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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Just a toy, not for pros
Update has now ruined two-up annotations. Tap to enter annotate mode and what happens? The screen goes blank of course. Draw on the screen and what happens? Nothing. But exit annotation mode and voila, there are all the hieroglyphs you just made! A colossal failure of an app. I’ve been using since 2011 and honestly it was far superior back then. The only good edition recently has been pencil support and we see what that has become. STOP UPDATING THIS APP. It was good enough for professionals.
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Awesome Music Resource
I’m new to using this fantastic music app! It’s easy to learn how to use it without having to fumble with music sheets!
Sync is broken
Sync is broken. Bookmarks get duplicated/ developer won’t fix
It’s ok
Overall, this app is amazing but sometimes when I try to crop my music it doesn’t want to crop! It’s super annoying and I have to retake photos of my music again.
Worth the money.
Definitely worth the 25 dollars. My orchestra teacher doesn’t let us bring home paper copies. So this really helps to let me practice at home.
Been using it for years ...
I love forScore, I depend on it for gigs, and for the most part it is great as a library management tool, but they really need to make the syncing more reliable. I am tired of set lists getting erased or losing scores due to sync issues.
Missing features; non intuitive
Batch edit metadata is missing despite being listed as available in the help on the web site. Have to apply tags and data one by one instead of mass tagging a new batch of scores for a particular band with that bands name all at once. Can’t link or browse to music files as files, only thru Apple Music.
Might be just me but I couldn’t do even basic things without searching for help. Tiny buttons low contrast hard to see. There’s a ‘pro subscription’ now that hints that some features might be subscription locked, if not now than in the future.
No trial or lite version. Had to buy it to try it and don’t like it so stuck. “Industry standard” but real hard for an older musician to figure out from scratch.
The MobileSheets lite version was much more intuitive for me, might be because I dabble in databases for day job. Really regret getting this one instead.
Might be just me but I couldn’t do even basic things without searching for help. Tiny buttons low contrast hard to see. There’s a ‘pro subscription’ now that hints that some features might be subscription locked, if not now than in the future.
No trial or lite version. Had to buy it to try it and don’t like it so stuck. “Industry standard” but real hard for an older musician to figure out from scratch.
The MobileSheets lite version was much more intuitive for me, might be because I dabble in databases for day job. Really regret getting this one instead.
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Great app
Love the app but in the latest update I am not able to long press on a pdf to get a preview before I add it to a playlist. I can long press and preview after I add it and/or in any other menu. The preview function is very useful. Hopefully it can be fixed
Chaos
This app is a mess of confusing excess , just dumping JPEGs into Dropbox works better
Too difficult to use
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