New and extremely frustrating bug
Used to love this app, but ever since Apple changed the iPadOS such that apps can be resized and overlaid, EVERY SINGLE TIME I WRITE A NOTE AT THE TOP OF A SCORE, THE APP RESIZES ITSELF. It is so incredibly annoying. I’m not touching the iPad, just writing with my Apple Pencil, and it is nowhere near the top left corner of the document. WHEN WILL THIS BE FIXED? You do realize musicians often make notes at the top of a score, right???
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素晴らしい！
初代iPadProを手に入れた時からこれのみでやってきてます。逆に言えば他を知らないんですが、他のアプリが全く気になることなく使ってきました。強いて言えば1点だけ希望があるのですが、音源の音量調整が無段階だとありがたいです。それと、Androidにも対応してほしい…。
После обновления перестало работать
После обновления приложение перестало работать. При попытке войти белый экран на пару секунд и вылетает.
Перезагружала устройство, сгружала и устанавливала заново приложение, всё тщетно. Партитуры и сетлисты не открыть. Какое предательство!!!!
Столько работы пропало.
Перезагружала устройство, сгружала и устанавливала заново приложение, всё тщетно. Партитуры и сетлисты не открыть. Какое предательство!!!!
Столько работы пропало.
Time to find an alternative
Sync issues are costing me money. ForScore support is no longer available. When a company stops providing support for a product, it means the product is coming to an end. Look at all the recent one star reviews and you can recognize that it will be a gamble to use this app IF the sync feature is important to your work. Also note that ForScore no longer responds to critical reviews. They must be shorthanded … yet they don’t have any posted job openings - translation: they’re nearing the end.
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Excellent App, but careful with updates!
With the last update adding a file to a suggested setlist no longer works, at least it doesn’t work on my M5 iPad Pro. It used to work until the previous version, now the suggestion does appear, but the file does not get added to that setlist, and I have to select the setlist manually. Please fix this.
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Love it but New version has bugs
I love this app and use it daily. However the new version crashes on iPhone whenever I go to tue suitcase menu to scan. Can you fix?
Good, But Crashing
Works great for concerts and markings overall… but have had it happen multiple times where I’m doing bowings and it just randomly crashes and closes on it. 30-40 mins of hard work marking my music just gone. Mildly infuriating, please fix. Great program otherwise.
Love it
Absolutely awesome until I dropped my iPad in the bath! Maybe there is a forScore automatic back up but I haven’t found it yet, apart from that it’s brilliant, big applause👏👏👏
Beginning with ForScore
I’ve wanted to totally digitize my music for some time now and had my own method of digitizing or obtaining digital copies of music and maintaining my scores, however there were just some areas there are difficult to manage. I watched others and tried other product trials but ForScore has been predominantly the product that other professional pianists and other musicians are choosing.
I bought it recently and while there is a definite learning curve, I can see how much easier that product is making digital music workflow really work for me. Set lists, a much better environment to read my music with, notation and markup … just a few items mentioned here and it appears to be the tip of the iceberg. I’m very excited about this product and the potential that I am seeing but more than that the manufacturer appears to really understand how to make the interface more useful and intuitive for us musicians….
I’ll provide another review as I become more acquainted and fluid in this tool.
I bought it recently and while there is a definite learning curve, I can see how much easier that product is making digital music workflow really work for me. Set lists, a much better environment to read my music with, notation and markup … just a few items mentioned here and it appears to be the tip of the iceberg. I’m very excited about this product and the potential that I am seeing but more than that the manufacturer appears to really understand how to make the interface more useful and intuitive for us musicians….
I’ll provide another review as I become more acquainted and fluid in this tool.
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Goated
This app is goated with the sauce
Less was more
Probable curmudgeon here, however I use this app every day. It works well enough now. But before I never had to lean over to push a button on my Bluetooth pedal to get the virtual keyboard to reappear. Also, the swipe gestures have become wonky to me. The app is always wanting to minimize itself, usually at the worst time. Yes, there probably is some menu in settings where I suppose I could disable that feature. I wish developers would stop casting about to create new features that mess up functionality. Wouldn’t it be neat if it just worked the way it used to?
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The latest update
The latest update closes the setlist after adding a song and clicking on x instead of deleting the title to find another one, every update is worse and worse and customer support sucks
Delighted, music on the go.
Forscore Best app ever, delighted with how easy and versatile this app is for musicians. Works with the music notes app, download and play pretty much anything , scan in your pieces and mark up your scores. Very affordable, it’s awesome!
The best way to keep playing music is at your fingertips. On holiday we’re at the cottage with my electric Roland. GO to a friends house and play duets, plus carry to a wedding , graduation or on a holiday and find a piano on the street.
The best way to keep playing music is at your fingertips. On holiday we’re at the cottage with my electric Roland. GO to a friends house and play duets, plus carry to a wedding , graduation or on a holiday and find a piano on the street.
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Updates suck
This was once the perfect app. Then someone decided to allow update after update down the line that has progressively made ForScore less and less usable. Mostly quality of life stuff: like adding scores from Dropbox and from your library to a set list. Things we do hundreds of times a week have now had 2-3 taps/swipes added to our workflow. Other things like “shared library” defaulting instead of the audio file we carefully selected and cued up. Why do these changes need to happen? Why does it now take twice as long to remove a score from a set list than it did before? Who let the engineer into the UX team?
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Instrumentalist pay attention
This is the most smoothest way to play any instrument. You never have to reach up and turn a page (no chances of loosing your place) you just use a foot pedal (butterfly pedal from Sweetwater or Amazon) and be able to turn the pages forward or back (coda) Right straight through with no issues. I’ve had mine for several years. Love it!! Download sheet music, from actual sheet music, or from your church’s planning center, or other apps. Never have to remove you hands from your instruments. Songs file in alphabetical order. You can also make set list that will list the songs that you’re going to play at one performance and save it to a date or an and then you could pull up any playlist in the future and all the songs that you save on there you can put them in another set list. You don’t have to copy them over and over again. If you don’t have one, you don’t know what you’re missing. If you have one you know how. I don’t get a promotion or anything from this. I’m just being truthful and honest it’s a blessing from God.
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Literally use it daily
I started going digital with all my sheet music at the beginning of this year. This app was recommended to me by an orchestra member. This app has been so helpful and pretty easy to learn how to use. I can’t imagine doing music without it now! And I have recommended it to everyone I know that does music.
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Game changer
As a church musician, having access to various hymnals and other resources in one device is amazing. I can change plans easily on the fly, and the setlists make managing multiple services a breeze. I also love that I can easily mark up a score with the Apple Pencil. The keyboard and metronome make it easy to work on long trips. Perhaps my favorite thing is that it does not depend on WiFi/cellular service to function.
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Bugs only breed more bugs
Used to be a good app. Now there are more bugs after every update. App designers making more work for themselves until the app is useless and is sunsetted. Planned obsolescence by design.
Love This App
5 bands…sometimes 1st or 2nd sometimes 3rd. Organizing music in band libraries makes creating and altering set lists quick and easy. The functionality of the app while keeping same songs labelled and separate makes it easy to stay in the moment during a rehearsal or performance. This is a great tool and works easily with a foot pedal too.
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Layers stopped working and app is very slow now
One of forscores most popular features is the ability to add annotations over multiple layers. I have been relying on this feature for the past several months, but it seems that now it is just useless. You can create as many layers as you want but eventually, they’ll all get smushed down to one layer. At first I was paranoid that I forgot to create multiple layers but this kept happening, and now I know for a fact that it is a problem with the app itself. The developer team claims to have fixed this issue but it is still happening as of the latest version on Oct 19 2023.
There have been also numerous other problems since about 1 1/2 years ago, forScore does not recognize the double tap on your Apple Pencil to switch from delete to write, some buttons will become unresponsive for a long time, and page turning is a gamble as to whether it will turn instant instantly or not at all.
I bought this 3 years ago and still is the best 20 dollars I’ve spent on an app purchase. ForScore makes organizing, reading, and annotating music so easy. It is the very reason I feel con fident now using digital scores in lieu of paper. And can I mention? It edits PDF;s better than Adobe Acrobat ever has. Want to rearrange pages? Combine scores? Rotate and automatically crop? all of it is handled in-app.
There have been also numerous other problems since about 1 1/2 years ago, forScore does not recognize the double tap on your Apple Pencil to switch from delete to write, some buttons will become unresponsive for a long time, and page turning is a gamble as to whether it will turn instant instantly or not at all.
I bought this 3 years ago and still is the best 20 dollars I’ve spent on an app purchase. ForScore makes organizing, reading, and annotating music so easy. It is the very reason I feel con fident now using digital scores in lieu of paper. And can I mention? It edits PDF;s better than Adobe Acrobat ever has. Want to rearrange pages? Combine scores? Rotate and automatically crop? all of it is handled in-app.
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