Cantara

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Cantara Song is a song presentation software which can be used for presenting songs in churches, small groups or karaoke parties. It supports various input formats and can create beautiful presentation slides or copies the lyrics into the clipboard so that they can easily shared via chat messengers like Telegram or WhatsApp.

Cantara has the following advantages:

• Super-fast and lightweight: Cantara is less then 10 MB of size and uses the components available on the local operation system as far as possible. It contains no bloatware. It can be run on an old computer, a raspberry-pi and many more.
• Very easy to use: Creating the presentation slides for an event only takes a few seconds. The usage is very intuitive and user-friendly.
• Good integration with other presentation software: Cantara integrates easily with other presentation software like LibreOffice Impress, MS Powerpoint or PdfPC. It can be included in a complex workflow like a church service or even an online streaming event via OBS.
• Multi-Screen-Support: Multi Screen is supported out of the box.
• Customizable Design: The colors and fonts can be configured in the settings. In addition, you can set up a background picture and adjust it’s brightness/transparency.
• Free and Open Source: No license fees, no dependence on certain companies–Cantara is licensed under the GPL3 and can be used everywhere and as you want.
• Used all over the world and continuously developed: Although Cantara is still a quite young project, people from many countries are using it. In the future, more functions are going to be implemented.

The current version is 2.4.1. You can easily download and install it for Linux, Windows and Mac OS. Cantara is written with the programming language Pascal/Lazarus, therefore it is platform-independent and can be compiled to almost every device. You can also compile Cantara by yourself. Find more information here.