Comparison

forScore vs Post

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

Post

This app provides tools for analyzing post-tonal music, including pitch-class set and tone row calculations. It helps users identify Forte names, normal forms, prime forms, and relationships within musical sets.

Highlights
  • PC Set Calculator
  • Subset/Superset Calculator
  • Matrix Calculator
  • Forte name analysis
  • Normal form calculation
  • Prime form identification
  • Tone row analysis
Features
Currently charting
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The Post-Tonal Tool Kit is designed to be a one-stop app for pitch-class and tone row analysis of post-tonal music. Features include a PC Set Calculator, a Subset/Superset Calculator, and a Matrix Calculator. –This app is perfect for the music theory student analyzing post-tonal music. –This app is also designed for the classroom and pedagogical uses. * With an Apple Dock Connector the screen can be projected in the classroom. * Analytical assignments can be designed to incorporate the features of the app that highlight relationships within sets and rows. The PC Set Calculator analyzes sets ranging from three to twelve pitches and provides: * Forte name * Normal form * Prime form * IC Vector * Z-Mate * Tn Invariance * TnI Invariance The calculator also will provide the inversion and complement sets with all the above information and all sets can be analyzed for subset and superset relationships (a very handy tool when analyzing Webern!). **WHAT’S NEW!!!** The Matrix Calculator will generate a matrix with any number of pitches up to twelve. The rows are numbered using the Straus/Roig-Francoli system (Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory/ Understanding Post-Tonal Music), where the P and I row labels correspond to the starting pitch class. Any number of pitch classes within the matrix can be highlighted and the selected set then sent back into the PC Set Calculator. This feature is extremely helpful when comparing trichords, tetrachords, and hexachords!

Screenshots

forScore4 screens
Post4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Post at $4.99 against forScore's $24.99. Post also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 11) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 18.0). forScore's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (43K vs 6). On review sentiment 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 Post $4.99 up front. forScore sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Post asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

forScore holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: forScore has 43K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 49% and 50% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

forScore ships an update fortnightly, Post every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and August 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
forScore versus Post: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterforScorePost
Price$24.99$4.99 — better
Rating4.8 (43K ratings) — better4.3 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews49.5% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings43K — better6
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#9 — better#196
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperforScore, LLCA Squared Applications

Customer experience

forScore

All ratings43,041 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral1.6%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews879 reviews
Positive49.5%
Neutral11.7%
Negative38.8%

Post

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Post

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
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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

Post

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is forScore free?
forScore costs $24.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Post free?
Post costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, forScore or Post?
forScore is rated higher. forScore averages 4.8 out of 5 from 43K ratings, while Post averages 4.3 from 6 ratings.
Do forScore or Post have ads?
Neither forScore nor Post shows ads.
Which is updated more often, forScore or Post?
forScore ships an update fortnightly, and Post every 2 months. Most recently, forScore was updated on September 28, 2026 and Post on August 9, 2026.
Which is more popular, forScore or Post?
forScore currently peaks at #9 in the App Store charts, and Post at #196. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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