Twelve

September 2020

Over the course of a few weeks things changed forever as the world became paralyzed by a global pandemic. Many businesses failed, but forScore weathered the economic shock as people turned to hobbies to deal with an unprecedented situation.

Not only that, but in June 2020 Apple announced their transition to Apple Silicon and the introduction of Mac Catalyst, a way for developers to bring their iPad apps to the Mac without rewriting them from scratch. Apple's M1 chip and its successors were incredible compared to the Intel chips they replaced, and it was amazing to see forScore running on the Mac, where our love for app development all began.

It required modernization and structural changes to much of forScore's layout engine, and in the end we had a much more flexible app that could be resized arbitrarily while adapting as needed to maintain readability. This work also allowed us to rewrite external display support and paved the way for big future upgrades like secondary windows.

There was just one piece missing, something we'd been working on for years: iCloud syncing. We took a different approach to developing this foundational feature than we had for any other, rolling it out slowly first as a special beta version of forScore Labs, then making it available to forScore Pro subscribers as an early access feature. Our approach was slow but methodical and informed by actual everyday use.