Comparison

forScore vs FanPuQi

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

FanPuQi

Features
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Keep your hands on the music. FanPuQi lets you read score images from your photo albums or open PDFs from Files, with a built-in sample score for practice. Choose one head movement: gently tilt an ear toward the same-side shoulder, or turn your face toward your own left or right. Hold briefly to turn a page, then return to centre before the next movement. Adjust the trigger angle and hold time in Calibration, and reverse the direction in Page Turning. Swipe controls are always available. Head control uses the front camera. Camera images are processed live on your device and are not saved or uploaded. Photo access is optional for reading album scores; the sample score and PDFs remain available without it. Advanced diagnostics can manually save pose values as a local CSV file, without recording camera video. English and Simplified Chinese follow your system or App language preference. Layouts adapt to available window space on iPhone and iPad. Head tracking availability depends on the device and camera conditions. Audio following: learn a reference by rehearsing and marking each page manually, or import a matching MIDI and enter page-ending times. Play from the current page's beginning for automatic turns on stable matching, with adjustable lead time and confidence. Raw microphone audio is never saved or uploaded; only deletable pitch features and page markers are stored locally. Scanned notation is not automatically transcribed. Sustained notes, repeats and jumps may require manual recovery. All current features are free, with no in-app purchases or subscriptions.

Screenshots

forScore4 screens
FanPuQi3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: FanPuQi at Free against forScore's $24.99. FanPuQi also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 11). forScore's advantage is chart position (#14 vs unranked) and device support (4 vs 2). On update cadence, ads 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

FanPuQi is free to download; forScore costs $24.99 up front. forScore sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. FanPuQi asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

forScore ships an update every 9 days, FanPuQi fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
forScore versus FanPuQi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterforScoreFanPuQi
Price$24.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (43K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews49.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings43K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#14 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperforScore LLC斯理 梁

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

FanPuQi

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

FanPuQi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is forScore free?
forScore costs $24.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is FanPuQi free?
FanPuQi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do forScore or FanPuQi have ads?
Neither forScore nor FanPuQi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, forScore or FanPuQi?
forScore ships an update every 9 days, and FanPuQi fortnightly. Most recently, forScore was updated on October 30, 2026 and FanPuQi on October 24, 2026.

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