It’s been a busy few weeks and forScore 15 has gotten five updates already, with 15.0.5 rolling out last week. We’re prepping a bigger update with 15.0.6, so we wanted to take a moment to call out some of the changes we’re making and why:
• iPadOS 26 broke a lot of interface elements, including ‘popovers’ which forScore has used since the very beginning to present menus and certain utilities. We introduced sidebar mode a few years ago, and we made it the default with 15.0 since popovers were in a pretty sorry state. Now we’ve managed to work around those issues and 15.0.6 should prevent weird issues like the navigation bar’s left or right items disappearing for no reason. It also brings back the previous behavior of being able to turn pages while viewing the metronome.
• This update also includes a new sharing extension which allows you to import compatible file types into forScore without dealing with iPadOS 26’s frustrating new behavior of opening a new window every time you use the “open in” function from another app. It also finally provides a way to import multiple files at once, something Apple’s APIs have promised for years but never implemented correctly.
• 15.0.6 also fixes some bugs with setlists like new setlists not being created in the current folder, “fresh” filtering not working correctly for setlist contents, and resolves a crash when deleting a setlist entry after using the search function to narrow down results. The setlist creator now also remembers its sorting method and category type when reopened, and it allows filtering like the main menu does.
• Finally, this version resolves some minor page layout issues, especially when annotating with Apple Pencil.
If you reached out to us about these issues, please know that we heard you, we appreciate your feedback, and we’ll get this update out just as soon as Apple’s App Review approves it. Thank you very much for your help, patience, and support!
Hi everyone, Justin here. I’m the one and only person behind forScore and I’m taking a quick break from working on forScore 15 updates to discuss something uncomfortable. Due to ongoing legal action I can’t say much, but the person who previously handled customer support for me stopped responding to tickets for months without my knowledge; he is no longer with the company and I don’t have an immediate replacement.
I’m in the process of rebuilding forScore’s support infrastructure, but in the mean time I’ve had to triage and focus my efforts on bug fixes at the expense of responding to individual reports. This summer has been a lot, from Apple’s major OS redesigns to my own forScore 15 update, and I’m working hard to get issues fixed while also addressing feedback about this big design overhaul.
If you’re a forScore Pro subscriber, you can still submit support tickets and if I think I can help I’ll respond to them personally as I’m able, but it will take time and some tickets will go unanswered. I know this is frustrating and disappointing; I am working hard to fix it as soon as possible and I ask for a little more patience while I create a better long-term solution that ensures everyone can get the help they need.
Sincerely,
Justin Bianco
Today we’re very happy to announce the release of forScore 15, the latest major update to our sheet music reading app for iPad, iPhone, Mac, and Vision Pro. This update features a dramatic redesign for Apple’s latest OS versions, reworks some of the most commonly-used elements in menus, and includes dozens of other enhancements and significant improvements. As always, this update is totally free for anyone who has ever purchased any version since 1.0. Thank you so much for your support, and a special thank you to our beta testers who helped get this huge update ready for today.
Available now for iPad, iPhone, Mac, and Vision Pro
Today we’re happy to announce the release of updates to all of our Music Box apps, making sure they look and work great on all of Apple’s upcoming OS releases. These updates are totally free, as always, available exclusively on the App Store.
This fall Apple is introducing its biggest OS redesign in over a decade, and forScore will be there on day one with much more than a new coat of paint. forScore 15 is a huge update that streamlines and enhances some of the most foundational parts of its browsing experience while also upgrading its design along with the rest of Apple’s OS lineup.
Since almost the beginning, forScore has offered a hierarchical browsing experience with a control bar along the top that showed categories like composers and genres in the root menu, sort options in submenus, and contextual actions when editing a list. This one control had to do three jobs and it led to some design quirks like not being able to show a list of all scores in the root menu.
With forScore 15 that changes: the content bar now lets you switch between lists while the edit and menu buttons give you access to sorting options and editing functions. That gives us more flexibility to put ‘all scores’ and ‘now playing’ items in the main menu, and to add sorting options to other menus that were previously limited by this constraint.
That’s just one part of this huge update though, so be sure to check out the page below to see what else is new like the new grid menu layout, support for the menu bar on iPad, Control Change MIDI messages, tempo metadata and more. And if you’re interested in trying it out for yourself, consider becoming a beta tester.
forScore 15 Sneak Peek
