The Teleprompter iOS

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.

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.

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.