MobileSheets®

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!

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.

MobileSheets is everything I could want in an app like this. I play in a bluegrass group where each person plays multiple instruments and sings, with a repertoire of hundreds of songs in all different keys and instrumentations. With capos and banjo tuning and instrument changes, if we’re in A and the instrumentation and somebody’s already got a banjo on, MobileSheets makes it really easy to filter by key and tag (like “banjo”). Similarly, I have things tagged for pickers or singers, genre, who sings lead, etc. You can edit all the tags/genres/etc so you can categorize however you’d like. Could you figure stuff like that out on your own? Maybe. But in addition to the brilliant tagging, filtering, playlists, and more, MobileSheets also is a wonderful “show me the PDF” display for lyrics and charts. I’ve used MobileSheets on a chromebook for years, but having it on an iPad is great, especially for the ability to draw on the screen to add notes to charts. It’s not perfect. Some things I’d love to see would be the ability to add additional “templates” instead of blank pages, like a blank page with bar markers for quickly charting out a song. (Easy enough to make your own template then use that but it’s a lot more steps.) I’d also love an auto-sync option to always keep my Dropbox/Google Drive updated when I make changes locally. But it’s hands down the best app for keeping track of lots of music in one place. The metadata (tags, genre, keys, etc.) really makes the app. Nothing else I’ve tried comes close to the flexibility MobileSheets allows. Oh, and you can run it on macOS as well, which I haven’t used much but might make it faster to manage your library, do lots of adding new content, etc.