Impossible to get support
Need help importing a pdf file with 130 songs into my main library
If you are just starting out consider your options
As of this writing I have 1047 scores and counting. I am totally committed to this app, but as described in other reviews it has more than one achilles heal. My particular issue is that it has a buffering problem. If you are writing your own scores or charts from scratch or marking things up with the annotation bar, it has occasion to erase a huge portion of your work when you close the annotation bar. It does this at random. I find myself having to rewrite all or a portion of a chart at least once every time I have a medium sized chart session (15 or more). These are mostly one pagers and two pagers. If you are scoring on this by hand the potential to lose a large portion of work is very real. They have known of the problem for years. Do a search. Sadly it is a great app and many of the people I work with use it. Other issues that have been brought up are moving work across platforms.
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Good App navigation is a challenge
Love the app except navigation needs a lot of improvement to make it more intuitive. I spend too much time trying to figure out how to do some things which is frustrating.
Great on iPad, broken on Mac
I’ve used ForScore for a decade or more, I think. It’s always been fantastic on iPad, and I give THAT app 5 stars. Unfortunately, on my MacBook Air (M3) and iMac (M1), since the last major OS update, ForScore will not run. It opens and crashes. I’ve uninstalled multiple times, to no success. Very frustrating, as I have all the music syncing to iCloud and want to work off and share sheet music through my computers, rather than having to airdrop to a device that is connected already.
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The good and the very very bad
ForScore is the leader in digital sheet music archiving, reading and annotating and there is plenty to love about the software. But there is a fatal flaw which undermines the functionality and usability of the software which the company has singularly failed to fix, in spite of copious expressions of frustration from users. The Achilles’ heel is synchronizing scores across devices. Like many other users, I have spent hours coping with failed syncs, errors, duplications, grayed out scores. This in spite of trying every fix the company - and other users - have suggested. Several times I have had to delete scores and rebuild the library. It’s about time the company listened to its users and fixed this. I have too much invested in a large score library to switch but if you are starting from scratch, I recommend that you steer clear of this software until it has been fixed.
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One week in… Amazing!
Trying to dig my way out of a music room stuffed to the brim. I’ve learned to quickly scan sheet music into FS, and organize large amounts of various types of music by entering the metadata that works for me. I can’t wait to get into the built in practice tools like the metronome and tuner. I’ve still got a lot to do but now I have the tools to do it. Thank you, forScore!
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Amazing App!
Amazing app. Well thought out. Really pleased.
Best sheet music app by far
So amazing! Has so many features, and ones that are well implemented and thoughtful!
Use for storing, recalling and reading scores
A Must for Performing Musicians
I’ve used For Score for over 3 years now. Since I play in big jazz bands, small ensembles, quartets and trios, as well as for church, I never would be able to manage all those scores if they were in hard copy. I have a library for each and create set lists as needed for a particular gig or Sunday service. I have over 2700 songs/arrangements on my iPads (yes, I use two because sometimes page turns are particularly hard on piano and accordion scores, so I can set up difficult page turns easier this way. Well worth the extra and it’s comforting to know everything is backed up, should I lose one pad. Don’t know what I ever did without For Score and my iPads.
I’ve used For Score for over 3 years now. Since I play in big jazz bands, small ensembles, quartets and trios, as well as for church, I never would be able to manage all those scores if they were in hard copy. I have a library for each and create set lists as needed for a particular gig or Sunday service. I have over 2700 songs/arrangements on my iPads (yes, I use two because sometimes page turns are particularly hard on piano and accordion scores, so I can set up difficult page turns easier this way. Well worth the extra and it’s comforting to know everything is backed up, should I lose one pad. Don’t know what I ever did without For Score and my iPads.
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Love it
A great app but I really wish that highlights would go under the notes, not over them. I know it’s possible because the app notability does it for my scores. But this app is better in all other aspects
Long Time User
I have been using forScore for about 15 years and I have loved the app since the beginning. I have contributed to countless musicians downloading the app including instrumentalists at two of the largest churches in my area.
Super app
Pro ou pas, c’est un incontournable! Tu veux annoter des pdf.
Edit 2026:
Svp, quand on exporte un set'ist en texte seulement, ajouter aux option de partage la durée, le tempo et la clé!
Merci
Edit 2026:
Svp, quand on exporte un set'ist en texte seulement, ajouter aux option de partage la durée, le tempo et la clé!
Merci
Was excellent. Now buggy abandonware.
Forscore was recommended to me for readIng renaissance polyphony from facsimile editions. I’ve now been using it for several months, and I’m hooked. Goodbye to struggling with crufty, dog-eared paper copies in poor light! It’s hard to think of any comment that hasn’t been made here before, except that...
... in another life I have to read technical manuals in PDF form, and I needed an app in which to make marginal notes. It took an embarrassingly long time to realise that I already had one.
Update (after several years use): I'm downgrading this to 2 stars for the following reasons:
1. The developer, a single programmer it seems, appears to have lost interest in this program, and neither posts updates nor responds to bug reports.
2. There are long-standing bugs that can require an app hard-restart during rehearsal/performance:
2.1. The spontaneous, random, event of appearance of the page-scroll-thumbnail, obscuring part of the page, and persisting until an app hard-restart, and
2.2. The inability to turn pages after hiding the default annotation layer, for which the workround seems to require an app hard-restart followed by the creation of a score-layer.
Beware getting locked-in to this app. With hundreds of scores and countless hours of annotations, I find myself trapped in a proprietary format with no migration path out of it.
... in another life I have to read technical manuals in PDF form, and I needed an app in which to make marginal notes. It took an embarrassingly long time to realise that I already had one.
Update (after several years use): I'm downgrading this to 2 stars for the following reasons:
1. The developer, a single programmer it seems, appears to have lost interest in this program, and neither posts updates nor responds to bug reports.
2. There are long-standing bugs that can require an app hard-restart during rehearsal/performance:
2.1. The spontaneous, random, event of appearance of the page-scroll-thumbnail, obscuring part of the page, and persisting until an app hard-restart, and
2.2. The inability to turn pages after hiding the default annotation layer, for which the workround seems to require an app hard-restart followed by the creation of a score-layer.
Beware getting locked-in to this app. With hundreds of scores and countless hours of annotations, I find myself trapped in a proprietary format with no migration path out of it.
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Great…and awful
Forscore is a terrific app for storing, displaying and marking up scores with great features. The syncing between Apple devices is a nightmare and has been for several years. Forscore REALLY needs to get serious about fixing this. It really undermines the user experience causing vast amounts of time wasted consulting help, customer service, deleting, backing up re-syncing and more.
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Very good but still room to be better
The app does the job nicely for the most part. Little missing things here and there keep it from being great—when installing on a new device, I have to add a document on that device first to be able to set up iCloud sync; and I’ve found no way to move multiple items to a library in one go. Things like that.
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Best purchase of the year
Saved me sooooo much time. Metronome, keyboard, audio import functions Wow! I finally can keep track of my music and actually have the space to write stuff in. Best app ever
Excelent
Excelent
Extremely frustrating
I have used this app since 2019 and up to this point I have enjoyed all the features that this app has to offer. After the last update, I lost hours upon hours of set lists that I complied over the years, and the new menu to songs is absolutely terrible. Unfortunately, I have grown accustomed to most of the changes, but I have to ask the question. Why? Why did create an update that erased all my work? I’ve tried other score programs, but the brunt of my library exists on ForScore. Usually when you get an update, it doesn’t erase the work you already have put it. The recent list needs to go back to what it was prior to the update.
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Good, but not perfect
Would be better if I could manually add sync points for page turns. Also, when playing along, the play/pause buttons on my MacBook don’t function natively with the software.
Love it
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
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
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