Forscore App Reviews

As I’m using the app, the screen randomly goes black and I have to log in again! If this happened during a performance I would be screwed. NOT IMPRESSED! Otherwise the app would be pretty good but this is a deal breaker.

Running iOS 9.3.5. My son has a visual impairment and needs a way to better see music as he learns to play piano. Read about the reflow option and purchased Forscore. Since the developer updated the app it is working very well! The magnification isn't quite large enough for my son, however it works with the zoom accessible option on the IPad, making it as large as he needs it. We use it in the scroll mode. I am very impressed with this ForScore.

Running iOS 9.3.5. My son needs a way to better see music as he learns to play piano. Read about the reflow option and purchased Forscore. Since the developer updated the app it is working very well!

If you would like to play music or sing this is the app for you, even with the $10 price it’s worth it.

I absolutely love this app, and use it religiously every day. I have been using it for the last two years, and overall don’t have many complaints. Since I have been using it for so long, I feel it’s time I finally left some feedback. There are two issues I have, however; 1. When marking up music, it brings a toolbar up at the top of the screen. When numbering measures at the top, this makes it extremely difficult to write at the top of the score. We need the ability to be able to mark up without the toolbar there, or at least have the ability to move the toolbar to where we would prefer it (like toward the bottom or as a side bar) 2. Since the most recent update, there is a TON of lag when marking up scores. I use the Apple Pencil, and I’ve never had problems. With the recent update, however, whenever I markup my scores, there is a lag between what I’m writing and when it actually appears on the page. It’s so bad that I’m having to actually rewrite markings because it lagged so much the first time I wrote it that it didn’t actually register to the page. It’s so frustrating that it’s getting to where I can’t even mark my scores because the lag is so bad. THIS HAS TO BE FIXED! Aside from these two issues, this app is absolutely wonderful. It is a must have for any serious musician. I hope these two issues can be solved in the future, and hopefully the second issue will be fixed very soon!

Running iOS 9.3.5. My son needs a way to better see music as he learns to play piano. Read about the reflow option and purchased for score. However, app crashes when we try to use reflow. Very frustrating.

Anyone who’s ever used Notability on the iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil knows how amazing pdf markup can be. ForScore supports this combination, but it is severely lacking. Accidental finger input is still a major issue that hasn’t been fixed and the input bar is still clunky - always getting in the way rather than just moving the music down a bit. Hopefully someday they will address these issues.

This app is powerful and well worth the money. Super easy to add music and mark it up just how I want it with Apple Pencil. Love the inclusion of set lists. The only reason I did not give 5 stars is because the way the drop down menu works it covers the top of the score and makes it very awkward and annoying to try to write on anything at the top of the score. Also would be nice to have a simple chord chart creator. But seriously, I love this app. Update: The developers got back with me about the issue of the top bar and explained how to easily move it out of the way so I can edit at the top of pages. Super great customer service there! Still would like simple chord chart creation but this app which I use every week many times a week for my work is definitely a 5 star app. Most helpful and powerful app I've ever used to date.

I love this ! Helpful to organize my sheets, edit with my pencil, and so much more .... well programmed!

I had been using IK Multimedia iGigBook but one of my complaints with them is I have to use one of their Bluetooth pedals and it doesn’t support using midi messages to turn pages, this app does, now I can just bring one pedalboard to a gig to control turning effects on and off, operating my looper app, and dedicating two of the pedals to turn pages back and forth. I use this for guitar chords and lyrics and it’s super easy to import them into the app as PDF files, I can even create a chord chart in something like Pages on my iPad and then export it from there directly into forScore. Thank you for making an app that doesn’t force you to buy a company’s hardware pedal to make it work, this is a dream come true!

New to ForScore, but loving it already! Will use for worship team, youth choir, weddings, recitals, funerals!

Only complaint is that I recently paid for the iPhone app and now it’s free with iPad one!

Excellent app! It works great!

1. The smallest font size keeps changing so I wind up having huge fingering numbers next to existing smaller ones. 2. The slider to adjust the font size is too difficult to control especially in fine tuning on the small end of the scale. Has your app programer ever heard of a thing called a logarithmic scale?? 3. I think leaving out clef signature fonts is a big omission. It should be part of the basic package. Otherwise, your app is fine.

This is the most thoroughly thought-out sheet music app ever conceived. You could use this app for years without ever using all of the features it includes. Just the fact that I can read any .pdf of sheet music with an adjustable split-page option — that remembers exactly where you split the page even after months of not looking at the music (I know this from personal experience) — makes this app worth the $10 you’ll spend on it. If you want a fancier setup, you can purchase a nice Bluetooth foot pedal that allows you to flip pages without touching the iPad (great for music with very busy parts) that is simple to set up and great for gigs, concerts, and recitals. ForScore also has a myriad of options for you to organize the digital library you’ll inevitably accumulate over your months and years of using this that are all extremely accessible. If I filled out every single organizational category this app gives me for every method book, etude book, solo score, chamber music score, gig music, etc. that I have, my app would be more organized than the gigantic music library at my university. The icons provided for organizing the “difficulty” of my music, although I will refrain from using due to how arbitrary and trivial this is when deciding what I want to work on, is also a nice touch when looking through your library. The bookmark feature is a must-have for the bigger method books you may have and accessing the table of contents, either created by you OR by a program within the app that successfully detects potential sections for a TOC automatically, is actually easier than looking through a TOC in an actual book due to its accessibility. The setlist feature that allows you to flip from piece to piece without having to scroll through your library is fantastically useful and can even make impossible music changes (for example, if two different pieces you’re playing are attacca, like I had one time for a gig) possible. An example of how useful this is... I remember an outdoor gig I had this past December where the person organizing the event emailed everybody PDFs of their parts in case we wanted to use an iPad for this gig. I turned out to be the only person to use their iPad for this music, while everybody else used loose paper copies that had to be taped together very elaborately due to how this production was organized. This was my first time using the setlist feature, and organizing the pieces together was a cinch, and MUCH easier than taping 30 pages of music together. At the gig, it was extremely windy and dark, with everyone’s borderline-paper-machet setups being blown all over the place; the bassist’s music even ended up falling all over the multiple instruments I was using at this gig. Since I was the only one using an iPad, with this app, I easily had the least stressful gig that evening because of it. The people that created this app, and have updated it for the past 10 years, are part of the reason why apple products are a favorite among musicians. I seriously could not say enough about this app. It’s used everyday by everybody I know that has it, and I honestly couldn’t be happier by turning my musical library digital. The annotation options accessible with the Apple Pencil are also flawlessly implemented in this app. This is the only app I think should clearly deserve an 11/10, or 6 our of 5 stars. Truly a staple for anybody’s music that owns this app.

Virtually nothing else on the App Store comes close to matching the thoughtful design, incredibly deep feature set, and most importantly the respectfully executed, continuous evolution of this app. Every fall Apple redefines the user experience and these developers don’t miss a beat while keeping things consistent for their existing users. It’s a tough balancing act, I’m sure, but you wouldn’t know it from the outside. Remarkably adaptive but comfortable and familiar to use year after year. Superb.

This thing is trash now after the update. It freezes every time I annotate my music, then deletes it. FIX IT!!!

ForScore has so many useful features. Have used for 2 years and still discovering new things ForScore can do. Like combining PDFs while keeping ForScore annotations intact. So much easier than carrying notebooks full of paper, especially if you want to have ALL your music available at a moment’s notice. I use the PageFlip Dragonfly pedal to turn pages. Set lists are setup in a really useful way that helps keep multiple versions of songs clear. User interface with Dropbox is super easy to use. Sync multiple iPads together so the pages all turn together if you like. The possibilities with this app are endless. I play piano at different jobs almost every day, and this is my go-to app. Considering usefulness vs price, they’re practically giving it away. I was a little nervous when I first went paperless-what if it stops working in the middle of a show? But no worries-the app just works!

is not up to snuff. First let me start by saying forScore is the program I use daily to manage the music I have to play for a living as well as manage the music I practice. Which is to say I have logged a lot of time using this program. It does many things really well. But I want to go into issues I have been experiencing which seem to have escalated in frequency and, frankly, weirdness on the part of the behavior of the app since the most recent updates. My guess is that maybe many users and probably, the developers themselves, are experiencing some of these same anomalies, some of which I now will list: It is well known that there are slow app processing and freeze issues which are correlated with saving (clicking Done) after annotating a file. (The annotation features, by the way, are one of the best uses of the app, allowing you to customize your PDFs. (I really wish it had a screen shot tool to grab any part of a pdf to a clipboard so that I could paste it onto another page, for example.)) I can put up with the time delay because eventually you can get it to save. I hope the developers will figure it out eventually. Here are some other annotation anomalies: A annotation marking appears on the screen when in regular viewing mode, but disappears when you go into annotation mode. Sometimes this marking will persist to appear on other pages in the document. I deleted a file, but the annotations somehow got attached and copied on to the file next to the one I deleted. I have uncropped a page and had the annotations zap to somewhere else on the screen. Had to grab them with the lasso to move back to the proper position. This is another issue, but also related to file hierarchy. I have instances where many files have the exact same name, but different composers. I know that on some level, forScore calls these for example Dona Nobis 1, Dona Nobis 2, etc. But when I name each file Dona Nobis and set one composer to Mozart and one to Bach, I like the way the program displays them. Each file is called Dona Nobis but the composer’s name is displayed. Very convenient. However, sometimes I have a copy of a file. So I don’t need 2 Dona Nobis by Mendelssohn, so I delete one of them. Ok, well really I have a dozen of these by 12 different composers and I come across a duplicate. So I delete one of them and forScore says okay, there goes Dona Nobis 7, or something like that. But now somehow some of the composers get reassigned to the wrong Dona Nobis. Go figure that one out. (What you end up doing is a kind of round robin checking a dozen files and fixing the composers of the one or two that got them reassigned.) Just to be clear, I went through the process of starting from scratch with a fresh install of the app, uploading all my raw PDFs with no tags, labels, composers, or annotations and rebuilding my entire library. One feature that disappeared when the initial update came out was that it had been the case that when a new file was uploaded, it would immediately pop up in view. That had stopped happening and after I uploaded a new file, I had to search for it in order to view it. When I reinstalled the app, once again newly uploaded files would immediately be viewed. So at least now I could surmise the app was functioning properly again, so I went about rebuilding my library in a more organized way than how my library had evolved from when I first bought the app. Call it My Library 2.0. But the real reason I felt I had to start from scratch was that there had to have been some corruption in the file structure, because files started going missing from set lists and the libraries. In other words, I would notice a file was gone from a set list and when I tried to add it back, could not find it in the library, either. Eventually, more and more files disappeared and it was a panic situation. Fortunately, I had back ups of all the files. But my trust in the program was destroyed and I was not going to revert to my last saved backup, I needed to start over. As I said, I have logged a lot of hours with this program. I am happy again with the stability of the program, and My Library 2.0 is much more organized, since I culled out a lot of accumulated junk in the process. But the annotation anomalies and the file renaming issue are all current issues with my use of the software now. Needless to say, I have a very recent backup and archive of all my data, so I can be sure I always revert back to the recent version of My Library 2.0. (I don’t think I’ll ever have to rebuild my library again.) It is always in the hands of the developers to find solutions to uses such as these, and up to the users to find creative workarounds when the program throws a curve ball at you. It is my sincere hope that the developers can correct the quirky behaviors. Meanwhile, I will continue to update this review to document each new bug I encounter. 5/12/19 I added a link button two a page and saved. Then I annotated the page. A phantom link button appeared on other pages of the file. I quit the app. I relaunched it and the phantom button was gone, but so were the annotations I had just made. I went back into annotation mode and the annotation reappeared. Exited annotation mode and they were gone. Re-entered annotation mode and deleted the link button. Recreated the link button. File seems to be ok now. 5/14/19 I appended a one page document to a file using rearrange. The icon previewing the page I had just added in the rearrange window was the first page from another document (that also had the same name, but a different composer). After saving the file, the correct preview pages appear in the rearrange window.

Couple with donner pedal this is 200% SOTA

You cannot beat this app when it comes to what it does. Amazing user interface and customer support as well.

I am a church musician and this app has helped me so much. God bless you. Pastor Terry

I first purchased forScore in 2010, nearly a decade ago. Even back then it was an awesome app. I’ve been using it constantly ever since. It’s by far the most used app on my iPad and I couldn’t imagine being without it. And in all that time, I’ve never paid another cent to the developers after the initial purchase. So if I could suggest one improvement, it would just be to give us some way to support the app’s development even after the initial purchase. I want it to be around forever, and I’m willing to pay for it! :)

There are two small but very significant features that really make this a quality app and stand out from other comparable apps. First, there is the ability to crop the score. Some of the scores on IMSLP are scanned with very wide margins, making it difficult to read the music. But you can adjust the cropping in the app itself and enlarge the score. How cool is that??? The second picture which I just found out today, as you can take just a portion of a score, and create a bookmark out of it. This is incredibly useful if say, you’re performing just one movement of a concerto but you have the entire score. The attention to detail given by developers to this app is amazing and well worth its price.

I’ve been using ForScore for several years now & I continue to be amazed at how well it works for all of my music. I play music for Contra Dances & English Country Dances in addition to other period music. It’s usually 1 page of music but, as in contra dance music, we play medleys so there can be as many as 3 - 5 pages It’s really convenient that I can share set lists with other band members who also have the app. I use the feature that let’s me attach music audio files to a piece that I need to rehearse so I can play it down, or slow it down OR change the pitch. So many apps in one place. Right now I have 3851 files in the app meaning that’s a ton of music books I’m not hauling around with me. Since I have the iPad Pro 12.9”, I can take advantage of the 2 page orientation as well. Every time I’ve had a problem or unique question, support has answered me in a timely fashion with the fix to the problem so I give them 5 stars just for that.

iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + forScore = Nirvana (not the band!). Thanks for your excellent continued development!

Excellent app gone money hungry. I already gave you my hard-earned cash for this “pro” app, as have thousands of other people, and I’m not doing it again. Kinda sad you guys had to cave to greed. I’ll stick with the previous version of this app, and that’s as far as I go with you.

Pretty great app, and I’m happy I no longer have to lug around big books for teaching. The only bad part is that when I’m annotating anything in the header region of a piece with my Apple Pencil, the editing tool pops up, making it impossible to write anything. This is really frustrating since I often write in the margins. Please change this as it takes extra time in my lessons when I just need to make a note.

I am disappointed that the new update actually removes features from the app. Taking stamps which were previously accessible and hiding them behind a paywall is problematic. Updates should always improve the user experience, not segment it. I have no issues with creating a “pro” subscription for extra features, early access, etc...but taking previously free features and restricting the is not an improvement.

Fix the pencil. After adjusting settings, my annotation size will not get small. Edit: Thanks for the update

Thank you for an amazing app that makes my life as a college musician so much easier. Just a comment on the latest update, the immediate first thing that I noticed was that when I was using my apple pencil, the stroke was much thicker than It used to be. I think that the variable width curves are great however I like to add very finepoint notes in my music and the stroke is a little too thick compared to what it used to be. It would be nice to either make the thin much thinner, or make an option to turn the variable width option off so that we can get that finetip stroke if possible. Also, is it possible to have an actual document scanner in the app that can crop the sheet music and upload straight to forScore? I keep having to use the Notes app, scan it, and then transfer to forScore. One last request, when sorting the music, can we have a way to assign sheet music to a specific Genre, Composer, etc. instead of having to type them in exactly the same for each piece? Kind of like the way we add music to playlists on music apps. Thank you so much for your great work!

I am an organist in multiple churches. No more books now that i have forScore. It is amazingly easy to import music. I used to carry many binders or pull sheets from books and create a small binder to use in church. Now, i carry my IPad Pro loaded with hundreds of songs, create a set list for different masses at different churches. Thank you God for the developers! I have told musicians everywhere i go and have helped a number get ForScore and loaded sheet music. Now many of my friends have ForScore and are enjoying the benefits of this awesome Application.

It takes a while to learn this app because it does so much. But it is not hard to learn. I recommend printing out the user guide from their web site. It is well written and well organized. Using this app on the iPad is way more convenient than lugging a stack of music around. I play piano. My brother plays wood winds and he likes it. I have another friend pianist who takes it to all her gigs, along with an AirTurn Bluetooth foot pedal for page turning. You can mark up the scores, put in page turning markers to get you back to repeats, organize playlists. Than is all I have done with it so far. UPDATE 4/10/19: This app is so useful, I have felt a bit guilty getting all the feature updates over the years for just the initial purchase price. I am a retired programmer myself, so I have some sense of how much work it takes to provide such a full-featured app, with very, very few bugs, if any. I have never encountered a bug. So I am subscribing to the pro version. At $9.99 per year it is cheap for what is offered, and only fair to pay for such good value. Every musician I have showed this to has bought an iPad Pro so they could get the app. It is that valuable.

Hi! I’ve used this app for about a year and absolutely love it. However it has recently started to freeze upon opening. Any idea what I can do? Is it the recent update?

After playing multiple instruments in five different musical groups, and having to lug around about three full music binders for each group I finally had to do something. I now use my iPad matched with the fore Score application, what a relief, and it was so easy to set up (matched with a blue tooth foot pedal) I can easily play violin/trumpet/guitar twelve page music scores with ease! Easily set up lists for all of the different concert performances or gigs, and “no lugging around heavy music binders full of sheet music”!!!

They took away the option to upload music from your iPad.

Attention to detail and design are exceptional -ForScore does everything I need and is right at my fingertips, but otherwise stays completely out of my way. The constant addition of new features, while still keeping the app lightweight and backward compatible with old devices (even on my super dated iPad 2!) makes this a musician's (and cheapskate's) best friend. This app would be a steal at twice the price. I now have multiple apps by this company and will doubtlessly be getting more down the road - they deserve my dollars.

With the new update, the pen thickness is now very thick and there’s no way to make it any smaller. Can this be changed back to the way it was?????

I never thought I would find an app that would displace my beloved Unreal Book... however ForScore offers more features and has a slight edge in the usability department. Pair that with a fairly painless learning curve and you’ve got yourself a winner. The only request I have if the ability to add an Arranger right below the Composer in the metadata and make it visible on the search bar. Like most others I’m a professional musician and play in several different bands and contexts. I have multiple versions of Jazz Standards and many times I’m pulling charts on the fly. It would be so nice to see the arranger on the search bar so I know I’m pulling the right tune. This would also free up my tags for other data filtering. Thanks

There seems to be a glitch when using the eraser tool. When I erase notes here and there, I noticed that the other notes or marks not being erased were starting to get blurry. I tried testing it with a plane paper, and it continues to happen. It can get pretty annoying when you start seeing your notes blurrier and blurrier. Hope it can be fixed in the next update. I’m using an iPad Pro 2018 and the Apple Pencil 2nd gen. Other than that, everything seems to work ok. I love this app, but please check if this is an issue with other users.

I would really like to to annotate while the keyboard is open, as I’m not always by a piano and clicking back and forth between the two features is quite tedious. Otherwise, great app.

Very good app. However I really wish it would be possible to view two pages at a time stacked vertically. This would be very useful when reading wide scores in portrait mode.

Subscription only services for an app I already paid for? No thank you.

This a very valuable tool. I use it across apps and with Airturn.

It’s legit. Worth the investment

I love this app and I’ve been using this for couple years now ... but somehow it shuts off so many times these days, which interferes my teaching so much.

This is absolutely an amazing application. I love this app SO much, but there are some things needed. Add an option for music I have that are in different keys where they all fall under one song and I choose the key when I perform. Also add ways to upload Lyric Sheets, Guitar Tabs, Drum Lines, and even PowerPoint files alongside my songs. Make this available on iPhone for FREE, not the seven dollar app. Add a way to delete one page of the music.

I finally got an iPad for all of my music. I have not regretted that purchase or installing ForScore. Keeps me organized with set lists and a much smaller footprint. If you are a musician and have an iPad - you need ForScore!

I had been hesitant for many months about spending the money to purchase such an expensive app, but wow is it worth it. It is like a PDF viewer cranked up to 11 with only musicians in mind. It has replaced cabinets worth of sheet music, and allows me to carry them wherever I go. The user experience is amazing, once you get the hang of it. When you get this app: mess around on it. Look at setlists, and add information about the pieces. I promise it will be worth it!

I’ve tried other apps like this and none of them even come close to the usefulness of this app. I use this for all of my teaching and performing purposes. There are so many incredible features that I discover new ones with every use of this app. If you’re a musician with an iPad, I implore you to buy this app. You will not regret it.

I have never rated an app before this one but that’s because I’ve never been so impressed with one before. They have thought of everything! No more heavy, unorganized binders. This app puts all of my music at my fingertips in alphabetical order. I love that I have the ability to create a set and arrange them in any order I want to. Being able to make typed or written notes or markings anywhere on the page helps keep my music neat and clean. There is even a whiteout feature. This was definitely money well spent.

No issues but I wish there was a version for Microsoft surface pro.

As a teacher and voice student myself, this makes my life incredibly easy to manage. I have my own repertoire along with all the music of my students in one easy to access place. I could go on and on about every feature I love, but that would take pages. I promise you won’t be disappointed with this app. You can tell it was built with the help of musicians.

How do I even start how much I love this app? I play 9 instruments, so I was starting to have problems with organizing my sheet music and making too many copies. I felt like I was either wasting so much paper, or I thought everything was too heavy/cluttered. My favorite part about this app is the fact that you can create set lists so now I’m able to organize my music for each instrument, like I have one for piano, harp etc. I put another folder inside each one for the composer like Beethoven, Bach, etc. I love using my Apple Pencil with this app as well to annotate my pages. It’s so amazing to go from tons of heavy books/bags, to a slim iPad with an Apple Pencil to bring to gigs - simply amazing!

This app is powerful and well worth the money. Super easy to add music and mark it up just how I want it with Apple Pencil. Love the inclusion of set lists. The only reason I did not give 5 stars is because the way the drop down menu works it covers the top of the score and makes it very awkward and annoying to try to write on anything at the top of the score. Also would be nice to have a simple chord chart creator. But seriously, I love this app.

Got an iPad Pro 10.5 just so I can have the ability to use ForScore. I love everything about this app, after being recommended by many of my musician friends. As a musician Who is consistently traveling, it is nice to have all the music at your convenience without having to carry all your books. It looks great on the 10.5 iPad, and I bet it looks even better on the 12.9 iPad Pro. I am fine with the size of a 10.5. Adding music from IMSLP and other websites are easy, and if you have the extra $$ to get the Apple Pencil, I highly recommend it since we are constantly writing in f******** notes in our scores. This is definitely my favourite app to use for practising and gigging. If you have not got the app yet, what are you waiting for!

I absolutely love this app and it’s a strong contender for my favorite app of all-time. Not having to lug around binders and no longer misplacing sheet music is such a game changer for me. forScore is pretty close to perfect. I can easily scan music, annotate, create set lists, attach audio files, tag (and much more) all from a very simple and intuitive interface. This app is perfect for both gigging and practicing. One example of this thing making my life so much easier is - I play bass and scanned an entire Walking Bass practice book into forScore. I then attached all the backing tracks. One issue I had before, and an issue with many similar books, is that the backing tracks for the exercises are way too short, so it’s hard to get into a groove. Another issue is these backing tracks always have a count-in, so looping wasn’t ideal because it would play through the track, then go back to the beginning to the count-in, pulling me out of the zone. With forScore I can loop, but I can also set markers for where to start/end the loop, allowing me to skip the count-in. This alone has improved my practice immensely. To the developers: Thank you so much for this brilliant app! I only wish I had discovered it sooner. You have created an advocate and I will recommend this application to all my musician friends.

This app is a necessity for any musician. I love using it on m y iPad Pro 12.9 because the music is huge and super clear. One thing that would be cool on the 12.9 iPad would be if when turning it landscape it would show two pages at once. I really have no complains though. This app is worth every penny.

I’ve been using this app for about five years and it’s by far the best app for reading scores.

Like any other cheap musician I used Adobe Reader for my sheet music and boy was that a hassle. Just recently did I hear about this app from a friend, and boy am I glad I did. Mind you I have not used it at a gig yet, and haven’t figured everything out, but it’s loads of fun! I got all my Real Books to synchronize with CSV files (consult YouTube), and I can manually put all of my pieces in order. I can import basically what I want (still have to really try that though. Man I’m love with this thing. Haven’t found anything wrong yet. Yet lol

I like the app. I don’t like that with some app updates, the newly imported files do not open automatically when launching the app. It was working fine until the latest update.

This app is sophisticated software worth much more than its list price. It is very well thought out and is continuously improved. It offers the ability to not only store sheet music, but also to pair the music with accompaniment and to make one's own recordings (for example for practice). It offers multiple ways to add scores, etc. One big advantage over sheet music is that the lighting is excellent--a big advantages as my eyes get older. Kudos to this fantastic program.

Ok for organizing everything,but needs to be updated to multi task. Unable to launch I tunes while using the app same with other apps. Also it’d be nice to scroll down pages in the set list. Def needs an update

Basically works, but is missing the intuitive character of most iOS apps. For example, when annotating, the title of the current file is not shown, so if you have two versions and want to know which one you are editing, you have to close it and open it again. The user guide is not much help, as it gives instructions for cut/paste operations that, as it turns out after much searching, do not work with pdf files. The Apple Pencil brings up only the annotation tools, so you have to revert to finger taps to get the other tools. The list goes on. The only reason I keep using it is that there doesn’t seem to be an alternative.

See I have to move fast, and I don’t know precisely where to press, and more often than not, this page indicator comes up from the bottom instead of turning the page. It’s useless, and it’s making this app useless. I can’t bring up the indicator of regions to tap, nor can I figure out what it is to turn it off. I cannot use this app until I figure out how to disable this ridiculous feature.

This app is really great! Its easy to use and the support is very good. They respond at least by the next day and sometimes sooner. They really work hard to make it better all the time. Ive had it ever since the ipad became available.

I’ve been using this app for about five years and it’s by far the best app for reading scores. However, I’m disappointed that Apple Pencil support hasn’t been implemented yet. The Apple Pencil support would be so useful for annotating a chart. The text input is wonderful via the keyboard but the Apple Pencil would be Sooo much better then using your finger for a quick edits.

I saw the band at church use iPads for their music..so after 4 years of wishing to not have to drag my 3 notebooks of ukulele music to our weekly get together I decided to research it. There it was. Not knowing anything about how to go about it..I just researched each question I had and figured it out. Going to practice tonight with my ukulele and my IPad. Love it! Thank you ForScore. Karen

Lots of capabilities that I haven’t figured out yet, but I’m going to learn eventually.

I really love this app, as a classical pianist it has allowed me to ditch lugging around books of sheet music in favor of just my iPad and a page turning pedal. While I’ve had no problems with this app and have successfully used it for many gigs, I simply don’t understand why the developers got rid of the ability to add scores from a web browser. This feature was invaluable for finding scores last minute for a gig. I really don’t understand why this was removed (besides forcing people to use their store to make more money). Overall a great product, but please bring back the browser!

Wonderful for practice, rehearsal, performance!!!

This is a great app for storing, annotating, and reading scores. Very easy to use in performance and easy to make notes (best with apple pen or another stylus) in rehearsal. Metronome, piano keyboard, recording option are all included. Well worth the price!

I am a board-certified music therapist and this app has become essential for my work. I can easily find the right song for the right situation as I visit hospice patients. I love multiple ways to categorize and organize. I can create “set lists”or each patient. I can make collections of songs by subject matter. This app is awesome!

Great app, but there needs to be a capability where you can bring a whole folder of music (like from Dropbox) over to forScore at one time, instead of bringing pieces over one by one. HUGE time drain to do this and the only reason I gave this three stars.

Using OCP’s digital download of Choral & Praise 3 makes the app run slowly and eventually crash. It’s a 38MB ebook with over 700 songs and over 1200 pages. With smaller, individual files, it works great. EDIT: per the developer’s suggestion, disabling hyperlinks helps alleviate this issue. Though, the app still occasionally crashes, it’s less frequent now.

Thanks to ForScore, I’m playing a LOT more piano. Everything is so nicely organized now! Having all your music here just makes it so easy to pick up and play. I’ve also been continually impressed with each new feature that I discover. For example, I just discovered (after 6 months) that your play time per piece is tracked and charted, which is super interesting to see. Thanks to the developer for a solid and vey well polished app!

Edit: We’ve started having major issues staying connected to each other using lead/follow in recent months. To the point I’m looking at other programs. If you’re using this just for yourself it’s still very good. If you want sheet music on your tablet, this is the only way to go. A few members of our praise team use this, and it's so nice for the drummer and the guitar players do not have to turn pages by themselves one of the singers turns them for everyone. Not only that, but having all of my music and notes with me at all times is so much more convenient than paper music.

Amazing, effective, highly recommended.

I saw the piano player for the Disney Cruise we were on using his iPad with sheet music on it. I eventually asked what app it was and he said Forscore... When I got back home I immediately downloaded it and have been using while playing with our Worship Group ever since!!! It Rocks!!! John 3:16

All my lead sheets in one place ! No more papers! :) and even most classical music - no more crazy gig books, i keep separate books in my car just in case something goes wrong with the iPad. Updated review: if I could give this app a million stars I would! Still using it after my first review from five years ago, but now with the added benefit of Apple Pencil. Just wow! It’s everything I love about actual sheet music without the hassle and disorganization/papers scattered all over my house. I am excited to see them working with the online music library as well. Is there a way to search and purchase songs in forScore itself? I’ll have another look, but seriously if you are a student or professional musician this app is a MUST HAVE.

As music director at a church, I have used this app for over a year now without any issues. However, the most recent update has created a flaw for me. The "Annotated Merged PDF" export option is unusable since it crashes every time now. I hope they fix this asap since I rely so much on this app. Other than that, everything else is great feature-wise. The app is well-developed. [Update] Thank you! Everything is working great now, including the “Annotated Merged PDF” option.

I use ForScore for teaching choir and the latest update has made this a living nightmare. Controls lock up frequently losing control of the app, freezes and crashes. It’s incredibly difficult trying to teach parts on loop when the app just refuses to respond and won’t respond until literally 5 seconds later. Even wiping everything and reinstalling the app it still has the horrible issues. Valuable class time is being wasted fighting with the app now that worked perfectly fine for over six months.

Couldn’t live without it. Ingenious!

It such a pleasure to be able to download when needed. I especially love the fact that it is easy read notes on my iPad Pro! 😊

It's a classical musician's dream come true. Most classical scores are posted free on the internet, and ForScore makes them very usable. ForScore works with Adobe image files - actually scans of sheet music "printed" to pdf files (like you might print to paper). The “editing” possibilities are endless. Using Apple Pencil, you can “write”, “draw”, stamp signs/letters/numbers or “blank out” anything you want. You can make useful annotations, modify or delete them according to where you are on your way to mastering the piece. The beauty is that, when you edit, you are actually writing on an imaginary transparent film on top of the score, while preserving the the underlying original file itself, which remains intact. The annotations can be saved and recouped on another device, as long as the pdf file itself is kept intact in a parallel ForScore library. It’s genial. It’s a very powerful program, with truly extraordinary features. After three years of intense use and exploration, I am still not finished discovering all its capabilities. But there are caveats A. BOOKMARKS AND ORGANIZATION 1) It’s possible, on your computer, to assemble many works of a given category into ONE singular pdf file. So, Beethoven's 32 sonatas can be in one pdf file on your iPad, called: “32 Piano Sonatas, Beethoven”. In the world of paper, all 32 sonatas would be contained in one or two volumes. Within this one singular ForScore title, each sonata can be assigned a bookmark (by delineating its beginning and ending pages), labeled for example, “Sonata #2” and accessed with one click , from the table of contents you automatically generate in the process. Neat. 2) But you won’t be able to create sub-bookmarks, so you can access each movement individually. There are no "sub" bookmarks in ForScore. If you want a system that lets you reach the movements of sonatas with one click, each sonata must be in a singular, separate pdf file. You will end up with 32 separate file/titles, just for Beethoven’s sonatas. That’s too many files to manage. 3) Even in the latter scenario, you cannot be use the page-turning pedal to move from Mvt #1 to Mvt #2. You cannot pedal from one bookmark to the adjacent one. That’s a serious flaw. B. MP3 FILE LINKS 1) You can link a particular bookmark to a particular mp3 file. For example, you can play Vladimir Ashkenazy’s rendition of Beethoven’s Sonata #2 (located in iTunes) by pushing a button at the bottom of the corresponding score in ForScore. 2) You can match the pitch of the recording to your particular piano WITHOUT CHANGING THE TEMPO, or you can change the tempo WITHOUT CHANGING THE PITCH you’ve just set. And ForScore remembers the settings next time around. In short, the app lets you play with Ashkenazy, at your own tempo of learning. Extraordinary. 3) However, you are allowed only one link/button per bookmark. In the scenario where all the sonatas are assembled in one file, you cannot link each Mvt to their corresponding Mvt.mp3 in iTunes. C. METRONOME 1) The metronome is well designed and enormously useful. You can assign a particular beat to any section of the score by creating a special "button." Great feature. However, it's convoluted: 2) The program is designed to ALWAYS default to the tempo you assigned at the beginning of the bookmark, before you began creating buttons. Any button you create for a new tempo merely “changes” the initial tempo until you stop the metronome. When you resume it defaults back to the initial tempo, not the new one. 3) If you make an annotation (say, modify fingering), the metronome stops (WHY??), and doesn't automatically resume after you’re finished editing - let alone return to the tempo of the section you just finished fingering. If you turn the metronome on again, it goes back to the beat before the first button. D. LANDSCAPE MODE 1) Using a large iPad, it's possible (and desirable) to see and play two pages next to each other, like a normal music book. If you’re a pianist, you get a significant view of what’s next. It’s great. Plus, you use of the page-turn pedal 50% less. The page-turn imposes a steep learning curve for the pianist - and besides, the left foot must also use the piano’s soft pedal. THE LANDSCAPE, 2-PAGE MODE IS INDISPENSABLE. 2) However, landscape mode is programmatically complicated, and although ForScore makes it possible, some functions are not stable. When editing, the program creates a half-portrait mode within the landscape mode, so you can edit, but it’s quirky, and sizes of annotations don’t always convert well from portrait to landscape and vice-versa. Sometimes, after repeated editing, your work might suddenly disappear - or it becomes all jumbled up. Editing works better if you put the iPad in portrait mode, edit, then go back to landscape. 3) sometimes left-page, right-page sequences change after editing. 4) Landscape mode doesn’t seem a priority for the programmers. Maybe they haven't figured out how to do it well yet. At any rate, they seem to have no sense of urgency about fixing it. ForScore caters to all musicians. It’s tempting to think that, at its inception, it was designed for music other than classical piano - or perhaps, for short pieces a few pages long. There were no 12.9” iPads at the time, and landscape mode could not have seemed practical. In many regards, ForScore has not reached its maximum potential. Like all apps, it’s a work in progress - but still, it’s much more “finished” than the competition. The help desk is helpful with answering questions and solving problems. They tend to be a little defensive and dismissive about serious observations that are communicated seriously. ForScore is great as it stands and deserves five stars. It is eminently usable and user-friendly. It’s probably the most useful tool for any musician, especially for pianists. Attention to many details is so great overall, I am sure the programmers will work out the problems.

It's a classical musician's dream come true. Most classical scores are posted free on the internet, and ForScore makes them very usable. ForScore works with Adobe image files - actually scans of sheet music, "printed" to pdf files (like you might print to paper). The “editing” possibilities are endless. Using Apple Pencil, you can “write”, “draw”, stamp signs/letters/numbers or “blank out” anything you want. You can make useful annotations, modify or delete them according to where you are on your way to mastering the piece. When you edit, you are actually writing on an imaginary transparent film on top of the score, preserving the original file itself, making no modifications whatsoever. The annotations can be saved and recouped on another device, as long as the pdf file itself is kept intact in the ForScore library. It’s genial. It’s a very powerful program, with truly extraordinary features. After three years of intense use and exploration, I am still not finished discovering all its capabilities. But there are caveats A. BOOKMARKS AND ORGANIZATION 1) It’s possible to assemble many works of a given category into ONE singular pdf file. So, Beethoven's 32 sonatas can be in one file, called: “Piano Sonatas, Beethoven”. In the world of paper, the sonatas would be in one or two volumes. Within this singular title, each sonata can be assigned a bookmark (by delineating its beginning and ending pages, and then labeling, for example, “Sonata #2”. You can access each sonata with one click in the table of contents you’ve now generated automatically . Neat. 2) But you won’t be able to create sub-bookmarks to access each movement. There are no "sub" bookmarks in ForScore. If you want a system that lets you reach a sonata movement with one click, the sonata must be in one separate, individual pdf file. You will end up with 32 separate file/titles, just for Beethoven’s sonatas. That’s too many files to manage. 3) Just as bad, you would not be able to navigate with the page-turning pedal from Mvt #1 to Mvt #2. You cannot pedal from one bookmark to the adjacent one. That’s a serious flaw. B. MP3 FILE LINKS 1) You can link a particular bookmark to a particular mp3 file. For example, you can play (iTunes) Vladimir Ashkenazy’s rendition of Beethoven’s Sonata #2 in by pushing a button at the bottom of the score for the sonata. 2) You can match the pitch of the recording to your particular piano WITHOUT CHANGING THE TEMPO, or you can change the tempo WITHOUT CHANGING THE PITCH you’ve just set. And ForScore remembers the settings next time around. In short, the app lets you play with Ashkenazy, at your own tempo of learning. Extraordinary. 3) However, you are allowed only one link/button per bookmark. In the scenario where a bookmark contains three movements, you cannot link them to their corresponding movement.mp3 in iTunes. C. METRONOME 1) The metronome is well designed and enormously useful. You can assign a particular beat to any section of the score by creating a special "button." Great feature. However, it's convoluted: 2) The program is designed to ALWAYS default to the tempo you assigned in the beginning of the bookmark, before you begin creating buttons. Any button you create for a new tempo merely “changes” the initial tempo until you stop the metronome. When you resume it, the defaults back to the initial tempo, not the new one. 3) If you make an annotation (say, modify fingering), the metronome stops (WHY??), and it doesn't automatically resume when you’re finished editing - let alone return to the tempo of the section you just finished fingering. If you turn the metronome on again, it goes back to the beat before the first button. D. LANDSCAPE MODE 1) Using a large iPad, it's possible (and desirable) to see and play two pages next to each other, like a normal music book. If you’re a pianist, you have a significant view of what’s next. As important, you use of the page-turn pedal 50% less. The page-turn imposes a steep learning curve for the pianist - besides, the left foot must also use the piano’s soft pedal. So, landscape is great. 2) However, landscape mode is programmatically complicated, and although ForScore makes it possible, some functions are not stable. When editing, the program creates a half-portrait mode within the landscape mode, so you can edit, but it’s quirky, and sizes of annotations don’t always convert well from portrait to landscape and vice-versa. Sometimes, after repeated editing, your work might suddenly disappear - or it becomes all jumbled up. Editing works better if you put the iPad in portrait mode, edit, then go back to landscape. 3) sometimes left-page, right-page sequences change after editing. 4) Maybe landscape mode isn’t a priority for the programmers; maybe they haven't figured out how to do it well yet. Plus, they seem to have no sense of urgency about addressing the issues there. ForScore caters to all musicians. It’s tempting to think that, at its inception, it was designed for music other than classical piano - or perhaps, for short pieces a few pages long. There were no 12.9” iPads at the time, and landscape was not practical. In many regards, ForScore has not reached its maximum potential. Like all apps, it’s a work in progress - but still, it’s much more “finished” than the competition. The help desk is helpful with answering questions and solving problems. They tend to be wish defensive and dismissive of serious observations that are communicated seriously. ForScore is great as it stands and deserves five stars. It is eminently usable and user-friendly. It’s probably the most useful tool for any musician, especially for pianists. Attention to many details is so great overall, I am sure the programmers will work out the problems.

Using OCP’s digital download of Choral & Praise 3 makes the app run slowly and eventually crash. It’s a 38MB ebook with over 700 songs and over 1200 pages. With smaller, individual files, it works great.

It's a classical musician's dream come true. Most classical scores are posted free on the internet, and ForScore makes them very usable. ForScore works with Adobe image files - actually scans of sheet music, "printed" to pdf files (like you might print to paper). The “editing” possibilities are endless. Using Apple Pencil, you can “write”, “draw”, stamp signs/letters/numbers or “blank out” anything you want. You can make useful annotations, modify or delete them according to where you are on your way to mastering the piece. When you edit, you are actually writing on an imaginary transparent film on top of the score, preserving the original file itself, making no modifications whatsoever. The annotations can be saved and recouped on another device, as long as the pdf file itself is kept intact in the ForScore library. It’s genial. It’s a very powerful program, with truly extraordinary features. After three years of intense use and exploration, I am still not finished discovering all its capabilities. But there are caveats A. BOOKMARKS AND ORGANIZATION 1) It’s possible to assemble many works of a given category into ONE singular pdf file, and then create bookmarks to access particular works with one "click". So, Beethoven's 32 sonatas can be just one title (one file) on your iPad (Beethoven’s sonatas would be in one or two tomes in the world of paper books). Within this title, each sonata can be assigned a bookmark by delineating its beginning and end pages and then properly labeled - for example: “Sonata #2”. Neat. 2) But you won’t be able to create sub-bookmarks for the movements. There are no "sub" bookmarks in ForScore. If you want a system that lets you reach a sonata movement with one click, the sonata must be in one separate, individual pdf file. You will end up with 32 separate file/titles, just for Beethoven’s sonatas. That’s too many files to manage. 3) Just as bad, you would not be able to pedal from movement #1 to #2. You cannot pedal from one bookmark to the adjacent one. That’s a serious flaw. B. MP3 FILE LINKS 1) You can link a particular bookmark to a certain mp3 file. For example, you can play Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Beethoven’s Sonata #2 by by pushing a button at the bottom of the score. You activate Sonata #2.mp3 in iTunes. 2) You can match the pitch of the recording to your particular piano WITHOUT CHANGING THE TEMPO, or you can change the tempo WITHOUT CHANGING THE PITCH you’ve just set. And ForScore remembers the settings next time around. In short, the app lets you play with Ashkenazy, at your own tempo of learning. Extraordinary. 3) However, you are allowed only one link/button per bookmark. In the scenario where a bookmark contains three movements, you cannot link them to their corresponding movement.mp3 in iTunes. C. METRONOME 1) The metronome is well designed and enormously useful. You can assign a particular beat to any section of the score by creating a special "button." Great feature. However, it's convoluted: 2) The program is designed to ALWAYS default to the tempo you assigned in the beginning of the bookmark, before you begin creating buttons. Any button you create for a new tempo merely “changes” the initial tempo until you stop the metronome. When you resume it, the defaults back to the initial tempo, not the new one. 3) If you make an annotation (say, modify fingering), the metronome stops (WHY??), and it doesn't automatically resume when you’re finished editing - let alone return to the tempo of the section you just finished fingering. If you turn the metronome on again, it goes back to the beat before the first button. D. LANDSCAPE MODE 1) Using a large iPad, it's possible (and desirable) to see and play two pages next to each other, like a normal music book. If you’re a pianist, you have a significant view of what’s next. As important, your use of the page-turn pedal drops by 50%. The page-turn imposes a steep learning curve for the pianist - among other considerations, the left foot must also use the piano’s soft pedal. So, landscape is great. 2) However, landscape mode is programmatically complicated, and although ForScore makes it possible, some functions are not stable. When editing, the program creates a half-portrait mode within the landscape mode, so you can edit, but it’s quirky, and sizes of annotations don’t always convert well from portrait to landscape and vice-versa. Sometimes, after repeated editing, your work might suddenly disappear - or it becomes all jumbled up. Editing works better if you put the iPad in portrait mode, edit, then go back to landscape. 3) sometimes left-page, right-page sequences change after editing. 4) Maybe landscape mode isn’t a priority for the programmers; maybe they haven't figured out how to do it well yet. But they seem to have no sense of urgency about addressing the issues. ForScore caters to all musicians. It’s tempting to think that, at its inception, it may have been designed for music other than classical piano - or perhaps, for short pieces several pages long, all single-page portrait - from the days when there was no 12.9” iPads and landscape was not practical. In many regards, ForScore has not reached its maximum potential. Like all apps, it’s a work in progress - but still, it’s much more “finished” than the competition. The help desk is helpful with answering questions and solving problems. I wish they were less defensive or dismissive of serious observations that are communicated seriously. ForScore is great as it stands and deserves five stars. It is eminently usable and user-friendly. It’s probably the most useful tool for any musician, especially for pianists. Attention to many details is so great overall, I am sure the programmers will work out the issues this user has raised. .

It's a classical musician's dream come true. Most classical scores are posted free on the internet, and ForScore makes them very usable. ForScore works with Adobe image files - actually scans of sheet music "printed" to pdf files (like you might print to paper). The “editing” possibilities are endless. Using Apple Pencil, you can “write”, “draw”, “stamp” signs/letters/numbers or “blank out” anything you want. You can make useful annotations, modify or delete them according to where you are on your way to mastering the piece. The beauty is that, when you edit, you are actually writing on an imaginary transparent film on top of the score, while preserving the the underlying original file itself, which remains intact. The annotations can be saved and recouped on another device, as long as the pdf file itself is kept intact in a parallel ForScore library. It’s genial. It’s a very powerful program, with truly extraordinary features. After three years of intense use and exploration, I am still not finished discovering all its capabilities. But there are caveats A. BOOKMARKS AND ORGANIZATION 1) It’s possible, on your computer, to assemble into ONE singular file several works of a given category . So, Beethoven's 32 sonatas can be assembled into one pdf file on your iPad - called: “32 Piano Sonatas, Beethoven”. That’s how it is normally, in the world of paper - the 32 sonatas are usually published in one or two volumes. So, within that title, ForScore lets you assign a bookmark for each sonata - by delineating its beginning and ending page. You can label each, for example “Sonata #2”, and then access it with one click, from a table of contents that’s automatically generated in the process. Neat. 2) But you won’t be able to create sub-bookmarks, so you can access each movement of a sonata individually. There are no "sub" bookmarks in ForScore. If you want a system that lets you reach the movements of sonatas with one click, each sonata must be a singular, separate pdf file. You will end up with 32 separate file/titles, just for Beethoven’s sonatas. That’s too many files to manage. 3) Even in the latter scenario, you cannot use the page-turning pedal to move from Mvt #1 to Mvt #2. ForScore doesn’t let you pedal from one bookmark to the adjacent one. That’s a serious flaw. B. MP3 FILE LINKS 1) You can link a particular bookmark to a particular mp3 file. For example, you can play Vladimir Ashkenazy’s rendition of Beethoven’s Sonata #2 (located in iTunes) by pushing a button at the bottom of the corresponding score in ForScore. 2) You can match the pitch of the recording to your particular piano WITHOUT CHANGING THE TEMPO, or you can change the tempo WITHOUT CHANGING THE PITCH you’ve just set. And ForScore remembers the settings next time around. In short, the app lets you play with Ashkenazy, at your own tempo of learning. Extraordinary. 3) However, you are allowed only one link/button per bookmark. In the scenario where all 32 sonatas are assembled in one big file, you cannot link each Mvt to the corresponding Mvt.mp3 in iTunes. C. METRONOME 1) The metronome is well designed and enormously useful. You can assign a particular beat to any section of the score by creating a special "button." Great feature. However, it's convoluted: 2) The program is designed to ALWAYS default to the tempo you assigned at the beginning of the bookmark, before you began creating buttons. Any button you create for a new tempo merely “changes” the initial tempo until you stop the metronome. When you resume, it defaults back to the initial tempo, not the new one. 3) If you make an annotation (say, modify fingering), the metronome stops (WHY??), and it doesn't automatically resume after you’re finished editing - let alone return to the tempo of the section you just edited. And when you turn the metronome on again, it goes back to the beat before the first button. That’s an annoyance. D. LANDSCAPE MODE 1) If you’re a pianist, you need as much view of what’s next as possible. Using a large iPad, ForScore makes it possible to see and play two pages next to each other in landscape mode, just like in a normal music book. This also means that you use of the page-turn pedal 50% less. The pedal imposes a steep learning curve for the pianist - partly because the left foot must also use the piano’s soft pedal. 2) However, landscape mode is programmatically complicated, and although ForScore makes it possible, some functions are not stable. When editing, the program creates a half-portrait mode within the landscape mode, so you can edit, but it’s quirky, and sizes of annotations don’t always convert well from portrait to landscape and vice-versa. Sometimes, after repeated editing, your work might suddenly disappear - or it becomes all jumbled up. Editing works better if you put the iPad in portrait mode, edit, then go back to landscape. 3) Sometimes page sequences on-screen change after editing. 4) 2-page mode doesn’t seem a priority for the programmers. Maybe they haven't figured out how to do it well yet. ForScore caters to all musicians and maybe at its inception, it was designed for music other than classical piano, maybe short pieces a few pages long. When it first came out, there were no 12.9” iPads and landscape mode could not have seemed practical. At any rate, they don’t seem to have any sense of urgency about fixing landscape issues. Not today. The help desk is helpful with answering questions and solving problems. They tend to be a little defensive and dismissive about serious observations that are communicated seriously. ForScore is great as it stands and deserves five stars. It is eminently usable and user-friendly. It’s the most useful tool for any musician, even for pianists. However, in many regards, it has not reached its maximum potential. Like all apps, it’s a work in progress - but nevertheless much more “finished” than the competition. It’s the best of what’s out there.

Grande app, que facilita e muito a vida do músico!

I’ve used this app for many years now and don’t ever plan on not using in the future. I’ll admit, I just downloaded it and went to town without a real grasp of how to do things in it. I buried my head in the sand like an ostrich as the software is packed full of things that you could s**** up things with and I didn’t want to chance that. With that said, the organizational aspect of this software is where I feel it lacks the most. Sure, they threw a bunch of list view options in there but my biggest gripe is the how the bookmarks work. It would be nice if the bookmarks had the option to inherit metadata from the original file so we don’t have to duplicate our work. I also don’t care for seeing bookmarks as an additional score when looking through “all scores.” The whole concept of having a bookmark being it’s own entity bothers me, I suppose? Lol. While the value of this software is absolutely incredible for everything they pack in to it, I’m uninspired and a little frustrated with the watered down organizational aspects of it mostly from a user interface perspective. It sounds like the developers listen to feedback and I hope they take the time to read this constructive criticism. If it turns out I’m just missing something entirely, I’ll update this review again.

I’ve used this app for many years now and don’t ever plan on not using in the future. I’ll admit, I just downloaded it and went to town without a real grasp of how to do things in it. I buried my head in the sand like an ostrich as the software is packed full of things that you could s**** up things with and I didn’t want to chance that. With that said, the organizational aspect of this software is where I feel it lacks the most. It’s entirely possible that I’m just missing something but simple list views seem to be pretty amateur. My biggest gripe is that I have to manually type in every genre or tag on every score and every bookmark and hope it’s the same as the one I intended it to be. There is no smart/dynamic autocomplete or even a simple contextual list to choose from. Instead, it’s guess > double check > fix by doing it again if needed. On a semi-related note, it would be nice if the bookmarks had the option to inherit metadata from the original file so we don’t have to duplicate our work yet again. While the value of this software is absolutely incredible for everything they pack in to it, I’m uninspired and a little frustrated with the watered down, “dumb” metadata and organizational aspects of it. It sounds like the developers listen to feedback and I hope they take the time to read this constructive criticism. If it turns out I’m just missing something entirely, I’ll update this review again.

It's a classical musician's dream come true. Most classical scores are posted free on the internet, and ForScore makes them very usable. ForScore works with Adobe image files - actually scans of sheet music "printed" to pdf files (like you might print to paper). The “editing” possibilities are endless. Using Apple Pencil, you can “write”, “draw”, stamp signs/letters/numbers or “blank out” anything you want. You can make useful annotations, modify or delete them according to where you are on your way to mastering the piece. The beauty is that, when you edit, you are actually writing on an imaginary transparent film on top of the score, while preserving the the underlying original file itself, which remains intact. The annotations can be saved and recouped on another device, as long as the pdf file itself is kept intact in a parallel ForScore library. It’s genial. It’s a very powerful program, with truly extraordinary features. After three years of intense use and exploration, I am still not finished discovering all its capabilities. But there are caveats A. BOOKMARKS AND ORGANIZATION 1) It’s possible, on your computer, to assemble many works of a given category into ONE singular pdf file. So, Beethoven's 32 sonatas can be in one pdf file on your iPad, called: “32 Piano Sonatas, Beethoven”. In the world of paper, all 32 sonatas would be contained in one or two volumes. Within this one singular ForScore title, each sonata can be assigned a bookmark (by delineating its beginning and ending pages), labeled for example, “Sonata #2” and accessed with one click , from the table of contents you automatically generate in the process. Neat. 2) But you won’t be able to create sub-bookmarks, so you can access each movement individually. There are no "sub" bookmarks in ForScore. If you want a system that lets you reach the movements of sonatas with one click, each sonata must be in a singular, separate pdf file. You will end up with 32 separate file/titles, just for Beethoven’s sonatas. That’s too many files to manage. 3) Even in the latter scenario, you cannot use the page-turning pedal to move from Mvt #1 to Mvt #2. ForScore doesn’t let you pedal from one bookmark to the adjacent one. That’s a serious flaw. B. MP3 FILE LINKS 1) You can link a particular bookmark to a particular mp3 file. For example, you can play Vladimir Ashkenazy’s rendition of Beethoven’s Sonata #2 (located in iTunes) by pushing a button at the bottom of the corresponding score in ForScore. 2) You can match the pitch of the recording to your particular piano WITHOUT CHANGING THE TEMPO, or you can change the tempo WITHOUT CHANGING THE PITCH you’ve just set. And ForScore remembers the settings next time around. In short, the app lets you play with Ashkenazy, at your own tempo of learning. Extraordinary. 3) However, you are allowed only one link/button per bookmark. In the scenario where all 32 sonatas are assembled in one big file, you cannot link each Mvt to the corresponding Mvt.mp3 in iTunes. C. METRONOME 1) The metronome is well designed and enormously useful. You can assign a particular beat to any section of the score by creating a special "button." Great feature. However, it's convoluted: 2) The program is designed to ALWAYS default to the tempo you assigned at the beginning of the bookmark, before you began creating buttons. Any button you create for a new tempo merely “changes” the initial tempo until you stop the metronome. When you resume, it defaults back to the initial tempo, not the new one. 3) If you make an annotation (say, modify fingering), the metronome stops (WHY??), and doesn't automatically resume after you’re finished editing - let alone return to the tempo of the section you just edited. When you turn the metronome on again, it goes back to the beat before the first button. D. LANDSCAPE MODE 1) If you’re a pianist, you need as much view of what’s next as possible. Using a large iPad, ForScore makes it possible to see and play two pages next to each other in landscape mode, just like in a normal music book. This also means that you use of the page-turn pedal 50% less. The pedal imposes a steep learning curve for the pianist - partly because the left foot must also use the piano’s soft pedal. 2) However, landscape mode is programmatically complicated, and although ForScore makes it possible, some functions are not stable. When editing, the program creates a half-portrait mode within the landscape mode, so you can edit, but it’s quirky, and sizes of annotations don’t always convert well from portrait to landscape and vice-versa. Sometimes, after repeated editing, your work might suddenly disappear - or it becomes all jumbled up. Editing works better if you put the iPad in portrait mode, edit, then go back to landscape. 3) Sometimes left-right page sequences change after editing. 4) 2-page mode doesn’t seem a priority for the programmers. Maybe they haven't figured out how to do it well yet. ForScore caters to all musicians and maybe at its inception, it was designed for music other than classical piano - or perhaps, for short pieces a few pages long. When it first came out, there were no 12.9” iPads and landscape mode could not have seemed practical. At any rate, they don’t seem to have any sense of urgency about fixing landscape issues. Not today. In many regards, ForScore has not reached its maximum potential. Like all apps, it’s a work in progress - but still, it’s much more “finished” than the competition. It’s the best. The help desk is helpful with answering questions and solving problems. They tend to be a little defensive and dismissive about serious observations that are communicated seriously. ForScore is great as it stands and deserves five stars. It is eminently usable and user-friendly. It’s the most useful tool for any musician, even for pianists. Attention to many details is so great overall, I am sure the programmers will eventually work out the problems.

I have never written a review for an app, but this app has been amazing. I did so much work trying to find a replacement for iBooks since it kept deleting my markups. I tried Adobe, Readdle, and just about every other major pdf editor but nothing suited my needs. Then out of desperation, I searched sheet music reader, and I saw this along with other apps. At first glance, I thought this app was more suited for composing and I didn’t pay much addition as soon as I saw the $10 price. Somehow, I found out I still had $10 iTunes credit, and I was really in need of an app for sheet music organization, so I decided to buy this app. I’ve only had it for a couple weeks, but I would totally recommend this app to any musician. It literally does everything.

I’ve used this app for years. It’s been very stable and the additions are well thought out. I’ve used it in many live/large televised venues where there can be no error or glitch. ForScore has been flawless. Now on my iPad Pro, it’s even better with the Apple Pencil. My only minor issue is I can’t mark the top area due to the toolbar dropping down and being in the way.

Super useful app for musicians of all levels. Priceless tool. Highly recommended.

The app has crashed several times over the past few months while I have been adding links to documents. When that happens, I lose ALL my annotations from EVERY document on my iPad and all of my setlists disappear! This has caused great distress. ForScore; PLEASE advise me what to do. Your support page offers no help. I have the latest iOS update as well as the most recent forScore.

It’s an amazing app... everything is brilliant except for the lack of the ability to upload your entire library as full pdfs with all your edits into a cloud.

Makes storing and organizing music libraries and set lists really easy.

I am a semi pro jazz piano player who gigs with numerous other jazz musicians. In the jazz community, it is very common to work out of jazz fake books called “real books”. The ability to have all these books in one convenient Ap, is truly life changing. No more briefcases of books in terrible condition. No more pages blowing around in the wind on gigs outside. No more torn lost pages! No more searching for which book has the song ‘Reincarnation of a lovebird’. It’s right there in the index! At the touch of the screen I have an index that takes me to any song! Than I find out the band leader can have his book linked to other musicians who also have an iPad and this Ap? Utterly amazing! My bass player loves it too. I used to jump around different songs into another and the poor guy had to fake it, figure out where it was and get to it before I hit the bridge, now either he is already there because he is linked to mine or he uses the quick index. If I could give this Ap ten stars I would. The only way to make it better would be to make it free. I can’t even THINK of an improvement to make.

I have been using guitar tabs & chords many years. This app has helped me to bring music into my life and others. Thank you!

Your access point and tool for “sheet music” scores in a digital age. It’s a reason to switch from whatever you’re using to Apple products (I did). Get your iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, Scannable app from Evernote and your choice of cloud service (I recommend DropBox, although I chose Evernote in ‘06 and am stuck in it for the moment.) With Apple Pencil, score notation during rehearsal is a snap and seamless. All the features are there for your professional use! GOTCHA: As with any “production” device (used in live performance), *fully* test any iOS updates/patches and forScore updates *before* your performance. As in, don’t update before a performance. This app is one of the few I’d pay for over and over again.

I have loved using this for the last six months, but since the latest update I took, I have lost confidence. Twice I have tried to turn the page, and it would freeze and not turn. It’s s****** up a performance! Must be a bug. PLEASE RESEARCH AND FIX Or I will have to stop using it! Must be able to rely on page turns!!!

This app is amazing. I’m a professional musician in NYC, and having an iPad Pro and ForScore has changed my life for the better. Whether it’s in the process of creating a new show (tons of marking and erasing, and re-marking and erasing again) or finally being able to turn pages easily via a foot pedal with my music further away than where my hands could reach it. Really amazingly helpful. My Christmas wish from you fantastic developers would be the ability to use the selection tool to also cover an area in a color (white out). I use the white out feature all the time to mark cuts in music, and it would be way faster to simply draw a selection with the tool and click one button or two to cover entire lines or sections of a tune in white rather than have to manually use the pencil. Thanks for the great work!

Just finished accompanying a show for my local theater group, and I adored using ForScore during the process. I have now decided to scan my collection of sheet music into this app, it's that good. I love the annotations with my Apple Pencil, easy page turning, and simple design. Bravo!!

This app has been vital to me taking a leadership role during rehearsal as well as writing set lists for a gig. I agree with some users that the menus could use a tweak or two as they can get confusing. This is by far the best in its class and I’ve used them all. Love the fact that they are constantly updating and improving.

ForScore has developed and consistently improved their app that essentially has NO competition. As an international performer, a violinist and violist, I travel extensively and with the introduction of the iPad Pro 12 (big daddy iPad) it is finally suitable for sheetmusic use because it can essentially be the same size as the paper music and with careful cropping you can actually make it larger. I have loaded my entire music library into one device about the size of a legal pad. These are a few of my favorite features that I believe other musicians will find persuasive enough to explore switching to digital format: -Easy import method. Simply use iPad camera and shoot page by page or download from Photos or cloud service. -Notating takes on a new meaning. Apple Pencil and forScore’s customizable palette allows you to create colorful highlights and clean marking with more precision than a traditional pencil. -Using a Bluetooth page turning pedal you can smoothly turn pages using two different methods. Multiple iPad syncing is supported with this: if a string quartet is playing off a piano score (always annoying) one person can turn everyone’s page at the same time. This only really works when you are playing off a score or piano part obviously. -Sharing, printing, backing up (supports several major cloud services for uploads and downloads) -Has some convenient added features: metronome, tuner. Overall I have been impressed with this app from day one back when I used it with a regular size iPad but after experiencing it with a large iPad Pro I have gone almost 100% digital. When clean paper sheet music arrives in the mail, I carefully import it in forScore’s “Darkroom”, make sure it’s cropped nicely and level using the built in editing tools, then I name it and file it away in forScore’s intuitive music library. I can now put the paper sheet music in my library where it will never get torn up, marked up, or lost. I currently use the following equipment with forScore: -iPad Pro 12.9 inch (original version) 32gb (not enough memory) -iPad Pro 12.9 (late 2017 version) 256gb -Apple Pencil -Page Flip “Firefly” Bluetooth page turning pedal. -

This app is intuitive and easy to use, HOWEVER, when you are using the “dark room” function it crashes over and over and over again. For the record I have a cable high speed internet connection and the iPad I’m using is LITERALLY brand new. Once you have the music uploaded and edited this seems to be a very decent app but the issues I’ve experienced make me apprehensive about its stage performance. It’s one of the more expensive apps I’ve ever purchased and it certainly has NOT performed as such. Overall, it has been quite disappointing. Hopefully they can fix whatever is making it crash in the next update.

This is the best use of technology I’ve encountered. I always love showing this off to musicians and non-musicians alike!

This app is the reason I bought an iPad.

ForScore is certainly the best music reader I’ve used in terms of functionality. It is easy to upload music to the app and view your music as well as make your own set lists. The other features is where the problems are. The metronome function is cool and the annotations with Apple Pencil are fantastic, but other useful features and actually navigating the application leave much to be desired. Accessing an app’s settings menu shouldn’t require a google search to figure it out. Likewise, instructions for using other features such as links have ambiguous instructions that force you to use trial and error to figure out. Trying to access your library isn’t as easy as tapping a link that says “Library”; same goes for your set lists. There’s also the option to back up your library and set lists, but it’s not easy as allowing it to access your iCloud Drive account like you might when you first launch Pages or something. Speaking of backing everything up, the feature is mislabeled as “Services”. The backup section doesn’t properly backup your files and allow to easily restore. So, like the title says, the app is good, but also has a list of problems and usability/interface issues that can ward off new users.

I’ve been using this app for years. I have a giant collection of PDF files that require a lot of organizing with bookmarks and metadata. The program is powerful but difficult to use even after years of use. Much of it is trial and error. Many functions are duplicative. It constantly requires a google search to learn how to use it. It is as if the developers kept adding on functions randomly over the years without much thought about the overall user interface. The worst problem is backup and restore. It is unclear whether automatic backup takes care of it, so you still need to click a plus sign and click backup. Plus you would have to then save the file to another location. The process is manual, cumbersome, and requires several steps. It should backup automatically to a cloud drive. Archive creates a much larger file and therefore requires that I plug in the iPad to my Mac and transfer the file using iTunes. This method is antiquated and slow. I’d have to remind myself to backup using this method regularly. It reminds me that the company hasn’t found a solution since the iPad 2 was released many years ago. Regardless, and most important, none of the backup functions actually WORK. You are guaranteed to lose substantially most of your metadata and bookmarks trying to restore from backup or archive. It takes me many days to recreate my work when this happens, which is frequent. This is because I have been using the iPad 2 which often crashes with this program. I suspect it doesn’t have enough RAM to run this program. The best solution I found is not to rely on the apps backup and restore functions at all: I plug in my iPad to the computer and use iTunes backup for the entire iPad. This is the only reliable way to backup and restore ForScore.

App is great. Everything form the capturing music with camera, adjusting scans for skew, annotating with the Apple Pencil has worked well for me. Also integrated with Iturn page turner well. It can take a tabs/Chord chart directly from Ultimate Tabs which is way cool. The only thing wrong? AM MAY BE MISSING SOMETHING, BUT WHY IS THERE NO SCROLL? Auto page turn just is not practical for real playing. You are sitting there worried it will turn a bar early or late. I WOULD PAY FOR THE APP AGAIN IF THEY ADDED A SCROLL OPTION.

Apps should never, ever, pop up an irritating dialog box telling you to leave a review - it is an obnoxious interruption. App developers, get a clue: don’t interrupt me with annoying pop-ups!!! So here is your one star review. Let me know if you get rid of the pop-up and/or other irritating interruptions. Updated after an irritatingly tone-deaf response from the developer: You guys just don’t get it, do you? It is annoying whether or not there is an api for it or an opt out setting - please have the good sense to not do this in the first place!

A must-have apt for vocalists and instrumentalists. Easy access to all files, folders, and sets. Immediate sharing of scores a breeze. Also a great tool for rehearsing.

Apps should never, ever, pop up an irritating dialog box telling you to leave a review - it is an obnoxious interruption. App developers, get a clue: don’t interrupt me with annoying pop-ups!!! So here is your one star review. Let me know if you get rid of the pop-up and/or other irritating interruptions.

A must-have app for every musician. I am a pianist for multiple churches and a band director. ForScore allows me to keep everything organized and convenient for portability. I have over 2,000 pages of music on one device. That replaces countless heavy binders and books! The app updates for iOS 11 have made using large PDFs much easier. Keep up the great work, ForScore!!

I’m giving 3 stars because you can’t use the music app while you are using this application (really...??). I need to read my music in other applications if I want to do that.

Every few days I find something new to like about this program. I have started scanning my printed music because I like the ease of turning pages and not having to fight to get the music book to lie flat. I am using PageFlip Butterfly to turn pages.

This app could hardly be better. Amazing for the money.... there is a learning curve, and it is not absolutely intuitive. That said there is so much that can be done with the app that it’s a good thing to take the time to learn it in depth. Easy enough to get started and use it even if you do not want to use all of the features.

Huge thank you to the developers of this app. Not only is it a wonderful storage and display option for sheet music, but it can associate audio files with each tune and play them back with looping, transposition, and tempo change options—a HUGE plus for use as a practice aid.

I have no idea what 90% of the features are for? Lots of people have complained that this is complicated and the developer has responded with read the manual. Well that’s just not good enough. I just think I don’t need half this stuff and it’s just a mess. I found another PDF reader that was free that was all I needed. I thought I would try scrolling since I payed big bucks for this app but I could not figure that out either. I couldn’t even find the word scrolling. I’m pretty sure it does it but they may call it something else? If they do call it something else that is really a dumb and complicated thing to do which backs up what I’m saying.

My UKE buddies recommend the app so we could play our music without wi-if when we play at a park. We usually use Google Drive, but need the internet to connect, so this app has an excellent feature for us! I've emailed support a few times and the respond within one day with clear and concise answers! Worth every penny! Peggy

That is the highest word of praise for technology. The aspects of usefulness include qualities like reliability and elegance, but wow, when you get down to it, this thing is REALLY useful.

iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + forScore = Nirvana (not the band!). Thanks for your excellent continued development!

I have been using forScore for a few months now, with the intent of digitizing my scores for performance. It seemed to be working well as page turns were a breeze with my Bluetooth pedal. Additionally, all of my scores were contained in one thin device. HOWEVER, upon opening the application one day after closing it (less than 5 minutes after), forScore would not open! It kept crashing on launch. I tried all of the troubleshooting on their website, much to my disappointment. When the application finally opened, all of my scores, including performance notes and fingerings, were GONE. Extremely disappointed that all of the work that went into those socks in the last few months just disappeared. I would NOT recommend this application for any serious musicians who intend to keep any of their markings!!

I play in a few groups in San Francisco I am just glad that I no longer have to have all this paper and binders to carry with me. I have gotten s few people from these groups to join in and use forScore with me. It would be awesome to get s full orchestra/band to go paperless all together. It’s so easy to use I’m just puzzled why the don’t have the musical alphabet as a pre setting like they do with the flats and sharps ect

I had been hesitant for many months about spending the money to purchase such an expensive app, but wow is it worth it. It is like a PDF viewer cranked up to 11 with only musicians in mind. It has replaced cabinets worth of sheet music, and allows me to carry them wherever I go. The user experience is amazing, once you get the hang of it. When you get this app: mess around on it. Look at setlists, and add information about the pieces. I promise it will be worth it!

Can’t do without this nowadays (how quickly we become reliant on tech!) It just gets better and better with each new release. And I note a couple of suggestions I made are now part of the app. Keep up the great work and thanks for making my days and nights run more smoothly :)

I like the app, however I don’t have time to get a Masters in data base management. I have 45 fake books. I found a few indexes, but I can’t figure out how to link the fake book with the index. I know it has something to do with with bookmarks. But the setting of the start and end page etc is way over my pay grade. The manual says one can set this and that but does not say exactly how to do that. Could you send me a list of how to do this or send me a YouTube video? Thank in advance for your help. David Rhoades.

I love this software. The crop ability has saved me more than once from a badly skewed scan and it works seamlessly with my firefly foot pedal.

A lot of times, I will get a call for a gig where there’s an original tune, or a song I do not know. So, I’ll either make a “cheat sheet” or simply chart the song before a rehearsal (or on the plane on route to the gig!). However, 3-ring binders and piles of road maps can become a pain real fast! No music stands with the backline, a “windy” outdoor gig... need I say more? I used ForScore for the first time last week after purchasing the app months ago and I asked myself... Why did I wait so long to use it? I know I have just scratched the surface with my application, but I am thrilled at the coolness of this app. I look forward to learning more in the weeks ahead. Thank you for such a great product to make the music world a better place for musicians worldwide!

This app is for musicians.

I’d dillydallied about which songbook app to try, and continued to work on a workable paper system. Then, when purchasing a page turner for my iPad, I saw a reviewer loved forScore and... took the plunge. OMG. Wow. Talk about... AWESOME! Using ScannerPro (to convert my sheet music to PDFs), Dropbox, and forScore, within 2 hours I had most of my set list on my iPad. Unbelievable. The ease of getting music onto my iPad, categorizing it, creating set lists... remarkable. Those who created this are angels to musicians! Now, just hoping when my Bluetooth page-turning pedal arrives, integration is as easy as the review I read said. (If not, honestly, a quick tap on the iPad screen and... on we go! Have done it while practicing... might be able to do it live if pedal no good!) Seriously impressed. Truly, one of the best apps I’ve ever bought.

This is so much fun

I love the fact that I can take It anywhere without big bulky binders

It isn’t perfect yet, but nothing else is even close.

I love everything about this app, however it would be great to have clef symbols in the symbol manager!

I’ve been using sheet music for 25 years. Found this app is the best thing since sliced bread… And applesauce. I mean awesome sauce.

As a professional pianist and composer I use this program daily in my studio and for performance with excellent results. Howard Rovics

Less cords and cables the better.

We are a group of seniors and this program is a real blessing

Needs instructions on how to manually work this!

ForScore could be an excellent program. My only criticism, an important criticism, is that it does not save files easily. If it saved files like Notability I would give it 5 stars. With a simple file backup, all markups to a score are lost. Archive backups save data... they say... you can not check, but they are not automatic or easy to do.

This app is great for managing my extensive library of music. I find it easy to use, both for practice and performance. Sharing, rearranging, notating, metronome — all these are functions I use daily. Thanks for a great app!

Wish I had forScore back in the ‘90s!!!

Our choir switched to iPads with forScore for all music this year. What a positive change. Our average age is about 60. There were Several people reluctant to change, but as soon as they saw the benefits, they purchased iPads. We save at least ten minutes of rehearsal time each week by not having to search for music. We used to carry three books and two folders. Now, just the iPad in a black binder. The set list function makes it ideal for mass as everything is listed in order. Highly recommend.

Great app with great developers who are very quick getting back to users to help resolve potential issues.

ForScore is wonderfully intuitive and makes working with sheet music a joy. The annotation functionality paired with the Apple Pencil is quite nice. Support has been very responsive to questions and issues.

On the latest gen iPad Pro with iOS 11, writing on a pdf is very unreliable with 10.3.4 and before. Hoping this is addressed soon.

- great library manager, and to add comments and scores to the sheet music. -Improvements I expect; have. Easy to use search like in iBooks -make it for free to download in iPhone, considering I already paid the iPad version

There’s no words to Describe this GREAT App , No more Music charts paper and Clip Holders and LAMPS !!!!! Yes

ForScore has been a live changer to me. It's not only about getting rid of all the sheets while practicing and performing but also allowing a cleaner stage to the public's view. After I started using this app, I learn my new pieces faster and feel more comfortable playing chamber music with my trio (flute, viola, and guitar), and duo (harp and guitar). I can go easily to review my old pieces, find repertoire to my students, and send annotated scores to them even if they don't use ForScore. However, I haven't still found all the stamps I need for classical guitar annotations like bars, strings numbers, etc. I hope somebody else will post them out there, or the developers will make them available on the app's site. Update: On the other hand, using the Apple Pencil on the iPad Pro, the experience of writing annotations is like using actual pencil and paper with the advantage that everything is neat and cleaner.

I am working with IOS11 and forscore 10.3. When scrolling trough my set lists the titles of some songs disappear. The songs are included in the set list but for some reason some of them are not shown in the list. I am working musician and depend on reading my charts, please fix this. I can't work with this kind of issue. Thanks

An excellent reason to purchase an iPad. Just sayin’. Thanks for an amazing app.

The best way to store your music, thanks!

This app is meh

As a professional musician and educator...forescore has really changed everything for me. I use it on a daily basis. Reading charts on a gig has never been so streamlined and organized for me, but that’s just scratching the surface of the app’s functionality. It’s great for keeping track of everything you’re currently practicing (even has a built in metronome and recording function). I have also started using it in my lessons to take notes for my students. It’s more professional than handwriting the notes, yet much faster than it would be to type the notes into Finale/Sibaleus. If you are are a professional musician, not having this app puts you behind the game. Seriously.

This is an update on problems listed below after IOS 12 update. ForScore got back to me and found that IOS 12 no longer works with modes 1 and 4 on the Cicada. But switching to other modes resolves the problem. They also problem solved the issue I was experiencing with the screen blackout. They are very responsive and I appreciate their help. I’ve used ForScore for years and it is great. But ever since IOS 12, I’ve experienced two terrible problems. I use the Pageflip Cicada to turn pages and now it doesn’t work with ForScore after the update. The Cicada works with all other IOS apps that use page scrolling. The second problem is that previously ForScore locked the screen so that you didn’t experience screen blackout. Now it reverts to whatever the IOS Display setting is set to. I hope the developers are able to fix these problems. Otherwise, the app will not be very useable.

I’ve been using this app to organize lyrics and set lists for years.

I use ForScore for orchestral playing, with an Apple Pencil and foot pedal. I can make Rehearsal markings just as quickly as those paper people. Every time I think it should behave better in a certain situation, a little digging into the options reveals that it already can behave better. It just does everything, and it is not too onerous to find those options. The Darkroom feature for scanning music is fine, but I usually use Scannable for a cleaner score, and Scannable shares directly to the ForScore app. Seamless! Also just got ForScore mini for my phone to have a reference copy of my bluegrass playlists, and it practically transferred full playlists (and scores) from the iPad to phone before I asked it to. It’s that simple. Thank you, ForScore people!

Works amazingly, take the time to watch tutorials on how to make the most of this app. Finally something made for the gigging musician.

Really helps vs carrying large music books!

Amazing tool. Enough said.

This app really works and is so much easier than carrying volumes of books and music. Works very well with Apple Pencil and allows one to make notes on scores and save the changes. This is definitely the future of playing music. Use this app with scanning and cropping apps and you are in business.

The app is both versatile and easy to use.

I’m a pianist at Juilliard - everyone here with an iPad has, uses, and loves this app. I trust it so much I perform with it constantly now. Does everything I need it to and has amazing integration with the AirTurn pedal.

I love using this app to collect all of my music to play. Its easy to organize and flip through. I’ve noticed recently that the pen was really laggy and has wobbly lines when I annotate my music sheets. This is extremely important for me to write notes down for when I play.

Easy to use, easy to read, great all around app.