Comparison

forScore vs Sing Live With Backing Tracks

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

Sing Live With Backing Tracks

This app helps singers and musicians manage and play backing tracks for live performances. It offers features like stem separation, lyric display, pitch control, and setlist organization for seamless stage execution.

Highlights
  • Backing track playback
  • Stem separation and live mixing
  • Adjustable pitch and speed
  • Scrolling lyrics display
  • Setlist management
  • Fade and crossfade transitions
Features
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Sing Live With Backing Tracks is designed for singers, musicians, and live performers who want simple, reliable control of their backing tracks on stage. Build and organize your song library, create custom sets, and keep everything ready for your next performance. KEY FEATURES • Backing Track Player Play your performance tracks directly from your organized music library. • Stem Separation & Live Mixer Separate supported audio on-device into vocals, drums, bass, piano, and other instruments. Adjust levels, mute or solo individual stems during playback, and return to the original stereo track with Undo Stems. • Intelligent Loudness Balancing. Keep playback levels more consistent between songs for smoother live performances. • Lyrics Display lyrics while performing and use scrolling controls to keep the words where you need them, Write/Dictate and edit your own lyrics, Tap in your own time stamps for block Scrolling. • Pitch & Speed Control Adjust pitch and playback speed independently in real time to fit your performance. • Fade Out & Crossfade Create smoother transitions between songs with fade and crossfade controls. • Auto Pause Automatically stop between tracks when you don't want the next song to begin immediately or set it to crossfade from one to another. • Set Management Create and organize custom sets so your songs are ready in the order you want them, rearrange track order in real time. • Built for Live Performance A clean, performance-focused interface keeps the controls you need within easy reach. Whether you're rehearsing at home or performing live, Sing Live With Backing Tracks helps you organize your music and stay focused on your performance.

Screenshots

forScore4 screens
Sing Live With Backing Tracks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sing Live With Backing Tracks at 100% against forScore's 50%. Sing Live With Backing Tracks also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 11) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). forScore's advantage is ratings volume (43K vs 1) and price ($24.99 vs $29.99). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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 Sing Live With Backing Tracks $29.99 up front. forScore sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Sing Live With Backing Tracks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sing Live With Backing Tracks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: forScore has 43K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of forScore's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sing Live With Backing Tracks's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

forScore ships an update every 9 days, Sing Live With Backing Tracks every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
forScore versus Sing Live With Backing Tracks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterforScoreSing Live With Backing Tracks
Price$24.99 — better$29.99
Rating4.8 (43K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews49.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings43K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#10 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB193 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperforScore LLCAdrian Sorlea

Customer experience

forScore

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

Sing Live With Backing Tracks

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
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

Sing Live With Backing Tracks

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

Sing Live With Backing Tracks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is forScore free?
forScore costs $24.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Sing Live With Backing Tracks free?
Sing Live With Backing Tracks costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, forScore or Sing Live With Backing Tracks?
Sing Live With Backing Tracks is rated higher. forScore averages 4.8 out of 5 from 43K ratings, while Sing Live With Backing Tracks averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do forScore or Sing Live With Backing Tracks have ads?
Neither forScore nor Sing Live With Backing Tracks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, forScore or Sing Live With Backing Tracks?
forScore ships an update every 9 days, and Sing Live With Backing Tracks every 3 weeks. Most recently, forScore was updated on October 18, 2026 and Sing Live With Backing Tracks on October 2, 2026.

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