FORTE Score Creator & Composer vs iWriteMusic Pro SE Usage & Stats
Are you a musician who needs to read, play and edit sheet music on the go? Download FORTE to read, write and play music!
With FORTE READER you can easily open and play sheet music. For more advanced users, FORTE EDITOR provides everything you need to create, write and export scores from your iPhone or iPad. FORTE EDITOR makes it easy to save, share and open scores. FORTE works with most major formats including MIDI, WAV, PDF, MusicXML, and FORTE format.
Create and collaborate with FORTE’s easy to use sheet music editor. Add FORTE to your music writing toolbox to compose from anywhere at any time!
WHO USES FORTE?
• Hobbyists
• Students
• Professional composers
• Music teachers and educators
• Orchestras, ensembles, choirs, bands
• All types of professional musicians
• Anyone who needs to read, write and play music on the go!
FORTE READER - FEATURES (free)
• Metronome
• Tempo control
• Adjust volume and tempo to your rehearsing needs
• Display the notes being played on a virtual keyboard
• Tab and Percussion notation
FORTE EDITOR - FEATURES (one time payment)
• Write, change, and transpose notes, chords, and song lyrics
• Notate percussion parts
• Create your own scores from scratch
• Choose from a selection of more than 50 instruments
• Transpose scores or single parts
• Add performance marks
• Volume and pan control for each instrument
• Mute or unmute single tracks
• Choose output and soundfonts
• Export to MIDI, WAV, PDF, MusicXML, and FORTE format
• Range of musical signs (dynamics, techniques, accidentals, keys, time signatures, and more)
• Staves and measures can be added and deleted
FORTE supports the following file formats:
• MIDI files
• WAV files
• PDF files
• MusicXML files
• FORTE mobile files (*.fnfm)
FORTE is an affordable notation editor for amateurs and professionals. Designed and built by the team responsible for the FORTE Notation suite of advanced music scoring desktop software.
Visit our website for our guides and tutorials: www.fortenotation.com
*For the best experience we recommend using an iPad but you can also use an iPhone.
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Music
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Music Writing is easy and fun when you use iWriteMusic!
Experience the perfect harmony of ease and versatility in sheet music creation with iWriteMusic!
Say goodbye to complicated notation apps and hello to intuitive design.
Enjoy quick and beautiful sheet music creation with a comprehensive suite of essential tools for concerts, lessons, and music classes.
Best fit for professional musicians, music teachers and students. For songwriters, composers and arrangers. For both singers and instrumentalists (piano, violin, cello, guitar, flute, saxophone, trumpet, drums, etc.). Great for writing down ideas, creating lesson materials, creating lead sheets, or creating scores and parts for chorus groups, choirs, chamber orchestras, jazz bands, Latin bands, orchestras, and more. For daily practice, rehearsals, concerts, iWriteMusic will help you enrich your musical life!
Check out 8 reasons to choose iWriteMusic SE (Special Edition)
1. You can understand this app almost instantly!
Because of Truly Intuitive and Extremely Simple user interface, you barely need to read pages of manuals nor watching numbers of instruction videos. Unlike Finale, Sibelius and other similar apps, you just have a few things to learn to be able to use this app pretty well.
2.Double your productivity with our Highly Efficient Input System.
If you’re already familiar with notation apps and looking for faster & more efficient entry system, try our innovative One-Flick Entry System along with Traditional Entry System to get your job done in no time!
What is Traditional Entry System?
- The choices will appear with ToolBox.
- Select a value and the location separately.
- Recommended to those who are not yet familiar with any music notation apps.
What is OneFlick Entry System?
- The choices will appear when you touch the screen.
- Select a location and the value at once.
- The selection will change as you slide your finger to left/right.
- Recommended to those who are familiar with music notation apps and looking for faster and more efficient entry system.
3. Creates beautiful sheet music / music score
- absolutely professional quality!
- rich options for page layout adjustment
- easy parts creation
- easy score/parts management
- direct print-out via AirPrint
4. Supports most of major notation elements
- multi-track writing
- multi-voice writing
- percussion/drums notation
- chord symbols and lyrics
- multi-bar rest
- time change
- key change
- clef change
- tempo change
- grace note
- articulations and dynamics marks
- easy song transpose
- partial transpose
and many more!
5. Useful playback options for practice
- mixer with solo, mute and voice select
- loop and swing options
6. Data & sheet music sharing
- exports/Imports iWriteMusic data file
- exports PDF or JPG
- exports Standard MIDI file which can be imported by other apps such as GarageBand
7. Extremely Compact Size (15 MB)
You can save your device storage space
for photos and other apps.
8. Best of all, it's Free!
Yes, it's Free and Over 1.4 Million people all over the world has created music with this app family. Let's get started now!
Note: This is for iPhone (iPad version sold separately)
ATTENTION:
Latency during playback and drawing may occur by device capacity or number of tracks and background applications.
Limitations on SE (Special Edition):
1. Water mark appears on page views and printouts.
2. Can’t save more than 5 songs.
3. Can't play more than 30 seconds at a time.
4. Can't import iWriteMusic data file. (export only)
5. Can't export Standard MIDI file.
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Music
Store Rank
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FORTE Score Creator & Composer VS. 
iWriteMusic Pro SEJanuary 4, 2026