what's most versatile, best app for lyrics?

a friend told me about OnSong

is this the ONE to get?
or are there others i can and should consider?

sorry if this is not really an "arranger" question
but thought some guys here may be using ipads and may be able to help

I haven't heard of On Song, I use unReal book. With it you simply save your lyrics as a PDF with your lyrics instead of lead sheets. You may have read about it at another thread but in case you didn't here's the link:

unReal Book
Check out you tube. Search for on songapp. Pretty cool app by the looks of it.

OnSong is okay (I own that one too, as well as Good Reader and FilePro)...but doesn't have the same oomph that UB has, but it DOES have one thing in it's favor...it loads and reads natively the old ChoPro format of text file....

These are the ones that have the line of lyric with the chord embedded above the line...it even scrolls the page of text in time with a metronome too if you want...BUT if cannot load or play MIDI data....which is why I don't use it...there are other threads about why this is so...and as your OP is not directly related I will leave it there

Dennis

I've used everyone of them. There are none that come close to unreal Book.

The only other one I use occasionally for a totally different application wich I like for other reasons is Gig Book. But Unreal Book is untouchable and cheap!!!!

My all time favorite general document display app is GoodReader because it supports
just about every file type format out there, and for its highly customizable page cropping features.
That said, for specifically displaying individual leadsheet song sheets and/or lyrics in PDF format and creating gig song set lists, I prefer UnRealbook. For searching and quickly calling up a specific song in my large fakebook collection, I like to use iGigbook.
-Scott

What happened to memorization?

You mean in a similar way to you seeming to always insist any arranger you are looking to buy has lyrics reading capability, otherwise it's a "deal-breaker" as you put it

Save that for the pros from the Italian neighborhood in Jersey!

Mikey, You've made some great recommendations thru the years and unReal book has to be right at the top. imho, has to be the single best app and most useful that I have on the iPad.

Anyone can do it if you apply yourself.. makes for a much better stage presence performance