forScore vs Metro Mate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- PDF sheet music reading
- Cloud sync and import
- Library organization and search
- Annotation tools
- Hands-free page turning
- Integrated metronome and tuner
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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.
Metro Mate
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Metro Mate is a metronome for drummers. Calm between the beats, clear on the beat. Free, open source, no ads, no subscription, no account. THE CLICK - A wave field of connected dots flows in tempo and jumps on every beat, accents hit harder - Tempo wheel from 1 to 300 BPM with a haptic tick per BPM and a stronger one every 10 - Beat grid with accents and note values from quarters to sixteenth triplets - Tap tempo, shuffle a pattern, save your own presets - 7 click sounds: Classic woodblock, Clean, Claves, Pocket, Cowbell, Punch, Deep - Keeps playing with the ringer on silent and in the background YOUR SOUND - Build your own drum kit for Learn: 8 snares, 6 kicks, 5 hi-hats, 4 open hi-hats and 3 practice pad sounds, each with a preview - Import your own one-shots from the Files app, for example an export from your DAW. They stay on your device LEARN - 70 grooves and exercises in 9 categories, Beginner to Advanced - All-Time Classics in the style of Funky Drummer, Purdie Shuffle, Amen Break and more - Funk and ghost notes, linear grooves, hi-hat work, kick independence, shuffles and triplets, accent studies, chops with R and L sticking - Every groove as a grid you can hear, played on a recorded funk kit - Dynamics on or off, accents and ghost notes or every hit at one level - Touch the grid to hear one column at a time, loop the part you are working on - Remembers your tempo for every groove, one tap back to the target tempo HISTORY - Week view with practice time per day - Month view with calendar, longest streak and tempo progress per groove - Stored on your device only Siri: "Start Metro Mate at 90 BPM". The drum and click samples are recorded instruments released under CC0, the Clean tone is generated in the app. The code is on GitHub, so the no tracking promise is something you can check.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Metro Mate at Free against forScore's $24.99. Metro Mate also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). forScore's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months) and chart position (#12 vs unranked). On 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
Metro Mate is free to download; forScore costs $24.99 up front. forScore sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Metro Mate asks for nothing beyond the download.
forScore ships an update every 9 days, Metro Mate every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | forScore | Metro Mate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $24.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (44K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 49.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 44K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #12 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | forScore LLC | Alexander Friedl |
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
Metro Mate
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
forScore
- forScore Pro$14.991 Year
- 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
Metro Mate
No in-app purchases









