Chordle has three different approaches to displaying songs, and they have different benefits:

Fit to screen

This is the default mode. Chordle arranges all song sections so they fit on screen as well as possible.

This approach means you don’t have to scroll around to find the part of the song you’re currently playing. For particularly long songs, however, Chordle may need to reduce text size so everything fits on screen. Some people choose to refer back to earlier sections when they are identical, e.g. by writing “Chorus” instead of repeating all the chorus text again. In ChordPro this is {chorus}. In Chords Above Text you can just write “Chorus” as a heading, and Chordle will understand that this is the same section as the previous chorus.

Paginated

In paginated mode, Chordle will still try to fit as much of the song on the screen as possible, but if the song cannot be fit onto one screen without shrinking, it will split it into multiple pages.

Scrolling

When playing a song in scrolling mode, you can start playback by tapping the play button at the top of the screen. This is also where you can adjust scrolling speed.

You can also pause, resume, and control scrolling speed using keyboard or pedal shortcuts.

You can also specify the duration of the song in its metadata if you want the song to scroll for a fixed amount of time.

Chord overlap mode

When chords take up more space than the lyrics beneath them, Chordle needs to decide how to handle the overlap. You can choose between two modes in the song presentation settings:

• Hyphenate (default) — the word beneath the chord is split, with a connecting line drawn across the gap to show the word continues. This keeps chords directly above their intended text position.
• Move chords — lyrics are never split or pushed apart. Instead, chords drift rightward as needed to avoid overlapping each other, then snap back to their text anchor as soon as space allows. This is particularly useful for scripts like Thai or Japanese where word-splitting is not appropriate.

Switching between presentation formats

You can control how songs are presented in the “Scrolling” presentation settings section: