forScore Reviews – Page 17
5/5 rating based on 182 reviews. Read all reviews for forScore for iPhone.
forScore is paid iOS app published by forScore, LLC
THE App for music reading!!
geoffrey liu
There are two small but very significant features that really make this a quality app and stand out from other comparable apps. First, there is the ability to crop the score. Some of the scores on IMSLP are scanned with very wide margins, making it difficult to read the music. But you can adjust the cropping in the app itself and enlarge the score. How cool is that??? The second picture which I just found out today, as you can take just a portion of a score, and create a bookmark out of it. This is incredibly useful if say, you’re performing just one movement of a concerto but you have the entire score. The attention to detail given by developers to this app is amazing and well worth its price.
The Definitive Sheet Music App
Joseph Bermea
This is the most thoroughly thought-out sheet music app ever conceived. You could use this app for years without ever using all of the features it includes. Just the fact that I can read any .pdf of sheet music with an adjustable split-page option — that remembers exactly where you split the page even after months of not looking at the music (I know this from personal experience) — makes this app worth the $10 you’ll spend on it. If you want a fancier setup, you can purchase a nice Bluetooth foot pedal that allows you to flip pages without touching the iPad (great for music with very busy parts) that is simple to set up and great for gigs, concerts, and recitals. ForScore also has a myriad of options for you to organize the digital library you’ll inevitably accumulate over your months and years of using this that are all extremely accessible. If I filled out every single organizational category this app gives me for every method book, etude book, solo score, chamber music score, gig music, etc. that I have, my app would be more organized than the gigantic music library at my university. The icons provided for organizing the “difficulty” of my music, although I will refrain from using due to how arbitrary and trivial this is when deciding what I want to work on, is also a nice touch when looking through your library. The bookmark feature is a must-have for the bigger method books you may have and accessing the table of contents, either created by you OR by a program within the app that successfully detects potential sections for a TOC automatically, is actually easier than looking through a TOC in an actual book due to its accessibility. The setlist feature that allows you to flip from piece to piece without having to scroll through your library is fantastically useful and can even make impossible music changes (for example, if two different pieces you’re playing are attacca, like I had one time for a gig) possible. An example of how useful this is... I remember an outdoor gig I had this past December where the person organizing the event emailed everybody PDFs of their parts in case we wanted to use an iPad for this gig. I turned out to be the only person to use their iPad for this music, while everybody else used loose paper copies that had to be taped together very elaborately due to how this production was organized. This was my first time using the setlist feature, and organizing the pieces together was a cinch, and MUCH easier than taping 30 pages of music together. At the gig, it was extremely windy and dark, with everyone’s borderline-paper-machet setups being blown all over the place; the bassist’s music even ended up falling all over the multiple instruments I was using at this gig. Since I was the only one using an iPad, with this app, I easily had the least stressful gig that evening because of it. The people that created this app, and have updated it for the past 10 years, are part of the reason why apple products are a favorite among musicians. I seriously could not say enough about this app. It’s used everyday by everybody I know that has it, and I honestly couldn’t be happier by turning my musical library digital. The annotation options accessible with the Apple Pencil are also flawlessly implemented in this app. This is the only app I think should clearly deserve an 11/10, or 6 our of 5 stars. Truly a staple for anybody’s music that owns this app.
fore Score user
STDII
After playing multiple instruments in five different musical groups, and having to lug around about three full music binders for each group I finally had to do something. I now use my iPad matched with the fore Score application, what a relief, and it was so easy to set up (matched with a blue tooth foot pedal) I can easily play violin/trumpet/guitar twelve page music scores with ease! Easily set up lists for all of the different concert performances or gigs, and “no lugging around heavy music binders full of sheet music”!!!
latest update -
viddavisda
is not up to snuff. First let me start by saying forScore is the program I use daily to manage the music I have to play for a living as well as manage the music I practice. Which is to say I have logged a lot of time using this program. It does many things really well. But I want to go into issues I have been experiencing which seem to have escalated in frequency and, frankly, weirdness on the part of the behavior of the app since the most recent updates. My guess is that maybe many users and probably, the developers themselves, are experiencing some of these same anomalies, some of which I now will list: It is well known that there are slow app processing and freeze issues which are correlated with saving (clicking Done) after annotating a file. (The annotation features, by the way, are one of the best uses of the app, allowing you to customize your PDFs. (I really wish it had a screen shot tool to grab any part of a pdf to a clipboard so that I could paste it onto another page, for example.)) I can put up with the time delay because eventually you can get it to save. I hope the developers will figure it out eventually. Here are some other annotation anomalies: A annotation marking appears on the screen when in regular viewing mode, but disappears when you go into annotation mode. Sometimes this marking will persist to appear on other pages in the document. I deleted a file, but the annotations somehow got attached and copied on to the file next to the one I deleted. I have uncropped a page and had the annotations zap to somewhere else on the screen. Had to grab them with the lasso to move back to the proper position. This is another issue, but also related to file hierarchy. I have instances where many files have the exact same name, but different composers. I know that on some level, forScore calls these for example Dona Nobis 1, Dona Nobis 2, etc. But when I name each file Dona Nobis and set one composer to Mozart and one to Bach, I like the way the program displays them. Each file is called Dona Nobis but the composer’s name is displayed. Very convenient. However, sometimes I have a copy of a file. So I don’t need 2 Dona Nobis by Mendelssohn, so I delete one of them. Ok, well really I have a dozen of these by 12 different composers and I come across a duplicate. So I delete one of them and forScore says okay, there goes Dona Nobis 7, or something like that. But now somehow some of the composers get reassigned to the wrong Dona Nobis. Go figure that one out. (What you end up doing is a kind of round robin checking a dozen files and fixing the composers of the one or two that got them reassigned.) Just to be clear, I went through the process of starting from scratch with a fresh install of the app, uploading all my raw PDFs with no tags, labels, composers, or annotations and rebuilding my entire library. One feature that disappeared when the initial update came out was that it had been the case that when a new file was uploaded, it would immediately pop up in view. That had stopped happening and after I uploaded a new file, I had to search for it in order to view it. When I reinstalled the app, once again newly uploaded files would immediately be viewed. So at least now I could surmise the app was functioning properly again, so I went about rebuilding my library in a more organized way than how my library had evolved from when I first bought the app. Call it My Library 2.0. But the real reason I felt I had to start from scratch was that there had to have been some corruption in the file structure, because files started going missing from set lists and the libraries. In other words, I would notice a file was gone from a set list and when I tried to add it back, could not find it in the library, either. Eventually, more and more files disappeared and it was a panic situation. Fortunately, I had back ups of all the files. But my trust in the program was destroyed and I was not going to revert to my last saved backup, I needed to start over. As I said, I have logged a lot of hours with this program. I am happy again with the stability of the program, and My Library 2.0 is much more organized, since I culled out a lot of accumulated junk in the process. But the annotation anomalies and the file renaming issue are all current issues with my use of the software now. Needless to say, I have a very recent backup and archive of all my data, so I can be sure I always revert back to the recent version of My Library 2.0. (I don’t think I’ll ever have to rebuild my library again.) It is always in the hands of the developers to find solutions to uses such as these, and up to the users to find creative workarounds when the program throws a curve ball at you. It is my sincere hope that the developers can correct the quirky behaviors. Meanwhile, I will continue to update this review to document each new bug I encounter. 5/12/19 I added a link button two a page and saved. Then I annotated the page. A phantom link button appeared on other pages of the file. I quit the app. I relaunched it and the phantom button was gone, but so were the annotations I had just made. I went back into annotation mode and the annotation reappeared. Exited annotation mode and they were gone. Re-entered annotation mode and deleted the link button. Recreated the link button. File seems to be ok now. 5/14/19 I appended a one page document to a file using rearrange. The icon previewing the page I had just added in the rearrange window was the first page from another document (that also had the same name, but a different composer). After saving the file, the correct preview pages appear in the rearrange window.
Amazing!
canyonsus
Virtually nothing else on the App Store comes close to matching the thoughtful design, incredibly deep feature set, and most importantly the respectfully executed, continuous evolution of this app. Every fall Apple redefines the user experience and these developers don’t miss a beat while keeping things consistent for their existing users. It’s a tough balancing act, I’m sure, but you wouldn’t know it from the outside. Remarkably adaptive but comfortable and familiar to use year after year. Superb.
Best sheet music app for iPad
CodyYoung97
I’ve tried other apps like this and none of them even come close to the usefulness of this app. I use this for all of my teaching and performing purposes. There are so many incredible features that I discover new ones with every use of this app. If you’re a musician with an iPad, I implore you to buy this app. You will not regret it.
Outstanding program!
perc46
I finally got an iPad for all of my music. I have not regretted that purchase or installing ForScore. Keeps me organized with set lists and a much smaller footprint. If you are a musician and have an iPad - you need ForScore!
Freezing
kevvy kev kev
Hi! I’ve used this app for about a year and absolutely love it. However it has recently started to freeze upon opening. Any idea what I can do? Is it the recent update?
Just Needs A Couple More Things
DIDITHEDAD
This is absolutely an amazing application. I love this app SO much, but there are some things needed. Add an option for music I have that are in different keys where they all fall under one song and I choose the key when I perform. Also add ways to upload Lyric Sheets, Guitar Tabs, Drum Lines, and even PowerPoint files alongside my songs. Make this available on iPhone for FREE, not the seven dollar app. Add a way to delete one page of the music.