Sign up free
The musician's live screen: £5 just came in from Jo, Jo's name lit up with the coin on Hey Jude, £5 tipped at the top, and Angels just landed.

Requests, without the shouting.

From their table to your screen.

Your audience scans the code on the table and picks a song.

Free to use.

Pubs, bars, restaurants, Sunday lunches, weddings and functions. Solo, duo or band.

See it working

How it works

Follow one request.

The audience's request page for Sam Whitlock: Request a Song, with a box to name a song.

01 The card

They scan the card on the table.

The camera opens your page. Nothing to install, and nothing to sign up for.

Request sent, with the tip card underneath.

02 The song

They pick a song.

A few letters, a tap, and who it's for if they like. Sent.

Your live screen: Hey Jude for Jo has just landed, marked NEW, under the other requests waiting.

03 Your screen

It lands on your screen.

Big, clear titles, made to read at arm's length between songs. Who it's for, and how many asked.

Their phone: Your request was played. Hope it sounded good. Say thanks to Sam.

04 Played

You play it. They know.

Tap Played. If you take tips and they're still on the page, their phone tells them their song was played, with a chance to say thanks.

Their phone: Thanks for the tip.

05 Tips

They can leave a tip.

Pick an amount, pay by Apple Pay, Google Pay or card, and it's done.

Your live screen: £5 just came in from Jo, and £5 tipped at the top.

06 Tips

You see who tipped.

A banner says it's in, their name lights up purple with a coin, and the gig's tips total sits at the top.

Their phone after sending: Tip Sam, £3, £5, £10 or £20, and under it, Tips are just a thank you. They don't buy a song or move you up the list.

07 The rule

A tip never buys a song.

It doesn't move a request up the list either, and the audience is told so. You're never obliged to play anything.

08 Every Friday

Payouts.

Stripe is the payment company used by millions of businesses. Tips go into your own Stripe account, and Stripe pays them into your bank every Friday.

Each payment is held for seven days first, so allow one to two weeks.

See it working

Go on, be the audience.

Pick a song on the phone, or scan the code with your own. It lands on the screen beside it.Pick a song and send it. Then see what the musician sees.

Their phone, tap it
Your screen, tap Played

An invented act in an invented pub.

Set up your page, free

Ready out of the box

Three steps. Then play.

No songs needed. With none added, your audience can ask for anything.

  1. The sign-up page: Create your page. Free to use. We take 4% of tips. Stripe's card fee is separate.

    1

    Sign up

    Your act's name and your details. Then connect Stripe, which pays your tips into your bank. It's free to set up and takes about five minutes.

  2. A Request a song table card beside a pint on a pub table.

    2

    Print your code

    Ready-made designs: table cards, posters and business-card size. Print at home or at a print shop. Your own page is anyrequests.app/yourname.

  3. Start a gig: Playing at The Red Lion? Yes, that is the one. All songs, Anything chosen for what the audience can request, and the Go Live button.

    3

    Press Go Live

    It suggests the venue you're at. Tap to confirm, and you're live.

Set up your page, free
The Songbooks screen: Pub sets, 107 songs; Sunday lunch, 30 songs; Weddings, 34 songs. In the recording, Pub sets opens and scrolls through all 107 songs to the end of the book.

Your songs

You choose what they can ask for.

Songbooks.
Songbooks are smaller lists picked from your main song list: one for weddings, one for Sunday lunches, one for a rowdy Friday. Pick one when you go live and that's the list your audience sees.
Describe the gig.
“Sunday lunch at a family pub. Older crowd, a few kids.” It builds a songbook from songs already on your list, and nothing is saved until you check it.
What your audience can ask for.
Anything: they can ask for any song. Songs on the list you're playing from show a green tick. My list only: they can only pick from the songbook you chose, or your whole list if you didn't choose one.
You set the pace.
Each phone can only send so many requests in five minutes, and you choose how many. A busy room stays manageable.

30 songs? Plenty.

Put the songs you know inside out in a songbook and choose My list only. Your audience picks from those 30, and the room still joins in.

The audience's request page on My list only: Songs they play, 30 songs, A to Z, starting with Ain't No Sunshine, Brown Eyed Girl and Budapest.

Handover

You walk in. The room's requests are waiting.

  1. You go live where another act finished in the last three hours.
  2. You see which requests they played, and what they didn't get to, with who those were for.
  3. Tick the ones you want. They join your queue. Nothing joins unless you tick it.

Only the act that goes live there at a public gig sees it, and nothing about money is passed on. Private gigs take no part, and you can switch it off in Settings.

Before you start: the requests the act before played, and They did not get to: Dancing in the Moonlight for Ben and Jo, and Brown Eyed Girl for Priya, with tick boxes.

It learns

Learn what to play, where you play.

Your dashboard turns every request into lists you can act on: what to learn next, and what a room or a kind of gig asks for.

The four cards are the dashboard, from a test account with example numbers.

What to learn next

Songs you don't play yet, most asked first.

Tap or hover over a control on a card to see what it does.

The Worth learning card, Mine: skipped at least once, never played, and not in your songbook. You Should Be Dancing, 5 requests; Blue Monday, 4; Laid, 3; Bad Habits, 3; Dog Days, 3; each with a tick and a cross.
What your audiences keep asking for Songs you were asked for, skipped, and haven't added to your list. Learn the top few and next time it's a yes.
The Worth learning card, Everyone, everywhere, not in your list, 53 gigs: You Should Be Dancing, 19 requests; Karma Chameleon, 18; Any Way You Want It, 17; Blue Monday, 16; Bad Habits, 16; each with a tick.
What audiences everywhere ask for Songs audiences ask for at other gigs that you haven't played and aren't on your list yet. Tick one and it's on your list for the next gig.

What the room wants

What a room, or a kind of gig, asks for.

The Most requested card, Everyone, Where I am, at The Red Lion, 7 gigs: Celebration, 7 requests, in your list; When You Say Nothing at All, 6; Any Way You Want It, 5; Here Comes the Sun, 4, in your list; Laid, 4.
What this room asks for Standing in the venue? See what its audiences have asked for most, from acts who share, before you've played a note there.
The Most requested card, Everyone, at weddings, 4 gigs: You Should Be Dancing, 7 requests; Celebration, 4, in your list.
What weddings ask for Once you've played a wedding or a birthday with AnyRequests, see what those audiences ask for, so the right songs are ready for the next one.

Why it's different

A request is a request. Every one waits its turn.

  • Tips asked for gently, as a thank you.
  • 4% of tips. No subscription.
  • It learns each venue as acts share.
  • Pick up where the last act stopped.
  • Weddings, birthdays and parties each get their own most requested list.
  • You choose what they can ask for.

Stripe's own card fee, about 1.5% plus 20p on a UK card, is separate. See what it costs.

What it costs

Free to use. We take 4% of tips.

Stripe takes its own card fee as well. No subscription, and nothing to pay to sign up.

You choose who covers the fees: the audience covers them, you cover them, or the audience decides on the tip screen. Until you choose, the audience covers them.

A £5 tipDefault

They pay
£5.50
Stripe's fee
28p
Our 4% (of £5.50)
22p
You get
£5.00

Both fees are paid by the audience. This is the default.

How Stripe's fee works

Stripe charges its own card fee, about 1.5% plus 20p on a UK card. The audience pays it when they pay the fees, and you pay it when you do. A card from outside the UK costs a few pence more, and you pay the difference.

Set up your page, free

Questions

Asked by musicians.

Do I have to add my songs first?

No. Go live with none and your audience can ask for anything. Add your songs when you're ready, and choose My list only if you want them to pick from those.

Do I need a Stripe account first?

No. You can go live without one, and requests work straight away. Tips appear on your page once you've connected Stripe, which you do inside AnyRequests. It's free to set up and takes about five minutes. Stripe asks for the details a payment company has to check, including the bank account your tips are paid into.

If someone tips, do I have to play their song?

No. A tip is a thank you. It never buys a song or moves it up the queue, and the tip screen tells the audience exactly that.

What if someone asks for a song I don't know?

Skip it: one tap, and it's off your screen. Or choose My list only, and your audience can only pick from your songs.

What if someone sends something rude, or won't stop?

Each phone can only send a few requests every five minutes, and you choose how many. Requests with common swear words stay off the most requested list your audience sees. You can block a phone for the rest of the gig, pause requests whenever you like, and report a request to us.

When do I get my tips?

Stripe pays them into your bank every Friday. Each payment is held for seven days first, so a tip usually reaches your bank one to two weeks after the gig. Your first payout can take a little longer while Stripe checks your details.

What gets passed on to the next act?

If another act goes live at the same venue within three hours of you finishing, they see the requests you played and the ones you didn't get to, with the names the audience typed on the ones you didn't get to. Nothing joins their queue unless they tick it. Nothing about money passes, your name isn't shown, and private gigs never pass anything on or receive anything. It works both ways, and you can switch it off in Settings.

What gets shared?

Song titles and how often they're asked for, so every act can see what rooms ask for. Never a name, and never money. Only acts who share are counted, and you can switch sharing off in Settings. The handover above is the one time the names your audience typed are passed on, and only to the next act at the same venue.

Will the venue mind?

There's nothing for the venue to install or set up. A card on the tables or a poster by the bar, and requests come to you instead of being shouted across the room.

What if the signal's poor?

Requests need a connection: the audience's phone sends them over mobile data or wifi, and they reach yours the same way. If your own signal drops, nothing is lost. Requests that came in show up as soon as you're back online.

What happens to the audience's details?

The audience doesn't sign up, so we never ask who they are, or for an email. A name typed into "Who's it for?" is seen by you, and by the next act at that venue if there's a handover. It's deleted three hours after the gig ends (after the next act's gig, if it was passed on), unless the request was reported.

Why can't a tip move a song up?

Because you're the one reading the room. If tips bought a place in the queue, you'd end up owing songs that don't suit the venue, or a pile of paid-for requests with no time left in your set. Here a tip is a thank you, never a ticket. You decide what to play and when, so the set stays at its best, and nobody can pay their way past the table that asked first.

How do the fees compare?

Some request and tip apps take 10% or more of every tip, some up to 20%, and some add the card fees on top. Some also let a bigger tip push a song up the queue, so you feel obliged to play it. It sounds like a good idea in principle. At a real gig it causes havoc. We take 4%, Stripe's card fee is separate, and a tip never moves a request.

Who's behind AnyRequests?

Made in the UK, and tested at real gigs by working musicians.

Set up your page before your next gig.

Free to use. Nothing to pay to sign up.

Set up your page, free