MobileSheets for iPad

etwas eingewöhnung ist nötig wie bei jeder software, pluspunkte: PC companion zum vorbereiten der sheets und setlisten, cloud sync features, zuverlässig im live-betrieb, einmalzahlung und kein abo-modell.

Die App ist grundsätzlich super, aber für Sängerinnen wäre es total praktisch wenn man einen neuen Song auch einfach direkt über die App erstellen könnte und einen Songtext zb einfach reinkopieren kann (direkt am ipad), wenn man neuen leeren Song erstellt. Quasi auch um direkt eine Textbearbeitung ermöglichen zu können. So muss man erst wieder ein Doc am Pc erstellen oder ein Foto einer ausgedruckten Version machen und dann kann mans erst importieren. Diese Erweiterung wäre mega praktisch und es wäre für jede Besetzung der Band supertop.

This app is very flexible and easy to use. I am a pianist and find that is has everything I want for reading sheet music. The ability to scan music with the devices camera is very useful allowing quick addition of new music to the app.

I’m enjoying the app so far. I especially like that the stamps are all available and the user fan create their own (ForScore makes the user subscribe to a monthly charge to unlock stamps, argh!). It would be nice to offer iCloud file access in the next version.

I use scrolling for a lot of music and have found the features in MobileSheets to be far more useful for my work/performance flow. Highly recommended.

Got extremely excited to see this app finally on iOS. First attempt to sync from my Windows version to iPad and.... with horror, realized it was deleting from my computer rather than adding to my iPad. If I could change anything, I would like to see a more robust syncing system than what's currently in place. Right now, there is no confirmation warning, and restoring from backup requires copying to a local or icloud location (it thinks cloud files from connected services don't exist, despite clicking it to get that very message). The reason I still 5 star this is that I've used it for years at this point on my computer. It has automatic backups, and the manual backups restored my library without issue, thankfully. Additionally, the developer is extremely passionate and transparent about development of this program, and unlike apps like Forscore, doesn't paywall features. Happy to see this on iOS, and I hope to see improvements like those above!

I used Mobile Sheets Pro (MSP) on an android tablet for several years before getting an iPad. For 2 years I struggled with ForScore (FS) before happily being able to return to MSP. MSP has a scroll function that FS lacks. I play contra dances and Irish gigs where we play a number of tunes in a row with no break. Many of the tunes fit 2-3 on a page so I can see what is coming up next and be ready to jump into the next tune. Even worse, FS does not have the ability to display the title of the next song continually. It only displays for a few seconds at the beginning of the song, and then it disappears. Well hello - when you really need it is near the end when you are getting ready to change songs. In frustration, I was having to write the name of the next song at the bottom of the page - a pain when you change setlists often. The only poor substitution in FS for the scroll function was a buggy split page function. MSP seems all over more intuitive and easy to use. I love having the whole alphabet displayed in the song list instead of every other letter and dots that I could never hit right. I’m sure there are other benefits I will remember as I get back into using MSP but this is an app I would highly recommend.

This is by far the most intuitive, well thought out and developed sheet music/ chart app for gigging musicians out there. I couldn’t imagine not having it!

Thanks for Ukrainian language, really appreciate it!

Title says it all. MobileSheets is fantastic and I have encouraged everyone I know who uses forScore, to try Mobilesheets instead. I was always annoyed by ForScore’s various UX idiosyncrasies (one of the least intuitive apps I’ve ever used) but I was invested due to the years of work I’d put into my scores. But then: It lost ALL MY ANNOTATIONS. I only ever use score-layer, and after a sync, they were all gone. I opened a ticket, but it took so long for the support team to get back to me (and then correspond with anything useful), that I’d already continued to work in my library, making more changes, and at that point there was no way I could restore from backup without losing all my changes. I tried Mobilesheets and immediately found it much, much easier to navigate. I bit the bullet and imported all my PDFs, to start anew. I haven’t looked back since. There are a few features I’d like to see (mainly around Apple Pencil/annotation options) but they’re minor. And there are so many regular updates from the developer, with exquisitely detailed release notes, that I have great hopes for its future.