Comparison

forScore vs Odd Metronome

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

Odd Metronome

This app allows musicians to create and practice complex rhythmic patterns in any meter. It offers visual feedback and multiple sound sets for an immersive practice experience, designed by professionals for professionals.

Highlights
  • Create any rhythmic pattern in any meter
  • Visual cursor to follow rhythm
  • Multiple sound sets for different styles
  • Save custom rhythms
  • Precise timing technology
  • Intuitive and clean design
Features
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A revolutionary new metronome built by and for professional musicians. The Odd Metronome is the ultimate study companion. Create any rhythmic pattern in any meter with three different sounds (low, medium, high). Just tap the note-values on the screen and the Odd Metronome will build the rhythm, calculate the meter and play it instantly. The Odd Metronome offers you a wide array of possibilities: from a simple quarter note click to a complicated 47/8 rhythm. It’s up to your creativity. The moving cursor will let you follow the rhythm visually, so you never get lost. The Odd Metronome offers various Latin, Arabic and metronome rhythms and you can easily create your own patterns. It uses standard rhythmical notation. This will also allow you to construct your rhythms using the popular Long-Short Method which creates rhythms from groups of two or three eight notes. Three high quality sound samples deliver a low, medium and high beat and give an acoustic feel, making it very comfortable to play with. The Odd Metronome comes with six different sound sets: metronome, cajon, darabuka, drums and tabla, for studying various musical styles. The design is intuitive and clean with only those options and buttons that you really need, leaving you to do what you intended to do, study your instrument. *) Easy to use by intuitive design. *) Precise timing technology. *) No latency regardless of BPM rate. *) Create any odd meter. *) Follows the playing rhythm visually. *) Presets with different styles of rhythms: metronome, Arabic, Turkish, Ottoman, Latin. *) Save your own rhythms. *) Different sound sets for different styles: classic metronome, oriental percussion, drum set, tabla, cajun. *) Built by and for professional musicians.

Screenshots

forScore4 screens
Odd Metronome3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Odd Metronome at $1.99 against forScore's $24.99. Odd Metronome also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 50%) and in-app purchases (none vs 11). forScore's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 40 months) and ratings volume (43K vs 16). On rating and ads 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 Odd Metronome $1.99 up front. forScore sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Odd Metronome 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 4.7 for Odd Metronome. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: forScore has 43K ratings behind it against 16, 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 88% of Odd Metronome's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

forScore ships an update every 9 days, Odd Metronome every 40 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
forScore versus Odd Metronome: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterforScoreOdd Metronome
Price$24.99$1.99 — better
Rating4.8 (43K ratings) — better4.7 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews49.8% of reviews88.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings43K — better16
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 40 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#11 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperforScore LLCTony Overwater

Customer experience

forScore

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

Odd Metronome

All ratings16 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral6.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive88.2%
Neutral5.9%
Negative5.9%

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

Odd Metronome

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

Odd Metronome

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is forScore free?
forScore costs $24.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Odd Metronome free?
Odd Metronome costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, forScore or Odd Metronome?
forScore is rated higher. forScore averages 4.8 out of 5 from 43K ratings, while Odd Metronome averages 4.7 from 16 ratings.
Do forScore or Odd Metronome have ads?
Neither forScore nor Odd Metronome shows ads.
Which is updated more often, forScore or Odd Metronome?
forScore ships an update every 9 days, and Odd Metronome every 40 months. Most recently, forScore was updated on October 17, 2026 and Odd Metronome on October 10, 2026.

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