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forScore 13

News

Today we’re very excited to announce the immediate release of forScore 13 with multi-window support, page flagging, iCloud Syncing, a significant design refresh, themes, integration with the Shortcuts app, and a whole lot more. All of this comes to iOS and iPadOS, including optimizations and enhancements based on new features and capabilities Apple added with today’s major updates to both platforms. Coming soon also to the Mac, forScore 13 is fully optimized for macOS 12 Monterey and will be released as soon as Apple allows us to do so.

It has been a big, busy year for us and there’s still more to come, so thank you all once again for your incredible support, feedback, and passion. Thanks especially to our beta testers who helped us get here today, we sincerely appreciate it!


forScore 13

Available now for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch

OS Updates

News

Apple’s latest major OS updates are arriving soon, and we know some of you are trying to decide whether to install it immediately or wait a little while instead.

As always, our general advice is this: if you can deal with a few weeks of instability and occasional bugs, and you don’t rely on forScore professionally, upgrade whenever you like. Otherwise, you might want to consider holding off for a few days or weeks until things settle down. Like Apple, we extensively beta test our updates but a few issues inevitably slip through. With that said, here’s where things stand right now with our apps and each of Apple’s platforms:

iOS 15 & iPadOS 15

We’ve been working hard on our next update to forScore, version 13.0, which adds dozens of new features, has been optimized for these latest OS versions, and takes full advantage of their new capabilities. We’ll be releasing it on Monday, September 20th alongside iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. At this time, we’re not aware of any major issues with forScore 12.1 running on these OS versions, but generally speaking if you’re planning to install these system updates it’s best to update forScore as well.

Things can still change between now and Monday, but as far as we can tell there are no issues with any of our other apps running on iOS 15 or iPadOS 15, so you should feel free to upgrade whenever you’re ready.

watchOS 8

Although we just barely got our first look at the new Apple Watch Series 7, we built and tested our one and only watchOS app (Pitch, Please!) with Apple’s latest tools and device simulators and everything appears to be working beautifully. Barring any last-minute changes, it should be fully compatible with and optimized for watchOS 8.

macOS 12

Apple didn’t mention macOS this past Tuesday, which likely means their latest major update won’t be coming until next month. All of our apps are already compatible with this release or will be updated for it as soon as Apple allows us to do so.

Pitch, Please! 3.1

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Today we’re happy to announce the release of Pitch, Please! 3.1, the latest update to our pitch pipe app. Featuring a refreshed design, this version is ready for all of Apple’s latest devices—including the new iPad mini and Apple Watch Series 7—and has been fully optimized for iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and watchOS 8 (an update for Mac will be coming along with the release of macOS 12 later this year). It’s a free update from all previous versions.


Pitch, Please! 3.1

Available now

Sneak Peek: forScore 13

News

Today we’re very excited to give you a sneak peek at forScore 13, coming later this year along with iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS 12. Featuring a significant design overhaul, page flags, iCloud syncing for everyone, Shortcuts, and multi-window support that showcases a brand new interface built from the ground up using the latest technologies and standards, it really raises the bar and helps you get the most out of your digital music library.

forScore 13 will be released later this year along with Apple’s major OS updates, but you can try it out for yourself today by becoming a beta tester. Otherwise, be sure to check back soon as we head into the most exciting time of the year!

forScore 13 Sneak Peek  

Piano with Friends

News

Over the past few months we’ve been working on a brand new app based on forScore’s on-screen piano keyboard, called Piano with Friends. This standalone version includes the same great features like a high quality sound bank, fine tuning, note labels, and MIDI support, but it also includes some new features that really make it deserving of its own app.

First, it supports typing input so you can play by pressing keys on a standard computer keyboard. There are several built-in layouts, but it also supports custom configurations so you can use it no matter which kind of keyboard you have. It’s the first of its kind that we’ve seen and we think it provides a great and highly flexible solution for everyone.

Piano with Friends, as the title hints, supports Apple’s forthcoming SharePlay feature which allows you to participate in group activities while on a FaceTime call. That means you can play piano with anyone, anywhere in the world.

All of that and more will be coming soon to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, but we’re ready to start beta testing today. Just click this link to join our public beta and let us know what you think, or click below to learn more about our newest app.

Update: beta testing for this app has now ended, and Piano with Friends is available now on the App Store for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS as a single universal purchase.

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