Navigate the reader

Open a score from the library, then move through it three ways: page-edge taps and swipes for the next turn, the bottom scrubber for a long jump, and Movements for a jump to a named section.

Turn pages

• Tap the outer quarter of the score — right side for the next page, left side for the previous page. Taps in the middle half of the page never turn it; that area is reserved for selection and notation tools.
• Swipe left for the next page, or right for the previous page.
• Double-tap the centre of the score to enter or leave full screen. In full screen the score fills the display and the tab strip and scrubber hide; on iPad, and on iPhone in portrait, double-tap again brings them back.

For pedals, tilt, face gestures, and hands-free turning, continue with Page turning.

Limit On iPhone, landscape is always full screen. Double-tapping there does not leave full screen — it only re-shows the Landscape uses full screen — rotate upright for navigation hint. Rotate the phone upright to get the tab strip and scrubber back; the reader then returns to whichever full-screen state you were in before rotating.

Limit Page gestures pause while the score is being used as a placement surface: during Follow calibration, while a Focus Mode passage is locked, and while an annotation placement tool is active. Finish or close the active tool and the same gestures turn pages again.

Scrub to a distant page

A thin scrubber track runs along the bottom edge of the score. It fades out a few seconds after your last interaction and reappears whenever the page changes.

1. Touch the round thumb on the track and drag it.
2. A preview card floats above your finger showing the page under the thumb, with a p. N / total caption. PDF scores show a real page thumbnail; engraved (MusicXML/MEI) scores show a numbered card.
3. Release to land on the previewed page.

Two pages in landscape

On iPad in landscape, the reader shows two pages side by side, like an open book, whenever the score has a facing page to show. One turn advances a whole spread — two pages — so the visible pair stays a coherent opening; the scrubber caption reads p. X–Y / total accordingly. Rotate back to portrait for single pages and single-page turns.

Beta The two-page spread is still being rolled out, and how it is switched on may change. If a landscape score stays on a single page, keep working in portrait and turn one page at a time.

Jump by movement

1. In the reader's top bar, select Table of Contents. On iPhone the same entry is inside the Toolbox.
2. In the Movements sheet, each row is one movement or section with its page range. Select Open & jump on a row: the sheet closes and the reader lands on the movement's first page.

Two more controls sit on each row:

• Preview shows the movement's first page in a small popover, so you can confirm the target before jumping.
• Edit movement re-opens the page picker to change the movement's start, end, and label. The picker accepts a typed page number and shows a tappable thumbnail strip of every page.

If the sheet is empty, the score has no movement list yet. Defining and auto-detecting movements is covered in Score metadata.

Save a movement as its own piece

In the Movements sheet, Save as a piece creates a new library entry under the parent score, scoped to that movement. The sub-piece gets its own Properties, annotations, and Follow calibration, while the original score file is shared — no duplicate storage. Select Save as a piece again on the same row to remove the sub-piece.

Note Follow calibrates a short sub-piece faster and tracks it more tightly than a long parent score. If you rehearse one movement, save it as a piece and calibrate that.

Switch between open scores

Opening another score adds it to the reader's tab strip; select a tab to switch pieces. Open Tabs and groups to select several tabs at once, create a named group from the selection, or close the selected tabs. Closing a tab only removes it from the reader — the piece stays in your library.

Use Open library to return to the library without closing anything. On iPad, two edge shortcuts do the same jobs while a score is open:

• Swipe inward from the left edge to open the library. This shortcut is unavailable while a Focus Mode passage is locked.
• Swipe inward from the right edge to open the Toolbox, unless the reader is in full screen.

The visible controls remain the reliable path; the edge swipes are shortcuts.

Note On iPhone, reader actions are condensed into the top bar, menus, and sheets, and the Toolbox carries controls that the wider iPad layout shows directly. Edge taps, swipes, and the scrubber work the same on both. Double-tap full screen differs: on iPhone in landscape it cannot leave full screen, and rotating upright is the way out.