My kids are both music students. Each of them has an iPad and a page turning pedal. Don't know why the adjacent comment was downvoted, but they use ForScore. The music students go through an incredible amount of sheet music, and it's cumbersome to print it out and carry it around. At their recitals, I typically see about 1/2 the kids with iPads, the other 1/2 with paper. It's always Apple, possibly due to the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" effect, but to be fair the Apple devices do work pretty well.
You can also just reach out and flick the page on the touch screen, not as elegant but more predictable than flipping a printed page -- at least your sheets won't go flying. Managing page turns does get easier with experience, and you learn to prepare your charts -- taping them together, dog-earing them so you can quickly grab a corner, sometimes cutting things apart and rearranging so a page turn happens at a convenient location such as a couple measures of rest.
I'm a jazz musician, and have a Windows tablet, that was a hand-me-down. It only has a 10" screen, making conventional music notation hard to read. It's OK for reading chord symbols. I also have a notebook PC with 14" touch screen, that can operate in tablet mode, so I can lay it open on my music stand. That's a lot more readable, and has full blown computer functionality if I need it, but of course there's the danger of the stand tipping over.
Admittedly I still prefer paper, for one thing it's a lot easier to annotate with a pencil, quickly.
I’m a collaborative pianist by profession (an ‘accompanist’). I use the forScore app as do the vast majority of my colleagues who play from an iPad. The annotation, cataloguing and metadata tools are superb.
MobileSheets Pro for android is pretty nice. It’s not as polished in the UX department as ForScore, but it works really well and IMO it handles complex page sequences better than ForScore.
In typical Android fashion, it exposes a bit too much functionality so it can be overwhelming to a new user.
100% of my colleagues are using ForScore on an iPad for these purposes.
Great feature set, great support, stable, very fast. And page-turning is ultra-fast. If you need that to be hands-free, there are numerous hardware options for that.
