The performance screen. Tap any song to open it.
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| ✕ | Close (stops and offers to save a running recording) |
| ↺ | Restart from the top, re-runs the count-in and rewinds the track. Works mid-song without pausing first, and if you were paused it leaves you paused at the top rather than launching into the song. |
| ⏺ | Record a take, audio, video of you, or video of the audience |
| ▶ / ⏸ | Start and stop the scroll (the icon reflects your scroll mode) |
| ♩ | Metronome on/off, long-press to set the BPM (tap tempo included) |
| 🎹 | Fire this song’s MIDI now, long-press to edit its MIDI actions |
| ⊞ | Views: inline lyric editor, Apple Pencil tab canvas, or a tab image overlay |
| 🎵 | Audio source: Apple Music, backing track, or off |
| ⚙︎ | The settings panel (below) |
| Mode | How it moves |
|---|---|
| Voice Follow | QMe listens to you sing and follows, highlighting words green as you go. A floating pill shows the word it’s tracking. An Instrument Filter in settings tunes out guitar and band noise, it is on by default, and QMe remembers if you turn it off. |
| Auto Scroll | Smooth, constant-speed scrolling paced to the song’s BPM. The speed slider is a multiplier on the tempo, centre is exactly your BPM, right up to 2×, left down to a crawl. |
| Foot Pedal | The screen moves only when you say so, pedal, tap, or Apple Watch. |
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.