Comparison

forScore vs Musicians Hypnosis

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

Musicians Hypnosis

This app offers a comprehensive self-help program designed for musicians to enhance performance, confidence, and creativity. It utilizes hypnosis to address issues like nerves, sight-reading, improvisation, and memory, aiming to improve playing abilities beyond traditional practice.

Highlights
  • Replace nerves with confidence
  • Improve sight-reading
  • Enhance improvisation skills
  • Boost memory for lyrics
  • Achieve better practice results
  • Customizable hypnosis sessions
  • Performance visualization tracks
Features
Currently charting
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Musicians Hypnosis is a powerful and flexible self-help app created specifically for musicians. Whether you want to build confidence, improve focus, prepare for performances, handle stage fright, strengthen rhythm and timing, improve practice habits, or support creativity, Musicians Hypnosis lets you create custom hypnosis sessions from a wide range of audio tracks. Choose your induction, deepener, background sound, and suggestion topics, then build a session that fits what you want to work on. Add one topic or several, reorder them as needed, and listen with headphones as you relax into the session. Designed by musician and hypnotherapist Sam Brown, the app combines guided hypnosis, background audio, and musician-focused suggestions to help you work on the mental side of playing, performing, practicing, and creating. Features include: - Custom hypnosis session builder - Multiple induction and deepener options - Music, waves, and ambient background sounds - Topic tracks for confidence, stage fright, rhythm, reading, auditions, creativity, practice, and more - Estimated session time - Pause/resume and rewind controls during playback - Sleep Outro option - Refreshed in-app information and guidance Do not use when driving or operating machinery. If you suffer from a mental health condition, please consult your doctor before using hypnosis or relaxation audio.

Screenshots

forScore4 screens
Musicians Hypnosis4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Musicians Hypnosis at $9.99 against forScore's $24.99. Musicians Hypnosis also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 11) and review sentiment (84% vs 50%). forScore's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 32 months) and ratings volume (43K vs 23). 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

forScore costs $24.99 and Musicians Hypnosis $9.99 up front. forScore sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Musicians Hypnosis 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 4.8 for Musicians Hypnosis. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: forScore has 43K ratings behind it against 23, 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 84% of Musicians Hypnosis's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

forScore ships an update every 9 days, Musicians Hypnosis every 32 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
forScore versus Musicians Hypnosis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterforScoreMusicians Hypnosis
Price$24.99$9.99 — better
Rating4.8 (43K ratings)4.8 (23 ratings)
Positive reviews49.8% of reviews84.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings43K — better23
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 32 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#11 — better#176
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperforScore LLCSam Brown Music & Media

Customer experience

forScore

All ratings43,219 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral1.6%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews904 reviews
Positive49.8%
Neutral11.7%
Negative38.5%

Musicians Hypnosis

All ratings23 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews76 reviews
Positive84.2%
Neutral7.9%
Negative7.9%

User reviews

forScore

From 43K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Efficient navigation
  • 🔒 Reliable performance
  • 👍 Intuitive interface
  • 👍 Excellent organization
  • 👍 Seamless annotation

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Sync issues
  • 🐛 Occasional crashes
  • 🔋 Battery drain concerns
  • 👎 Unintuitive settings/features
  • 👎 Lack of customization options

Musicians Hypnosis

From 23 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Highly effective for musicians
  • 🚀 Improves confidence and performance
  • 💡 Enhances creativity and focus
  • 👍 Easy to use interface
  • 😌 Relaxing and soothing voice

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Audio interruptions require restart
  • 🐛 No pause or rewind functionality
  • 🐛 Screen stays on during playback
  • 🐛 Battery drain due to screen staying on
  • 🐛 Voice can be irritating for some

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

Musicians Hypnosis

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App doesn't work on iOS 8.3
  • Most recent update deleted all hypnosis tracks
  • Tracks not working or playing after iOS upgrade
  • Issues with download/installation

Requested features

20 requests
  • Pause and play button
  • Skip intro option
  • Save custom playlists
  • Set playlist to repeat
  • Better app icon
Show 15 more
  • Female voice option
  • Subliminal messages for songwriters
  • Sleep mode/screen off option
  • Ability to lock screen
  • Use with iTunes library
  • More tracks for chamber/ensemble playing
  • Specific tracks for conductors and singers
  • Choice between wake and sleep after session
  • Description of affirmations
  • Ability to build custom sessions with multiple affirmations
  • Indication of session duration
  • Allow app to run in background
  • Integrate with iTunes for song learning
  • Echo effect for voice
  • More convincing wave sounds

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
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  • 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

Musicians Hypnosis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is forScore free?
forScore costs $24.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Musicians Hypnosis free?
Musicians Hypnosis costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, forScore or Musicians Hypnosis?
forScore and Musicians Hypnosis are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 43K and 23 ratings respectively.
Do forScore or Musicians Hypnosis have ads?
Neither forScore nor Musicians Hypnosis shows ads.
Which is updated more often, forScore or Musicians Hypnosis?
forScore ships an update every 9 days, and Musicians Hypnosis every 32 months. Most recently, forScore was updated on October 17, 2026 and Musicians Hypnosis on October 15, 2026.
Which is more popular, forScore or Musicians Hypnosis?
forScore currently peaks at #11 in the App Store charts, and Musicians Hypnosis at #176. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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