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forScore

A sheet music reader and organizer for musicians.

by forScore, LLC

iPhone · iPad

Active Last checked 30 Aug 2026

Quick verdict

What it is
forScore is a PDF sheet music reading experience that allows users to organize, annotate, and play their scores. It offers features such as cross-device sync, annotation mode, and Bluetooth page turner integration.
Best for
  • musicians
  • music students
At a glance
  • From $2.99/mo
  • $24.99
  • In-app purchases

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Key functions

Function Availability Access Scope Evidence
Family Sharing Yes Unknown App Store Store published
In-app purchases Yes Limited free Store published

Screens

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Pricing & paywalls

App Store

  • Price: $24.99
  • forScore Pro 30-Day Pass — $2.99/month
  • Beethoven: The Mutopia Collection — $0.99
  • Brahms: The Mutopia Collection — $0.00
  • forScore Pro — $14.99
  • Haydn: The Mutopia Collection — $0.00
  • Händel: The Mutopia Collection — $0.00
  • Liszt: The Mutopia Collection — $0.00
  • Satie: The Mutopia Collection — $0.00
  • Schumann: The Mutopia Collection — $0.00
  • Tchaikovsky: The Mutopia Collection — $0.00

Ratings & reviews

App Store

4.8 42686 ratings · App Store

  1. 5/5Seasoned user

    I have never had a problem with my forScore. It works perfectly for my work as a church musician. I have over 1100 scores in my iPad Pro, and I used forScore before I had my iPad Pro. I’m not sure how many years I’ve had it, but probably eight at least and it’s a dream for someone that needs a lot of variety and things to come from other books. I used to carry many books with me to church every week to accommodate my music during the services. Having set list available, is beautiful. I love how the metronome automatically reads the next tempo, and just sets the metronome to it. How that happens I don’t know. I do have trouble with the turn because I can’t keep my face still. I tend to move a lot. When I play. It has been well worth the money I have spent on it, and I have told many other musicians that I know that are church musicians how wonderful this app is. I use it in performance every week. My only error is what happens not in the iPad or forScore. My biggest problem is making sure I locked screen before I start playing a set list. I’ve found so many different ways of getting music into forScore. I can use music scans. They go right into the set list. I use PDFs, I scan to the iPad from my. Printer that’s how I usually do it. It is the most valuable tool I have for church playing, except perhaps the ability to play by ear.

    BirdieBoyKC · 30 Aug 2026

  2. 5/5Just what I was looking for!

    After reading some of the more recent reviews reporting that the annotation function was buggy, it was with some trepidation that I purchased the app. I needed a way to erase fingerings on classical guitar scores and put in my own choices. I noticed that there had been a recent update to the app to fix some bugs, so I decided to download it to my new iPad with Apple Pencil. In less than 15 minutes, I imported my pdf score, made a copy to be annotated (keeping an original clean copy), renamed my new file and then started to annotate my score. Because of review reports of annotations disappearing, I made just a few changes and then saved the file. I am new to using Apple Pencil, so a few erase streaks and extra lines showed up when I didn’t expect them. I found that if I left annotation mode before trying to scroll, things went a lot better.😉 Now the big challenge… could I get a hard copy printed? Yes! (I like to read from paper, not a screen)I saved and sent the file to my email and opened it on my computer with attached printer and produced my hard copy. (Yes I know about WiFi and Bluetooth tech, but I wanted to just get this done with the existing setup.) Overall, I quickly figured out how to make this app function to do the job I needed to do without frustration or steep learning curve. Well done, Developer!

    0123Lizard · 30 Aug 2026

  3. 5/5How amazing is page turning nowadays, wow!

    Each time I use my lips to point left and right and the page just turns to reveal the next section of music, I get a wonderful satisfying feeling. One, that I was smart enough to part with my measly $10 per year to activate this feature. Two, that I live in a technologically advanced period of time where cameras on your sheet music display device have become smart enough to know when I need to see the next part of the score. Finally last but not the least, I get that satisfying feeling of not having to break my rhythm with a need to move my hands and fumble with my fingers in order to grab a uncooperative piece of music score. As a amateur pianist, I don’t often perform outdoors or in front of a fan that would blow away a normal piece of music. As a new forScore user, I have not converted even the smallest amount of my gigantic collection of paper scores to digital form. But from those that have been converted, I am sold on the idea that this is definitely the way to go! The only insignificant peculiarity that I’ve encountered, is that unlike the developer claims, it really is not possible to import into forScore any apple Pages documents containing scanned images of the score. The result is nearly unreadable and definitely unusable. First convert to PDF. Then, it works like a champ.

    Dave90807 · 30 Aug 2026

  4. 5/5A must have for professional musicians

    Gone are the days of having big 3 ringed binders with several copies of manuscripts weighing down a stand. Or sheet music falling off a stand while you're trying to play it. The iPad and this app have revolutionized the way we practice and rehearse today. This app is simply amazing. I use it everyday. They really have thought of everything with this app and I have been thoroughly impressed by it. I have been using it for a good 2 years now. Features such as making set lists, annotations, categorizing by artist/composers/songs etc, share options directly from the app, creating backups of your organizations and being able to open attachments from the iOS mail app directly in this app make it simply amazing. I can't say enough about it because I would just continue to ramble. To the developers of this app... We the musicians greatly appreciate you for creating something that makes our lives and careers easier. We thank you for creating something that's seamless, easy to use, has every feature we could want all while running smooth with little to no crashes. Thank you also for constantly keeping this app updated and adding additional features. I’m always learning something new with this software I didn’t already know it could do.

    KontryBoy706 · 30 Aug 2026

  5. 4/5Nice database manager for PDFs

    I have been using forScore for 4 years and have nearly 2000 scores in my database. I like that each score can be categorized under multiple genres, although that data is not part of the scores database. It would be nice if that were fixed. The app is updated on a regular basis with new features being added. I have exported the forScore database file to Excel, edited the file and imported back into forScore, which is easier when needing to change many scores at once. I use the app for playing scores and especially like the half page turn feature, which allows you to see the next page before you lose access to the bottom of the current page. Takes some getting used to, but makes it much easier for those of us who sight read. Future features? It would be amazing if forScore actually knew something about the music in the PDF files it stores. I have produced numerous music xml files of scores, but forScore doesn’t handle those. Would be nice if annotations of scores were searchable. As I play scores I make a lot of annotations to digitized scores that need to be corrected. However, I later need to find those annotated scores manually, since search doesn’t seem to be available for that feature. Overall, forScore is a nice program for organizing and playing your music.

    NerdOMusic · 30 Aug 2026

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Versions

App Store

  • 14.2

    This version includes various under-the-hood improvements and minor fixes.

  • 14.2.1

    Minor bug fixes and improvements

  • 14.2.2

    This update includes minor bug fixes and improvements.

  • 14.2.3

    This update adds support for new Apple Pencil gestures and includes other minor bug fixes and improvements.

  • 14.2.4

    Minor bug fixes and improvements

  • 14.2.5

    Minor bug fixes and improvements

  • 14.3

    This update has been optimized for Apple's latest OS releases and supports exciting new features like app icon styles and control center widgets. It introduces a new Goals widget, includes more Shortcuts actions, and uses a completely custom multi-pane interface for a more reliable and polished experience in sidebar mode (available on iPads that support Stage Manager). This version also makes it easier to access common tools and functions using a variety of key commands, pedal presses, Apple Pencil gestures, and now even game controllers—all fully customizable so you can work quickly and intuitively. With forScore Pro, you can access five all-new stamp sets (for nearly three times as many stamps as before) and create a stamp from any symbol in Apple's SF Symbols library just by typing in its name. That gives you access to over 6,000 options, plus all of symbols that Apple will add through future OS updates. Visit forScore.co/fourteen-three to learn more about these and many other incredible new features in this update.

  • 14.3.1

    This update includes important bug fixes and minor improvements.

  • 14.3.2

    This version adjusts Sepia mode to avoid an iOS 18 issue that could make system panels non-interactive, and includes various other minor bug fixes and improvements.

  • 14.3.3

    Minor bug fixes and improvements

  • 14.3.4

    Bug fixes and improvements

  • 14.4

    This version adds dozens of new actions for the Shortcuts app (now fully localized into all supported languages), introduces a new version of the Cue remote control protocol built with Apple's latest networking APIs, shows optional half-page turn position indicators, offers a new tier of forScore Pro that allows you to share your subscription with up to 5 additional family members, and many other great improvements and fixes.

  • 14.4.1

    Bug fixes and minor improvements.

  • 14.4.2

    Bug fixes and minor improvements.

  • 14.4.3

    Bug fixes and minor improvements.

  • 15.0

    forScore 15 is our biggest update in years, featuring a brand new design for Apple's latest OS releases, restructured menus that give you more convenient ways of organizing and browsing through your music, menu bar support on iPadOS, MIDI improvements, tempo metadata, and more! Visit forScore.co/fifteen to learn more about the many amazing upgrades included in this release.

  • 15.0.1

    This update includes bug fixes and minor interface improvements.

  • 15.0.2

    Bug fixes and minor improvements

  • 15.0.3

    Bug fixes and minor improvements

  • 15.0.5

    Bug fixes and minor improvements

  • 15.0.6

    This version improves the appearance and usability of popovers on iPadOS 26, adds a sharing extension to streamline importing files, resolves several minor page layout issues, and includes other bug fixes and minor improvements.

  • 15.0.7

    This update includes important bug fixes and improvements.

  • 15.1

    This version adds Presto Music as a content provider, allowing you to download your digital sheet music purchases directly into forScore through the Services panel. This update also adds direct connectivity support for the Genki Wave and makes it easier to monitor connected accessories or open the Devices panel right from the Display Options overlay.

  • 15.1.1

    Minor bug fixes and improvements.

  • 15.1.2 · 23 Apr 2026

    This update fixes a bug that prevented external display options from appearing and resolves an issue that failed to properly restore cropped pages from archives.

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