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Seasoned userI have never had a problem with my forScore. It works perfectly for my work as a church musician. I have over 1100 scores in my iPad Pro, and I used forScore before I had my iPad Pro. I’m not sure how many years I’ve had it, but probably eight at least and it’s a dream for someone that needs a lot of variety and things to come from other books. I used to carry many books with me to church every week to accommodate my music during the services. Having set list available, is beautiful. I love how the metronome automatically reads the next tempo, and just sets the metronome to it. How that happens I don’t know. I do have trouble with the turn because I can’t keep my face still. I tend to move a lot. When I play. It has been well worth the money I have spent on it, and I have told many other musicians that I know that are church musicians how wonderful this app is. I use it in performance every week. My only error is what happens not in the iPad or forScore. My biggest problem is making sure I locked screen before I start playing a set list. I’ve found so many different ways of getting music into forScore. I can use music scans. They go right into the set list. I use PDFs, I scan to the iPad from my. Printer that’s how I usually do it. It is the most valuable tool I have for church playing, except perhaps the ability to play by ear..BirdieBoyKCVersion: 14.2.3

Just what I was looking for!After reading some of the more recent reviews reporting that the annotation function was buggy, it was with some trepidation that I purchased the app. I needed a way to erase fingerings on classical guitar scores and put in my own choices. I noticed that there had been a recent update to the app to fix some bugs, so I decided to download it to my new iPad with Apple Pencil. In less than 15 minutes, I imported my pdf score, made a copy to be annotated (keeping an original clean copy), renamed my new file and then started to annotate my score. Because of review reports of annotations disappearing, I made just a few changes and then saved the file. I am new to using Apple Pencil, so a few erase streaks and extra lines showed up when I didn’t expect them. I found that if I left annotation mode before trying to scroll, things went a lot better.😉 Now the big challenge… could I get a hard copy printed? Yes! (I like to read from paper, not a screen)I saved and sent the file to my email and opened it on my computer with attached printer and produced my hard copy. (Yes I know about WiFi and Bluetooth tech, but I wanted to just get this done with the existing setup.) Overall, I quickly figured out how to make this app function to do the job I needed to do without frustration or steep learning curve. Well done, Developer!.0123LizardVersion: 14.1.3

How amazing is page turning nowadays, wow!Each time I use my lips to point left and right and the page just turns to reveal the next section of music, I get a wonderful satisfying feeling. One, that I was smart enough to part with my measly $10 per year to activate this feature. Two, that I live in a technologically advanced period of time where cameras on your sheet music display device have become smart enough to know when I need to see the next part of the score. Finally last but not the least, I get that satisfying feeling of not having to break my rhythm with a need to move my hands and fumble with my fingers in order to grab a uncooperative piece of music score. As a amateur pianist, I don’t often perform outdoors or in front of a fan that would blow away a normal piece of music. As a new forScore user, I have not converted even the smallest amount of my gigantic collection of paper scores to digital form. But from those that have been converted, I am sold on the idea that this is definitely the way to go! The only insignificant peculiarity that I’ve encountered, is that unlike the developer claims, it really is not possible to import into forScore any apple Pages documents containing scanned images of the score. The result is nearly unreadable and definitely unusable. First convert to PDF. Then, it works like a champ..Dave90807Version: 13.0.5

A must have for professional musiciansGone are the days of having big 3 ringed binders with several copies of manuscripts weighing down a stand. Or sheet music falling off a stand while you're trying to play it. The iPad and this app have revolutionized the way we practice and rehearse today. This app is simply amazing. I use it everyday. They really have thought of everything with this app and I have been thoroughly impressed by it. I have been using it for a good 2 years now. Features such as making set lists, annotations, categorizing by artist/composers/songs etc, share options directly from the app, creating backups of your organizations and being able to open attachments from the iOS mail app directly in this app make it simply amazing. I can't say enough about it because I would just continue to ramble. To the developers of this app... We the musicians greatly appreciate you for creating something that makes our lives and careers easier. We thank you for creating something that's seamless, easy to use, has every feature we could want all while running smooth with little to no crashes. Thank you also for constantly keeping this app updated and adding additional features. I’m always learning something new with this software I didn’t already know it could do..KontryBoy706Version: 10.3.2

Nice database manager for PDFsI have been using forScore for 4 years and have nearly 2000 scores in my database. I like that each score can be categorized under multiple genres, although that data is not part of the scores database. It would be nice if that were fixed. The app is updated on a regular basis with new features being added. I have exported the forScore database file to Excel, edited the file and imported back into forScore, which is easier when needing to change many scores at once. I use the app for playing scores and especially like the half page turn feature, which allows you to see the next page before you lose access to the bottom of the current page. Takes some getting used to, but makes it much easier for those of us who sight read. Future features? It would be amazing if forScore actually knew something about the music in the PDF files it stores. I have produced numerous music xml files of scores, but forScore doesn’t handle those. Would be nice if annotations of scores were searchable. As I play scores I make a lot of annotations to digitized scores that need to be corrected. However, I later need to find those annotated scores manually, since search doesn’t seem to be available for that feature. Overall, forScore is a nice program for organizing and playing your music..NerdOMusicVersion: 15.0.6

Fantastic App for musiciansThis app is the greatest bargain there is for musicians - continually upgraded with no charge. I love the pro version. The extra stamps and annotation features are very useful. I’m a user for 5 years since the 1st 12.9” iPad Pro was released in 2016. With the AirTurn Duo page turner, it’s a must have combination for professional keyboardists and other musicians. The facial gesture page turn feature is really cool for organists who cannot place a page turn pedal on the floor because of the organ pedals. Stores and organizes ALL your music. Only limited by the storage of your tablet. This setup has never failed me in 5 years and I use it every day. Keep everything charged and backed up and it is practically fool proof. I had far more problems with printed music trying to find things, bringing the wrong folder, turning two pages, pages stuck together, book won’t stay open, wind blowing pages, stand lamp burning out, etc. I brought paper music as a back up for the 1st year but realized it wasn’t necessary. Also, you don’t need a lamp any longer although I use one just to illuminate the keys in the orchestra pit. Life changing. This is not a music notation app. It is a PDF reader for music and any other PDF file..HnkahlVersion: 12.1.3

Great App, but Syncing songs isn’t working.ForScore is a great app for any level and any player, especially for people (like myself) who have many songs. However I have two concerns. 1. The sync isn’t working. I use forScore on multiple devices, but the songs do not sync with other devices linked with the same account. This is troublesome because when trying to use my phone or more portable device than my IPad, it doesn’t work, and I have to take the pictures one by one to get all of the pieces on each device. 2. The second problem is the flipping page feature. I know the app calibrates to one side or the other by tapping on the right or left side, but I think there needs to be a heightened sensitivity setting. The reason for this is because I play at recitals and in public areas often. I have played at some mini concerts until COVID 19 came around. With the page not flipping when I tap it, IT MESSES UP MY PERFORMANCE. I either have to modify the piece to make it like I didn’t make a mistake, or I have to pause awkwardly mid performance. This has happened to me many times, and I cannot stand mistakes in public performances. It makes me look like an inexperienced rookie playing. I can understand if I tap once and it doesn’t turn and it turns the second time But when I am button mashing the screen and it still doesn’t respond, that is a problem. Fix these issues, and I’ll give your stars back..WillliekyleVersion: 11.2.2

Errors in copying scores to another deviceI have been with ForScore from the very beginning and in fact I even pay for the pro version that I feel makes very little difference. I would say it has been a 5 star app up til recently. I am a professional concert pianists that works with two iPads that I pass my Scores back and forth after adding fingerings and notes to either students or myself. Airdrop has always been the fastest way and had been flawless until the last month or so. Now, every time and every score I send that has kept the annotations from previous versions now automatically takes random measures from a previous section and randomly inserts into another page. Not whole pages but lines here and there. So I’ll be playing along and all of a sudden a Line from a different piece in the same score will appear and Then the next line will be the correct piece again. Very frustrating. Having the pro app is suppose to get support. It took 10 days for a response and then when i responded to the non answer I got no more responses. I think it’s time to look elsewhere or just play from my purchased henle app which has its own annotating frustrations. I love all the new features but I rarely use them. How about good old reliability? Frustrated musician. Sure Never been frustrated By a score before!!!!!.4DjiboutiVersion: 13.0.4

Useful in many waysI rehearse with large classical pieces in a choir. the setlist and bookmarks enable me to navigate efficiently. What was 3 inches of binders has become 50 MMS of iPad, relieving awkward and unsightly page turns and sore shoulders. That the scores are backlit elininates the need for standlights, as the score is visible in low light conditions. My way of importing PDFs is clunky, but I have become aware of more elegant ways to manage my music. The annotation capabilities are fantastic as well. Battery management requires vigilence. Annotating with an Apple Pencil uses the battery-draining Bluetooth connection, so I can also attorate with my finger. With Bluetooth off there is enough battery for 5 hours of performance. The ForScore User Group on Facebook fills the ForScore tech support vacuum. ForScore,is intuitive for musicians, with a few exceptions. I was able to learn it by exploration and be performance-ready in a couple weeks. For me, the Pro upgrade added valuable annotation abilities. The metronome offers help with basic time signatures, but I wish it could be customizable for the many odd jazz and modern signatures. Overall, I’m delighted to leave my paper scores behind..TboneNOLAVersion: 14.3.3

The best Sheet Music Viewer hands downI am a professional Trumpet player, and gone are the days of carrying 10 fake books, 5 band folders and stand lights. With a little time with a scanner, you can have your entire sheet music collection a couple clicks away. I play many different styles of music from Brass Band To Dixieland. I only need to take the official band folder home when I need to scan new music. If something comes up, I don’t have to feel guilty about the band not having the folder in my absence. I have my music sorted by “genres”, which is just one way to sort the very well thought out database. Everyone is just amazed at the way this works. ½ page turns allows you to see the next page while still seeing the bottom half staves of the current page. This avoids having to memorize the first few notes on the next page. Setting up D.C.’s and D.S.’s is easy with links that can be set up. For tricky repeats, you can duplicate pages and arrange them so that it becomes a hands free page turn with products like AirTurn etc. I’ll never go back to the old way again. Easily the best $15 I’ve ever spent on any app. Gigging musicians and piano bar players, this is a must have!!.Eric24824Version: 10.3

Simply the BestI use this app every single day, and if you are a pro (or anyone ) concerned about migrating into using a device for all of your music have no fear.. they have thought of literally everything. You can reorganize pages, make bookmarks, work faster and more efficiently, etc. I think this is the single best piece of software I’ve ever used, I mean every single little problem I have thought to myself hm I wish they would fix that either promptly got fixed or was always available as an option that I didn’t realize For instance, it used to annoy me that when you used the Apple Pencil for annotation (which I really don’t think is very necessary for musicians but I had it anyways, whatever whatever) it would pull up the same menu that you use for writing with your finger, that you would have to manually close thereafter which would add an extra step every time I use it.. Well, as it turns this is an option you can disable in settings! Hopefully that made sense.. But yes if you don’t buy any other app you have got to buy this one. Rock solid reliability (way way better than using android/windows/macOS/other OS that are subject to crashes and all that).Bass player in FLVersion: 11.1.5

Comments and Requests on Version 11Thank 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!.Maestro.PhillipVersion: 11.0

Updates Not HelpfulAs a professional musician, I use this app everyday. It is definitely the best pdf reader out there, even for non-music. My big complaint though is that NONE of the recent updates are helpful. In fact, they make it worse! 1. Why do I have to open a menu to have access to song properties? So I have to tap twice instead of tapping once like I used to. 2. Why is the “Recently Added” list so short now? It used to never end and it was so nice. Now it’s only 5 or 6 songs long. The “Recently Played” tab is a cool idea too, but again, why so short? As a professional musician, do you know how many songs I cycle through in a day? It would be nice if we could pin songs to the top of the list. That would be cool, since some of us have audition rep that we will constantly be working on. 3. Also not a fan of the small pop up window for “Libraries.” It was so much easier to navigate before. I get that it’s trying to follow the iOS update, but to be honest, I hope Apple realizes the redundancy they’ve created too. What used to be one tap is now two. It’s just inconvenient. Developers, I hope you can see this too, as again, I use this app everyday and your recent updates have only made it less efficient. Thank you!.PortachuVersion: 15.0.7

Please make this updateHello, I am a cruise ship musician and I have been using ForScore for many years now. Nowadays ForScore is the app that all musicians use on ship, So ii is a kind of different thing if you don’t use it, haha! I decided to write because there is one feature that will be extremely useful besides all the useful things it already has, and it’s that we cannot cut parts of charts and put them in a different place. Usually we need to change things like skip one section and jump to another, add bars in the middle of a melody written wrong, reorder sections, etc etc… Usually it takes page turns, erase and leave blank spaces, scratches, things to remember, rewriting stuff, etc etc… which makes it harder or annoying not to be able to just cut out a piece and put it in another place. I believe that it is not an easy thing to do, that’s why you guys didn’t make it happen, but I’m sure lots of musicians working with ForScore have the same wish and indubitably it would be great for all of us! Thank you very much for all you’ve done!.Santi DicriVersion: 14.3.1

Best music reading app for iPadI’ve been using forScore now for at least 3 years, and it has only gotten better. I really give it a workout when doing musicals, and forScore makes it easy to deal with cuts, changing the order of numbers in the show. The only thing that was missing was stamps of repeat signs in the Annotations menu, but a friend made me a couple in .png format, they were easy to import, and they work great. I use an iRig BlueBoard for turning pages, and the 2 extra buttons come in very handy, one for making half-page turns, the other I use for bringing up the tuner. (It would be nice if hitting that button again put the tuner away. It’d also be nice if the user could make the tuner and metronome smaller, they cover a lot of the page. Sometimes you just want to leave them in view, hint, hint...) On occasion, several panicked emails have gotten speedy responses from Support, and that is very much appreciated, too. Santa brought an Apple Pencil, and I’m looking forward to learning more about using it. What I’ve done with it so far has been almost seamless to use. Thanks, forScore!!!.WaltTromboneMeVersion: 10.5.3

Great music storage!Very happy with forScore app. At the recommendation of friends from my ukulele group, I purchased an inexpensive refurbished iPad Air and downloaded the app right away. I was able to store all the songs from our extensive collection by quickly copying to forScore from Google Drive. What used to take two large binders to store, now fits on my iPad, and it’s much quicker and easier to find the next song. Friday I was able to put about 30 of those songs into a set list which made it really quick to jump to the next song. It worked perfectly for this outdoor jam session without WiFi connection or worrying about the wind blowing my pages. I was able to use the darkroom feature to take a picture of a paper copy of a song that wasn’t in the Google Drive, and use annotate to change the chord timing to my own preference. Our group is constantly adding new songs, and this will make it easier to add and keep organized. I look forward to adding my private collection to the Dave Rubber City Ukes.Dave - Rubber City UkesVersion: 11.2.4

Good but frustrating updateIt works well, but this update is frustrating. There are only two ways to sort music now, Title or Newest. Before this update, I was able to sort my music how I wanted. I Christmas carol and need to be able to find songs quickly during a gig. Before, I sorted my music with a table of contents at the beginning with a 1. in front of it so it would be at the top because I reference it while on a gig. Now it is at the complete bottom of the list!! You mean I have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the list so I can see the list of our most requested music? Why is there not an option to manually sort? I literally just need three documents to be at the beginning but because they begin with numbers, they are at the bottom. Putting an A in front of them won’t solve the problem because they still won’t be the first in the list. I guess I’ll have to create a set list of all the songs and ignore the scores section? This update is stupid for singers who want to organize their music how they want..LaurenlaassVersion: 15.0.1

Not intuitiveLook I get why everyone is using this app. But I have to say that I have found this app very frustrating to learn to use. Basic things like figuring out how to pull up the “navigation bar” are very difficulty for me to figure out. I searched the documentation over and over trying to figure out what gesture would pull up the navigation bar and found nothing aside from an old blog post from the developer making fun of people who don’t know about long taps (fyi, long taps don’t bring up the navigation bar). I eventually resorted to randomly poking the screen over and over until I got to settings at which point I was able assign my own gestures. I also find the process of importing pdfs to be needlessly laborious and again not clearly explained in the documentation. I guess if I am to use this for gigs I will need to reserve a couple hours of prep time to scream at the app while I desperately try to execute basic functions. And before snide developers dismiss my comment as coming from some techno-phobe… I work with computers all day long and am no stranger to figuring out how to do things..BcpianoVersion: 13.1.5

Awesome!Love how I can import my own images that I have custom made to accommodate my vision and love how well it works with my pedal so I don’t have to lift my hands while playing to switch pages. Only issue I have is now that iPads are home buttonless, there is a white bar at the bottom of my screen, not the home bar, but a solid half inch of the app is white surrounding the Home Bar, which does greatly reduce my ability to see my chord charts with my albinism. My charts are in dark mode as I have custom made them and any bars of bright light such as this can wash out the entire screen. If there’s a way to invert it so it’s dark like the page and just the home bar is white, that would be so much better. I’d show what I’m talking about but reviews on here don’t allow that. This issue does not exist on iPads with a home button for anyone wondering. Bought the app in 2022 and have been using it ever since to help me play at my church..Leah DykemaVersion: 14.3.4

Couldn’t live w/o forScoreI hope to never be w/o my iPad and forScore. I have over 400 songs stored in the app. now. I asked support if there is a limit, and they said the only limit is the space on your iPad. Make sure you backup all of that to the cloud, and choose “archive”. I dont always b/u to the cloud, that takes a long time. So I archive locally to the iPad at least after every 10 new songs stored. My file size is now 1.6 GB. The people who wrote forScore are geniuses. They did a great job making it easy to organize and search for songs as long as you have filled in the attributes of your songs. Cropping is one of the greatest tools, along with writing with an iPencil, you know it’s necessary to scribble in the fingering and rhythm sometimes on top of the sheet music, and in different colors. It’s reliable and has never crashed or frozen up. ForScore developers, please don’t drop the product, keep up with future iOS’s. Thanks again..PianowillVersion: 13.0.5

Good features removed in last update.I've been using this app for 8 years now and love it. I'm a of a church band, and the ability to have our vast library of music at the ready is amazing. Also great is being able to easily see our music in low light situations. As a guitarist one of my favorite functions is changing pages with a foot pedal and having the other band members' pages follow along. However, the reason I give it 4 stars instead of 5, is the fact that the cue function (which lets others follow my page turns) is now no longer easily accessible at the top of the app. Along with a few other great shortcuts, now I have to dive in to the bottom of the main menu to access that functionality. Also, the display feature to tell me that I am connected is leading disappeared with it. It makes it hard when your in the middle of a gig and have lost connection to need to search for the cue settings. Please fix this and bring back the easily accessible shortcuts..IthoughtofthisnicknamefirstVersion: 13.0.1

Great BUT problems after IOS 12This 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..ApplesteVersion: 10.4.9

Wonderful with a few issuesI 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!.Better than any journalVersion: 10.4.8

Fantastic App for musicians. NEEDS BLANK STAFF for notes.This app is a must for professional musicians. I am slowly transitioning from about 25 3 ring binders to my iPad. I make notes all over my music, often writing in parts on top of chord charts, either above the chord chart or off to the side. Freehand notes, I.e, text, is great but I often prefer notation. I hate to have to freehand 5 lines to make a blank staff on which to write my notation. PLEASE add the ability to enter a blank staff when making notes. It could be fairly short (about 1”) with the option to drag it and make it longer. Then we can write our one notation on that staff and have it be really neat. If that gets added, I would give it 5 stars. That’s about all that’s really missing, in my opinion. UPDATE: Please, PLEASE, please add the ability to add a blank staff onto the music so that we might write our notation on actual staff lines, and make it available to us commoners who don’t rent (subscription) our music..1 ÁlbumVersion: 14.1.2

Good Bye Good Ol’ DaysI have been using forScore for several years. The app is incredibly flexible! I am able to do all the work I used to do on hard copies such as notes, highlights and other mark ups. I can organize songs according to my need and really like the ability to create set lists for the groups in which I perform and conduct. I’ve invested in an air turn which is great when I’m performing on an instrument. Importing PDF’s is easy and here’s a game changer; I’m about to send songs to my keyboard player who also has forScore and they’ll be received in a couple of minutes. No more packing them in a big envelope, going to the local P.O. and spending a ton on postage. That saves time and money better used elsewhere. There are many more features that make this app worth every penny but one of the best is I can now say good buy to a heavy case full of books, folders and hard copies of music and carry my iPad! Thanks forScore!.Jeffre 213Version: 10.3

The most used app on my iPad!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!.Brian BenisonVersion: 10.5.6

Brilliant App, An All-Time Favorite!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..Bass Steven DEVersion: 10.4.6

AMAZING APP! One small functionality suggestion...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!.AdamWolfeVersion: 10.3.6

Live changerForScore 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..Guitar bonacheaVersion: 10.3.3

Still a glaring bug...Great and useful app - has solved my frustration with the inconsistency and cumbersome user interface with iGigBook and a superior replacement for that app. However, I've run into a persistent bug - when trying to batch-edit and assign a genre or keyword to a list of songs using 'select-all', the result is often that only the first song in the list receives the assigned attribute, requiring me to go back and perform the batch-edit process a second time to get it to work. Another issue is for those using the attached audio track feature. Many musicians use this to play backing tracks while playing a song in a professional, solo performance setting. This works fine as long as no pop-up alerts/notifications (calendar, etc.) are triggered during audio playback, as the alerts will interrupt and stop playback (not sure if this is only for 'audible' alerts or all alerts). In any event, the app should offer a setting to turn off alerts and notifications while the app is running. If the developer fixes these issues, I will gladly upgrade my rating. *Update 2/8/21 Love the app but now the iPhone version is buggy. I installed the new app (although I was never alerted there was a new app to replace the old one which crashed - iOS 14.3 BTW); until I searched the app store and found it. Now the LATEST version is opening with a blank screen that does not transition to a home screen. I have quit the app and restarted my iPhone - same issue. Really a shame - pros depend on this app. Please fix it..Captain CusterdomeVersion: 12.0.10

The BEST tool I’ve ever used!ForScore has been the BEST tool I’ve used in reading music. I’ve used it beyond just reading music. I’ve readapted it to assist me in setting me up for program/preset changes (with my BOSS GT-100 Guitar Floor Processor & soon Line 6 HELIX Guitar Floor Processor) with annotations & color coding. I know if you would see some of my cheat sheet music, many would think that it’s too much, very busy or seriously colorful. I’m a guitarist that wears many caps... electric rhythm, acoustic rhythm, Rock rhythm, soloist, fills, effects/ambience,etc. If the band that we’re emulating has 2 to 5 guitars, I’m going to do them all in form one way or the other. This program helps me transition through the different sounds, effects & techniques. This really helps me because I’ve got short term memory loss, OCD & dyslexia. When the notation begins looking like a foreign language or I “blank out” (sudden memory loss), I can look at my color &/or position annotations & figure out where I am. Since I have first started using ForScore in around 2012, it’s been a Godsend. I went from having 2 3” 3-ring binders for flipping through song lists & set lists to having the library plethora of music in my iPad... ALL at my beckon call. Such an amazing tool. Thank you. I’ve got one odd request, can you create a highlighter that lays out perfectly straight & is adjustable in size & color? Mine looks like a 3 year old got hold of a highlighter on mine... squiggly worms all over the place. My hands are not as steady as they used to be. Thank you for such an excellent product. ROCK’N’PRAISE!!!, Samuel A. Quiñones II.Samuel A. Quiñones IIVersion: 11.2.6

An Incredible AppI've used this app almost every day for over four years, and think it's about time to write a review. I am a pianist that plays individually and for a wide variety of groups. This app, paired with an iPad Pro and Bluetooth foot pedal for page turning, is the only app I've ever needed for all my music. I've played three entire high school musicals as the primary pianist, with the entire books scanned and imported into forScore. I play in two community jazz bands, and I can take pictures of the paper music and combine them into PDFs directly in the app. I work at a church, where the songs that I play each weeks are organized into many, many folders. And I accompany 3+ choirs, with hundreds of PDFs for them in my forScore library. This is one incredible app that I will continue to use for years to come. I can't recommend it enough!.MainFlierVersion: 10.3

Absolutely the best, this app is exactly what you’re looking forSimply stated, this app is the best sheet music app currently on the market. It is absolutely worth the $15, and it’s been the best $15 bucks I’ve ever spent. I use this app on a regular basis, and it fulfills all my sheet music needs. I scanned my entire sheet music library (about a couple thousand pages) and imported it into ForScore, and I’ll never go back to paper. Despite my large sheet music library size, the app is unbelievably smooth. Plus, I love being able to carry all my sheet music on my iPad; my music is easily accessible, the app has an incredibly smooth interface, even with large files, and it’s very simple to create back-ups and archives. Additionally, if you own an iPad with an Apple Pencil, look no further. The annotation features in this app are flawless and well developed (might I even say even smoother than onenote’s annotation capabilities). I’m not one to usually leave reviews for apps, but I HAD to leave one for this app. I’ve never been so impressed by an app, and I had to leave a review for it and it’s developers. Thank you for this wonderful app, and thank you for continuing to keep it up to date. As a musician, this is the best thing that’s ever happened to me and my sheet music. Thanks again..Mr Blue Coat LlammaVersion: 11.2.5

Great Music PresentationI have been using this app for several years, and it continues to be updated and improved. Additionally, support by the developers is magnificent, and they have always answered my questions quickly and helpfully. I used to haul around big notebooks, but as the playlist of my personal music and the band has expanded, that has become very impractical. I now have 1000+ songs ready to cue up wherever I go - so if I fly to another city and have a gig there, having music handy is very easy. Also, it is easy to share my music - along with performance notes I jot down on the music sheets - with other band members. Inputting new music is easy and straightforward. All-in-all, I have been very happy with this app and highly recommend it to anyone considering moving to an electronic music display..JBplanesandtrainsVersion: 10.5.2

Almost perfect, but there is one thing...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 screw 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..MrKiltVersion: 10.3.9

Pencil tools have gotten “too” intuitiveI have loved everything about this app to this date, I have no reason to ever want to use pencil and paper ever again. However, recent updates have made the pencil tools absolutely enraging: switching to eraser, but by the time I touch the pencil to the screen, it has already switched back to pen mode. I didn’t double tap again, yet I have to do this stupid dance with my fingers and screen like four times every time I want to erase something, and in a rehearsal this just cannot be happening! It seems like the tools were better in previous versions, and now it switches on its own for some reason. I’ve gone to the settings and toggled the remember last tool setting and it has not helped. Another tool that would be useful is having clef symbols in the stamps for engraving purposes..MaciascelloVersion: 13.0.4

Priceless for Musicians!I have been using ForScore for over two years now. The combination of this program with my AirTurn pedals on my iPad has been invaluable. It is very easy to import music for my conducting, performing at the piano, and accompanying. It is fairly simple to use at the basic level and there is plenty of support documentation for more complicated tasks. Being able to annotate is fantastic and you can also use it to sign documents electronically! The best part of it is that it is so easy on my back. I probably hold what would be close to 100 pounds of music on my iPad. I only have to keep a back up copy of what I am performing that day in my briefcase. It is technology after all. 😏 However, I have never had to use that backup because it just works every time. Well done ForScore!.AAL333Version: 10.3.1

Who’s FaultI have a problem with apple notification banners that pop up on the top of a page of music while I’m playing. Usually the banner will quickly disappear except for this time that I had an important solo on a piece that I played recently at church. Apple’s banner kept insisting that I agree to the latest download that I didn’t want. Every 2 seconds that banner would appear. I kept swiping it away, but it would come right back. Just before my important part it popped up again. I couldn’t make it disappear and -play bassoon at the same time so I blew the solo. Some of my musician friends have also had this problem. I asked an Apple tech person about this problem. I was told that it must be a problem with my 4Score app. Is it your problem or Apples?.Chop104Version: 11.1.8

Honestly worth more than $20Update: Removed 2 stars because there seems to be a common issues with annotations missing or merging. This has been going on since September with the 13.1 update (I believe). Hopefully, this post can get some attention. Beides the major bugs, the app is still great. I was a bit hesitant when I saw the $20 price tag at first. This is taking into consideration that I’ve never payed for an app in the past. However, after seeing a few friends with it and trying it myself, I’m extremely satisfied with the features this app presents. I’m able to share my music with other people and all of my IOS devices, organize and easily notate my music, and add audio and vocal tracks to the bottom of the score. Obviously, there’s more available features than that, but I found these to be the most beneficial to me in the long run..Nicholas19karrVersion: 13.1.6

Help neededRecently purchased the app and quickly upgraded to Pro version. App has been a lifesaver in learning and playing multiple page music for both practice and sanctuary services. I discovered today that I had failed to connect to iCloud for syncing purposes as well as for Backup security. I have a 5th generation iPad Pro 12.9 and my app indicates that I’m using the 13.4 Workaround. I am up to date with iOS 18.5. I am having difficulty adding Songselect to my provider choices. I am attempting to follow your online guidelines but the prompts in the app are not the same as in the guidelines. I can not reach your website…all attempts result in “Error in connecting to database.” Please help! I already have 54 Songselect works with hours of work in annotated +/_..JA377Version: 14.4.3

Lovely App but Have Some RequestsThere 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!.JackieeMKVersion: 15.1.2

Great app but .....The app recently started ‘refreshing’ especially during times when I haven’t opened it for, say, hours. Instead of going straight to the page I had stopped in the last time I used it it suddenly refreshes into a page with ‘basic functions’ like a first time tutorial. This gets frustrating if I have to get at a score during a performance or during teaching. Also it seems to crash a bit more often. Happened when I upgraded, which was the version before THIS latest update you have. Does it have a maximum limit as to data that can be stored? I had almost 2 thousand scores - I am using an ipad with 128 GB storage - and like 90 percent were GONE when I tried to re download the app because of these issues. Hopefully you can understand how I felt when that happened Hoping you can fix this. Otherwise I’d have given five stars without blinking,.Anne2132Version: 12.1

Great appI only have this app for two days. So far, it is very easy to upload my scores that are already in PDF format. Easy to organize my scores, and very easy to make annotations. I am very glad I have chosen this app. I thought I had to configure my AirTurn Ped Pro2 to work with it. It turns out as soon as the app is opened the Ped Pro 2 can turn pages. It cannot be more simple than that. I will try additional features in coming days. For now I only have a simple need and this app does everything I want. Thank you..IwillplaythatsongsomedayVersion: 11.1.8

Really Great Sheets AppI have been really enjoying this app to keep all of my sheets together as well as digital theory books or anything music. I originally refunded the app but gave it another try and I am glad I did. The layout is a bit hard to get used to although after you realize how it works it is very powerful. There are many ways to organize your sheets and also adding the same pdf to multiple folders. You can annotate with layers which is very helpful. Sync works great so all files are on each Mac, ipad or iPhone. Some reviewers mentioned losing their annotations from the updates. I was worried about that but ForScore has 2 backup options from the apps — you can download a backup of your settings and annotations OR a full backup with all files and settings. Then on the mac there is a backup/restore utility from the ForScore website so you can restore older backups. Make sure you generate your own backups or export important annotations since anything can happen. Definitely worth the money and way better than a PDF viewer. Thanks for making it!.Daniel_1010Version: 14.1.3

Signes de renvoisLes signes de renvois devraient pouvoir être de différentes couleurs. Pour l’instant, la navigation qui permet de créer des « boutons » ne se fait qu’avec le mauve..Frustré FrustréFrustréVersion: 10.5.2

Excellent App!I am a music educator and love having all of my scores in one easy location. This app has everything I need; easy uploads, piano, buttons for repeats, annotations, MP3 storage in app, to name a few..Touchie88Version: 11.1.8

Un cauchemarLes fichiers audio ne sont plus pris en charge? Tout mon travail est à l’eau. Fini la possibilité de faire jouer les play-back pendant que je joue. Fini le tourne page automatique lié à la musique. J’ai perdu tout ce qui faisait de ForScore une application parfaite. Comment revenir à l’ancienne version? Je suis dévastée. Il faudra sans doute que je change d’application… Qu’elle mauvaise surprise cette mise à jour vers le 15…. Update: c’était un bug, en éteignant ma tablette, tout est revenu. Longue vie à ForScore telle qu’on la connaît!.GenlouveVersion: 15.0.3

Okay in most waysCould benefit from hiring a good ux designer to make the iOS interface more useable. It's a bit clunky..Superhamster101Version: 15.0.7

Excellent App!! Needs a few improvements.Was recommended to me over other apps in the same genre and I couldn’t be happier! Two improvements, if forScore actually reads these things… as a drummer, I provide the click track for the band and they’re in-ear-monitors… The problem is, the on board metronome is far too basic and needs to be upgraded. This is feedback from bandmates not just me, more sounds and more control of accents for the beats. The second thing is, organizing and folder management of Setlist and nested folders and libraries it’s terribly confusing and NOT intuitive. It’s not smooth at all. Anytime an app relies on “you just need to know” is very poor UI design. So organizing scores needs serious improvement..Thomas0007Version: 15.0.7

Concert view missingThis app is amazing, does what it have to do in a very intuitive way. Although there is one option missing, and it’d be great if the developers add it on, as it’s a very important one : there should be a reading option, or concert view, just so we don’t accidentally enter editing mode while in concert. Some friends that are also using forscores have had the same comment, we have often lost precious seconds while in concert exiting the editing mode, which is frustrating as you can imagine. But for the rest, A+ !.HandcityVersion: 15.0.6

Very useful appI have been using forScore for many years both professionally and privately. I use iPhones and iPads. I recently learned from the makers of a pro camera app that using larger text could make some features disappear in the app. Then later I had a bingo moment when I suddenly realized that some annotations, especially text, would move around when trying to send the music to someone by email or text, making my work look ridiculous, and that this was probably the result of using the larger text feature in my devices. The problem disappeared when I went back to the smallest settings for text. forScore should make this clear to its users! The only other thing I would suggest is a color code system for marking the titles of various scores and documents by subject. That would be so nice to have..Dg95mVersion: 14.4.3

Meilleur application de partitions et de classementLe système est le meilleur pour musiciens professionnels pigiste. Quand on lit la musique, et qu’on veut un système de classement et un système de classement bien fait, pour de différents groupe de musique, c’est le TOP ! Merci Forscore et à toute l’équipe ! 😊🎵❤️.CleromVersion: 14.4.3

Easy to useI’d been looking for an app like this for forever and then stumbled upon some glowing Reddit reviews for forScore. Very easy to use, I love the cataloguing options. So far I’ve used this for 2 performances and I love the setlist feature. Recommend.LrproloVersion: 14.4.2

Great app overall, but it’s glitchingI’ve had this app for almost 4 years now and I’ve loved it. In the past month or so there’s been a pretty big lag happening when turning the page or when trying to write something with my Apple Pencil. It doesn’t register it sometimes so when I try to write again it suddenly has 8 attempts I just tried pop out of nowhere and I have to erase and try again. We need this app to be efficient in rehearsals because they are fast paced, so this is making me want to switch back to physical pages if it doesn’t get better, which is disappointing because now I’ve transferred everything over to my iPad..KittykatkatiekVersion: 14.4.2

Great!I’m so admiring with this App! Finally I can organize all my sheet notes. It takes time to know how, but it worthy. Thank you guys for the App!.Vera GurskayaVersion: 14.4.2

Pour ne plus traîner des photocopiesToutes mes partitions se retrouvent avec forScore..Pierre-VincentVersion: 14.3.4

HesitationI don’t know why I waited so long to use forScore the software is awesome! A must for musicians.Have trumpet will travelVersion: 14.2.5

Fonctionnalités accablantesTout les fonctionnalités sont impeccables, tout marche très bien. L’interface est simple et le rendu est remarquable. Par contre, il y a un nombre astronomique de fonctionnalités, et beaucoup d’entre elles ne seront utiles que pour un nombre d’utilisateurs microscopique. Ces fonctionnalités, avec une utilité questionable, pourraient êtres mises disponibles pour un prix extra et en même temps réduire le prix initial de l’app..BigfougabVersion: 14.3.4

Fichiers pdfMalheureusement ne lis pas tous les fichiers en format pdf différamment encodées..Darod22Version: 14.3.3

ChœurJe chante dans un chœur et avec ForScore tout est plus facile.Andree AVersion: 14.2.5

Truly fantasticIt does exactly what I want, effortlessly. A simple yet powerful tool I have used for years, and is single handedly responsible for me getting my money’s worth out of my iPad Pro..Garbage terrible garbageVersion: 14.2.5

Great app. But some features are blocked behind an additional subscription fee on a paid app.The app itself is great. But I find it truly insulting that some of the features in a paid app are blocked behind an additional subscription fee. I work in the software world and am familiar with many business models. And am aware that the devs have to eat. But yeah the additional subscription fee even though it’s optional is quite inappropriate imo. Which is why I’ll dock 1 star off from a otherwise great app. Some software businesses work on donations alone. Some on subs. Some on sales of licenses/products but not both sales and subs..StevwillsableVersion: 14.2.5

Very good appVery good app but for the scanner who use the camera of the ipad its better to numerized the document at like a stapples to have good quality pdf.NucingenVersion: 14.2.5

The most amazing music app!This could actually be the best app on the planet! It does take some time to learn how you want to use it but the ways are endless. Apple should give them credit for all the musicians buying iPads!.PurplePianoCatVersion: 14.2.4

Très pratiqueJ’ai commencé à utiliser cette application il y a un mois et c’est vraiment génial. Je l’utilise pour mes partitions pour mes cours de piano mais aussi pour les partitions de notre chorale. C’est possible d’annoter ou bien surligner les partitions. On peut y inclure des centaines de partitions..VyavyaVersion: 14.2.2

Little annoying thing.The tool to write on your part appears too easily..PLoiselleVersion: 14.2.2

App keeps crashingLike the app, but since the new update to 14.2.1, it crashes whenever this music is set to repeat. I hope for a new update to fix this. DH..HamishloverVersion: 14.2.1

I used to love this appI’m a professional pianist and I’ve been using forescore for years. A couple of months ago the app started havung bugs where I don’t see wht I’ve written or even worse, my annotation erase out of nowhere and I lose hours of work. This app is no longer reliable..TinadiottoVersion: 14.2.1

Switching pagesI wish switching pages while on half page mode would be as easy as full page. App is not cheap!.Sea to Sky 99Version: 14.1.3

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ForScore Negative Reviews

Beware of this update. Don’t do it if you’re a serious user. Critical issues…Several critical bugs that have cost me hours of non-value added work. I am a professional that uses forScore on an IPad Pro connected to a Korg Kronos. Here are the issues: 1 - All pages of scores (created on versions earlier than the update) that have been both cropped and manually marked up are a mess. The markup layer no longer aligns with the underlying PDF as the crop characteristics of the PDF layer are gone. Made many pages with manually added notes completely useless. This has created hours of work for me to fix scores I need to use for gigs. 2 - The sending of midi program changes is broken. When the iPad is connected to a synth, sending program changes from forScore crashes the forScore app (completely quits). This happens with both midi embedded in the score as well as midi buttons. Also, when the iPad is connected to a synth changing programs directly for the synth also crashes the app. These crashes don’t happen every time, but it always will crash on the 1st or second or third or fourth etc. It always will crash. Completely unreliable for any performances. This was a nice feature that is now useless. 3 - Navigation buttons created on an earlier version - pressing these buttons on a score (i.e. to back to page 1) causes an immediate app crash..88PianomanVersion: 14.0.1

Too “powerful” for its own goodSome people just don’t need their sheet music all that “turbocharged.” I have found that learning to use the myriad features of this app is just endlessly time-consuming and annoying. Especially the laggy, frustrating apple pencil pro implementation (on a fast M3 chip!) and the infinitely convoluted annotation layers panel. I can’t tell you how many practice sessions have been wasted and ruined reading through the dense user manual hunting for answers on how to navigate the over-complicated interface. It can really put me in a bad mood. I had actually been very happy using the (free!) IMSLP app before purchasing this, and now I regret spending so much time/energy adding music to Forscore. Having invested that time, I now feel like I’m a captive user. But on a positive note, Forscore is a powerful tool for those (very few, I’m sure) power users who annotate heavily and insist on an infinite number of features. And I do applaud the developers’ hard work to debug it and make it as useful as possible. It does become more intuitive once you get past its rather daunting learning curve, but it has robbed me of a lot of time that I’d much rather have spent practicing!.StarvingNYCDilettanteVersion: 15.0.7

Unreliable for public performanceI have used forScore for years — I use the pro version with face gestures to turn pages. As a professional musician, it is one of the most important apps on my iPad. There are many advantages that we are all aware of. I would like to share the biggest disadvantage (a bug) which makes forScore unreliable for public performance. Occasionally (roughly once a week, or a few times a month), a score will disappear into a plain white screen with nothing visible except the annotations. It always happens at page turns — usually the first, but sometimes in the middle of a piece. This first happened to me in a public performance two years ago and I no longer use my iPad for public performances, I simply don’t trust the software. I have spoken to three friends who have experienced the same issue, which has not been resolved in two years worth of updates. Do not trust this app for public performance, unless you are able to continue playing from memory if your score disappears, or you are willing to accept the risk of embarrassment! I have reported this issue and hope that my trust in this app can one day be restored..Jct95atlVersion: 13.1.5

Poor technical supportI purchase the upgrade and the first couple of months it was fantastic for I was using the gesture page turning feature. I am an organist and the gesture page turn was a blessing until it stopped working. I reached out to support and received a very vague response and also one communication was saying I did not have the subscription for pro when I did. I sent prof and received no response. I tried many times and still no help. So like most people I just stopped using the feature and the app a went back to paper copies. The other day I received a renewal notice and then I reached out again with actually another problem when the app did the last update. Again no answer. Needless to say I cancelled my subscription and will not renew it. I can’t tell you how disappointed I am for not being able to get help to figure out how to resolve these issue. When it work it was just such a great greatest thing. I would be Leary if you are considering purchasing pro until they figure out a better customer service/technical service instead of just collecting yearly subscriptions. It’s a shame..Heritage2004Version: 15.0.6

Frustrating/Persistent Glitch despite iOS and app updatesI have always loved this app. I have always used it with my 1st generation iPad Pro but, for the last couple of months, I have been having troubling issues with forScore. The single page turns are starting to lag a lot and when I use half page turns and jump around within a set list, I will turn half a page and the following half page will show the next chart instead of the next page. To get it to go away, I need to tap forward once more (this allows the full following page to display) and tap back once (so I can go back to where I initially intended to be). This is unacceptable to use during a performance because it is causing me to make mistakes and miss entrances. Please have a look into this and find a way to fix it. My iPad is old but it is still in perfectly usable condition and I don’t imagine that should affect how the software works. As much as I would like to avoid it, I have to leave my rating at 2 stars until this problem is resolved..Mscn84lifeVersion: 14.0.1

Has been problematic recentlyEDIT: Wellllll everything WAS great until recently the app started lagging a lot, not recognizing inputs, and even the dreaded Not Saving Your Work After Tapping Done. And when viewing in two-page mode, forget it — it’s even worse. _____ It was a lot of work importing and organizing my 2000+ file library into the app, but once that was done I realized just how good this app is and how well it works. I just bought this second hand 12.9 inch iPad Pro (3rd gen) and I was afraid I would have performance issues, but far from it — everything is ultra smooth sailing so far. I love how quick it is to navigate between my files, set lists and bookmarks, and how easy it is to make them in the first place. I love how fast and bug-free the annotations work (although the annotations UI is a bit cumbersome and could use a bit of work — developers, if you’re listening, the undo/redo buttons are too close and look too similar to the previous/next page buttons). I LOVE the crop features, so underrated, and I hope they build some sort of AI into it in the future which would make the auto crop even better. And that’s just skimming the surface of the features ForScore has, all of them SUPER well thought out for every case and scenario — from practices to performances to classes; players, students, teachers, music directors, you name it. So far it’s been a game changer for me. Quite pricey, though, and if that is an issue for you, there are some decent alternatives out there (special mention to the IMSLP app!).Efv94Version: 14.3.1

Wish I could get a refund.I unfortunately paid $24 for this app, used it for a couple of weeks and wish I could get a refund. If there would’ve been a trial period I would not have bought. I’m a side musician, bass player and background singer and I play in about 6-10 different projects at any given moment. I make my own charts and don’t use sheet music. I had to hunt for features that should be obvious. I shouldn’t have to open an app specifically for making set lists and go, “hmmm I wonder where I go to add a song??”, or, can I just add a song as a placeholder that doesn’t have an actual pdf attached to it but make quick notes or annotations on the placeholder. Had to phone a friend because it was not obvious at all. And, the one time I tried using it at a , gig it was so hard to see the tiny font of the set list. So frustrating! I just found Songbook Pro and it does all of the things I need and features are obvious to find. AND it was $5.99 with a free trial..HMK78Version: 14.4.3

Lots of great things but one new TERRIBLE "feature"I have used Forscore for four years and have found it so useful that I transitioned completely away from paper music. But one recent feature was added and I can't figure out how to turn it off - the fact that you can drag open the editing palette from the right side, not just the top. As a conductor, I swipe each page turn from right to left, often super quickly because - who has time while performing to be super careful exactly where you drag from? Well, this new feature keeps showing itself if I don't grab the exact right spot while trying to turn pages and now I'm stuck, in the middle of conducting, trying to push that darn menu back and trying to now make a very late page turn. Happens EVERY TIME I am using this app and I am a full time conductor so this is a multiple times per day annoyance. Please make this a feature that can be turned off or if it's actually available, make it clearer where it is because I just can't find it..Piano_playerVersion: 14.3.1

Annotations all moved around after updateAfter the most recent update, all my annotations got moved around on the page. This includes hours and hours of translations, fingerings, etc. Absolutely UNACCEPTABLE and my scores are now useless.ConnorpianoVersion: 14.1.2

I used to love this app but…I am a professional concert pianist who uses forScore on two iPads coupled together to perform with. Since I started using this app aprox. 4 years ago, when I found it to be wonderful, it has become less functional. When issues arise they take longer and longer to get fixed. But my real issue is with the suposedly "Pro" level of support that I am paying good money for. These days, when I have a problem, unless I’m really, really stuck, I don’t bother trying to contact forScore because I know I won’t get an answer. I’m still waiting for an answer to my last email sent on 2022-12-22! There is something wrong with this picture.88ER2Version: 14.0.3

BuggyI want to like this app but the menu and the options ( click in the Idle , click on top, swipe her, swipe there), app freezes, delays are frustrating and more often I hate it. 2026 and the menu looks like 1975! Where is the menu on iPhone 16? Can’t pull down the menu without showing control menu of iPhone?.DmandoryVersion: 15.1.2

Broken sync, broken annotations, nonexistent supportI’ve used this program since pre-COVID times, but my patience is finally running out and I may have to quit. Sync is broken and will randomly disable itself without telling you, leaving you to wonder if your library is actually backed up or not. Annotations are glitchy and broken, and are often lost, shifted to other pages, or completely misaligned after closing and reopening the app. This once happened in a dress rehearsal and caused me to waste the entire time re-doing all my annotations. Do not subscribe to forScore Pro. One of the listed benefits is personalized, expedited support, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Weeks/monthslong reply times, zero solution to problems (or even acknowledgement), dismissal of yearslong chronic issues as “oh this has never happened to other users before” (google disagrees). This app was once the de facto sheet music solution for iOS users. Now, it’s a bad and unreliable mess, and support is either unable or unwilling to do anything about it..DmitrySchostVersion: 15.0.7

Syncing not automatic between devicesOk but syncing not happening automatically through iCloud so my libraries are actually not accessible on all of my devices without a lot of effort. Also every time my Apple Pencil hits the page to make a note the page does a quick shift and so I get this messy scribble. I noticed for myself and for all other choristers using the app that we all have trouble with accidentally turning the pages or accidentally hitting one of the page buttons at the bottom and ending up completely lost. There are not many touch sensitivity adjustments or accidental touch precautions available. Often glitches and the page won’t respond at all to touch at all so I can’t turn my pages unless I quit right out of the app and come back in. I dread when that happens in performance especially if I am conducting that day. If you mark the score up too much, it also can cause the app Crash or freeze then crash having not saved your latest edits. They really are so many wonderful things about the app that keep me using it, but I always feel like it is a little bit dangerous to depend on during performances. I always print out all of my music as a backup plan..Judd highlyVersion: 15.0.7

BugNouvelle version avec des bug et encore moins efficace.Mixopt2025Version: 15.0.6

Latest Version is a MessThis used to be a great app. The last version has really screwed up the interface..SargeantGuitarVersion: 15.0.6

Big bug after updateJust updated the app and iPad last night and the app keeps showing the sheet music higher up after turning the page, clipping the top line of the page. Really weird phenomenon but also extremely frustrating since I have a performance tonight. Only way to get rid of the issue is closing the app and relaunch. Can’t really do that while playing in performance. Please fix this..Kywi28Version: 15.0.5

Update broke a good thingNo longer works on IOS 12.5.7 after last update. Now I’m stuck with no music right before a gig..Conjuror21Version: 15.0.2

DecentI have really enjoyed using this app for music. As a musician it’s become really useful. However I feel paying the fee to download the app is really pricy. Also it’s super glitchy to use with Apple Pencil and I would lose annotations on my music that I worked hard to fix. The app always crashes if I’m importing music and all these issues really infuriate me. I wish there was an app update to fix these bugs. That’s why I give 2 stars..Arden_star1992Version: 14.4.3

What the heck is going onWhere’s your support team? Your iCloud sync has been out of whack for months and not a single solution has been sorted out! For how expensive and world class ForScore claims to be, the recent lack of support is incredibly disheartening, and your user base is starting to notice. Do better and fix your app!.MichaeldavidhenleyVersion: 14.4.3

TerribleUnclear and complicated to use..SplendoricaVersion: 14.3.4

All sorts of problems with iPadOsSince installing and using this, in spite of the fact that it is useful, I had to delete and reinstall twice, losing all my rehearsal notes! Using 50% of my battery charge within 2 hours… And the worse part, it's impossible to get help from them..MichaelSPetersVersion: 14.3.2

Ongoing issue with menu not appearing on double tapI purchased the new iPad Pro 13 inch a few months ago, and no update from forscore has fixed the issue where when you double tap to bring the menu up it only sporadically works. it is literally a crapshoot if you will get the menu or not..Fraulein_mingVersion: 14.3.1

Bad experienceForce quitting while in drawing mode will wipe all your notes. Learned it the hard way. UI is very overweighted. Switching between files is very painful, specially while on stage. I just need an APP that is easy to flip thru, easy to close and open different files, and I can write some notes on my music. Forscore was only able to fulfilled the first need..BqinnnVersion: 14.3.1

Get Stuck?You’re toast..LabirckVersion: 14.2.5

CrashedIt was ok at first..suddenly it stopped working. I am so disappointed, all my hard work is gone.@balzVersion: 14.1.3

Besoin d’un mode d’emploiPour ne pas perdre de temps inutilement et sourtout mes nouveaux scans, j’ai besoin d’un guide..OdettemerdeVersion: 14.1.3

Annotations erase out of nowhereI really like this app as it is quite easy to use. The only problem I have with it is when it erases hours of work annotating scores. This has happened to me twice in the past two days where I have annotated a full pages work and it completely erased itself and there is no apparent way for me to get my work back. Very deceiving… Please do something to fix this !.CocoroncinoVersion: 14.1.3

DisappointingPretty disappointed. After reading great reviews was expecting a lot from this 25$ app… pretty underwhelming, not intuitive and lags on my brand new iPad….DodecagoneVersion: 14.1.1

Not user friendly.Not user friendly at all. The control panel is only sometimes available, no way to learn how to use it as I can’t get to any settings panel. Which means I also can’t cancel a subscription or deal with deleting an account. Frustrating..ShaaynessVersion: 14.1.3

Not reliableDo not buy this app if you have the update of iOS 14 or more as it’s not compatible with the latest version of for score. Had For Score for 2 years, it was always good until last update and now it is lagging for ever and can simply not work with it anymore. I had to buy another app to be able to work as a musician in orchestras. Cause of the lack of update from For Score,the page turns are not reliable, has at least 3 seconds delay for simple tasks as writing, zoom in and out. Over all pretty disappointed that I have to wait for an actual update to have the chance of using it again. I just cannot work with it anymore..PrettydesapointedVersion: 14.1.2

Highlighter featurePlease give us a proper highlighter feature. The one that doesn't make black texts/notes looks smudge..ServingYouGuysHonestReviewVersion: 14.0.3

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