QMe Prompter User Manual

Download and sign in

QMe runs on iPhone and iPad, with a companion Apple Watch app. Create an account and your songs, playlists, and books sync to it, the same library appears on every device and in the web console. Two demo songs are added to new accounts so you can try the teleprompter immediately.

The 30-day free trial and QMe Pro

Open the app and play: no account and no card needed to start. You get 30 days with everything unlocked, then a free plan that keeps up to 3 songs. QMe asks you to create a free account when you add your first song of your own, so your songs are on every device and the web console; everything you did before then comes with you.

QMe Pro unlocks unlimited songs and recordings, Group Jam, G2 glasses pairing, backing tracks and the stem mixer, the drum tuner, per-song MIDI, and recording enhancement. Choose monthly, yearly (the best value), or Lifetime: pay once and keep Pro for good. See Account & Subscription.

Built-in tutorials

Short overlay walkthroughs fire the first time you visit each area, Home, the song library, books and color tags, playlists, Jam, the Apple Pencil canvas, and the drum tuner. Skip them any time; they don’t come back.

The web console

Your whole library is editable from any computer. Typing lyrics, bulk imports, and library housekeeping are faster on a keyboard, see the Web Console section for everything it can do. Changes sync to the app instantly.

Your files, in the Files app

Recordings, backing tracks, and imported images live in QMe’s Documents folder, browsable from Apple’s Files app.

Find a song, fast

Type a few letters and QMe live-filters your library by title or artist; tap a result and you’re straight into the teleprompter. Below the search, a Recent row shows your latest songs, and quick-action buttons jump to Add Song, the Tuner, Playlists, and Jam.

Feature cards

Cards introduce what QMe can do, smart glasses, Apple Watch, MIDI, backing tracks, Apple Pencil, the tuners, and tapping one takes you to that feature. The card at the top shows your trial or Pro status.

The song list

Search by typing or by voice (tap the mic and just say it), and sort by title, artist, or date added. Each song row shows its artwork plus small badges: a pencil tip (handwritten notes), an orange note icon (tab image), a blue waveform (backing track), a colored dot (your tag), and the books it belongs to. Swipe left on a row to Edit or Delete. Long-press a row to set its color tag or book membership on the spot.

Books

Books are named collections such as “Wedding Set” or “Sunday Service”, shown as a shelf above the library. Each has a color and an icon, and tapping one filters the list to it. Deleting a book never deletes its songs. Books sync with the web console.

Putting songs in a book

Long-press the song, not the book. The menu that appears has a Books entry listing every book you have; tap one to put the song in it, and a checkmark shows it's a member. Tap again to take it out. A song can live in as many books as you like, and removing it from a book never deletes it from your library.

Color tags

Six colors, yours to define, by band, by readiness, by set. The tag shows as a dot on the artwork, and the chips above the list filter by color with one tap.

Adding songs, every way in

• Create New Song: a blank editor with title, artist, key, BPM, artwork (camera or photo library), and a lyrics-and-chords editor. It can even write lyrics with AI: describe the style and theme and get a complete formatted song to start from.
• Search Online: find the song on Apple Music (title, artist, artwork, and track link fill in automatically), then pull the chords: search AZLyrics in the built-in browser and tap Grab Lyrics, follow the Ultimate Guitar guide, or import a PDF. A paste banner appears automatically when you’ve copied text anywhere.
• Paste Chord Sheet: paste any chord-over-lyrics text; a live preview shows how many sections, lines, and chords QMe detected before you commit.
• Import PDF: QMe reads the PDF’s text and builds sections with chords aligned over the right words. Works best with real-text PDFs, not scans.
• Import ChordPro / text file: accepts .chordpro, .cho, and .txt files with inline [C] chords.
• From Safari: on any lyrics page, tap Share → QMe Prompter. The page opens in QMe with Grab Lyrics ready.

After any import, QMe finds and attaches cover artwork automatically.

Tidy up New in 1.45

One tap cleans a messy chart: sections named, chords moved over the right words, page numbers and web junk removed. Your words are never changed. QMe offers it right after a PDF import, and Undo puts the chart back if you prefer yours. No setup and no key needed.

Time signature New in 1.45

Set 4/4, 3/4, 6/8, 12/8, 5/4, 7/8 and more on each song. It shows on the chart, sets the metronome, and shapes the count-in.

AI Clean Up

Pasted something messy? AI Clean Up strips ads, links, and junk, converts stray tab into chord names, adds section headers, and returns a clean chart. It uses your own Anthropic AI key (a one-time setup in Profile → AI Chord Generation, about a penny per song).

Chords stay where you put them

QMe stores each chord’s exact position over the words it’s played on, and keeps that alignment in the editor, on the teleprompter (even when long lines wrap at big text sizes), on the glasses, and in every export.

The control bar

Three ways to scroll

When Apple Music or a backing track is armed, the audio drives the scroll instead, the lyrics can’t drift from the song. Your chosen mode is remembered; “Show scroll picker on next play” in settings brings the chooser back.

Instrumental intros and solos: mark the song once

Teleprompter → long-press a section on the right-hand rail while the track plays

Auto Scroll paces every line the same. That is fine until the song has an instrumental intro, where the lyrics start moving before anyone sings, or a solo, where they drift on through it. Marking the song fixes both, and you only have to do it once.

How to mark a song

1. Open the song and link it to Apple Music, or attach a backing track. You only need this to mark it, not to play it later.
2. Press play and let the track run.
3. The moment each section starts, press and hold that section on the rail down the right-hand side of the screen. Hold the intro as the song begins, hold Verse 1 the moment the singing starts, hold the chorus when it lands, and so on.
4. A mark appears on the rail for every section you have stamped. That is it, the marks save with the song and sync everywhere.

What happens next

A marked section stores the exact second it starts. From then on, QMe paces the song from those marks even with nothing playing. Hit play on a marked song with no track at all and the lyrics sit still through the intro, start moving the moment the first line is sung, and give the solo its real length instead of scrolling through it.

The settings panel

Scroll mode · scroll speed · pedal setup and per-action assignment · lines-per-stomp for iPad and glasses · instrument filter · tempo (40–240 BPM with mute) · Capo Calculator · count-in on/off and 4/8 beats · Transpose (−6…+6) · Text Size · Chords on/off · Sections on/off · Dark/Light mode.

Saved per song: transpose, text size, tempo, and scroll speed. Set them once on a song and they’re there every time you open it, on every device, you never re-dial a song you’ve already sorted out.

Sections hides the section rail down the right edge and gives the width back to your lyrics. It’s a preference, not a per-song setting, so it stays how you leave it.

Gestures on the lyrics

• Drag to move your place, the section rail follows your finger and wherever you let go becomes your position; auto-scroll continues from there. Tiny accidental brushes are ignored.
• Flick to throw the lyrics and let them coast, a hard flick travels further than a gentle one, exactly like any other list on iOS. Auto-scroll picks up from wherever it settles.
• Tap a line while playing to re-sync to it (voice follow picks up from there).
• Long-press a line for Touch Mode, then tap any line to jump precisely.
• Pinch to resize the text live. QMe saves it as a ratio of your normal size rather than a fixed point size, so a song set larger on the iPad is proportionally larger on the iPhone too, instead of overflowing the smaller screen. Pinch back to normal and the song goes back to following your default.
• Swipe left/right to change songs inside a setlist.

Section timeline & looping

A rail of every section, tap one to jump there. The ⟳ loop button lets you pick a start and end section and loop the range for practice. With an Apple Music track playing, long-press a section to stamp its exact time (or use tap mode to mark a whole song in one pass, and fill to estimate the rest) so section jumps seek the audio precisely.

Count-in

A one- or two-bar count with clicks, haptics, and a big on-screen countdown before the scroll starts, lyrics stay readable behind it. When you’re recording, the count runs silently so clicks never end up on your take.

New in 1.48: the clicks are evenly spaced from the first to the last, and the song comes in right on the downbeat after the count.

Recording takes

Three options: Audio Only, Video, You (front camera with a lyrics overlay), or Video, Audience View (back camera). A live mic meter shows your level; stopping opens a save sheet where you name the take or discard it. Takes land in the Takes tab.

Practice with the record: Apple Music & backing tracks

Link a song to its Apple Music track, or attach a local audio file as a backing track PRO, which is more reliable than streaming on stage and becomes the default source for that song. Press play and QMe plays the audio while locking the lyrics to the playback position. A “Bluetooth Audio” pill appears when sound is routed to Bluetooth.

Why this is the fastest way to learn a song

You hear the original and read the chart at the same time, and the words are always where the singer is. No guessing at a tempo, no scroll drifting out of time while you are trying to learn the changes.

• Loop the part you keep missing. Long-press a section on the right-hand rail to loop it. The music loops with you, so you can run the bridge ten times without touching anything.
• Mark where sections start. While the track plays, press and hold each section as it begins. QMe stores the exact second, and from then on it paces the song from those marks. That is what holds the lyrics still through a long instrumental intro instead of scrolling away before anyone sings. See Instrumental intros and solos below.
• It carries over to the gig. The same link means the lyrics cannot drift on the night, because the audio is driving them rather than a tempo estimate.

Lyrics or Chart New in 1.45

Flip from the scrolling lyrics to a chart of the whole song on one page: boxed sections, a song map, and chords as letters, Nashville numbers or Roman numerals. The chart follows the song as you play. See Chart View.

Change key by voice New in 1.45

Tap the mic and say the key you want, "transpose to A" or just "A", "up two", or "back to the original key". The chords change at once. See Change key by voice for the details.

Voice Follow learns your voice

The more you sing a song, the steadier Voice Follow gets. It learns how you pace each song, so it keeps scrolling through loud choruses and guitar solos, and it learns the words it tends to mishear in your voice. Nothing to set up.

Edit lyrics without leaving the stage

A full editor opens over the prompter and returns you to the same spot. It includes an AI Lyric Assistant: “write a chorus”, “add a bridge”, or your own prompt, with suggestions you can insert in one tap.

BPM and the Capo Calculator

Set BPM by typing, tapping the tempo out, choosing a preset, or looking it up online in-app. The Capo Calculator takes the song’s key and shows what shapes to play at every capo fret, starring the positions that land on easy open chords.

Where to find it

Tap Chart and the song turns into a chart: every section in its own box with its badge and name on the border, a song map of section badges across the top, and the Key, Tempo and Time in the corner. Tap Lyrics to go back to the scrolling prompter. QMe remembers which one you used last.

While the song plays, the line you are on lights up green, its section box is outlined, and the page follows you down. Tap any box, or any badge in the song map, to jump straight there.

Chords, Nashville numbers or Roman numerals

Pick how the chords read. Numbers is the Nashville number system (1, 4, 5, 6m), Numerals is Roman numerals (I, IV, V, vi). Extensions are written small and raised, so a G7 in the key of G reads 1⁷, never "17".

• Numbers are worked out from the song's key, so set it in Edit Song. Until a song has a key, the chord names show.
• A minor key is numbered from its relative major, the usual Nashville habit: in E minor, Em reads 6m.
• Slash chords keep the bass: D/F# in D reads 1/3.
• Transpose the song and the letters change, the numbers stay the same. That is the point of numbers.

Black or white page, and extra-large type

The sun and moon button switches between a black page for a dark stage and a white page like paper. The A button turns on extra-large type, about 1.7 times the size in one column, for reading from the back of the stage.

Send the chart, or a whole setlist

The share button turns the chart into a PDF (white page, two columns, chords as you have them showing) and hands it to Messages, Mail, AirDrop, Files or Print. Great for the sub who is learning the set.

From a setlist, Send Charts (PDF) puts every song in the set into one PDF, a page per song, in set order.

On the web, the print button opens a clean white copy and your browser's print window, where you can print it or choose Save as PDF.

Change key by voice

Tap the mic and a card shows what it is for: say the key you want the song in. Then just say it:

• "transpose to A", or just "A"
• "key of B flat", "F sharp"
• "up two", "down a half step"
• "back to the original key"

The chords change at once, in the lyrics and on the chart, and the new key is saved to the song.

Rig and light buttons New in 1.48

Every section box carries two buttons: a light and a rig. The first time you open a chart, a pop-up explains them.

• Hold the rig button, then change your rig or preset on your amp modeler or pedal. QMe learns it and switches your gear to that rig every time the song reaches this section.
• Hold the light button and the section gets its own lighting cue. QMe sends it straight away, so your lighting app or controller can learn the look you want for that section.
• Tap either button to test what is set.

Time signature

Set 4/4, 3/4, 6/8, 2/4, 12/8, 5/4, 7/8, 9/8 or 2/2 on each song. It shows on the chart, sets the metronome, and shapes the count-in (a 6/8 song is counted in two).

Foot pedal

Give a pedal button Lyrics / Chart to flip between the two hands-free. Next Section, Previous Section and Back to Top work on the chart too. See Foot Pedals.

Where to find it

A backing track plays inside the teleprompter while your lyrics and chords follow it. In Tools → Backing Tracks you can play, slow down, loop and mix any song's track without opening the prompter. Tracks follow your account to every iPad you sign in on, and AirPlay sends the sound to a speaker, HomePod, Apple TV or Mac.

Try the sample song

New to QMe? One tap downloads "Lights Up", a full band on separate tracks with the words already timed to the music. It opens in the prompter with the mixer up, so you can hear everything on this page straight away. It does not use one of your free-plan songs.

The stem mixer

When a song has stems (each instrument on its own track), every part gets its own fader with M (mute), S (solo) and pan, a live level meter, and a Master fader. Changes are heard at once and each song remembers its own mix.

In the prompter, the settings panel has two tabs, Settings and Mixer. Drag the panel up or down to see more of the board or more of the lyrics. Faders only move on a deliberate drag, so a bump on stage will not change your levels.

A song with a single track (no stems) gets one fader, so you can still set its level.

My part

Pick your instrument once (guitar, bass, keys, drums, vocals and so on) and that stem starts muted in every song, so you play your part over the rest of the band. Tap its M to bring it back for a run-through.

Key and speed

Change the track's key up or down six half steps, and slow it down or speed it up for practice without changing the key. Both are saved to the song. Long-press a section on the right-hand rail to loop it while you learn the part.

Import stems from any app

Bring in a song's stems as a ZIP, a folder, or a set of audio files, from Suno, MultiTracks, Loop Community, Karaoke Version, Moises or your own session. QMe names each part from its file, and click and guide tracks start switched off. A ZIP or audio file opened in QMe from Files or the share sheet lands here too.

Import from Suno

Paste the lyrics from Suno (section tags like [Verse] and [Chorus] are kept, notes like [End] and (ooh) are dropped), then pick the Stems ZIP or the audio files. The lead vocal starts unticked, and the song is ready to play with the mixer. See also performing Suno songs live.

Voice Follow and a backing track

Voice Follow listens through the microphone, so with the band coming out of the speakers it would hear the track instead of you. When you pick Voice with a backing track, QMe asks first: Use Auto Scroll (the lyrics follow the track, the best choice with a track) or Voice Follow without the track.

Chords from stems New in 1.48

QMe writes the chords over your lyrics from the song's own stems, on the word where each change lands, with chord rows for the intro, instrumental and outro. It fills in the key and tempo if the song has none. Play along to check, change any chord you hear differently, or tap Undo. Nothing is saved until you tap Save. Needs the song's stems with a Lead Vocal stem. Full page: Chords from Stems.

Lock the click to the song

The metronome can stay in time with an Apple Music song or a backing track. Start the song, then tap the pad on every beat, starting on a 1. After 16 steady taps (about one line) the click is locked: it follows the song's own position, so it stays with it through a pause, a jump to another section, or a slowed-down track.

• If it slowly slips later in the song, tap along there for a few beats and it locks tighter.
• Unlock and start over clears it.
• Songs recorded without a click (a live drummer, a lot of older records) speed up and slow down, and a steady click cannot follow that. Songs recorded to a click, which is most modern music, stay locked.

Connecting and learning your pedal

Pedals act like tiny keyboards, so they pair in iOS Bluetooth settings, QMe hears them automatically, and common pedals work with zero setup. Tap Learn Pedal, press your advance pedal, then your back pedal, and QMe memorizes your buttons whatever mode the pedal is in. A built-in Device Guide has per-model steps (LEKATO, AirTurn DUO, JOYO, generic).

The pedal works in every scroll mode, before play, during the count-in, mid-auto-scroll, and paused. It’s the hands-free safety valve.

A button QMe doesn’t know yet New in 1.40

Press a pedal button that isn’t assigned to anything and QMe asks what it should do: Next line, Previous line, or Not now. Pick one and that button works from then on. It makes a new pedal, or a friend’s, work on the spot with no trip to the settings.

Six actions, three gestures per button

Assignable actions: Advance · Back · Start/Stop · Scroll Faster · Scroll Slower · Toggle Auto-Scroll. Each physical button can carry a different action on Tap, Double Tap (two quick presses), and Hold (half a second), so a 2-button pedal reaches all six. Buttons without gestures fire instantly with zero added delay.

New in 1.45: Next Section, Previous Section, Lyrics / Chart (flip to the chart and back) and Back to Top join the list.

Lines per stomp, iPad and glasses separately

One advance press jumps the iPad by a half-page turn (default 6 lines) and the glasses more gently (default 4), each adjustable, because the two displays read differently.

Connect your gear

Pair Bluetooth MIDI devices, see every connected output, and target one (or broadcast to all). A Test Messages section sends Program Changes and Control Changes on demand so you can prove the connection before a gig.

Per-song and per-section MIDI

Give each song Song Start actions (patch selects, scenes) and By Section actions, clean for the verse, drive for the chorus, boost for the solo, fired automatically as the prompter enters each section, however you got there. Each action has a name, type (PC/CC), channel, values, and optional bank select. MIDI Learn captures values straight from your gear, and Test fires an action immediately.

When Song Start fires: whenever the song opens in the teleprompter, from the library, from search, from a setlist, anywhere. You don’t need a setlist for a song’s own MIDI to work.

Where it goes: to every connected MIDI output at once. The device picker in Tools → MIDI Devices only narrows the Test buttons; it never limits what a song sends during playback.

MIDI through a setlist

With this on, moving to the next song in a set automatically fires that song’s MIDI, your rig follows the setlist by itself.

Control QMe from a MIDI pedal board

Drive the teleprompter from a Morningstar MC8, a Behringer FCB1010, or any controller that sends Control Change messages. Turn on Control QMe with MIDI, then tap Learn beside any of the six pedal actions and press the button on your board. QMe listens on every MIDI channel on purpose, so a board that gets re-channelled between gigs keeps working.

Nothing is assigned until you assign it. That is deliberate: CC 64 is the standard sustain pedal controller, so a preset binding would let a keyboard player stop their song every time they pressed sustain. If your board follows the SongBook Pro convention, Use Suggested sets CC 65 to advance and CC 64 to start and stop in one tap.

A MIDI board and a Bluetooth pedal work at the same time, so you can switch between them mid-set without reprogramming anything.

Turned off by default, so if you use MIDI only for patch changes a stray CC can never start your song.

Bulk MIDI import

Migrating? Import your entire library’s MIDI in one pass on the web console, from a CSV export or straight from a SongBook Pro backup. See Web Tools.

Build a setlist

Name it, add an optional venue, then add songs from a searchable picker. Edit mode reorders by drag and removes with a tap. Split long shows into set groups: “1st Set”, “2nd Set”, “Encore”. The toolbar shows an estimated total running time for the whole set.

Run the show

Plays the set in order in the teleprompter; swipe left/right to move between songs, and the glasses and pedal follow along. Each row shows the song’s estimated duration and BPM.

Share and print

Share Playlist sends a formatted setlist (numbers, artists, BPM, key) by message or mail; Print Playlist makes a clean printer-ready copy for the stage floor. Deleting a playlist never touches the songs in it.

Send every chart as one PDF New in 1.45

Every song in the set as a chart, a page per song, in set order, in one PDF you can send by Messages, Mail or AirDrop, or print. The charts show chords the way you have Chart View set: letters, Nashville numbers or Roman numerals.

Set up and pair

1. Set up your G2 in the Even Realities app, then in its Even Hub, search for QMe Prompter and install the plugin.
2. Open QMe Prompter on the glasses, the lens shows a 4-digit code.
3. In QMe: Profile → G2 Glasses → type the code → Pair. Glasses Mode switches on automatically, and the link persists, you won’t pair again.

What the glasses show

Three already-sung lines above for context, the line you are on, and the lines coming up, each with its chords directly above the words they belong to, in your transposed key. There is no arrow: the line you are singing is always the same row, so nothing moves around to distract you.

The first character on the top row is the play state, in one fixed place:

A + marks the first line of each section, so you can see a chorus or bridge arriving without looking down at the iPad. The display is decluttered automatically: blank lines, separators, tab blocks, chord diagrams, and section headers are filtered out so every row of the small display is lyrics and chords, your songs themselves are untouched. In voice mode the lens flips to the next line just before you need it.

Glasses gestures

Song picks from the glasses start playback automatically (you can’t reach the phone), and stale commands queued while your phone was locked are discarded rather than yanking your set around.

Playing without internet

QMe caches the setlist to the glasses (up to 60 songs, plus a browser of up to 50 setlists). If the connection drops mid-show, the lens keeps showing lyrics and chords, marks itself OFFLINE, and you drive it entirely from the glasses, running past a song’s end rolls into the next song. Live sync resumes by itself. Closing the teleprompter on the iPad doesn’t blank the glasses either.

Brightness and fit

If the text looks dim, raise the display brightness in the Even app (turn off auto-brightness to set it manually), and adjust the display position and nose pads, the closer the projection sits to the centre of your vision, the brighter it reads.

How they differ from the G2

These glasses are not a separate app or an integration. Each one is a screen that plugs into your iPad or iPhone with a single USB-C lead, so QMe simply draws to it the way it would draw to a monitor. That has one big consequence on stage: nothing travels over wifi, bluetooth or the internet, so there is nothing to drop out. The G2 is wireless and hands-free, which a cable can't match; a cable can't lose signal, which wireless can't match. They suit different gigs.

What you need

A USB-C port that carries video, which Apple calls DisplayPort Alt Mode. The USB-C iPad Pro has it, as do several iPad Air and mini models, and iPhone 15 onward. Older Lightning devices cannot drive these glasses at all, whatever adapter you use.

Setting up

Plug them in. That is genuinely the whole thing. QMe notices the screen and starts sending it a lyric view: large text with the chords above the words, the line you're on in the middle, and what's coming next below. Your iPad keeps the full interface, so scrolling, pedals, MIDI, the metronome and recording all carry on exactly as before. The glasses are a second screen, not a separate mode.

A screen for the room instead

Any screen QMe sends to can show the words for an audience rather than your own view. See Audience View.

See it before you buy

Opens the real glasses view full screen on your own device, so you can judge the size and layout without owning a pair. Open a song first and it shows your own lyrics, following along as you scroll.

Start or join

Start a Jam and share the 6-digit code; bandmates Join with it. Choose Solo Singer (everyone’s screen follows the one voice) or Multi Singer (each device tracks its own singer) and pick a 4- or 8-bar count-in.

Tick the songs to start with from your Library or a Setlist (each setlist has a Select All). The button says exactly what goes in, for example Start Jam with 3 songs. You can also start with none at all, Start Jam, pick songs as you go, and choose each song from your whole library once the band is in.

In the jam

The screen shows the session code, who’s in, and who’s singing. If you scroll away from the singer, a Follow button snaps you back. The pedal works here too, and you can record the session, jam takes get a green JAM badge in the Takes tab. Jam keeps its own settings (font, dark mode, count-in) separate from your solo setup.

The Jam home screen New in 1.40

The X on the lyrics takes you to Jam home. It only leaves the song: the jam keeps running and everyone stays connected. Everything that runs the jam sits in the top bar:

• Lyrics (left): back to the song that is on.
• JAM CODE (middle, in green): the code to give bandmates. Tap it to copy.
• Band: everyone in the jam, when they joined, and an Invite someone button that shares the code.
• Audience: put the words on a TV, a projector, a Zoom share or phones in the room. See Audience View.
• End Jam (red): ends the jam for everyone, after asking you to confirm. Bandmates see Leave instead, which only takes them out.

Under the top bar, the Band row shows who is in: a crown for the host, a microphone for whoever is singing, and NEW for a minute after someone joins. A green “Sam joined the jam” banner drops in when someone arrives.

Pick any song, any time New in 1.40

The host can search the whole library from Jam home, not only the songs the jam started with. Tap a song and it joins the jam and every screen switches to it. A bandmate who was on Jam home is taken straight back to the lyrics. Songs already played sit under In this jam, one tap to go back to any of them. Swiping left and right on the lyrics still moves through the jam’s songs.

Where to find it

Audience View shows the line you are singing in large type, the next line dimmed underneath, and, if you want, UP NEXT with the song title between songs. No chords, no controls, no counters: just what people should sing. There are three ways to get it in front of the room.

1. Any screen with a web browser

Switch it on and QMe gives you a link, qmeprompter.com/show/ plus your code, and a QR code. Open the link on anything with a browser and it shows your words as you sing:

• a Mac or PC, a smart TV’s browser, or the church’s projector computer (click the page for full screen)
• phones in the room: people scan the QR code
• OBS for Zoom or a livestream: add a Browser Source and paste the link. Add ?bg=transparent to the end of the link to lay the words over your video.

The link stays the same from gig to gig, so you only set up OBS or the church computer once. New link replaces it if the old one gets around.

2. Apple TV, a Mac, or a cable

AirPlay: open Control Center on the iPad, tap Screen Mirroring, and pick the Apple TV or Mac. Cable: plug in an HDMI or USB-C adapter. QMe shows Screen connected when it sees the screen.

Set Audience and that screen shows the words for the room while your iPad keeps your normal prompter, chords and all. With Voice Follow, the words turn green as you sing them. No internet needed. Set Performer instead and the screen shows your own lyric view with chords, for display glasses or a stage monitor.

3. This iPad

For when you share the iPad’s own screen. While a song is open, the audience view covers your prompter. Tap the screen for Start / Stop and Back to my prompter; the buttons fade away after a few seconds. Your pedal and Voice Follow keep working underneath. If you go back to your prompter on this iPad, anyone watching this screen sees your prompter too, so for a room that should only ever see words, use option 1 or 2.

Song titles and a preview

With Show song titles between songs on, a song that is open but not started shows UP NEXT and its title above the first line, and between songs the room sees the next song in the setlist. Turn it off for a plain dark screen between songs. Preview the audience view shows exactly what the room will see.

Guitar & bass tuner

A chromatic tuner with ten guitar tunings (Standard, Drop D, DADGAD, open tunings…) and six bass tunings. Big note display with frequency and cents, color-coded as you close in, “tune up / tune down” guidance, and a ding when you land. An All Strings mode lights up each string as you get it in tune. The tuner also streams to your Apple Watch and can be opened on the G2 glasses.

Drum tuner PRO

Four modes: Pitch (find the fundamental), Lug (even tension around the head), Resonant (balance batter against resonant head), and Spectrum (full frequency analysis). Fourteen genre presets, Classic Rock, Bonham-style, Metal, and more, with per-drum targets, and your own kit presets can be saved, exported, and shared.

Metronome

A rotary dial for BPM, tap tempo, accented downbeats, and time signatures including odd meters via Custom. The teleprompter’s click and count-in are the same engine, tied to each song’s BPM and time signature.

Five click sounds: Beep, Woodblock, Hi-hat, Rimshot and Cowbell, picked here or at the bottom of the prompter's Set BPM pop-up. Accent beat 1 turns the louder downbeat on or off.

Locked to the song: in Set BPM you can tap along with an Apple Music song or a backing track and the click then stays in time with it. See Lock the click to the song.

Leave feedback

Pick Something’s broken, Feature idea, or Something else, type your message, and QMe opens your mail app with it addressed to support, along with your app version, device, and iOS version, so nobody has to ask you which build you’re on. You see the whole email before it sends and can edit or bin it.

QMe also asks how it’s going once you’ve run a few songs. Say it’s great and you’re offered the App Store rating sheet; say it isn’t and you get this form instead, because a fixable problem is worth more to us than a star rating. Either way you’re only asked once, and never while the teleprompter is open.

Play, search, share, delete

Every audio and video take from the teleprompter and jams, searchable and sortable, with badges for type and a full-screen player for video. Share exports the file anywhere; delete asks first. Free accounts hold 3 takes; Pro is unlimited.

Enhance PRO

A one-tap audio clean-up pass, on-device, for audio and video takes alike. The original is never overwritten, you can A/B Play Original against Play Enhanced, re-enhance, or discard the enhanced copy.

The notes canvas

Draw freely with Apple Pencil (finger pans, pencil draws) on a guitar tab sheet or a music staff sheet, across multiple pages. A song info bar stores tuning, key, capo, tempo, and time signature.

Chord boxes and manual tab

Search any chord (“Am, G7, F#m…”) and drag it onto a chord box: multiple voicings included. Tap a tab line to place a cursor and type frets and techniques (hammer-ons, bends, slides) from the on-screen pad.

Tab from Photo

Photograph a printed tab (or pick one from your library) and QMe reads it with on-device text recognition. You can also attach any chord-sheet image and view it full-screen over the teleprompter, annotating on top.

Share and print

Export the tab sheet, the lyrics sheet, or the attached image, or open the zoomable print view for paper copies.

Five screens, one glance each

Every control gives haptic feedback, and the metronome can tick on your wrist with a stronger downbeat, a click only you can feel.

Subscription

Your trial countdown or Pro status, the monthly and yearly plans, and Restore Purchase for subscriptions bought on another device with the same Apple ID. Renewals and cancellations sync automatically.

AI setup (your own key)

QMe’s AI features, Clean Up, lyric generation, the lyric assistant, run on your own Anthropic AI key, so there’s no markup and costs are typically under a cent per song. A 4-step wizard walks you through creating the key; it’s stored in your device’s secure Keychain, never on QMe’s servers.

Affiliate program

Share your referral code and earn 20% of the first year and 10% recurring on every musician you bring in, paid monthly to PayPal once you reach $10. If they buy Lifetime instead, you earn 10% of what QMe receives, paid once after a 60-day hold. The screen tracks your earnings and activity.

Leave feedback

The same form as the Tools tab, a bug report or a feature request, straight to the person who builds QMe. See Tools.

Sign out and delete account

Sign Out switches accounts without touching data. Delete Account permanently removes your account, songs, setlists, and recordings after a re-authentication step, it cannot be undone.

Song editor, four modes

• Structured: sections, lines, and chords as clickable elements. Click above any word to set its chord exactly there; add and remove lines and sections inline.
• ChordPro: the whole song as standard ChordPro text with [C] inline chords, faithful to your stored chord positions. Paste from anywhere.
• Plain Text: just the words, fastest for typing lyrics in. Chords on their own line above the words and [Section] names are kept.
• Chart New: the song as a chart, the same as the iPad's Chart View, with chords, Nashville numbers or Roman numerals, a black or white page, extra-large type, and Print / Save as PDF. See Chart View.

Title, artist, key, BPM, duration override, notes, and color tag sit at the top; a Live Preview pane shows the performance view as you edit, and unsaved changes are flagged until you Save.

Web teleprompter

A full teleprompter in the browser: play/pause, manual or BPM auto-scroll, font and tempo controls, voice follow, previous/next through a setlist, and camera recording for practice review. The Chart button switches to the chart, where the current line lights up and a click on a section jumps there.

Tidy up

Cleans a messy chart: sections named, chords over the right words, page junk removed, every word kept. You see the before and after side by side and choose Use tidied or Keep mine, then press Save.

PDF import with Apple Music matching

Drop a PDF chord sheet; choose Smart, ChordPro, or plain parsing; QMe warns if you already have a song with that title and can search Apple Music to link the track in the same step.

Follow a session from any phone, Android included

Console sidebar → ⇅ Import / Export → ♫ Follow a session

A bandmate does not need an iPhone to follow your setlist. They open qmeprompter.com in any browser, on Android, Windows, an old tablet, anything, and follow along live while you lead from the app.

How to set it up

1. On your iPhone or iPad, start a Jam session as you normally would. QMe shows a short session code.
2. Your bandmate opens qmeprompter.com in their browser and signs in. A free QMe account is enough, they do not need a subscription and they do not need the app.
3. In the sidebar they open ⇅ Import / Export and tap ♫ Follow a session.
4. They type in your code. The song opens and the lyrics start moving with you.

What they see

Whatever you are on. When you change songs, their screen changes. When you move down the page, their page moves. Chords appear above the words exactly as they do on your iPad. A small line at the top corner shows whose session they are following.

Setlists on the web

Build and reorder setlists, then share them: copy as text, download as a file, share a link, or your device’s native share. ▶ Perform runs the whole set in the web teleprompter.

Books, tags, and sorting

The same books and six color tags as the app, create books with a color and icon, filter and sort your library, and everything appears on the iPad instantly.

Manage / delete songs in bulk

Search, filter, and check off any number of songs, then delete them in one action, behind a two-step confirmation so a slip can’t wipe anything.

Glasses Preview, see a song on the lens

Shows any song exactly as your G2 glasses will render it, line by line, before you get to the gig. It runs the same code the glasses run, so it is not an impression of the layout, it is the layout.

It also checks the song for you and flags which lines will wrap onto a second row on the small display, where a chord had to be pulled in to fit the width, and where each section starts. Paste a song in, or open one in the editor and press the Glasses button to load it straight in.

You can edit in the box and watch the lens redraw as you type, which makes it quick to try a shorter line or nudge a chord along before committing to it. Editing there does not change your library: make the real change in the song editor.

Export ChordPro

Back up your entire library as standard ChordPro files, one file per song or a single zip. Your songs are always portable; nothing is locked in.

Export PDF

Pick songs and generate clean printed chord charts, chords above lyrics, one song per page, then save as PDF from the print dialog.

Import ChordPro

Drop any number of ChordPro files to add them all as new songs in one pass. Accepts .chordpro, .cho, .pro, .crd and .txt.

Lyrics in Pages, Word or Google Docs

Documents from a word processor cannot be imported directly. A .pages or .docx file will not even be selectable in the file picker. There are two ways to bring those lyrics across.

Paste them (quickest for a few songs). Sign in to the console on your computer, open or create the song, set the editor to Plain Text, then copy the lyrics out of your document and paste them straight in. No file, no formatting, nothing to convert. It syncs to your iPad immediately.

Save as plain text first (best for a lot of songs). In Pages choose File → Export To → Plain Text. In Word or Google Docs, save or download as .txt. Then drop those files into Import ChordPro, which happily takes plain text with no chords in it at all.

Import from SongBook Pro, one drop

Drop your raw .sbpbackup file and QMe imports everything in one step, songs with chords, keys, tempos, capo notes, and each song’s MIDI commands. A MIDI-only mode adds commands to songs you’ve already imported, matched by title.

Import MIDI from CSV

Bulk-attach MIDI commands from a SongBook Pro CSV export, matched by song title, written in order.

Import.qmeset

Import a QMe setlist file shared by another QMe user.

Reset library

Wipes songs, setlists, and books for a clean start, useful before re-importing a whole library. It demands you type DELETE to confirm and can’t be reached by accident.

My pedal does nothing / does the wrong thing

Check the pedal’s mode first (the Device Guide lists the right one per model), then run Learn Pedal again. The Pedal diagnostics readout shows exactly what each press sends, if presses appear there, QMe hears the pedal and it’s an assignment fix; if nothing appears, re-pair in iOS Bluetooth settings. Note the pedal is intentionally off while the Apple Pencil canvas is open.

I can’t sign in

If QMe says the email and password do not match, check the password or tap Forgot Password?. If you made your account with Sign in with Apple, use that button: that account has no password.

The password reset email never came

QMe always says the email is on its way, even when no account uses that address, so nobody can use the form to find out who has an account. Give it a few minutes and check spam or junk. Still nothing? Try the email you signed up with, or Sign in with Apple if that is how you made the account.

A bandmate doesn’t switch songs in a jam

They are on an older QMe. Songs the host adds from search only reach QMe 1.40 or later. On Jam home an older version shows an orange ring round their name; ask them to update from the App Store.

Voice follow keeps losing me

It hears the room. Raise the Instrument Filter in teleprompter settings, feed the iPad a vocal-only mixer send kept dry, disconnect Bluetooth headsets (iOS may grab their mic), or use Auto or Pedal mode on loud stages. During video recording the camera owns the mic, so QMe switches to auto-scroll automatically. See the band setup diagram for wiring a vocal-only feed into the iPad.

The glasses text is dim

Raise display brightness in the Even Realities app (turn off auto-brightness), and adjust the display position and nose pads, centred projection reads brightest.

The glasses show OFFLINE

Normal, the connection dropped and the lens is running from its cached setlist. Keep playing and drive it with the glasses gestures; it re-syncs by itself. Open your setlist once while online before a show so the cache is fresh (it holds up to 60 songs).

Glasses “Linked” but no lyrics

Profile → G2 Glasses → Reset Pairing, then enter the fresh 4-digit code from the lens. If the glasses plugin is very old, restart it from the Even Realities app first.

Chords look bunched at the left on one song

That song’s chord line carries no position information (a bare “Am F C G” list), so QMe spreads the chords evenly. Re-import it from ChordPro with inline chords, or click the chords into place in the web console’s Structured editor.

I edited on the website and it didn’t reach the iPad at a gig

Sync happens while the app is online. Open QMe with a connection once after editing on the web and everything is on the device, the whole library reads fine offline after that.

The tempo or scroll speed I set doesn’t come back

Both are saved to the song as soon as you change them, so this should stick. If a song still opens at the wrong speed, it was last saved on a build older than 1.24, set it once more and it’ll hold from then on.

AI buttons say a key isn’t configured

QMe’s AI features run on your own Anthropic key, a one-time, 4-step setup in Profile → AI Chord Generation. It’s stored only in your device’s Keychain and costs about a penny per song.

The music got quieter when Voice Follow started

Fixed in QMe 1.48: Apple Music and backing tracks now keep their volume when Voice Follow starts listening. Update QMe from the App Store.

Chords from stems won't start

The button says what is missing. It needs the song's separate stems including a Lead Vocal stem (add them with Import Stems), and the stems have to be on this device (open the song once with its track so they download). The first time, your iPhone or iPad asks to allow Speech Recognition for QMe: tap Allow. If you tapped Don't Allow, turn it on in Settings → QMe. See Chords from Stems.