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Welcome to WritingRoom
WritingRoom is where songwriters draft, collaborate, sign splits, and share finished songs. Start with the welcome tour (about a minute), set up your profile, then write alone or join a camp. Every song you create lives in your Library.
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Claiming your writer profile
Open your account menu, choose View public profile, then Claim profile. Fill in your bio, tagline, genres, and PRO/IPI. Your custom handle becomes your public URL at writingroom.io/writer/your-handle.
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Uploading a profile photo and choosing a frame
Your profile photo shows up next to your name everywhere on WritingRoom, the dashboard, the directory, your public profile, and inside any camp you join. Open Settings, then Profile and click the photo. Pick a square image at least 400×400 pixels; bigger is fine, WritingRoom will scale it down. The first photo you upload gets a quick automated safety check before it goes live. After that, swaps are instant. A few practical notes:
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Setting up your custom URL
Studio tier and up can claim a custom address in Settings, under Profile. Pick 3 to 24 lowercase letters, numbers, or hyphens. It is checked for availability when you submit it.
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Adding a cover banner
The wide image across the top of your public profile is the cover banner. It's the first thing visitors see, and Studio-tier writers can set their own. Open Settings, then Profile. The first card after Pinned featured song is Cover banner. Click the upload area or drag an image onto it. Recommended size: 2400 × 800 px, JPEG or PNG, under 4MB. Smaller will look fine on most devices but pixelate on high-DPI displays.
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Filling out your bio, skills, and genres
These three fields are how other writers decide whether to reach out to you for a co-write. Spend ten minutes on them. They earn their keep. A natural paragraph. The visitor wants to know who you are and what kind of writer you'd be in a room. Tell them. What works:
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Adding your PRO and IPI for splits
In Settings, add your PRO (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, etc.) and IPI number. These appear automatically on every split sheet and credit export. Update once, they propagate to every song you are on.
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Connecting Google Calendar
Connecting a calendar is a Studio-tier feature and up. Once Google Calendar is connected, every camp you create or get invited to lands on your calendar automatically, with the date, time, attendees, and (if you have set one) the video call link. Open Settings, then Integrations. Click Connect on the Google Calendar card. Google's standard sign-in screen pops up. Pick the Google account you want to use for WritingRoom events, then grant calendar access. You will come back to the Integrations tab with a green Connected indicator and the email address you connected. That is it. On Free, this card is locked; upgrading to Studio unlocks it.
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Using Academy lessons
WritingRoom Academy lives at /academy. Six short, plain-English lessons on how songs work, in order, so you can start at the hook and work outward. A grid of lesson cards. Each card has: A graduation-cap icon.
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Using Sandbox Mode
Sandbox Mode is the safe room. Every change you make in it is fake and disappears when you exit. Try the wizard, sign a split, send a broadcast, build a camp: none of it leaves the browser, none of it touches your real songs or other writers. Sandbox Mode is available to Label-tier accounts and WritingRoom staff. It is not available on Free, Studio, or Publisher plans. If your account qualifies, choose the Sandbox option from the menu. The page reloads with the amber Sandbox banner across the top, the proof you are in the fake-data version.
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Putting WritingRoom on your phone or computer
On an iPhone: Safari Share button, then Add to Home Screen. On Android or a computer: Settings, then the Get the app section. No app store needed.
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Replaying the welcome tour
The welcome tour runs inside a song and takes about a minute. It starts on its own in your first song. To see it again, open Settings, then Account, find the Tours box, and press Welcome tour. It opens a practice song and runs there.
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Dashboard Overview
Your Dashboard is your home screen. When you are new it shows Start Writing, Join a write, the free Studio month card, Bring songs in, and Your invites. More appears as you use the app: your recent songs, your co-writers, your camps, and what changed since your last visit.
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Messages
Messages, at /messages, is every conversation you have on WritingRoom in one inbox: direct messages, group threads, and write chats. Click New conversation to start one, or open Waiting on you at the top of your Dashboard for anything that needs your reply.
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Writes
Writes, at /writes, is your calendar of booked time to write with somebody: what's coming up, what's on right now with a one-tap Join, and what's already happened. Times always show in your own timezone.
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Founding Writers
A Founding Writer is a hand-picked writer given a year of Studio for free, marked on the account so it never looks like a billing mistake. If you're one, a line under Your plan in Settings says so and shows when it ends. Nothing happens automatically at the end of the year, it's a date on the record, not a surprise.
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How do I join a write?
Put the room code or link your co-writer sent into the Join a write box on your home screen, right under Start Writing, and press Join. The Did somebody send you here? box is a different thing. It is only for a friend's invite code.
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What is a community?
A community is a group you write with, like a publisher's writers. The community adds you to its roster and you accept. Being on it gives you the community's member rate on Studio, and nothing else. How you write on each song is still your call.
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How do I switch WritingRoom to Spanish?
Open Settings, then the Appearance tab. Language is the first thing there. Choose Español or English and the app changes right away. The writing room and most signed-in screens work in Spanish. The welcome letters, the landing page, the Legal pages, Label plans, the group join and Find a time pages, and the Help articles are in English for now.
Songs
Bringing songs you already wrote
Go to your Songs page and click Bring your songs in. Paste a song straight in, or hand over the whole folder, Word documents, plain text, Markdown, rich text, PDFs, or a zipped folder of any of those. You see every title we read before anything is created. Songs land with your imported songs, which never use up one of the songs you're working on.
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Bring in songs from Google Drive
On the Bring your songs in page, click Pick from Google Drive, sign in to Google, and choose the songs and recordings you want. WritingRoom only sees the files you pick. They come in exactly like files you dropped on the page.
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Creating your first song
Press Start Writing on your Dashboard. Name the song first, then choose Just me, With co-writers, or Join a write. The song opens in its room and you can start typing right away. Everything saves on its own.
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Lyrics editor basics: sections, marks, references
The lyrics editor is the middle of every song. It thinks in sections, lines, marks, and references. Every song is a stack of sections: Verse 1, Pre-Chorus, Chorus 1, Verse 2, Bridge, Outro, and more. Under your cards, below Add a part of the song, press a button like + Verse or + Chorus to add one. To rename a section, click its name at the top of its card and type. The lines stay put. Inside a section, hit Return to add a line. Click the + chord placeholder before a line to add a chord. Chords sit above the line.
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Memos: recording and playback
Every section in the lyrics editor has a memo recorder. The whole point: catch melody ideas the moment they show up, attached to the lyric they belong to. Click the record control. WritingRoom asks once for microphone permission. Sing, hum, talk through the idea. Click the control again to stop. The memo saves automatically. Click play. If you don't like the take, delete it and record again.
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Chord notation
Click + chord above any lyric line to add a chord. Use standard notation: capital letter for the root (G, F#, Bb), m for minor (Am), numbers and modifiers after (Dsus4, G7). The chord locks to the syllable it sits above.
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Text view
Choose Text in the View row, next to Cards. The whole song becomes one page you can type through top to bottom. An all-caps line on its own, like CHORUS, becomes a section header.
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Chords, three ways
The chord pill above the lyrics lets you read every chord as Numbers, Roman numerals, or Letters. Numbers and Roman numerals are worked out from the song's key; if the song has no key, the editor tells you to set one. Letters are shown exactly as typed and never get changed.
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Finding rhymes while you write
Select a word (or just put your cursor on a line) and click Rhymes. WritingRoom looks up rhymes, near rhymes, and similar-sounding words from Datamuse, a free public dictionary of rhymes, and shows them in a popover. Click one to add it to the end of the line.
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The No Judgment Zone
The Zone is where rough ideas go before they become lyrics. Co-writers can see your Zone pad. For notes only you can read, use the Scratchpad: press the small Scratchpad button on your own pad.
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Riff: the lyric analyzer
Riff is the lyric analyzer that powers WritingRoom's Why does this song work? page at /analyze. You paste lyrics, and Riff breaks them down, section structure, rhyme scheme, syllable count, and the craft moves that make it land. Three honest use cases: Studying a song you love. Paste the lyric, see how the writer set up the verses, where the rhyme scheme tightens for the chorus, where the bridge breaks the pattern.
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Marking a song complete
A song stays in writing mode for as long as it needs to. When you're done, marking it complete is a quiet acknowledgment that the writing is over, not a publish or a release. In the song editor, the ✓ Mark song complete button changes the song's status right away, no confirmation dialog. Only the song's owner (the person who created it) sees this button; co-writers don't get it. When you click it:
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The completion ceremony
When you mark a song complete, WritingRoom shows a short overlay to acknowledge the moment. It fires automatically, you don't need to enable anything. A small card with a checkmark, your song's title in quotes, and one line of encouragement (it tells you this is your first completed song, or counts which one it is). There's a Download final PDF link and a Close button. The first time a song's status changes to Completed. Flipping the status back to Writing and marking it complete again will fire the overlay again.
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Song status options
Every song has a status. It's a single pill on the song editor's Status card, and it's also the column the Library list groups by. Five options, in roughly the order a song moves through them: Idea. A title, a hook, a melody fragment, a couple of lines. Not yet a song. New songs default here unless you start with substantial lyrics. Writing. Actively being worked on. The default once lyrics exist. Most songs sit here longest.
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Exporting your song
Open any song and press Export package. In the room it is a button; on the song page it is under More, as View Export. Pick a preset, or Custom to choose the split sheet, the lyric sheet and chords. It opens a print preview you can print or save as a PDF.
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Pinning a song with Spotify or Apple Music
A pinned song shows up at the top of your public profile as a playable embed. Open Settings, then Profile. The Pinned featured song card takes a URL from any of these sources: Spotify (a track URL, not an album URL)
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Song history and revisions
Every song keeps a version history. The History ↻ button in the editor opens a drawer of saved versions. WritingRoom saves a new version automatically at certain moments (like a section change or after a stretch of editing), and you can save one by hand any time with + Save a version (add an optional note). Click History ↻. A drawer slides in from the right with your versions grouped by day, most recent first. Click a version to expand a diff against the current song.
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Record demo
To see the whole song on one screen, choose Record demo from the view switcher at the top of the editor, beside Cards and Text. Press Escape or the × to return to where you were. Record a take right from this screen. It saves as a demo on the song, and you can listen back to it afterward on the song page or in Memos. For parts, harmonies, instruments and a mix, open Demo Studio. The chord pill is right there too, so you can switch how chords are shown while you play. Record demo is built for a bigger screen and doesn't show up on a phone. On a phone, open the song and tap the Memos tab instead. It records, and it holds your demos too. See Memos: recording and playback.
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Demo Studio
Demo Studio is where you build the demo without leaving the song. Record your voice, layer harmonies, play an instrument or make a backing track from your chords, then mix it and share it. Free holds two parts, Studio holds 16, Publisher and Label hold 32.
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Paste lyrics: quick import
If you've been writing a song in a notes app, Google Doc, or back-of-napkin, pasting it into WritingRoom is faster than retyping. It is offered while a song has no lyrics yet. In Cards view, a new empty song shows the Start in Rough ideas card (it says Start in the Zone once you rename the pad). Under it, press Or paste lyrics you already have.
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Your year in WritingRoom: the year-end Recap
The Recap lives at /recap. It is a scrolling set of cards that adds up a year of your own songs. Songs written. A total count of songs you started or collaborated on that year, with a plain sentence about it. Collaborators. How many different people you wrote with that year, as a number.
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Invite a co-writer to a song
Open the song. Writing alone on a laptop? Press Show share link in the strip above the lyrics. On a phone, open the Details tab and press Invite a co-writer. Already sharing? Press Invite next to the co-writer faces, then Share room to invite. You get a link, a code, and a QR code; send any one of them. There is no add-by-email on a song. New writers arrive at the door under the song's admission setting: open, knock, or invite only.
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Release Bundle
On the song page, press More, then Release bundle. You get one zip for that song: lyrics, writer and publisher splits, a one-page summary, and any demo audio, ready to hand to a label, distributor, or PRO. One song per zip; there is no way to bundle several songs at once.
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Cards view
Cards is the usual view when you open a song, one section per card. Press a button like + Verse or + Chorus under the cards to start a section. + add line adds a line inside a card, Edit as text opens a section as one text box, Record memo catches a melody idea, and Rhymes with... finds rhymes for the word you're stuck on.
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Imported songs
Imported songs are the songs you bring in from outside WritingRoom. Free keeps 15 of them. An imported song never uses one of your 5 song slots, and it's never watermarked, because WritingRoom didn't write it.
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Write That Down
Write That Down keeps the last few minutes of sound on your own device. When anyone in the room presses it, you catch the last minute or so, or up to five minutes. Every device that has it on sends its own take, and Memos shows one row that plays the best one.
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Pass a song
Open the Share tab on a finished song's page, click Pass this song, type an email, and click Pass it. They get it on their own Sent to you shelf with the cover and a play button, and can send back one reaction and one line. It's not co-writing, there's no edit access and nothing changes on the split sheet.
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Sharing a finished song: listen links
Open a finished song and set up a listen link to send anywhere. Free gets one live link at a time, open for 14 days. Studio adds as many live links as you want with no expiry, plus a password, a short address and QR code, a listener list, your own cover picture, tempo and key detection, and the tagged file for Send anywhere.
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Deleting or parking a song
In Library, click the trash icon on a song (or select several and click Delete) to move it to Trash, where it's permanently deleted after 30 days unless you restore it. Parking a song is different and not destructive: it sets the song aside so it stops counting toward your active-song limit, but you can still open and export it any time, and swap it back in whenever you like.
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Marks
Marks are the lines you want to remember. Highlight any line in the No Judgment Zone and mark it as a section type. It shows up in the Marks list next to your lyrics, where you can reorder it, remove it, or move it into the song as a real section.
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Will I lose my work if I have no signal?
No. WritingRoom writes what you type to your own phone the moment you type it, before it tries to send anything. With no signal the save chip says Saved on this phone, sending when you're back online, and it means exactly that. Memos, your key, tempo, time signature and genre, and your Zone pad are all held the same way and go up the moment you have a line again.
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How do I set the time signature and tap in the tempo?
Every song has a time signature now, pick it from 4/4, 3/4, 6/8, 12/8 and the rest, or say it has no steady time. Press Tap the tempo and tap along with the song, the number appears as you go, and nothing saves until you press Use. Both sit on the song's own page, under Tempo, time signature and key, and in the room, under Song info.
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How do I make a playlist, put it on my profile, and show the lyrics under the player?
Open My Music in the menu and press Make a playlist. Tick any songs of yours that have a recording, and you get one link that plays them in order. Press Put on your profile to show it publicly, or keep it private and send the link. Co-writers are asked about their songs, and you can show a song before they answer. Free comes with 1 playlist of up to 5 songs. Studio makes as many as you want. To let people read along on a single listen link, tick Show the words under the player.
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What is the Solo room?
The Solo room is the room you get when you write a song by yourself. Wide lyrics sit in the middle, with Rhymes, your Scratchpad and Memos in a column beside them. It turns into your co-writing room as soon as a co-writer joins.
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Why does my room look different when I write alone?
Your account keeps two rooms: one for songs you write alone and one for songs with co-writers. A song opens in the one that fits it, and switches the moment a co-writer joins. Edit my room shapes whichever kind of song you are in.
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How do I change how my room is set up?
Open a song and press Edit my room. Pick a starting layout, press a panel's name to move or hide it, drag panels between columns, change the text size, then press Done. On a phone, open Details and press Arrange my room.
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What is Flow?
Flow is the third view of the No Judgment Zone, next to Together and Focus mode. It shows every writer's pad on one long page, yours first, like a document. You type in your own part of the page and your co-writers' words show up under it as they type.
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How many writers can be in one room?
Six writers can write in one room, and the room is built for it. There are eight line colors, the row of faces at the top shows six faces before it says +N, and with five or more writers the Zone pads get smaller so they all fit.
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How do I send an invite from my phone?
Open the song, tap Details, then tap Invite a co-writer. Tap Share link to send it by text or any app on your phone, or Copy link to paste it somewhere. Someone who already has WritingRoom can type the code under it into Join a write.
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Who can see my songs?
Only you, until you share a song. A co-writer you let in sees that one song. A listen link plays a finished song for whoever has the link. Your public page shows only what you put on it. Your Library and My Music are yours alone.
Splits + Credits
Understanding the Split Sheet
A split sheet lists every co-writer's compositional share for a song, must total 100%. Each writer signs digitally. If anyone changes a percentage later, only the signatures whose numbers moved stop counting, and those writers sign again. Open Split Sheet on any song to set yours up.
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Signing your splits
A split sheet isn't binding until every writer signs it. WritingRoom uses a simple typed- or drawn-signature flow. Confirm the split percentage on your card is what you actually agreed to, and that your legal name, PRO, and IPI are correct. Mistakes here cost royalties. Open the song, click the Split Sheet tab, and on your own writer card click the amber ✎ Sign this split sheet button. Type or draw your signature and confirm. Your card updates with the signature, the timestamp, and a fingerprint of the numbers you signed.
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How do I copyright my song?
Your song was copyrighted the moment you wrote it. What you need is proof of when. A seal in WritingRoom records this exact version with two outside clocks, one of them the Bitcoin blockchain, and gives you a link anyone can check. Registering with the Copyright Office is a filing step for a US lawsuit, and you can do it at any point if that day ever comes.
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Bulk-signing across multiple songs
If you're a frequent co-writer with several songs waiting on your signature, signing each one individually is a slow click-fest. WritingRoom has a one-shot signing flow for all of them at once. Open Settings, then Profile. Near the bottom of the page is a ✍ Sign all my splits button. Click the button. A window lists every song where you're a collaborator and haven't signed yet, with the song title, its camp (if any), and an estimated even split for reference. A Select all checkbox is checked by default; uncheck any song you're not ready to sign.
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Past Credits section on your profile
Past Credits is the section on your public profile that lists released songs you've contributed to. Open Settings, then Profile and find the Credits card. Fill in the song title, artist, year, your role, and optionally a Spotify or Apple Music URL and notes. Save, and the credit appears under Past Credits. A credit you add yourself starts as Self-claimed. From there it can move up on its own, without anyone at WritingRoom reviewing anything by hand:
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Exporting splits for ASCAP/BMI registration
From Library or a single song, click Export splits and pick the CSV format that matches your PRO. Columns include writer name, IPI, PRO, publisher, and share %. Drop the CSV straight into ASCAP or BMI's submission portal.
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Getting your identity verified
WritingRoom can confirm a writer's identity automatically, by checking their IPI number against the public credits.fm writer index. There's no publisher-side review involved, any writer can do this for themselves. In Settings, under your IPI/PRO fields, there's a verification button. Click it, and WritingRoom looks up your IPI (or your legal/artist name if you don't have an IPI yet) against the public index. The result comes back immediately as one of a few states: verified, name mismatch, not found, no IPI on file, no name on file, or service unavailable (try again in a few minutes). A successful match is saved to your account right away, no 24-hour wait and no manual review.
Finding Writers
Browsing the Billboard
Click any writer card to open their profile. Filter the directory by skill, genre, location, or PRO. From a profile you can invite that writer into a camp roster in one click.
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Filtering by skill, genre, and availability
The Billboard has a Filters button above the writer cards. Click it to reveal Skill, Genre, and Sort. Skill narrows the directory to writers who have that skill listed on their profile. A writer with three skills shows up under any of them. Genre works the same way. Pick one and the list narrows to writers who write in that genre.
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Willing to travel: making yourself findable
Some writers travel for co-writes and want that on record. Willing to travel for rooms is a toggle in your own profile settings, and the Billboard uses it. Open Settings, then Profile. Find the toggle labeled Willing to travel for rooms and turn it on. Once the toggle is on, a Max distance box appears next to it, with the word miles beside it. Type any number that is true for you. There is no list of preset distances and no Anywhere option.
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Writers near you: searching by distance
The Billboard can show writers within a set number of miles of your town. It works from the middle of each writer's town, never from an address and never from where anybody's phone is. Below the search row, when you are signed in and have a town on your profile, there is a Near you dropdown with your town in brackets. It offers Off, within 25 miles, within 50 miles, within 100 miles, within 250 miles and within 500 miles. Pick one and the board reorders, nearest first, with a line under each card such as 37 miles or in the same town. Picking a distance clears the Region box, and typing in the Region box switches Near you off. They are two ways of asking the same question.
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Picking your town: where you are on the map
Your town is what writers near you search by. It is picked from a list instead of typed, so Portland, Oregon and Portland, Maine can never be mixed up again. Open Settings, then Profile. Under Where you are, start typing your town. A list appears as you type. Pick your town and the box shows it, for example West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, with the note on the map. You can type the state or country after a comma to narrow it, such as portland, maine or london, ontario.
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Featured writers: what they are
Featured is a status WritingRoom staff can set on a writer's profile. A featured writer moves to the front of the Billboard grid, ahead of everyone else. An admin marks a profile as featured and can give it an optional rank number. Featured writers appear first on the board, in rank order, and the rest of the board follows in its normal order after them. There is no request form and no fixed number of spots. An admin picks by hand, using their own judgment.
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The Billboard
The Billboard is the writers' directory at /writers. Publish your profile from Settings, or from the card on the board itself, to show up. What a stranger sees there is only what you turned on. Approach sends a structured request the writer sees on their dashboard, and by email when the email goes through.
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Wanted
Wanted is the request board on the Billboard. Post what you need, and another writer can click I can help, which also opens a direct message with you. Free keeps one open request at a time; Studio and up get three. A request expires on its own after 30 days.
Camps
What is a writing camp?
A writing camp is a multi-writer event for a specific song, or a set of songs, under one banner. One organizer, a few co-writers, a schedule, a video call link, and a clear deliverable at the end. If you have been to a publisher camp in person, this is the digital version. Every camp has:
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Creating your first camp
On the Camps page, click New Camp. Name it, then pick how the camp runs: rounds at set times, or writing groups. Press Start on the Board for a starter camp in one press, or Set it up now for the seven-step setup. Nothing is emailed until you release a round.
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The Camp Board
The Board is where you put writers in rooms. Drag a card from the bench into a room, or press Suggest rooms. Nothing is sent until you press Release on the round.
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Inviting co-writers by email
Open a Camp, click Invite writers, then paste emails or upload a CSV. Each writer gets an invitation email with a unique link, they claim their seat with one click, no separate signup required.
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Roster CSV import
In Roster, click Import writers and drop a CSV or Excel file with writer names, emails, PROs, IPIs, and publishers. Each row gets a review pass before anything is added. Writers already in your roster get matched automatically.
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Copying your camp's invite link
Every camp has a link. On the camp dashboard, open More and choose Copy the invite link. It copies the link so you can paste it into a text, an email or a group chat. What it shows depends on the camp's visibility setting, which you can change any time from the camp's Settings tab: Private: invited people only. The public page is off.
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Applicants Inbox
The Applicants Inbox is where writer applications to your public camps queue up for review. It lives at the bottom of the Host Dashboard (/host). When a camp is set to Public, its share link becomes a public landing page. Writers who visit can read the camp description and click Apply to join. They submit: Their name.
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Setting a video call link
In Camp settings or any room, paste a Zoom (or Google Meet, Whereby) link. Writers in that room see a Join the call button, so there's no separate scheduling and no extra emails to chase.
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Camp scheduling and timezones
The Schedule tab inside a camp is where every block lives. WritingRoom calls each block a round. Click + Add round in the Schedule tab. A round has: Label, free text, Day 1, Round 1, Tuesday Morning, Bridge Round. Use what makes the schedule readable.
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Observer mode
Observer mode controls what a coach, admin, or other outside eye can do while a room is live. You set it per camp, not for your account as a whole. Pick a starting mode in the camp setup wizard when you create a camp. Change it any time afterward on that camp's dashboard, in camp settings. This is the default. Observers can read the lyrics surface in real time. They cannot comment, edit, or drop a note. Writers see no sign that anyone is watching.
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Camp roles explained
Six roles across a camp: Organizer and Co-organizer (full edit access), Coach and Observer (read-only, Coach can comment when observer mode allows it), and Writer and Guest on the roster (Writer gets full edit access and a split, Guest is credited at the organizer's discretion). Assign or change a role from the Roster tab.
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Cross-camp Writers Database
The Writers Database is a Publisher-tier page that lists every writer who has ever been on one of your camp rosters, across every camp you've run. It lives at /writers-database. Each row is one writer, built from their roster records across every camp: Writer, their name and email.
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Recurring camp series
Some camps happen once. Others are a routine, the same few writers, every week or two. The recurring toggle is for the second kind. Open Camp identity (Step 1 of the setup wizard). Below the camp name and description, switch on Make this a recurring camp series. Two fields appear:
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The Stripe Payment Link field: collecting reservations
WritingRoom does not process payments and does not take a cut. What it gives you is one field on every camp where you can paste your own Stripe Payment Link, and WritingRoom shows that link to writers at the right moments. Set up a Stripe Payment Link yourself, in your own Stripe dashboard at stripe.com. Pick the price and whether it is one-off or recurring. Stripe gives you a URL. Paste that URL into your camp's Stripe Payment Link field, either in the setup wizard's Camp identity step, or later from the camp's Settings tab.
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Camp Announcements
Click Announce on a Camp to push a message to every writer, scoped to the whole camp, a specific day, slot, or room. Writers see it the next time they open WritingRoom.
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Submitting your song to a camp
Open your song in the camp and click Submit to camp. A demo may be required first, depending on the camp's setting. You can withdraw right up until the camp host decides. Accepted means the camp is keeping the song; Not taken means you keep all your rights and the camp's publishing arrangement no longer applies.
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How do writing groups work?
Writing groups are one way a camp can run. Whoever runs the camp puts writers into small groups. Each group gets its own room and writes a song together, on its own time, before the camp's last day. Sending the song in is up to the group.
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How does Find a time work with the group link?
In a writing group's room, Find a time shows who has said when they're free. Tap Invite with the group link and send the link to your group chat. Anyone with the link can add their times with a name and an email. They don't need an account.
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Profile picture safety guidelines
WritingRoom asks you to confirm you understand the safety guidelines the first time you upload a profile photo. This is a one-time acknowledgment, not an automated scan of the image. Real photographs of you, logos or brand marks, or stylized portraits that are identifiably you. Nudity or sexually suggestive content.
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Verified writer badge
The blue check next to a writer's name on their public profile means at least one of their song credits has been independently confirmed against outside data. That a specific song credit you claimed matches a real, independent database entry (credits.fm), by writer name or by IPI. IPI matches are the strongest signal; a name-only match is weaker and shown differently.
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Reporting a user
If a writer is behaving badly, use Report to WritingRoom. Look for Report to WritingRoom wherever you can see that writer, such as on their profile or in a direct message thread. A dialog titled Report followed by their name opens. There is one field, a text box with the placeholder Anything you can tell us helps. Say what happened in your own words.
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Our IP policy: we never train AI on your songs
Your songs are yours. WritingRoom doesn't claim any ownership in them, doesn't license them to anyone, and doesn't train AI models on them. You own everything you write on WritingRoom, lyrics, melodies, memos, chord charts, the lot. WritingRoom uses the songs you store on the platform only to provide the service to you and your invited collaborators.
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The Help Center and Riff search
WritingRoom's help lives in two places, the full Help Center at /help, and Riff, a smart help search you can open from any page. Browse-style help. A list of categories and a search box at the top. Click any article card to open the full article. Article pages give you:
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Tier overview (Free / Studio / Publisher / Label)
WritingRoom has four tiers. Free is the default. The paid tiers add room to work at scale. For trying things out and writing your first few songs. Up to 5 active songs you started. Songs you are only invited to never count against this. Songs beyond five are parked: you can read and export them any time, and swap one back in when you have a free slot. Nothing is deleted.
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Upgrading or downgrading
Tier changes happen in Settings, then Account. The CURRENT PLAN card has a Change plan button. Click Change plan. The pricing surface opens with your current tier marked and the others available. Pick the tier you want; pick monthly or annual; confirm the price. Payment is via Stripe. If this is your first paid plan, Stripe collects a card. If you've paid before, Stripe uses the card on file unless you ask to update it.
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Canceling your subscription
Open Settings, then Account. The CURRENT PLAN card has a Cancel subscription button next to Change plan. Cancellation means: at the end of the current billing period, your tier drops to Free. You don't lose access to anything immediately, you keep your current tier through the period you've already paid for. A confirmation screen tells you the exact date your tier will change. After that date, you stay on Free until you re-subscribe.
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Payment methods
Manage payment methods in Settings, then Account. Cards on file are stored securely through Stripe. Add, remove, or change cards anytime; renewals charge the default card automatically on the renewal date.
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Recent invoices
Every subscription charge generates an invoice. WritingRoom keeps them in the Stripe-hosted billing portal, not inline in our app, Stripe is the source of truth for billing history. Open Settings, then Account and click Manage billing. You'll land in Stripe's billing portal on a tab labeled Invoices. Each invoice shows:
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Deleting your account permanently
Account deletion is meant to be permanent. Read this before you start. Open Settings, then Account. Scroll to the Danger zone card at the bottom. Click Delete my account. WritingRoom asks you to confirm twice, then asks you to type DELETE to finish.
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Import a catalog file
Drop a CSV, Excel, ZIP, or PDF into Import a catalog file and WritingRoom pulls every song, writer, and split out, tidied up, with each row queued for your review. Nothing publishes until you click Import these songs.
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Import writers
Drop a CSV, Excel, PDF, or Word file with your writer roster, WritingRoom pulls names, emails, PROs, IPIs, and contact info, then shows every row for review before anything's added to your roster.
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Managing Publishers
Each roster member can have a publisher field, name, address, and IPI, used on split sheets and credit exports. Update once in Roster, propagates to every song that writer is on.
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Exporting your songs
Click Export CSV in Library's Camp rooms tab to download every visible song as a flat CSV, title, writers, status, dates, camp source. Filters apply: parked songs are excluded unless Show parked is toggled on.
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Library Overview
Library is your cross-camp song database, every song you've created, whatever camp or room it came from. Its tabs are All, My Songs, Imported, and, if you host camps, Camp rooms.
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Publisher Dashboard Overview
Publisher Dashboard is the home page for a Publisher plan. It starts with two jobs, setting up an event and setting up writing groups, then shows submissions waiting, your roster, your camps and how much storage you have used.
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Signing in and your password
There are two ways in: Google, or your email and a password. If you forgot your password, tap Forgot password? on the sign-in page and follow the link that comes to your email. WritingRoom's Settings has no password field.
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How much storage do I get, and what happens when I run out?
Audio (memos, demo recordings, references and an uploaded cover) counts against a per-account quota: 2GB on Free, 25GB on Studio, 100GB on Publisher, and up to 2.5TB on the largest Label tier. The biggest single file is 50MB on Free and 500MB on Studio and up. Go over and nothing uploads and nothing is lost, WritingRoom tells you exactly how far over you are and what would fit.
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How do I choose what WritingRoom tells me about?
In Settings, open the Account tab and find What should we tell you about? Each row is one kind of event, with a Push box and an Email box. Invites are always emailed. Turn on notifications on this device from the top of the same card.
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How do I get my free month of Studio?
If you are on Free and have not used it, a card on your home screen offers Studio free. Press Start my free Studio. No card, nothing to cancel. It is a month: thirty days of Studio for everyone who signs up.
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How do referrals work?
Share your invite link or your six-character code. When someone you brought in pays for a plan, you get a month of Studio. You don't get cash, you get Studio time. You find both under Your invites on your home screen and in Settings, on the Profile tab.
