SheetScroll and forScore at a glance
| SheetScroll | forScore | |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | iPad, iPhone, Mac, Android, Windows, Linux, web | iPad, iPhone, Mac, Apple Vision Pro |
| System needed on iPad | iPadOS 15 or later | iPadOS 18 or later |
| Turns by listening to you play | Yes, with Pro | Not listed |
| Other hands-free turns | Bluetooth pedals, digital piano over MIDI | Pedals and page-turning devices, MIDI, face gestures (Pro), Apple Watch Cue app |
| Formats | PDF, photos and scans, MusicXML, MuseScore, Guitar Pro, MIDI, ABC, MEI, Humdrum, chord charts, text tabs | PDF (the format its site names) |
| Annotations | Pencil, highlighter, fingerings, symbols; they stay with their bars in every view | Apple Pencil markup with no mode to switch on, stamps |
| Sync | Your iCloud Drive, Google Drive or a synced folder, end-to-end encrypted | iCloud |
| Turning pages on several devices | One device listens; everyone's pages turn with it over Wi-Fi | Built-in remote control turns pages on nearby devices |
| Price | Free reader; Pro $5.99 a month, $29.99 a year (2 weeks free) or $79.99 once | $24.99 once; optional forScore Pro subscription, $14.99 |
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Page turning: SheetScroll turns it for you
This is the biggest difference. SheetScroll Pro turns the page for you. It listens through the microphone, or follows a digital piano's notes over USB or Bluetooth MIDI, and turns two beats before the end of the page. It never turns early: when two passages sound alike, it holds the page until the music tells them apart. It follows repeat signs, first and second endings, D.S. and coda, and finds you again after you stop or go back.
forScore leaves every turn to you: a Bluetooth page turner, MIDI signals, an Apple Watch running the Cue app, or, with forScore Pro, a wink, a mouth movement or a head turn on devices with face tracking. Each still asks you to pick the moment while you play.
In SheetScroll you keep a manual turn too: pedals and taps work alongside listening, and a pedal press or a tap always wins.
Where SheetScroll is ahead
- Turns the page for you, with Pro: by microphone or a digital piano over MIDI, for piano, keyboards, strings, woodwinds, brass, voice and guitar, through repeats, endings, D.S. and coda.
- Runs everywhere: Android phones and tablets, Windows, Linux and the web as well as Apple devices, with the same listening and look on each.
- Older Apple devices too: iPadOS and iOS 15 or later, and macOS 12 or later; forScore needs iPadOS 18 and macOS 15.
- More formats: besides PDFs, photos and scans of paper music, MusicXML, MuseScore, Guitar Pro, MIDI, ABC, MEI, Humdrum, chord charts and text tabs.
- Free reader: every format and view, annotations, setlists and pedal turns cost nothing. forScore costs $24.99 up front.
- Practice that listens: loops, hands separately and tempo history.
- Play together: one device listens and everyone's pages turn with it over Wi-Fi; only the leading device needs Pro.
- Learn to play: eight free courses of public-domain pieces, from the first notes, that listen and turn without Pro.
What forScore adds on Apple hardware
- Apple hardware. Apple Pencil hover gestures (squeeze on Apple Pencil Pro with forScore Pro), Apple Vision Pro, and page turns from an Apple Watch.
- Face gestures in forScore Pro, as a trigger you make yourself.
- Play-along. forScore can play along with an audio track.
- One purchase for its Apple platforms, with forScore Pro sold as a separate subscription.
Privacy
In SheetScroll, sound is analyzed on the device as it arrives and is never recorded, stored or sent. There is no account and no tracking, and everything works offline.
Bring your forScore library
Your forScore library comes with you: export the metadata CSV from forScore's Backups panel, put it with your PDFs and any .4ss setlist files in one folder, and choose Add → From another app. Titles, tags and setlists come with it. See Move from forScore or MobileSheets.
Which to choose
- SheetScroll if you want the page turned for you, play on any device, or read more than PDFs. The reader is free, and Pro's yearly plan starts with 2 weeks free.
- forScore only if you need what is tied to Apple hardware: Apple Vision Pro, Apple Watch turns or Pencil hover gestures.
Questions
Does forScore turn pages automatically?
forScore turns pages with pedals, MIDI, an Apple Watch, and face gestures with forScore Pro. Its site doesn't list turning pages by listening to you play.
Is SheetScroll free?
SheetScroll's reader is free forever, with every format and view. Listening and automatic turns are SheetScroll Pro: $5.99 a month, $29.99 a year with 2 weeks free, or $79.99 once.
Can SheetScroll open my forScore library?
Yes. It reads forScore's metadata CSV and .4ss setlist files with your PDFs, and brings titles, tags and setlists across.
Does SheetScroll work on Apple Vision Pro?
SheetScroll lists iPad, iPhone, Mac, Android, Windows, Linux and the web. forScore lists Apple Vision Pro.
Which works better with Apple Pencil?
Both let you write with Apple Pencil. SheetScroll's markings stay with their bars in every view, half-page and line by line included; forScore adds hover gestures.
Related
- forScore alternativeforScore runs on Apple devices only. SheetScroll runs on Android, Windows, Linux, the web, iPad, iPhone and Mac, and brings a forScore library across.
- Moving from forScore or MobileSheetsHow to bring a forScore or MobileSheets library into SheetScroll with its titles, tags and setlists: what to export, where to put it, what comes across.
- SheetScroll vs MobileSheetsSheetScroll, MobileSheets and forScore side by side: only SheetScroll turns the page by listening, runs on Linux and the web, and has a free reader.
- Page turning appsSheet music apps that turn pages by listening (SheetScroll, Newzik, Smartleggio) or by face and eye gestures (forScore, MobileSheets, SightTune).
- Automatic page turnersEvery way to turn sheet music pages hands-free, from pedals to apps that listen, with the pros and cons of each and how a listening page turner decides.
- PianistsA sheet music app for pianists: it listens through the mic or a digital piano over MIDI and turns the page two beats early, never early. Free reader.
Sources
- forScore's site (platforms and features), checked October 22, 2026
- forScore on the App Store (price, forScore Pro, release notes), checked October 22, 2026
- forScore Pro, checked October 22, 2026
- forScore face gestures, checked October 22, 2026
- forScore 15.2 user guide: Backups, checked October 22, 2026