Built for Speed

We could have done things the easy way, using Apple’s “Documents in the Cloud” infrastructure to let the system figure out all of the nuts and bolts of syncing, giving us an easy path forward. So why didn’t we?

The whole point of forScore is to have everything ready at your fingertips. When you turn the page, you expect it to be available immediately—not after an inexplicable delay. We couldn’t let something so important remain beyond our control, so we took the hard path instead.

forScore uses iCloud to coordinate with your other devices which each contain a complete copy of your forScore library. That means you can take your device offline and play with complete confidence, then the next time you’re connected to the internet any edits you’ve made will be uploaded automatically.

Built with iCloud

Sign in to your personal iCloud account on your iPad, iPhone, and Mac to share your content across all of your devices. Edit your library from the comfort of your desk, then toss your iPad into your bag and go. Set up your setlists on your phone, and they’ll be ready for you by the time you get to the venue.

Your content is stored safely and securely by Apple using iCloud, and everything that happens stays between you and them. We don’t store your content on our own servers or harvest your information in any way, period.

If you ever need more space, you can easily upgrade for a reasonable fee—right from the Settings app—and use that extra iCloud storage across all of your apps.

Built to Last

forScore was introduced for iPad 1 running “iPhone OS 3.2” years before iCloud was announced. We made important decisions at the time that significantly affected our ability to adopt syncing (like not using a custom file format), and figuring out how to reconcile those decisions with today’s technological landscape took a lot of time and effort.

We don’t make promises we can’t keep, so it looked like syncing wasn’t a priority for us, but the truth is that it took a lot of attempts and false starts to find out what would really work well. Your data is too important to take shortcuts or try things out that aren’t finished, so we resisted the urge to skip ahead and just kept building.

forScore is proudly developed by just one person and has been since the start, so getting here was a balancing act.

Now it’s finally ready.