Getting started with Collabspot

Last updated 17 September 2026

This walks you through the whole loop, from your first project to a signed credit on your public profile. Collabspot is free to use, and it runs in your browser, so there is nothing to install.

1. Create an account

Go to app.collabspot.app and create an account with your email address and a password, or use Continue with Google.

A few short steps follow, one per screen:

• Your age. Collabspot is for people aged 16 and over.
• Your email. If you signed up with a password, we send you a link. Open it, then come back and tap I have verified. Google accounts skip this.
• What you do. Tap a role once for something you do, and again for your main thing. This is how people looking for a collaborator find you. You can skip it and change it any time on your profile.
• Your artist name. This is the name on your tracks and your credits. You can change it later.

Forgot your password? Tap Forgot your password? on the sign-in screen and we email you a link to set a new one. Accounts that use Continue with Google do not have one.

2. Find your way around

Collabspot has four tabs. On a wide screen they sit down the left-hand side.

• Projects. Everything you are working on. Anything waiting on you sits at the top under Needs you: invitations to accept and credits to sign.
• Wanted. Ads from people looking for someone to work with, and the deal on offer.
• Map. The people you have worked with, drawn from the credits you have signed.
• Profile. Your name, photo and what you do, plus Get help, Settings and Log out.

3. Start a project and upload a mix

A project is one track and the people working on it. Tap + on the Projects tab, give the track a name and tap Create project. You can rename it later.

Inside the project, tap Upload audio. Once the waveform has been drawn, the track is ready to play. Every later upload becomes a new version: V1, V2 and so on. Switch between them from the top of the track, so you can compare mixes without losing the notes on either.

Song details are optional: the artist to credit, genre, tempo and key. Whatever you fill in shows on the feedback links you share, so whoever you send one to knows what they are hearing.

Everything is open to any account: starting a project, posting a wanted ad, listening, leaving notes, answering an ad, joining a project you are invited to and collecting credits. There is no invite code and nothing to wait for.

4. Get notes pinned to the second

Open a version and tap the waveform to pin a moment. For a longer stretch, choose A passage and drag the edges. Write your note and tap Add note. Tapping any note plays the track from that point, and Mark sorted ticks it off once it is dealt with.

Share for feedback. If the project is yours, the foot of the track has a Create a link button. Anyone can open the link in a browser, hear that version and leave notes on it with just a first name. They do not need an account.

• You see how many people opened it, played it, wrote back and liked it.
• Choose whether a link stops working after 7 days, after 30 days, or never.
• Turn off stops a link at any time. Notes already left stay where they are.
• Show credits puts the signed credits on the link page once there are any.

Notes left through a link read via link, and you can reply to them. If the person claims their note, you can invite them onto the project from right under it.

5. Invite people

Open a project and tap Invite someone. Find the person by the artist name they signed up with, or by email if they are not on Collabspot yet. Then choose their role:

• Editor can upload versions and leave notes.
• Viewer can listen and leave notes.

The invitation lands on their Projects tab, and they choose whether to join. Whoever started the project is its owner, and only the owner can invite or remove people. Make owner hands that over, and you stay on as an editor.

Every project also has a chat. It is for anything that is not about one moment in the track, which is what notes are for.

6. Finish it and sign the credits

When the track is done, the owner taps Finish and sign credits on the project page and then says who did what. Everybody named gets an email and a card under Needs you. They check what was proposed, change their own line if it is wrong, and tap Agree and sign.

• A credit counts only when both people have agreed. Nobody can add themselves to your work.
• Signing is final. Nobody can edit a credit afterwards, and the project can no longer be deleted.
• Left off? Anyone on the project can tap Ask to be credited.
• Either of you can take a signed credit down later, and it stops counting everywhere.

Signed credits draw your Map, with you in the middle:

• A green circle is somebody you have signed a credit with.
• A coral ring is somebody on an unfinished project with you.
• A dashed grey circle is somebody two collaborations away, who you have not worked with yet.

Tap anyone on the map to see what you made together. Share your card turns your verified credits into an image to post. Your map stays private.

To show your credits to the world, go to Settings and Turn on public profile. Anyone with the link sees your verified credits and your bio, and nothing else.

7. Post a wanted ad, or answer one

A wanted ad says what you need and what the deal is. Post one from the Wanted tab with a line about what you need, the detail, the roles and the genre. Then set the terms up front:

• Paid. A fee, in pounds.
• Split. A share of the release. A conversation, not a held balance.
• Unpaid. Portfolio work, and saying so up front is the point.

You can attach a track from one of your projects. Everybody signed in sees the ad, and anyone with its link can read it and hear the track, with or without an account. Applicants arrive with what they would bring and their verified credits. Accept one and a project opens with the two of you on it.

To answer an ad, open it and tap Apply. Say what you would bring to it and anything you have done like it. They see your name and that, nothing else.

What's next

• Open Collabspot and start your first project.
• Stuck? Tap Get help on your profile, or write to support@collabspot.app.
• Read the privacy policy and the terms.