ScoreTune
Faster page turns.
More room on your iPad.
Most scans carry more resolution than your iPad can show, which slows page turns. ScoreTune brings it down to suit your screen. Your music still looks sharp, and your markings stay put.
- For iPad
- Works with forScore
- Free to try
Made by violinist Doori Na.
Why scores turn slowly
Your iPad is drawing detail it cannot show
A scanned page is a picture made of pixels, and many scans hold far more of them than an iPad screen can display. Your iPad still has to work through every one of them each time you turn the page. Older iPads feel it most, and on a heavy page your pencil can trail behind as you write.
ScoreTune redraws each page at about the resolution your screen can show. Pages turn faster, scores take less room, and your music still looks sharp.
- Every pixel in a page scanned at 600 PPI
- What an iPad screen can show of that page: about 250 PPI on the largest iPads, less on smaller ones
What it does
Four tools, one job each
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Slowest
Finds the scores that turn slowly and lowers their resolution to match your screen.
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Biggest
Finds the scores that take the most room on your iPad and makes them smaller.
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Split pages
Divides sheets with two pages side by side into single pages. Nothing is split until you tap Split.
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Scans
Photograph paper music and save it as a score. Photograph an open book, and ScoreTune offers to split the double pages before you save.
ScoreTune lowers resolution to suit your screen. It does not make blurry scans sharper.
How it works
From forScore and back again
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Find the slow ones
Choose forScore’s folder once, and ScoreTune checks your library for scores that turn slowly or take the most room. Checking changes nothing. You can also share one score from forScore, add one from Files, or scan paper music.
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Optimize
Compare a score before and after, then optimize it. The original is kept in Backups, so you can always go back.
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Send it back
Send the score to forScore. ScoreTune updates it only after checking it is the same score, so your markings stay where they were.
Peace of mind
Made for scores you have spent years marking
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Your markings stay put
forScore keeps markings separately from the score itself, so updating the score underneath leaves every marking where it was.
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Your originals are kept
Every original is saved in Backups. ScoreTune never deletes them on its own.
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Nothing changes until you send
Checking and optimizing never touch your forScore library. A score there changes only when you send it back.
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Your music stays on your iPad
Optimizing, splitting and scanning happen on your iPad. ScoreTune does not upload your scores, and it has no ads or tracking.
Price
Free to try. Pay once.
Every tool comes with free uses, so you can see the difference on your own scores first.
Try it free
No purchase needed
- Three scores with Slowest
- One score each with Biggest, Split pages and Scans
- One preview of your forScore library, showing a few scores to try
- Scores you make stay yours to open, send and keep
Unlimited use
Pay once in the App Store
- Every tool, as often as you like
- Full results when ScoreTune checks your library, whenever you like
- No subscription, nothing to renew
- Belongs to your Apple ID, so it comes with you to a new iPad
Previews, sending to forScore and Backups are always included.
Support
Questions
Will I lose my markings?
No. forScore keeps markings separately from the score itself, so updating the score underneath leaves them exactly where they were. ScoreTune updates a score in forScore only after checking it is the same score. When you share a score from forScore, choose PDF rather than Annotated PDF.
If a score’s pages change, for example when it is split into single pages, ScoreTune asks whether it is marked before sending, and can add it beside your marked copy, which stays as it is.
What exactly changes when I optimize a score?
Two things can change. A score scanned at a very high PPI is redrawn at about the PPI your iPad screen can show, which is what makes pages turn faster. A score already at a sensible PPI keeps it. And Best Optimization turns each page into pure black and white, which makes the score much smaller. Every page stays, in the same order, and your original stays in Backups until you clear it.
Pencil that was scanned as part of the page comes through when it is dark, but very faint pencil can fade in black and white. If that matters, or your score has markings in color, choose Best Optimization (keeps color) and check the preview before you send it.
Does it only help in forScore?
No. Optimized scores open and turn faster in Files, Books and any other PDF reader on your iPad. Older iPads notice the difference most, since a heavy page costs them more to begin with.
Does anything leave my iPad?
Optimizing, splitting and scanning happen on your iPad. ScoreTune does not upload your scores to a server for processing, and it has no ads, analytics or tracking. Buying or restoring the unlock and opening web links may use the internet. You choose when to send or share scores or a support report. If you keep scores in a cloud service such as iCloud Drive, it may sync them according to your settings.
Does ScoreTune make blurry scans sharper?
No. ScoreTune lowers resolution to suit your screen. It cannot add detail that a scan never captured, though a gray, uneven page can come out cleaner in black and white.
Which iPads does it work on?
Any iPad with iPadOS 17 or later.
I got a new iPad. Do I pay again?
No. Open ScoreTune on the new iPad and choose Restore purchase. The unlock belongs to your Apple ID, not to the iPad.
Is ScoreTune made by forScore?
No. ScoreTune is an independent app made by violinist Doori Na. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by forScore, LLC.
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