A term in tune.
Contals keeps recitals, rehearsals and the big concert on simple boards – teachers take on their cards, families read along for free.
Free for small teams. Volunteers and guests are always free. No credit card.
Spring concert
Programme
- Programme
Collect pieces from the teachers
Mar 1AL
Rehearsals
- Rehearsal
Dress rehearsal in the hall
Apr 243 - Hall
Stage plan and chairs
Done
- Hall
Hall booked
The music is the point. The organizing gets loud.
The programme in three versions, rehearsal dates in a reply-all thread, the stage plan only in someone’s head.
Contals is made for schools with many teachers and families.
- Teachers and families free
- Templates for the term and the concert
- Date polls for rehearsals
- Data stored in the EU
Find the rehearsal date with a poll
Teachers and families vote by link; the date lands in the calendar.
Start from a template
Term or concert: pick the date, and the cards are in place.
Learn more – Start from a template
Readable for every family
The simple view with large cards and plain words.
Learn more – Readable for every family
Up and running in three steps
Create the school’s workspace
Sign up and name it after your music school.
Start from a template
Term or concert: pick the date, done.
Invite teachers and families
By link or QR code, in free roles.
For the office, coordinators and teachers
Yes, if you organize terms, recitals and concerts together.
- Term planning
- Recitals
- Concerts
- Rehearsal dates
No lesson planning, no enrolment management, no tuition billing – your administration software stays for that.
Ready-made templates for this
Music school term
5 lists · 13 cards
Plan a concert
5 lists · 14 cards
The catch? Contals is new.
Only people who create and organize boards pay – teachers with their own cards and families are free.
Pupils under 16 need their parents’ consent; families read along as viewers.
The full picture: costs, export, cancelling, where data lives
- What it costs
- Full members (people who create and organize boards) pay per month. Volunteers, guests and viewers are free on every plan, forever. A small team uses Contals for free: up to 5 full members and 10 active boards. On the free plan, notifications arrive in the app, by push and in the weekly summary e-mail. A free organization nobody uses for 90 days is paused until an owner signs in again. Prices are early-access prices and become final before the public launch.
- Your data stays yours
- Export a board or a workspace as JSON at any time, on every plan – cards, comments, Power-Up data and the activity of the last 13 months; the whole organization in one file on Team and Business. No support ticket, no fee.
- Leaving is easy
- Cancel any time; paid plans run to the end of the period, then the organization continues on the free plan – nothing is deleted. An organization is deleted only when an owner asks for it, 30 days later; deleting your account removes your personal data after a 30-day grace period. Billing records are kept only as long as tax law requires.
- Where your data lives
- Board data, the database and backups are stored in Cloudflare’s EU jurisdiction; a second, encrypted copy of the backups lies at DigitalOcean in Frankfurt (Germany). Cloudflare is a US company; we say “EU data residency”, not “sovereign”. Details on the security page.
- How we make money
- From full members on paid plans. No ads, no selling or sharing of data, no tracking cookies, no metered AI credits. Visits to the website and the sign-in pages are counted with privacy-friendly, cookieless statistics (Fathom); signed-in pages load none.
Seven pay. 30 teachers don’t.
Teachers take on their cards as volunteers, families read as viewers – both free.
Example: 7 organizers, 30 teachers, families on the concert board
Contals TeamEarly-access price
7 full members × CHF 4.50€4.50$4.50; teachers as volunteers and families as viewers, free
CHF 31.50€31.50$31.50
Trello Standard
Teachers on 2+ boards count as members: 37 × $5; families on one board are free guests
≈ $185
Asana Starter
7 organizers need 10 seats (seats in steps) × $10.99; others as guests with limited rights
≈ $110
The concert comes together on one board
What a week can look like – an invented example.
Mon 09:00
26 of 30 pieces are in, and the poll has found the rehearsal date.
Tue 17:30
A teacher adds the last pieces between two lessons.
Thu 14:00
The caretaker ticks off the stage plan checklist.
Sat 19:30
Concert evening. The board is quiet – everything is done.
Without one place
- Dates by reply-all.
- A programme in three versions.
- Everything goes through the office.
With Contals
- Dates from a poll.
- One programme, card by card.
- Teachers take on their cards themselves.
Questions and answers
Can Contals plan lessons or timetables?
No. Contals does not schedule lessons, manage enrolments or bill tuition. It organizes the term’s work, recitals and concerts around your administration software.
Do teachers and families have to pay?
No. Teachers who only take on their own cards can be volunteers, families can be viewers – both free on every plan. People who create and organize boards are full members.
Can pupils use Contals?
Pupils from 16 can have their own account; younger pupils only with the consent of a parent or guardian. Their families can read along as viewers.
Are there templates for music schools?
Yes: Music school term and Plan a concert, in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, free on every plan.
Can a music school get nonprofit pricing?
Nonprofit pricing is for registered churches, charities and associations, and we review each request. A music school run by a registered association or foundation can ask for it on its organization’s billing page: the Team plan free for up to 15 full members and 50 % off paid plans beyond that. For municipal music schools we decide per request. Parents who only read are free as viewers anyway.
Plan the next concert on a board.
Free for small teams. Volunteers and guests are always free. No credit card.