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If you find yourself playing an instrument with sheet music, turning the page often requires you to stop playing to turn the page. CueFlip solves this problem. You can teach him how to play a song, then he can turn the page for you as you listen.
Highlights
CueFlip doesn’t just assume how to turn pages, you can explicitly teach it how to do it. This starts with a live rehearsal or a recording that you can share with it. Then, you mark the turns.
CueFlip also has a built-in dictionary, where you can see certain notes on a page so you can learn how the composer intended to play them, instead of having to guess them. Many times these terms will be in other languages, but CueFlip offers built-in translation for up to 13 languages. CueFlip covers over 20,000 terms and can even extract terms from scanned sheet music.
Finally, CueFlip has a cool little feature with Face ID. If you wink with your right eye, you can manually turn the page forward, while if you wink with your left eye, it will go backwards. Likewise, CueFlip also works with the manual Bluetooth page turner in addition to the automatic one, in case you need it.
The story
That’s why 15-year-old classical guitarist Yuze Pan from Beijing decided to build CueFlip:
I play in the Primal Guitar Quartet and page turns kept interrupting our rehearsals. Paper means taking a hand off the strings, a pedal or a wink is another thing to remember in the middle of a phrase, and turns in time can’t follow a performer who speeds up and slows down. My first attempt, in 2025, didn’t work. In May 2026 I started again, this time reading the research on audio alignment, and brought each new build into the quartet’s daily rehearsals.
Download the application
CueFlip is available for free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users with iOS and iPadOS 16.4 and later. The free version includes annotated PDFs and automatic page turning for a score, while the Pro version unlocks unlimited page turning, music dictionary, page turning wink, and more for $4.99 per month and $29.99 per year.
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