Comparison

forScore vs Radio Ananda

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

forScore

This app digitizes sheet music, offering organization, annotation, and playback tools for musicians. It allows for easy import, library management, and hands-free navigation, enhancing the performance experience.

Highlights
  • PDF sheet music reading
  • Cloud sync and import
  • Library organization and search
  • Annotation tools
  • Hands-free page turning
  • Integrated metronome and tuner
Features
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Go paperless. Get organized. Download and play something new in seconds. With forScore for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS, your scores have never been better—it’s everything you can do with paper and so much more. As seen in Apple keynote addresses and retail stores worldwide! On your music stand or on the go, it's the complete PDF sheet music reading experience that has wowed musicians all over the world for years: CONNECT • Copy PDFs from other apps like Safari and Mail and sync them to all of your devices with iCloud • Import scores from popular cloud storage services and content providers like Musicnotes.com • Share scores and setlists with colleagues, whether or not they use forScore ORGANIZE • Add metadata to your scores for a perfectly browsable, instantly searchable library • Create smart bookmarks to manage longer files containing multiple parts or pieces • Group scores manually with Setlists to play through them from start to finish PLAY • View full pages in portrait orientation and crop them to better fit your device's screen • Turn your device sideways for bigger scrolling pages or view two pages side by side instead • Use Reflow on smaller screens to lay out systems of music end-to-end like a horizontal teleprompter REFINE • Annotate by drawing, typing text, or placing common symbols onto the page • Separate your annotations into layers and show or hide them at any time • Open scores and setlists in multiple windows or tabs to multitask with ease SIMPLIFY • Create links and buttons to handle repeats or perform common actions with a single tap • Rearrange and duplicate pages of a score to play without jumping back and forth • Connect your Bluetooth page turner for hands-free navigation EXTEND • Access integrated utilities like our metronome, pitch pipe, tuner, and piano keyboard • Link tracks to scores to loop regions, adjust pitch, and even use them to record and play back your page turns • Connect wirelessly to nearby devices and coordinate your page turns and program changes effortlessly There's much more than those highlights, though, so be sure to visit forscore.co to learn all about forScore's incredible features and find out why so many musicians agree that forScore is simply the best! Note: forScore also offers an optional, annual auto-renewing subscription called forScore Pro that unlocks additional features and content (visit forScore.co/pro for complete details). forScore Pro is a 1-year subscription that renews automatically until canceled. Should you choose to subscribe, payment will be charged to your iTunes Account upon confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will then automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions in your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. Complete terms of service are available on our website at: forScore.co/terms-of-serviceGo paperless.

About

Radio Ananda

Stream uplifting music designed for healing, energization, and relaxation. This app offers a curated selection of inspirational music to foster inner peace and spiritual growth.

Highlights
  • Healing music stream
  • Energizing music
  • Relaxation music
  • Inspirational music
  • Spiritual teachings
Features
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The Radio Ananda App is the essence of simplicity, offering a beautiful stream of music for healing, energization, and relaxation. Radio Ananda (Sanskrit for "joy") is produced by members of Ananda, a worldwide movement and community of souls seeking joy and inner freedom through the revolutionary teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda (1893-1952). Yogananda is well known as the author of Autobiography of a Yogi, a spiritual classic read by millions around the world. The Ananda movement was begun by Nayaswami Kriyananda, a direct disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda. Kriyananda wrote some 400 pieces of inspirational music, which form the core of programming on Radio Ananda. Rather than merely stirring up one's emotions, this music takes the listener into states of calm feeling, where intuition and other soul qualities such as bliss, love, power, calmness, peace, and wisdom can blossom and grow.

Screenshots

forScore4 screens
Radio Ananda3 screens

Verdict

The call

forScore and Radio Ananda both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 97% of Radio Ananda's written reviews are positive against 50% of forScore's. Radio Ananda also leads on price (Free vs $24.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). forScore's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (44K vs 198). On rating, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Radio Ananda is free to download; forScore costs $24.99 up front. forScore sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Radio Ananda asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for forScore against 4.9 for Radio Ananda. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: forScore has 44K ratings behind it against 198, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of forScore's written reviews are positive against 97% of Radio Ananda's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

forScore ships an update every 9 days, Radio Ananda every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
forScore versus Radio Ananda: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterforScoreRadio Ananda
Price$24.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (44K ratings)4.9 (198 ratings) — better
Positive reviews49.9% of reviews96.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings44K — better198
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#12 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.013.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB36 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperforScore LLCAnanda Church of Self-Realization

Customer experience

forScore

All ratings43,469 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral1.6%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews913 reviews
Positive49.9%
Neutral11.6%
Negative38.4%

Radio Ananda

All ratings193 ratings
Positive99.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive96.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.4%

Bugs and requests

forScore

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Disappearing annotations
  • Unreliable page turning
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
  • Unresponsive touch controls

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to cut and paste sections of scores
  • More flexible page turning controls
  • Customizable metronome
  • Improved backup and restore functionality
  • Easier sharing of annotated scores

Radio Ananda

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

forScore

Subscriptions1
  • forScore Pro$14.991 Year
One-time9
  • Brahms: The Mutopia CollectionFree
  • Haydn: The Mutopia CollectionFree
  • Händel: The Mutopia CollectionFree
Show 6 more
  • Liszt: The Mutopia CollectionFree
  • Satie: The Mutopia CollectionFree
  • Schumann: The Mutopia CollectionFree
  • Tchaikovsky: The Mutopia CollectionFree
  • Beethoven: The Mutopia Collection$0.99
  • forScore Pro 30-Day Pass$2.99
None

Radio Ananda

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is forScore free?
forScore costs $24.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Radio Ananda free?
Radio Ananda is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, forScore or Radio Ananda?
Radio Ananda is rated higher. forScore averages 4.8 out of 5 from 44K ratings, while Radio Ananda averages 4.9 from 198 ratings.
Do forScore or Radio Ananda have ads?
Neither forScore nor Radio Ananda shows ads.
Which is updated more often, forScore or Radio Ananda?
forScore ships an update every 9 days, and Radio Ananda every 6 months. Most recently, forScore was updated on November 6, 2026 and Radio Ananda on November 3, 2026.

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