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# Song Cage

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> Song Cage is a desktop songwriting application that combines chord progression building, lyric writing, and music theory tools on a single canvas. The software features a chord palette with guitar and piano voicings, a built-in rhyme finder with slant rhyme and synonym suggestions, and a DAW-style timeline for arranging song sections. The application includes a modulation panel for key changes and provides context-aware chord suggestions based on melody and surrounding harmonies.
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> Verdict: Rated \*\*\*\* by 0 users. Top-rated for **Overall Quality**.

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## Overview

### Key benefits of Song Cage

Connects chords, lyrics, and melody on a single canvas, keeping every part of the songwriting process in sync
Offers a chord palette with guitar and piano voicings, including borrowed chords and modulation tools, supporting creative harmonic choices
Provides a built-in lyric workspace with instant rhyme, slant rhyme, and synonym suggestions, streamlining lyric writing
Integrates music theory guidance directly into the workflow, making it easy to learn and apply concepts while writing
Features a DAW-style timeline for arranging song sections, recording audio, and capturing ideas quickly without switching between tools

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Digital Candy

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: USD 99.00
- **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free version available) (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: Song Cage is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.

Song Cage, $99 one-time. A perpetual licence for the macOS and Windows desktop app, the AU/VST3 plugin for your DAW, and the full web app with unlimited songs and PDF and MIDI export. Captures made on the free phone apps arrive in your Ideas inbox, and your songs sync across your devices. One purchase covers every platform and it does not renew.

Melody Rack, $59 one-time, or $39 if you already own Song Cage. A separate AU/VST3 MIDI effect plugin. Hum or play a rough line and it gives you new melodic ideas built from your own notes, each one fitted to the harmony underneath. Fourteen MIDI effects, and you drag the result onto a track as MIDI or MPE. The owner discount comes from your account at checkout, with no code to enter.

Free: both licences have a 14-day free trial that needs no card. The iPhone and Android apps are free with no account at all. In a browser you can write one song free.

Payment is by card or PayPal, and there are 30 days to change your mind on either licence. Prices are in US dollars, with tax added at checkout where it applies. Card details are handled by Stripe and PayPal; Song Cage does not store them.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia and 36 more

## Features

- API
- Audio Capture
- Audio Editor
- Audio Recording
- Collaboration Tools
- Data Synchronization
- Drag & Drop
- Mobile Access
- Multiple Projects
- Preview Functionality
- Score Editor

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base

## Category

- [Audio Editing Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/2055/audio-editing/software)

## Alternatives

1. [Adobe Creative Cloud](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/125055/adobe-creative-cloud) — 4.7/5 (7345 reviews)
2. [Riverside](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2064508/riverside) — 4.8/5 (297 reviews)
3. [Adobe Premiere Pro](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2057326/adobe-premiere-pro) — 4.7/5 (574 reviews)
4. [Logic Pro](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2037131/logic-pro) — 4.8/5 (152 reviews)
5. [Audacity](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2037087/audacity) — 4.5/5 (469 reviews)

## Links

- [View on GetApp](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2085512/song-cage)

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| en-AE | <https://www.getapp.ae/software/2085512/song-cage> |
| en-AU | <https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2085512/song-cage> |
| en-CA | <https://www.getapp.ca/software/2085512/song-cage> |
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