Slightly off topic, but I would feel like a traitor if I would post this in the forScore facebook group… and since Dorico and Newzik have a collaboration, probably people use it over here.
What do you like, what do you miss? Is the PDF to XML import working well?
In my experience with PlayScore, it always disappoints. But this looks like quite the innovative application with frequent updates, like Dorico.
And most importantly: with a lot of scores, is it still as fast?
I have been using forScore for the last ten years or so, but the last couple of years it has become quite slow with page turns, and it’s sometimes behaving weirdly with annotations. On the facebook group I saw some posts with people having the same issues on M4 iPads Pro, so updating my current iPad (2018 Pro, which is still working like a charm except for slow forScore) doesn’t seem to matter.
I must admit I have totally stacked up my forScore library with over 8000 scores. I know that doesn’t help, but maybe Newzik could be a fresh start to reorganize things and throw away the things I wouldn’t need.
I bought the lifetime Newzik last year and I’m very happy with it. I also have forscore but I never really worked with it so if Newzik is better, I don’t know.
The big thing of newzik is the online storage off your scores, that is super handy for me. So you have a back-up and I have all the scores on my iPhone, always synced. That is handy when I don’t have my iPad with me but somebody ask me something about a score, a lead sheet or anything.
Also if you have an whole band using Newzik it is super easy to deliver the parts to them and hold some control (renew parts).
I never had any issue with Newzik, it is snappy and easy to work with.
I use forScore now for four years (about 8000 pieces in it), but
as @Hanhom says, in the last couple of months it is really getting slow, with everything, pageturns with pedal in performance mode does not work gooed, syncing of two tablets has its faults and is very slow, book mode (two tablets together) does only work with wifi, and support is simply not there, even if ou have tha so-calles pro subscription. So I think everything looks better to me than forScore, I am looking now at MobileSheets, so far very happy with it!
Currently also looking an Newzik as possible replacement for forScore, but I already noticed som (for me) showstoppers, main issue is that is does not seem to use the bookmarks already in a PDF, I have got a lot of books, scanned into 1 pdf, all the different pieces in it as bookmarks. forScore can handle this, and MobileSheets also, Newzik not!
Also their Metadata are much more restricted: composer, setlist, project (a kind of shared setlist) and tags but nothing like genre, duration etc
Well I could not find it, and since I have a free test-account, I tried with one of those books, and found no way to import the existing bookmarks, also tried the web version, but to no avail…
For me definitely a no-go!