Paperless Music7.0.1 - App Store

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Add your sheet music, guitar tabs, fake books, and scores, and leave your paper behind. Organize, annotate, practice, and perform with the most powerful yet easy-to-use music viewer and manager.

Whether you’re a student or teacher, whether you play in a band, sing in a choir, or gig on the weekends, and no matter what your style of music is, you can count on the app’s reliability for live performances and go paperless with confidence.

Build Your Library

. Import PDF files from the Files app, a web browser, or from many other apps and sources.
. Scan your music with the camera-based document scanner.
. Import images from the Photos app.

Organize Your Music

. Describe and classify your music in great detail with information like title, composer, artist, genres, tags, instruments, key, duration, time signature, rating, difficulty, tempo, web link, and notes.
. Add scores with multiple movements or books with multiple songs, then organize them into sections.
. Create collections to make groups of music, such as setlists, virtual binders, or books.
. Easily find the music and collections you’re looking for with filters. With a few taps, for example, you can see all music that’s in a major key with a 4/4 or 6/8 time signature, having a tempo between 120 - 135 beats per minute.
. Create smart folders to automatically keep your music and collections organized.

Add Audio Tracks

. Add tracks from the Music app.
. Record your own audio.
. Import audio files.
. Adjust pitch and playback speed.
. Turn pages automatically while audio plays.

Stay In Tune

. Tune your instrument using the device microphone.
. Generate a tone using a variety of instruments and sounds.
. Adjust the A4 frequency.
. Select from 10 temperaments to customize the tuning.

Practice and Perform

. View music in portrait or landscape mode.
. Scroll music horizontally or vertically.
. Turn pages by swiping, moving the slider, using a Bluetooth page turner, tapping the edge of the screen, following a link, making a facial gesture, or playing audio that has automatic page turning enabled. (Facial gestures require a device with a TrueDepth camera.)
. Create links to jump or scroll to another page. Links are great for music with repeats or codas. They also allow music to be automatically scrolled with precise timing.
. Use the pencil and highlighter tools to write on music with your finger or with the Apple Pencil. All Apple Pencil settings are supported.
. Add text with options for size, rotation, color, font, and justification.
. Choose from a wide selection of symbols and shapes to add fingerings, dynamics, accidentals, and more.
. Use the low-latency metronome with options for sound, visuals, accent, and count off.

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.

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.
. Undo changes made to any page while the viewer is open.
. Choose from six library view modes for music and three modes for collections.
. Batch edit genres, tags, and instruments.
. 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 the website.

Paperless Music has no ads and no subscriptions. There is no sign-in and there are no accounts.

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Version History • Minor fixes and improvements. 7.0.1 07/31/2025 Tuner and Tone Generator
• Tune your instrument using the device microphone.
• Generate a tone using a variety of instruments and sounds.
• Adjust the A4 frequency.
• Select from 10 temperaments to customize the tuning.

Audio
• Record your own audio.
• Import audio files.
• Adjust pitch and playback speed.
• Turn pages automatically while audio plays.

Second Screen
• Connect two devices and see more of your music.

Symbols
• Nine new symbols including clefs and bar lines.
• Add all symbols to your custom palette with one tap.

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

Backups
• Archive is now Backup.
• Customize the reminder interval in Settings.

And More
• Facial gesture sensitivity
• PDF link support and other PDF improvements
• Page cropping improvements
• New library filters and sort option
• New sharing options
• Faster drawing
• Faster imports 7.0 05/19/2025 • Fixed an issue related to hiding all filter properties.
• Improved a couple of things related to music with sections. 6.0.1 04/11/2023 • Switch between your music and collections in the new sidebar.
• Describe and classify your music in more detail with many new properties.
• Manage what’s visible in your library with powerful new filters.
• Create smart folders to keep your library organized.
• Customize the user interface with new view modes and settings.
• Be more productive with the numerous refinements made to the design.
• Double tap your Apple Pencil to undo when a new setting is enabled. 6.0 03/29/2023 • Fixed a couple of minor issues. 5.3.1 02/10/2023 • Forty-nine new symbols have been added.
• The list of symbols can now be edited to show only the ones you want and in the order you choose.
• A setting has been added for changing the page color.
• The performance of undo and music editing in the viewer has been improved. 5.3 02/02/2023 • Minor improvements related to landscape mode. 5.2.1 12/10/2022 • All Apple Pencil settings are now supported.
• A setting has been added for automatically entering drawing mode when writing on a page with the Apple Pencil.
• A setting has been added for opening a document or collection from the last viewed page.
• A setting has been added for using the PDF filename instead of title during import.
• Undo and redo have been enhanced to include all types of editing in the viewer, including drawing, text, symbols, links, white areas, and page clearing.
• Landscape mode on iPhone has been extended to the entire app.
• Document icon sizes have been slightly reduced for improved presentation, and a third size has been introduced for iPhone.
• Text entry on iPhone has been improved.
• Searching within the user guide is now possible.
• When importing documents, duplicates are now detected and a prompt is shown for how to handle them.
• Selecting all documents on the Music screen is now possible.
• The genres of multiple documents can now be edited at the same time. 5.2 11/16/2022 • Improved the smoothness of scrolling and page turning. 5.1.1 10/10/2022 Vertical Scrolling
• In addition to horizontal scrolling, two types of vertical scrolling have been introduced: compact and full height.
• Easily scroll music by half the screen height or by one full screen.

Links that Scroll
• Links are even more powerful with the introduction of automatic scrolling.
• Simply set the amount of time, and the link will scroll rather than jump to the end.

Tap Zones
• Tap the edge of the screen to turn the page forward or back.
• Tap zones can be turned on or off to suit your preference.

Facial Gestures
• Move your face and head to turn pages or follow links.
• Customize the gestures and actions to your taste.
• (A device with a TrueDepth camera is required.) 5.1 10/06/2022 • When editing a collection, a music document can once again be tapped to view it.
• Sharing a collection has been fixed. 5.0.1 08/20/2022 iPhone
• The full functionality of the app is now available on iPhone.
• Easily transfer your entire music library between devices using the Archive feature, or share specific music and collections.

Sections
• Define one or more sections in any music document.
• Each section has its own title, composer, and more, just like a music document.
• Perfect for fake books, song books, and scores with multiple movements.
• Collections can include documents as well as individual sections.

Other Enhancements
• When drawing, hide the top bar to make more room.
• When importing PDF files, annotations are now included.
• Before importing an archive, optionally view its details.
• Rearrange a collection’s members by title.
• Create more genres and tags.
• Long press any music document and select 'Duplicate' to quickly make a copy.
• For a PDF-based music document, the original PDF file can now be shared.

Be sure to check out the newly updated user guide for more information about all these features. 5.0 08/11/2022 • Import music from the camera using the iPadOS document scanner, which supports advanced features like skew correction, conversion to black & white or grayscale, image rotation, a multiple scan workflow, and more.
• Select multiple photos at once when adding images to music.
• Export a collection as a single PDF file.
• Choose the filename or the original title when importing a PDF.
• Search within the list of music when viewing a large collection.
• Fixed an issue with the appearance of Edit Delay in dark mode.
• If you have any questions, please feel free to contact support from the app’s home screen. 4.6 04/29/2021 • Dark mode. Experience the app in either light or dark mode. (Requires iPadOS 13 or later.)
• Text size. The user interface responds to your selected text size from the Settings app.
• Metronome count off. Before you start performing, you can have the metronome count off to help establish the tempo.
• Landscape zoom. When your device is in landscape mode, you can decide if you want to view two pages side-by-side or view a single page at a customizable zoom level. This can be especially useful for music that is landscape in nature.
• Tracks. Select an audio track from the Music app to associate it with a music document. Easily play back tracks from within the viewer.
• Collection view modes. Browsing your collections is more flexible with support for new view modes.
• PDF import. It’s even easier to import PDF files with the redesigned PDF import interface. Select the page range by quickly scrolling to any page, and see a larger view of each page.
• AirDrop multiple files. More than one file of the same type (like PDF) can be sent to Paperless Music all in one shot.
• Be sure to check out the newly updated help for more information about all these features. Help can be accessed from the app’s home screen.
• If you have any questions, please feel free to contact support from the app’s home screen. 4.5 03/03/2020 • List view. Browse your music library in icon view or the new list view.
• Text highlight. When adding text, you can now select a highlight color.
• Modes. In addition to major and minor keys, choose any modern mode like Dorian or Mixolydian.
• Expand lists. When browsing your collections, enable 'Expand Lists' to show more music.
• Search. Searching within your music library and collections now matches on more content.
• Duplicate. Long press any text or symbol and select 'Duplicate' to quickly make a copy. 4.4 02/03/2020 • Fixed a layout issue that affected the 11-inch iPad Pro. 4.3.3 11/01/2019 • Fixed an issue with setting the text size on devices running iPadOS 13.
• Improved the experience of moving text, symbols, and links. 4.3.2 10/08/2019 • Fixed an issue with some photo-based pages that affected devices running iPadOS 13. 4.3.1 09/30/2019 • Add support for the latest iPad models.
• When adding music to a collection, allow filtering by genre and key.
• For larger devices running in landscape mode, list a collection’s music in two columns.
• Fix an issue with PDF export that affected some devices. 4.3 03/14/2019 • Fixed an issue with drawing that could happen while viewing a collection. 4.2.2 02/01/2018 • Improve drawing performance. 4.2.1 01/16/2018 • Customize the options for pencil, highlighter, symbols, and text by long pressing any size or color icon.
• Use the new white pencil to cover up content with precision, or add white areas as before to efficiently block out larger regions.
• Add more white areas per page.
• Import many files at once using the multi-select feature new to iOS 11.2. (See help in the app for details.)
• Experience smoother, lag-free drawing with the newly enhanced drawing engine.
• Performance improvements. 4.2 12/14/2017 Symbols
• Drag and drop to add fingerings, dynamics, accidentals, and more to your music.
• Choose from different sizes and colors.
• Long press to move or rotate a symbol.

Collections Enhancements
• Select 'Duplicate' from a collection’s menu to make a copy of that collection.
• When viewing music in a collection, keep the music’s view date current to improve sorting on the main Music screen.

Miscellaneous
• During a page turn, display the page coming into view with greater clarity and resolution in more situations.
• When clearing content from a page, select the type of content that you want to clear.
• When editing a music document, allow the entire screen to scroll, making it easier to view and edit the pages. 4.1 11/13/2017 • Fixed an issue with PDF rendering in iOS 10.
• Added support for the 10.5-inch iPad Pro. 4.0.3 06/07/2017 • Fixed an issue with sharing and archiving when a forward slash was present in a title. 4.0.2 06/04/2017