music score software

The Henle music app. Hands down.

I have used forScore and an AirTurn pedal for years (and an Apple Pencil for marking up scores) and am very happy with them. https://www.tablets-for-musicians.com/ seems to have good information about them and other apps and devices.

If Henle has a score I’m looking for, I buy it. Most of their scores have a least one option for fingering and it’s very easy to change fingering by erasing and using their template to add the desired fingering. I use the text boxes for making notes while I’m learning the piece and dynamic markings can be added using their template. Henle has a performance mode so you don’t have to worry about an email or notification popping up at the top of your screen while you’re playing. So if you like your scores to look clean and organized, Henle is the way to go.

The other app I use is PiaScore. It’s not as popular as ForScore but it works fine with my airturn pedal and apple pencil. If I can find a clean-looking, easy to read score on IMSLP, I download it directly on to PiaScore. Other options are downloading scores from other sources, or making a pdf of a print score and uploading it to PiaScore.

Hi Kenneth, I recently did the same thing, and have found Forscore to be excellent. The Apple Pencil is very useful for making your own annotations. The Duo pager turner works well with it. I have the Henle app and do purchase Henle editions. Those are easily loaded into Forscore. The Henle app looks fine too-I defer to others with more experience with it, particularly with regard to loading non- Henle scores into it, annotating, and creating playlists/bookmarks. Forscore is good in all those areas. 

ForScore is my favorite app to use on my ipad for all my scanned music. I also love their page turning feature using my mouth. I do have to pay for that feature., But the cost is less than $10.00/year.  For me, it’s so worth it.  But they do have the option of turning pages with a pedal. I just am clumsy doing that. I love being able to edit my score to accommodate my small hands.  I can white out notes I can’t reach and put them in range of my other hand. I love collating my music and saving all my precious fingerings and edits.  It’s silly, but fun to make my own emoticons and import them in and use them to call attention to a harder or favorite section.  

I've been using ForScore and iRig page turning pedal for years in performances, teaching and for practice.  It has been working fabulously until recently.  I do a lot of annotations (Apple pencil works great) and recently the cropping feature in ForScore has been acting up and the the annotations don't line up.  I don't know if anyone else has experienced this but I have found several complaints on Reddit about it.  

I've been using ForScore for a number of years (6 or 7 maybe?).  I *much* prefer it to the Henle app -- better for annotations, score management, and ability to use scores obtained elsewhere, etc.  As someone else mentioned, you can easily import digital scores purchased from Henle, which is where I get most of my scores.