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Build Your Library

Build up your library by adding your PDF files, scanning music with the camera-based document scanner, or adding images from the Photos app. You can even add images to your PDF-based music for the best of both worlds.

PDF files can be imported from the Files app, Mail, a web browser, or other sources, including apps that integrate with the iOS Files app, such as Dropbox and many others. Music can also be transferred to your device over AirDrop.

As you add music, describe and classify it by filling out as little or as much information as you want. The more you provide, the more powerful the organizing capabilities of the app become. You can set the title, composer, artist, genres, tags, instruments, key, duration, time signature, rating, difficulty, tempo, web link, and notes.

Create Collections

Once you’ve begun building up your library, create collections. A collection is a group of music, such as a setlist for a performance, a virtual binder of related music, a song book of your favorites, or any other grouping that you can imagine.

Collections are easy to create, organize, and navigate. The same music can appear more than once in a collection. Collections can even contain “sections” of music. And when you open a collection in the viewer, simply turn the pages from start to finish or view the list and jump right to the music you want.

Organize into Sections

Add scores with multiple movements or books with multiple songs, then organize them into sections. Sections are a lot like regular music. All the types of information that can be filled out for music can also be provided for sections, such as title, composer, key, etc.

When music that has sections is opened in the viewer, the experience is much like viewing a collection. You can turn pages as normal, or you can view the list and easily jump to any section. And when making a collection, sections can even be added to the list.

Search and Filter

Imagine you’re creating a setlist for a performance with your band and you need one more piece to finish it off. Something five to six minutes long, in a jazz style, not too slow (say 120 - 150 beats per minutes), and in a major key.

No problem!

Paperless Music has unmatched search and filtering capabilities that support scenarios just like this. With just a few quick taps, it’s easy to find just what you’re looking for. Choose the tags you want to view, the tempo range, the specific key or even key type (e.g., minor), and much more, with 13 different properties to choose from.

Stay Organized with Smart Folders

A smart folder is a saved filter. Unlike traditional folders, smart folders always stay up-to-date as your library grows and changes, making it easy to keep your library organized.

Want a quick and easy way to access your favorite music? Create a smart folder called “Favorites” that matches on a four- or five-star rating. Want to see everything in your library composed by Bach or Beethoven? Make a smart folder that matches on those two composers. Or how about all of your 6/8 or 9/8 Irish music in E dorian? Set the time signatures, key, and genre, then save the filter as a smart folder.

Choose Your Layout

When viewing music, there are several ways to lay out the pages on the screen, allowing you to make the most of your device’s screen size.

Choose a horizontal layout to view pages arranged from left to right. Or choose from one of two types of vertical layouts to arrange the pages from top to bottom. You can even set your preferred layout based on the landscape or portrait orientation of your device.

In landscape mode, choose a zoom level to affect how wide each page is. This works great in both horizontal and vertical layouts.

Turn the Page

There are many ways to turn pages.

• In horizontal scrolling mode, swipe left or right. In vertical mode, swipe up or down.
• Move the slider at the edge of the screen.
• Use a Bluetooth page turning device, such as those from Coda Music Technologies, PageFlip, and AirTurn.
• Tap the edge of the screen.
• Follow a link to jump to another location.
• Automatically scroll by setting up one or more links.
• Make a facial gesture.
• Play audio that has automatic page turning enabled

Add Links to Jump and Scroll

A link takes you from one point in your music to another. Links are great for marking repeats and codas. Just tap the link and you’re there. You don’t have to worry about turning pages or remembering where to find the repeat sign.

But that’s just the beginning. Links can do more.

They can help with ordinary page turning. Sometimes you want to turn the page but your hands are busy. No problem. Just create a link with a delay. When tapped, the link counts down like a timer, then jumps to the destination.

Links can also automatically scroll your music. You set how long you want it to take, then tapping the link smoothly scrolls the music at the pace you set. This works well not only for scrolling an entire piece of music. It’s also a convenient way to turn a page. Combined with the ability to set a delay, links are incredibly powerful.

Use Facial Gestures

Blink an eye. Move your mouth. Raise your eyebrows and turn your head. Facial gestures allow you to perform actions simply by moving your face and head. That might sound silly, but wait till you try them. A quick and subtle movement can trigger an action without anyone even noticing.

Configure gestures and actions to suit your taste. For example, blink your right eye to turn to the next page. Or move your mouth to the left to follow a link.

(Requires a device with a TrueDepth camera.)

Add Text, Symbols, Shapes

Add text to any page with options for font, size, color, background color, alignment, and rotation.

Choose from a wide selection of symbols to add fingerings, dynamics, accidentals, and more. Customize the symbols palette to show only the symbols you want, in the order you want them.

Add shapes, which are like symbols but have adjustable sizing. Add crescendos, slurs, brackets, staff lines, arrows, and more.

Text, symbols, and shapes are added in a way that allows them to be moved, rotated, edited, or deleted at any time.

Draw and Highlight

Write notes on your music by selecting the pencil or highlighter tool, then draw with your finger or the Apple Pencil. All Apple Pencil settings are supported, including an additional option for double tapping the pencil to undo (for pencils with double tap support).

Even when a drawing tool isn’t selected, you can write directly on a page with an Apple Pencil to begin drawing immediately using the most recently used drawing tool. Or if you prefer, disable the behavior in settings.

The app’s handwriting smoothing ensures that everything you draw looks great, without jitters or jagged edges.

Edit with Confidence

Draw, erase, add a link, drag and drop symbols and shapes, edit text, and more. Any changes you make while in the viewer have full undo and redo support, no matter what page you are viewing.

Any changes you make are automatically saved, so you never have to worry about losing your work.

It’s easy to clear an entire page of any kind of annotation. Select the types of things you want to remove, then erase.

And if you didn’t mean to erase something or you cleared a page unintentionally, just undo. Your edits are always safe.

Add Audio Tracks

Add audio tracks to your music. There are two types:

• Audio File: A file containing audio, such as an m4a or mp3 file. Audio files can be imported or recorded directly within the app. They can be sped up, slowed down, and transposed in half-step increments.
• Apple Music: A track from the Music app on your device, which includes music available through Apple Music if you have a subscription.

If your music is divided into sections, such as a fake book, song book, or score with multiple movements, each section can have its own audio tracks.

You can configure a track so that while it plays, page turning happens automatically. After setting up the page turns, when the audio plays back, the correct page is brought into view at the time you configure. You can fine-tune the experience for horizontal and vertical scrolling, and you can adjust the transitions. For example, in vertical scrolling mode you might want partial page turns or smooth scrolling from the beginning to the end of the piece.

Stay In Tune

Tune your instrument using the device microphone. Generate a tone using a variety of instruments and sounds.

The tuner is responsive, precise, and easy to understand. It detects a broad range of frequencies, allowing you to check the pitch of just about anything.

Select a note with the tone generator, then tap or hold to play. The instruments are carefully designed to produce sounds with harmonics that are perfectly in tune.

Adjust the A4 frequency, which affects both the tuner and the tone generator.

Select from 10 temperaments to customize the tuning. The temperaments are documented in detail in the user guide.

Keep the Beat

Improve your timing with the low-latency built-in metronome. Choose a tempo and accent pattern, then play along.

The metronome can produce an audible sound, a visible pulse, or both.

For live performances, start the metronome, then when ready select the number of beats to count off, after which the metronome will automatically stop. It’s a great way to get in the groove when starting a performance.

The tempo and accent pattern you select is associated with the current music. So when you change the tempo, it automatically gets saved back to the music.

See More with Second Screen

Connect two devices and see more of your music. When viewing music on the main device, it will extend onto the other device’s screen.

The devices don’t need to have the same size. You can connect an iPad with an iPhone, for example.

You don’t even need to be connected to a Wi-Fi network. The devices communicate directly with each other using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. So if you have a gig in a remote area with no services, no problem.

Share and Back Up

Share your music and collections with other Paperless Music users, with or without your annotations or audio tracks.

Share music in native format to preserve all information, or share in PDF format for general sharing and printing.

Create a backup of your library to keep your data extra safe and to easily transfer everything to other devices.

And Much More

• Set the page color of your music.
• Choose from six library view modes for music and three modes for collections.
• Batch edit genres, tags, and instruments.
• Customize many aspects of the app’s behavior in settings.
• Adjust the text size in the Settings app to boost or shrink the size of text throughout Paperless Music.
• Search using Spotlight. Find and launch right into your music even when the app isn’t running.

Learn more by reading the integrated, searchable user guide, accessible from the app’s home screen and from this website.

Why Not?

• Free 90-day trial!
• No subscriptions. If you like the app, a single in-app purchase provides full access to all features.
• No ads.
• No third-party usage tracking.
• No sign-in and no accounts.
• No lock-in because you can export your music in PDF format at any time, with or without your annotations.

Manage your music the way you want. Why not Paperless Music?