forScore

If I could only have one app for my iPad it would be this. For piano and organ, turning pages with facial recognition, marking up pieces, organizing set lists for worship services, scanning in and importing pieces, being able to turn pages on a group of devices, the visual metronome, it’s all extremely polished, just a dream come true and I’ve barely scratched the feature list.

TLDR: DO NOT UPGRADE if you are using iCloud syncing with any older iPads. New version of forScore appears to transparently change sync data without warning, which prevents older versions from syncing. Bought a new iPad last month and installed forScore on it. Set up iCloud syncing like normal. It’s not my sheet music iPad, but nice to have music on it for the occasional use. Went to my sheet music iPad today and realized it hasn’t synced since last month. Dragged down in the dialog box to force a sync, and an error message pops up: “forScore Update Required.” Okay, went to App Store. No updates available - forScore requires iOS 17 or later. Sheet music iPad is an old iPad Pro, because hey it’s just sheet music and that doesn’t require much processing power. Was working great, until I have to upgrade iOS, and the iPad is too old to do that. And now I can’t sync my sheet music, so the iPad basically got obsoleted with no warning and no way to roll it back. To be clear, my complaint is not that forScore got upgraded and now only supports newer iOSes. That’s fine and appropriate. My complaint is that setting up iCloud sync on a newer version apparently changed my sync data and has now rendered my previously functional iPad useless. There was no warning from forScore that they were going to do this. There’s no backwards compatibility. There’s no way to roll back either the forScore version or the old iCloud sync data. There’s no way to get my previously perfectly functional iPad working again. Really feels like a particularly customer-unfriendly approach. Wish I had literally any option other than buying a new iPad. 🤦‍♂️

This software organizes my scores better than anything I’ve used. The layers let me separate the LH, RH, and score changes. So once I learn the piece I can turn off the LH, and RH layers.

I am a newer cello player and I live that I can upload or scan new pieces in quickly. It has a nice dashboard and tuner built it I have marked up pieces so I can search inside easier for longer pieces I just bought a blue tooth pedal Very helpful when my quartet practices I can switch music quickly. Best app I have bought

Maybe it’s my frustration early on But don’t expect to get this and start right away.

I have loved this app until recently. The face turn option is compatible with my iPad, but works one day, but not the next. Both iPad and forScore are using the latest version. If this issue continues, I will have to consider other apps.

The repositioning of the toolbar in the newest update makes it so that when we try to turn the page, the tool bar keeps popping up instead of the page turning. This is a really bad user interface. And based the Choir members around me, it’s happening to all of us. Can you please please remove this feature… I can’t imagine during our concert trying to frantically tap out of the toolbar!

There are a lot of great aspects of this app for reading music. I use this to read music in my bell choir, as well as many people in my choir. It’s very reliable, and it’s really easy to organize my music. It’s also cool that there’s a built in metronome, keyboard, and ability to play audio. All awesome features. Some things I would LOVE to see is the ability to collaborate on scores with other ForScore users. I often share my music with other people in my choir, and we can only take one iPad home, so it would be nice if we could have the notes automatically synced to each other’s scores. Also, this is something I may have to check, but I wish there was a feature to only be able to write with the Apple Pencil. We accidentally write with our palms a lot!