Gig, band and website tools
SongTakes and GigTag: your songs online, your act in the room
When you play your own songs to strangers, the hard part is what happens after the applause: most of the room leaves without knowing where to find you. GigTag gives them a code on your mic stand for your music links, your next gig and a booking enquiry form. If you were looking at SongTakes for your releases, this is the tool for the gigs.
- No app for your audience
- Free to start
- One code that never changes
Why GigTag
What GigTag gives an originals act beyond SongTakes
SongTakes is built for the work around a release: the site, the feedback, the pitching. GigTag is built for the night you play those songs to a room. It gives each listener a way to keep hold of you, and gives you their requests and enquiries, from a printed tag that asks for nothing but a scan.
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Strangers can keep hold of you
At a showcase, most of the audience came for someone else. A scan opens your page in their browser with your music links, website and socials, so the song they liked can be found again tonight. There is no app and no account between hearing you and following you.
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Hear which songs they ask for
On Pro, put your own songs on the song list and let the audience request. Each request arrives in a live queue. SongTakes gathers considered feedback from other artists. GigTag shows you something different and immediate: which of your songs a real room wants to hear again.
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The next show, in their calendar
Your next gig and any weekly residency are on your page, and listeners can add them to their calendars from the scan. For an originals band building a local following, that gives one good set a date to follow it. All your gigs are part of the free plan.
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Bookings from promoters in the room
Promoters and organisers go to gigs. The booking enquiry form on your page lets one of them ask about a slot before they have left the building. It is on the free plan, enquiries come to you directly, and GigTag takes no commission on bookings.
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Covers nights and originals nights
If you also play covers to pay for the recording, GigTag Pro puts more than one act on one account, so the originals project and the covers duo each have their place. Band members can join a band, and the audience at either gig needs only a camera and a browser.
In short
SongTakes and GigTag, in four lines
- SongTakes gives independent musicians a website, a press kit, song feedback and release promotion tools.
- GigTag is built for the room: one scan for your music links, your next gig and a booking form.
- On Pro, the audience requests from your own songs, and you see which ones they ask for.
- Our recommendation: promote the release however you like, and bring a GigTag to every show.
Side by side
GigTag vs SongTakes, topic by topic
Your page
A page the room opens with one scan
One page for the act, opened by scanning the tag. It is not a website builder and has no custom domain.
SongTakesIts site describes an artist website, a link-in-bio page for social profiles and an electronic press kit, all fed by the same content.
The songs
Live requests for your own songs
On Pro, your songs form a list the audience requests from during the gig, and requests arrive in a live queue.
SongTakesSongs can be reviewed in a structured way by other artists in its review network, and rated by listeners with simple reactions.
Promoting your music
Keep SongTakes for pitching and campaigns
GigTag does no pitching or email. Its reach is the room: whoever can see the tag on your mic stand.
SongTakesIts pitch management tracks submissions and their outcomes, and email campaigns are built from your songs, albums and show data.
Incoming messages
Booking enquiries from people at the gig
Booking enquiries from the form on your page arrive in your account, on the website or the GigTag phone app.
SongTakesIts site describes an inbox that centralises incoming enquiries and messages, and contact management that stores notes and the history of each relationship.
Your shows
Your next gig, saved to their calendars
Your next gig and weekly residencies show on your page, and the audience can add them to their own calendars.
SongTakesUpcoming shows appear on the bio page and the artist website, and the same show data can be used in email campaigns.
The quick view
| GigTag | SongTakes | |
|---|---|---|
| A QR code your audience scans | Yes, one that never changes | – |
| Song requests from the crowd | Yes, on Pro | – |
| Tips by card or Apple Pay | Yes, on Pro, into your own Ziina or Stripe. GigTag takes 0% | – |
| Booking enquiries | Yes, on the free plan | – |
| Your gigs and weekly residencies | Yes, on the free plan | – |
| Invoices for bookings | Yes, on Pro | – |
| A printed tag for your mic stand | Yes, in your own design | – |
| Works without an app for the audience | Yes, it opens in the browser | – |
A dash means we did not confirm it for SongTakes, not that it is missing: see what SongTakes offers above, or ask on its site.
SongTakes or GigTag
Where GigTag is different from SongTakes
Feedback on songs, requests for songs
SongTakes asks listeners what they think of a song you wrote. GigTag asks the audience what they want to hear next. On the Pro plan, people scan the tag on your mic stand and request from your song list, or anything if you open requests. The answer arrives in a live queue during the set. One helps you improve a recording, the other shapes tonight's set.
Online followers and people present
SongTakes pages are reached from your socials, your pitches and search. A GigTag page is reached from a printed code a few feet from where you are playing. It opens in the browser with no app and no account. The visitor is not browsing: they are at your gig, and the page offers what suits that moment: requests, your next date, your links.
Promotion versus paid work
SongTakes puts its effort into releases: pitching, campaigns, feedback. GigTag puts its effort into gigs. Your page lists your next gig and weekly residencies, and carries a booking enquiry form on the free plan. On Pro, you can invoice the client in your own design and be paid online. For a working act, that is the path from a good night to the next booking.
A night with GigTag
An originals band at a showcase night
Four acts share the bill and much of the audience has come for a friend in one of the others. You have a short set of your own songs to change their minds. The tag goes on the mic stand as you plug in. After your strongest song you tell the room to scan it. Your page opens in their browsers with your music links, your socials and your website, so the people who liked that song can find it again before the next band has finished setting up.
On Pro, you have put your own songs on the song list, and someone requests the one a friend told them about. You see it in the live queue and play it as the closer. Your page shows your next headline gig, and people save it to their calendars. The promoter of another night is in the room and sends a booking enquiry from the back. When you look at the GigTag app outside, it is there. The feedback you wanted on those songs arrived in a different form: people asked for them.
About SongTakes
What is SongTakes?
SongTakes is a platform for independent musicians that brings an artist website, promotion tools and career admin together. Its site also addresses band managers, independent labels, talent buyers and music educators. The parts share the same material, so the songs, photos and biography you add once appear across your website, your link-in-bio page, your electronic press kit and your email campaigns without being entered again.
An artist uses it to publish a site and a bio page with music, links and upcoming shows, and to send a press kit to industry contacts. Songs can be put in front of other artists for structured feedback through its review network, with simple listener reactions as well. Behind that sit tools for tracking pitches, planning a release with tasks and deadlines, managing contacts and reading website analytics.
- Where
- Worldwide
- Website
- songtakes.com
How SongTakes works
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Add your material once. You enter your songs, photos, biography and shows. Its site says the same content is reused across the website, the link-in-bio page, the press kit and email campaigns.
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Publish site and press kit. You launch an artist website, with a custom domain as an option, plus a bio page for social profiles and an electronic press kit to send to industry contacts.
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Ask for feedback. Songs go to its Artist Review Network, where other artists give structured reviews, and listeners can leave simple reactions. The results are gathered on a feedback dashboard.
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Plan and pitch. You plan the release with tasks, deadlines and milestones, track each pitch and its outcome, write to your mailing list and watch the analytics for visits and streaming link clicks.
Who SongTakes is for
Independent artists and bands. Musicians managing their own careers and releases. Its site has a page for them covering the website, bio page, press kit, pitch tracking, email campaigns and the review network, with band members able to work together.
Band managers and indie labels. People looking after more than one act or release. Its site addresses band managers and independent labels directly, with project planning, contact management and an inbox that gathers incoming enquiries into one place for follow-up.
Talent buyers and educators. Its site also has pages written for talent buyers, and for music associations and educators, alongside those for artists. Each page sets out what the platform offers that group, so it is worth reading the one that matches you.
The verdict
GigTag or SongTakes: which should you choose?
The bottom line
If you play live, bring a GigTag, whatever you use for releases. The strongest reason is that a gig is where strangers decide whether they like you, and the tag lets them act on it in one scan: your music links, your next date, a request, an enquiry. SongTakes is the one to keep for a website, structured feedback and release promotion, none of which GigTag attempts. An originals act that gigs should have both working.
An artist who releases original music and also gigs can use both without duplication. SongTakes holds the website, the press kit and the release plan. GigTag goes on the mic stand. Add your website and music links to your GigTag page and the people who discover you live can find the recordings and the rest of your story afterwards.
- Step 1
Set up the SongTakes side
Build the website and press kit and get your songs in front of the review network, so your online presence is ready for new listeners.
- Step 2
Add GigTag for the stage
Create your GigTag page with your website and music links, your upcoming gigs and, on Pro, a song list made up of your own material.
- Step 3
Use each gig to grow
Put the tag on the stand at every show. People who scan it can follow the links to your SongTakes site and hear the recordings.
Choose GigTag if
You play live, covers or originals, and want the audience to request songs, follow you and enquire about booking you from one scan.
Start freeSongTakes may still suit you if
You write original songs and want a website, structured feedback and tools to promote your releases.
GigTag FreeYour page, your tag design, every gig and residency, a booking form. One act.
GigTag ProSong requests, tips, invoices, more than one act. AED 30, £11.99 or $15.99 a month.
GigTag Printed tagFrom AED 100 in the UAE, £24.99 in the UK or €28.99 in the EU, delivered free, with a large size for more; $32.99 elsewhere, plus postage from the UK. Or print your own, anywhere, for free.
Is GigTag better than SongTakes for an originals band that gigs?
For the gigs, GigTag is the one built for them. The audience scans the tag, opens your music links, saves your next date, requests your songs on Pro or sends a booking enquiry, all in the browser. SongTakes is built for the release side: website, feedback and promotion. A band that both records and plays live has a use for each.
What does GigTag add if SongTakes already gives me a bio page?
It adds the room. A bio page is reached from your social profiles. A GigTag page is reached from a printed code on your mic stand by people who are listening to you at that moment, and it carries live song requests on Pro, a booking enquiry form and gigs they can save to a calendar. The code never changes.
What is SongTakes?
SongTakes is a platform for independent musicians. Its site describes artist websites, a link-in-bio page, electronic press kits, a network for structured song feedback, pitch tracking, email campaigns, project planning, contact management and analytics. It also speaks to band managers and independent labels. See its site for plans and prices.
Does GigTag give feedback on my songs like SongTakes?
No. GigTag has no song feedback or review network. Its song feature is requests: the audience at your gig chooses from your song list, or asks for anything if you open requests, and you see the queue live. That tells you what a room wants to hear, which is useful in its own way, but it is not a critique of your writing.
SongTakes has a link-in-bio page. Is a GigTag page the same?
They overlap a little: both show links and dates. A GigTag page is built for the gig. It is reached from a permanent QR code on a tag for your mic stand, and adds song requests, a booking enquiry form and gigs that fans can save to their calendar. SongTakes' bio page is described as a way in from your socials.
Is GigTag any use to an originals band on SongTakes?
Yes, if you play live. Requests can be kept to your own song list, so the audience picks from your originals. The page also shows your next gig, links to your music and website, and takes booking enquiries. Requests are on Pro. The tag design, page, links, gigs and enquiry form are on the free plan.
How can an originals band get people at a gig to listen again later?
Give them the link while they are still interested. A GigTag on your mic stand opens your page in their browser, with your music links, website and socials. They can go through that night or the next day. There is no app to install, and the code on the tag is the same at every show.
Can audiences request original songs, not just covers?
Yes. On GigTag Pro the song list is your own, so it can be all originals, all covers or a mix. The audience picks from it in their browser and the request joins your live queue. If you open requests they can ask for anything, and you choose what to play.
What is the SongTakes Artist Review Network?
Its site describes it as a network where artists exchange structured feedback on each other's songs, and get to know peers along the way. Listener reactions are collected separately in a simpler form. GigTag has nothing of that kind. What it shows you is which songs an audience asks for on the night.
Is a QR code on the mic stand worth it for a short set?
A short set is where it is most useful, because you have little time to say who you are. The tag is in view throughout, and one scan gives people your links, your next gig and a way to enquire about booking you. All of that is on GigTag's free plan, which covers one act.
Looking for SongTakes itself?
This page is GigTag's. SongTakes's sign-in, prices, reviews and support are on its own site.
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SongTakes is the name of its owner's product; GigTag is not connected with it. What is said about SongTakes here comes from its own public website, checked on 7 October 2026. Products change: if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
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