FORTE Score Creator & Composer

Contains adsIn-app purchases
2.3
281 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

FORTE helps you to write sheet music on the go on your tablet or smartphone. Used by composers, hobby musicians, music teachers, orchestra / ensemble members and anyone who needs to read sheet music and compose sheet music.

With FORTE READER you can easily open and play sheet music. FORTE EDITOR provides a full feature professional sheet music score composer.

WHO USES FORTE? 🤩
• Songwriters
• Composers
• Hobby musicians
• Music teachers and students
• Orchestras, ensembles, choirs, bands
• Anyone who needs to read, write, edit and play music on their Android device

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)

FORTE supports the following file formats:
• MIDI files
• WAV files
• PDF files
• MusicXML files
• FORTE mobile files (*.fnfm)

FORTE is an affordable music 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 guides and tutorials: www.fortenotation.com/en

*For the best experience we recommend using an Android tablet but you can also use an Android smartphone.

FORTE is an essential tool for every budding musical maestro and to learn to read music. Compose sheet music on your Android device from anywhere. Add chord symbols, drum notation, guitar tab, and song lyrics.

With FORTE you can read sheet music and play along. Use the built in metronome for music practice. Many music teachers use FORTE for music lessons. Learn to read music and make music notation.

Easy to use sheet music reader & notation editor for composers and musicians. View and play sheet music. A notation pad made for everyone from music students to professional music score composers.

Write lyrics and chord symbols. Transpose songs into any key. Keep time with the metronome. Multiple tracks with different instruments: piano, guitar, violin, saxophone, flute, horn, tuba, ukulele, mandolin, drum and more.

FORTE is an essential tool for writing different types of sheet music, including lead sheet, solo instruments, SATB choir, sheet music for brass & woodwind bands, guitar tab and more.
Updated on
Mar 20, 2024

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Ratings and reviews

2.2
225 reviews
Matthew Nabil
February 26, 2023
After some problems with other music notation apps I decided to actually fork in the cash to try Forte. I was initially turned off by its price and visual appearance but it was only $15 AUD and the appearance is actually very streamlined, intuitive and comprehensive. Saving files in a different directory is a little troublesome but sending to Google Drive is a good workaround.
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Ashley Mobasser
April 12, 2022
I would get the pro version but the library is too basic. There is no search function and I can't create set lists. This makes it unsuitable for gigs for me, I can't waste time on stage scrolling through a library of 100+songs. Could you add these functions please? I would absolutely buy the pro version if it had this as it has everything else I need; transposition, viewing individual instrument parts.
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Lugert Verlag GmbH & Co KG
June 14, 2022
Hi Ashely, Thank you for your feedback. We are working on such a feature. Best regards, your FORTE team
A Google user
April 20, 2019
This app is really good considering it's free. It has the essential features covered. It has many instruments and allows different volumes for each part. However, the header and notification bar takes up the screen when not playing and the volume screen is a bit clunky (scrolling isn't locked to x and y axis). I've also noticed that the arpeggios are too slow by default. Maybe there's a setting for it. I feel that it also drains battery (not sure). Edit: midi works now.
17 people found this review helpful
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Lugert Verlag GmbH & Co KG
April 4, 2019
Richard Putra, thanks for your feedback, if you have trouble opening midi files, send the files to forte.assistance@gmail.com to check your files.

What's new

Stability improvements.