No multi-instrument score here, but I recently had two good results with LiveScore in terms of time savings.
The first was a pdf with several hundred cadence examples that LiveScore converted to XML format with only a few errors.
Okay, that was easy, but I was surprised when I made a scan from my bookshelf of an original piano piece by Chick Corea, La Fiesta. Livescore also converted it with only a few errors.
Interesting that Newzik document. The feedback about it not being able to convert scores where on some pages not all instruments have a staff might actually have come from me a bit more than a year ago.
Maybe this year there will be a lot of us with same questions as 2023:
This year I got same eMail that is this thread about. At first I wasn’t able to find the price with the discount, but following what I read above I was able to find it. BUT: the price for the lifetime premium access is exactly the same with and without discount. It is only that, when I am able to find the price WITH discount, the normal price is now higher, so that with 40% discount it ends up being the same as the normal one. ¿¿??
We have partnered with Newzik and will each be publicising a special offer to each other’s customers.
The email you will receive from us at Steinberg on behalf of Newzik is for 40% off the cost of Newzik’s Premium Lifetime subscription: this normally costs $149 US, but is discounted to $89.
As I understand it, you need to download and install the Newzik app on your device before you try to redeem the offer.
Newzik will be emailing their customers on our behalf in a few days’ time, to offer Newzik users a discount of 40% off the cost of an annual subscription to Dorico for iPad. The cost of an annual subscription varies from country to country, and the exact price is determined by Apple’s App Store pricing bands, but in the US it is $49.99, so with the discount of 40% it is $29.99. In Germany, for example, it is €59.99, so with the discount of 40% it is €34.99.
If you buy the annual subscription at the special price, it will renew at the full price in 12 months’ time. You will receive plenty of warning from Apple before the renewal arrives, and after payment you can cancel the renewal at any time, and continue using the premium features until the end of your annual subscription period.
So, a bit confusingly, the offer we are sending to Dorico users on Newzik’s behalf is for a lifetime product, but the offer Newzik will send to their users on our behalf is for an annual subscription.
Hi,
I just got a Steinberg email with lifetime offer, but enabling the offer does not seem to work for me.
I created a new account (since I didn’t have anything yet) and installed the app on my iPad.
I get a preview page link, to open the app, which brings me to the App Store (to open the app), but then nothing happens.
How exactly is this supposed to work/ what am I doing wrong?
FYI: It seems the offer screen doesn’t work on my iPad, but does pop-up on my iPhone
Thank you, Daniel.
I did that, indeed: the app was running first. If I go to the plan prices (without clicking on the eMail with the offer) I can see lifetime normal price is $99.990 in my currency. That info is in the app but also in the Appstore.
Now, if I open the app, then I go to the eMail and click on the link (“get Newzik premium lifetime”) the app window opens and I see now normal price is $166.650 in my currency and $99.990 with 40% discount. That means, the purchase price without clicking on the eMail is exactly the same.
$99.990 are US$102 today. Maybe Newzik has this days an offer price of $99.990 for all customers (allthough I can’t find info about it). At the end: if I want to purchase lifetime, I pay 99.990 with or without clicking on the eMail.
I’m afraid I don’t have any insight into what might be going on with Newzik’s pricing. It may be that they have applied the discount automatically, regardless of the link in the email. I’m certain that the idea is that you will save 40% off the standard price, and that the discount they are advertising to Dorico users cannot be “stacked” with other offers that may be running.
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Hello,
@dspreadbury
I am inquiring about the compatibility of Newzik with macOS 14.7.2 on an M1 Max chip. I ask this because some iOS apps are compatible with Silicon Macs.
Thank you for your assistance.
Newzik does not provide a macOS app; on desktop computers, the expectation is that you will use Newzik on the web.
Does anyone have direct forScore / Newzik user comparisons to offer? Are there certain ways in which one or the other seems uniquely good (or bad)?
I’m currently an occasional forScore user, just loading in mostly short (one- or two-page) pieces for performing, and curious if Newzik has some “killer” features I never knew I couldn’t live without. 
A few days ago there was already a thread about this:
You can also have a look at MobileSheets, which I am investigating and testing at the moment, so far it is good!
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Thanks, @JeroenH — somehow I missed that one.
I tried Newzik’s Livescores feature on a moderately complex piano score (Rondo Alla Turca). The result is kind of OK. Far from perfect, but maybe usable as a starting point in Dorico compared to entering everything from scratch.
The reason I am writing about it here is that Dorico fails to properly import exported XML from Newzik. This is the result:
And bellow is the problematic XML if the team wants to look at it.
Rondo Alla Turca.xml (509.5 KB)
Newzik has created a badly formed measure 42, which Dorico cannot parse further. (MuseScore also considers this a problem, but is more tolerant in how it handles it).
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