Software Alternatives & Reviews

Chordsheet Maker VS forScore

Compare Chordsheet Maker VS forScore and see what are their differences

Chordsheet Maker logo Chordsheet Maker

Create chord sheets or lead sheets quick and easily from your iPad. Add rhythms, endings, segno, codas and all what's necessary for your musicians to know what's your music about. Transcription made easy!

forScore logo forScore

With forScore, your sheet music has never been better—it’s everything you can do with paper, and so much more.
  • Chordsheet Maker Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-08-10
  • forScore Landing page
    Landing page //
    2020-07-07

Chordsheet Maker features and specs

  • Export to PDF: Yes
  • Share PDF: Yes

forScore features and specs

No features have been listed yet.

Chordsheet Maker videos

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forScore videos

FORSCORE 2020 Overview & Tips

More videos:

  • Tutorial - ForScore Review and Tutorial for Piano Teachers
  • Review - How I Use My iPad for Sheet Music with forScore

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Chordsheet Maker and forScore)
Music Tools
49 49%
51% 51
Audio & Music
50 50%
50% 50
Email Marketing
73 73%
27% 27
Music
0 0%
100% 100

Questions and Answers

As answered by people managing Chordsheet Maker and forScore.

How would you describe your primary audience?

Chordsheet Maker's answer

Freelance musicians and bandleaders, either live or studio

What makes your product unique?

Chordsheet Maker's answer

Chordsheet Maker fits right in between the other players. Complete enough for mainstream use cases, but simple enough to be able to write a chart quickly and simply.

Why should a person choose your product over its competitors?

Chordsheet Maker's answer

Other apps are either too simple and lack contents, or not oriented towards lead sheets and chord sheets (making them very versatile, but bloated). Chordsheet Maker fits right in the middle of these.

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Reviews

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Chordsheet Maker Reviews

  1. Been looking for that for a while!

    I’m a guitarist that’s mainly a “hired gun” and got to often get some charts down. This has been a delight to do with this app. Quite intuitive and user friendly. The developer also answer quickly to questions and comments.

    🏁 Competitors: Band-in-a-Box, iReal Pro, Sibelius, forScore
    👍 Pros:    User friendly interface|Fast|Intuitive|Export in pdf
    👎 Cons:    Nothing, so far

forScore Reviews

Best music notation software 2022
Orpheus Sheet Music Pro (opens in new tab) If you prefer to use Android hardware, Orpheus is the best sheet music app on that OS. It doesn’t have as many organization and file import features as forScore, but the interface is easy to use and includes an annotation tool. There’s a free version that displays ads and limits chart uploads to 30 total. Orpheus has support for...

Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, forScore seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 15 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Chordsheet Maker mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Chordsheet Maker yet. Tracking of Chordsheet Maker recommendations started around May 2021.

forScore mentions (15)

  • Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023
    Https://forscore.co/ iPad pdf reader & annotator designed for sheet music. As a “tech” husband helping out a non technical musician wife it’s a game changer. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
  • Best way to view a pdf of sheet music on a phone/tablet?
    ForScore is pretty well regarded. I use a free app called PiaScore that will show me two pages at once - my eyes suck though, so the tab is a bit small - might be okay for you though. I actually ended up buying a cheap Donner page turner that works pretty well with PiaScore and PDF Expert (which is my main pdf reader - but I don't think it lets me see two pages at once). Source: 12 months ago
  • Thoughts for Year One self-taught Pianists - ideas and resources (long!)
    ForScore also has a keyboard in it so you can quickly play some notes anywhere, and so does GarageBand on iPad. Source: 12 months ago
  • What are your must-have iPad apps?
    ForScore. That is why I, like many of my colleagues, bought the iPad. Source: about 1 year ago
  • This is how I would reconstruct the iPad lineup to make it simpler and easier to understand. Thoughts?
    Yes. I once considered the Surface Book among other options (at the time it had a bigger screen than the Surface Pro). And by the way, Apple also cares about musicians. As evidenced by the official advertising banners and videos, in which you can always see the application forScore, which has become almost a de facto standard for many musicians. Source: over 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Chordsheet Maker and forScore, you can also consider the following products

Stave'n'Tabs - iOS and macOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic...

Aria Maestosa - Aria Maestosa is an open-source (GPL) midi tracker/editor.

MuseScore.org - Create, play back and print beautiful sheet music with free and easy to use music notation software MuseScore. For Windows, Mac and Linux.

Tonelib JAM - Create, edit, print and listen to tablature and guitar sheet music

MuseScore - Our goal is to let musicians from all over the world create and share their works, as well as to make learning music exciting, easy and available for all.

alphaTab - alphaTab is a cross platform music notation and guitar tablature rendering library.