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Cantara Jan Martin Reckel

Song Presentation
Use this command to install Cantara:
winget install --id=Reckel.Cantara -e

Cantara Song is a song presentation software designed to simplify and enhance the display of lyrics for singing in churches, small groups, or karaoke parties. It supports various input formats and can create visually appealing presentation slides or copy lyrics directly to the clipboard for easy sharing via chat messengers.

Key Features:

  • Multi-format Support: Handles a wide range of song file formats, ensuring compatibility with different sources.
  • Beautiful Slide Creation: Generates professional-looking lyric slides with adjustable fonts, colors, and backgrounds.
  • Real-Time Adjustments: Allows users to modify lyrics or presentation settings on the fly during performances.
  • Lyric Export: Copies lyrics directly to the clipboard for quick sharing or exporting to other platforms.
  • Digital Integration: Works seamlessly with digital tools, enabling smooth transitions between songs and presentations.

Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for church groups, worship teams, small group leaders, and karaoke hosts, Cantara Song streamlines the process of presenting lyrics, ensuring clarity and engagement for singers and audiences alike. Its flexibility makes it a valuable tool for both spontaneous gatherings and planned events, enhancing the overall singing experience.

Available via installation through winget, Cantara Song is a practical solution for anyone looking to present songs effectively in various settings.

README

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Cantara

A program for quick, easy but beautiful hymn presenting in churches.

cantara cantara-bin

Get it from the Snap Store

> [!NOTE] > Cantara is currently in the process of being entirelly rewritten in Rust and Dioxus. Check out the new Cantara 3 repository for the current state of the rewrite. Until the release of version 3, this repository (Cantara 2) will still be maintained for a certain amount of time.

Cantara is a simple open source song presentation software written in Free Pascal/Lazarus which allows people to spontanously present song lyrics for a bigger audience for the purpose of singing together. This is especially useful for church groups and meetings.

More pictures are in the screenshots/-Folder.

> [!NOTE] > This is just the repository for the source code. For general information, please visit the Cantara webpage with a complete documentation and instruction on downloading, installing and using the program.

Pull Requests or issues with bug reports, suggestions or general feedback are very appreciated!

If you like the project, please consider to star it on Github!

Download

For normal producive using purposes, please check the installation instructions on the Cantara webpage. There are different installation options depending on your operating system.

Versions
2.7.1
2.7.0
2.6.0
2.5.0
2.4.1
2.4.0
Website
github.com
License
Last updated
2/27/2026
Download latest version

Cantara is also available in the Microsoft Winget Repository, the Arch User Repository (AUR), at the snap store and on flatpak. The edge version contains the latest commit to the master branch.

cantara cantara-bin

Get it from the Snap Store 

winget install cantara

yay -S cantara

yay -S cantara-bin

snap install cantara

flatpak install cantara

Go to the release section on Github to download the binaries for a productive use of the software. The master branch of this repository contains the latest commits which were already tested and should work, but are not officially released yet. If you clone from master, you might expect bugs, misbehavior or other errors when running the application. If you find any of them, please feel free to report them as a Github issue!

Compile and run Cantara manually

If you would like to compile the latest not stable state in the master branch, you need to do the following:

  1. Download and install the Lazarus IDE – either via your distribution or their homepage.

  2. Clone the Github repository with its submodules (they are needed for building):

    git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:reckel-jm/cantara.git

  3. Open the lazarus.lpi file as a project in Lazarus and compile it or use lazbuild for the compilation via the command line to compile the used packages first and then compile the Cantara project itself:

lazbuild -B src/bgrabitmap/bgrabitmap/bgrabitmappack.lpk && lazbuild -B src/metadarkstyle/metadarkstyle.lpk && lazbuild -B src/Cantara.lpi && lazbuild -B src/Cantara.lpi

On Linux, you can change the used graphical framework via the --ws=qt6 --ws=qt5 or --ws=gtk2 option. In addition, you can build the projekt via make.

> [!WARNING] > The state of the master branch is not stable and not ready for productive use! If you want a stable version, please go to the releases section.

Song templates

Please consult the documentation for learning which song formats are supported and where to get songs from.

At the moment an other GitHub Repository with public domain Christian song lyrics is under construction, which can be directly imported to Cantara.

Settings

The color, background and font of the presentation can be changed in the settings.

Contribution

Cantara would not have been possible with the help of many contributers. Thank you all! Find details about the contributions and contributors on the Contributers Page of this Github repository.

Licence

The program is licenced under GPL3. See COPYING for details. You may use and change this software and its source code and share it as you wish, but you need to add a copyright hint and keep the licence. The file src/exporters/templates/pptx/pptxgen.bundle.js ist copied from the PptxGenJS project and originally published by Brent Ely under MIT license.