does well
A setlist and sheet-music app for live bands: the bandleader plans the gig in a web app, the musicians follow on iPads on stage, and a song change on the leader’s iPad puts each player’s own chart on every screen, offline.
- A setlist that changes on every iPad on stage when the bandleader changes it, with no venue wifi
- A chart per role: each player sees their own part for the same song
- Gigs with date, venue, times, line-up and who cannot make it; a month view
- The gig day on an iPhone: arrival time, the address to your maps app, the contacts on site
- Role codes instead of accounts; a substitute types the role’s code
- Documents per gig, fee and costs per gig, two-way Google Calendar sync (Pro)
What it does that Event Band Manager does not
- Live setlist sync across the band’s iPads on stage, peer to peer, offline
- Sheet music per role, with annotations and a metronome on Pro
- Native iPad and iPhone apps
- Two-way Google Calendar sync on Pro
- A yearly price (ten months for twelve) and a 14-day trial
Price, as published on 16 October 2026: Basic €6.99 a month or €69 a year (5 roles, 2 iPads per role); Pro €14.99 a month or €139 a year (15 roles, 4 iPads per role, annotations, a metronome, Google Calendar, documents and money per gig); per band; 14-day free trial, no card. A web app for planning; iPad and iPhone apps in the App Store (iPadOS 17 or newer); Android listed as coming soon, with a waitlist.
What its site does not mention
Five things matter most to the people who play in a function band: their travel, their share, deps, expenses, and not paying to take part. Here is what we could not find on syncMNFST’s website. Not mentioned is not the same as not there. If one of these matters to you, ask them.
- Each player’s travel from their own postcode, taken off the top (what its site does say: fee and costs kept in one place per gig (Pro)).
- An equal split to the penny, with a statement for each member (what its site does say: fee and costs in one place per gig (Pro); no split described).
- Deps: travel from where the dep lives, and the member settles with the dep (what its site does say: A substitute types the role’s code and sees the gig and the charts).
- Expenses filed against a gig (what its site does say: fee and costs per gig (Pro)).
What Event Band Manager does instead
Travel comes off the top, per player. Each person’s round-trip driving distance is worked out from their own postcode to the venue, at the mileage rate the band sets, and paid back to them before anything is divided. On Band Pro the journey builder counts stops, when somebody picks two others up.
What is left splits equally, to the penny. The odd pennies are handed out rather than rounded away, and at the end of the month each person gets a statement of their own (every gig, the share, the travel back and the expenses) as a page and a PDF. A correction supersedes the old version instead of quietly rewriting it.
Deps are people, with their own journey. When a dep covers, the travel is worked out from where the dep lives, the band pays its own member, and the member settles with the dep. Who owes whom is on the statement, not in somebody’s memory.
Expenses ride with the gig. Photograph the receipt on the night and file it against the gig; whoever looks after the band’s money approves it, and it lands on the right statement.
Members are free. Every member and every dep has an account of their own at no cost, with one diary for every band they play in.
What it costs: Free for every member and dep, and for a band running itself. Band Pro £12 a month per band; Band Pro + Bookings £15 a month per band; Manager £20 a month per band you manage (£17 from the third), Band Pro + Bookings included.
Who should stay with syncMNFST
If what your band needs is the right chart on every iPad the moment the leader calls the next song, and the money is one fee the leader sorts out afterwards, syncMNFST is built for the stage.
To put it plainly: a band that wants setlists, charts or rehearsal tools first, and whose money is simple, may be better where it is. Event Band Manager is for the band where the arithmetic is the argument: different drives, deps most weekends, and a statement each member can check.
How to move
Create an account and the band, and add the people in it with their postcodes. Put your next gig in with its fee and venue, and the split and everybody’s travel are worked out straight away. If your gigs already live in a shared sheet (the one your agency keeps, for example) Band Pro connects it and brings the gigs in, synced daily, with a conflict shown rather than a silent overwrite.
Then invite the band. Members join free, by a link, and see their own gigs, travel and statement from the first gig. Want to see the arithmetic before any of that? The pay split calculator does the same sum with no account.
Questions
Is Event Band Manager connected to syncMNFST?
No. Event Band Manager is a separate product and is not affiliated with syncMNFST. This page is our own comparison, made from syncMNFST’s website as it read on 16 October 2026.
Is Event Band Manager free?
Every member and every dep uses it free, and a band running itself can stay on Free for good: the pay split, travel, expenses, statements and deps are all in it. Band Pro is £12 a month per band, Band Pro + Bookings £15 and Manager £20 a month per band you manage; a new band starts on Free, with no card to start.
Is there an iPhone app?
Not in the App Store. Event Band Manager installs as an app on an iPhone or an Android phone straight from the browser, opens full screen, and keeps your gig list for a venue with no signal. A Google Play listing is on its way.
Put your next gig in and see the split
Members are free, and a band can stay on Free for as long as it likes. A plan is per band and month to month.
syncMNFST is a trademark of its owner; this page is Event Band Manager’s own comparison, checked on 16 October 2026.