Design

Apple spent the last year refining their new Liquid Glass design language and it really shows. We’ve taken that work and elevated forScore’s look and feel as well, ensuring our app fits right in and continues to offer a great, consistent experience across all platforms.

Each year, we also look for opportunities to modernize our code and replace older components with their modern counterparts. These under the hood changes ensure that forScore is in its best possible shape going forward.

In particular, we’ve significantly overhauled forScore’s Services panel using a split view layout and retired our old custom prompts and log sheets in favor of standard interface elements. It offers all of the same functionality and then some in a more familiar way.

Editing

The metadata panel, setlist editor, setlist and setlist folder inspectors, and MIDI preset editor now all feature separate cancel and done buttons so you can close without saving your changes if you need to. If any changes have been made, you’ll be alerted to confirm before proceeding so you don’t accidentally lose your edits.

We’ve also added support for cut, copy, and paste commands in menus and more. Use the menu bar, contextual menus, or familiar keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste items into setlists or as a new setlist, and to copy and paste setlists to duplicate them (into any folder). Use these commands in annotation mode when using the selection tool or cut, copy, and paste entire layer contents in the Layers list.

Menus

Filters are a great way to narrow down a list of scores by certain criteria, and libraries make high-level organization a breeze. This year we’re answering a common user request and adding the ability to filter by library membership—including “no libraries” so you can find anything that you haven’t finished organizing.

The Libraries list has also been modernized and now offers the ability to sort manually or by title and permits multiple selection if you need to remove several libraries at once.

Languages

This year marks our biggest expansion of language support ever with seven entirely new languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Indonesian, Polish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese. We’re also shipping three variants for English (UK), Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Latin America).

Supporting right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew meant combing through our interface and ensuring all content flows correctly and logically. We even added support for reversing page turns, independent of which language you’re using.

We’re so proud to serve musicians from all over the world and we’re very excited to be able to offer our app to even more people around the globe.