Support

• iPhone and iPad running iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 and later. This is the full app, including Apple Pencil annotation.
• Mac running macOS 26.2 and later. It is a native Mac app with its own windows and menus. Annotations are view-only on the Mac; see What’s different on Mac.
• Apple Watch running watchOS 26 and later. The Watch app is a standalone haptic metronome.
• Widgets for the Home Screen and the Mac desktop.

A few features need iOS 27 or macOS 27 and are marked that way in these articles.

No. eSuite never asks you to create an account or sign in. It uses the Apple Account already on your device for iCloud sync and for eSuite+ purchases, so there is no password to remember and nothing for us to store.

If you are signed in to iCloud, your library syncs between your devices automatically. If you are not, everything stays on the device and the app works exactly the same.

On a brand-new library, eSuite adds a demo score, Debussy’s Clair de Lune. Its opening pages walk you through the reading gestures, so open it first. You can delete it whenever you like.

If you are signed in to iCloud and already use eSuite on another device, you will see a short “Welcome to eSuite!” screen while your existing library arrives. This only happens the first time you open the app on a new device and takes up to about 30 seconds. An empty library may also say “Checking iCloud…” for a moment for the same reason.

Short one-time tips appear beside controls as you explore. Each tip goes away once you use the control or close it.

There is no settings screen inside the iPhone and iPad app. The toggles live in the Settings app: open Settings, scroll to eSuite, and you will find:

• Advanced Library Management (off by default) adds view, sort, and filter controls to the Library and Playlists.
• Smart Suggestions (on) lets eSuite fill in missing score details by reading the score itself.
• Do Not Disturb Reminders (on) shows a reminder to silence notifications when you enter Performance Mode.
• Personal Annotations on Shared Scores (off) lets you keep private markings on a score whose annotations you have shared.
• Multiple Shared Annotations per Score (off) allows more than one shared set of markings on the same score.
• Use Original App Icon (off) keeps the standard icon if you are an eSuite+ subscriber.

On the Mac, choose eSuite › Settings (or press ⌘,). The Mac window has Advanced Library Management, Smart Suggestions, Collaborative Annotations, and Allow Multiple Shared Sets.

Your eSuite+ subscription is managed from the account button at the top of the Catalog tab. See Managing or cancelling eSuite+.

1. In the Library, tap the + button.
2. Choose Upload from Files. On the Mac the + button opens the file picker directly, or use File › Import Scores… (⌘O).
3. Select one or many PDFs from Files, iCloud Drive, or any other file provider, then tap Open.

Each PDF becomes a score titled after its file name. Composer, instrument, and genre start as “Unknown” and are filled in automatically a moment later by Smart Suggestions, where available. Large imports of twenty or more files show a progress screen while thumbnails are generated.

eSuite keeps its own copy of the file, so the original in Files is untouched.

1. In the Library, tap +, then Scan Document.
2. Allow camera access the first time. Hold the device over each page; the scanner crops and straightens pages automatically.
3. Scan every page, then tap Save.

All scanned pages are combined into one PDF named “Scan” plus the date and time. You can rename it and fill in the details with Edit Info, and Smart Suggestions will try to read the title and composer from the scan.

eSuite registers as a PDF viewer, so you can send a PDF to it from almost anywhere. On iPhone and iPad, open the share sheet on the PDF and choose eSuite. On the Mac, right-click the file in Finder and choose Open With › eSuite.

You will see an “Imported” confirmation once the score is in your library. If the file is not a valid PDF, the import fails with a message explaining why.

eSuite has a guided importer that brings over your forScore scores, titles, composers, genres, and tags. It needs two things exported from forScore: a CSV list of your library and the annotated PDFs themselves.

In forScore:

1. Open the tools menu and choose Backup. Create a new backup, then share it and save it somewhere in Files. The backup is the CSV source.
2. Go to your score list, select all scores, and choose Share › Annotated PDF. Save them into a single folder in Files.

In eSuite:

1. Tap +, then Import from forScore. The sheet repeats the forScore steps with screenshots; tap Skip — I’ve already exported if you have done them.
2. Select the CSV file. eSuite shows how many scores it found.
3. Select the folder of PDFs. eSuite matches each CSV row to a PDF by file name.
4. Review the matched and unmatched lists, then tap Import.

Good to know:

• forScore tags become Playlists. An existing playlist with the same name is reused.
• Scores whose title already exists in your library are skipped, so running the import twice is safe.
• Only the top level of the chosen folder is searched. Put all the PDFs in one folder with no subfolders.
• Instrument starts as “Unknown” and can be filled in by Smart Suggestions or by hand.

PDF only. Photos and images come in through the camera scanner, which turns them into a PDF. MusicXML and other notation formats are not supported.

Password-protected PDFs cannot be imported. Remove the password in another app first.

Dragging files into the Library window is not currently supported on any platform. Use the + button, the share sheet, or Open With instead.

Search has its own tab. Tap Search in the tab bar and start typing. The toggle at the top switches between your Library and the Catalog.

In Library scope, results match anywhere in a score’s title, composer, genre, or instrument, and playlists match by name. Title matches are listed first. When results span several instruments, chips appear so you can narrow to one. An empty search field shows your recent searches; swipe one to remove it, or tap Clear.

Natural-language search (iOS 27 and macOS 27, on supported devices): ask for things like “romantic piano pieces I added last week” and press Search. eSuite understands title, composer, instrument, genre, period, tags, date added, and when you last practised. Requests of three words or more also run automatically when a plain keyword search finds nothing. Everything runs on your device.

By default the Library stays minimal: scores appear most recently used first, as a list on iPhone and a grid on iPad. To unlock the controls, turn on Advanced Library Management in the Settings app under eSuite (on the Mac it is on by default). A Library Options button then appears with:

• View: Grid or List.
• Sort by: Date Added, Recents, Title, or Composer. Choose the current option again to flip the direction.
• Filter by: Composer, Instrument, Genre, or Period, plus Clear Filters.

“Recents” counts any interaction: opening a score, drawing, bookmarking, or editing its info or pages. The same setting also enables the grid and list choice in Playlists.

Touch and hold a score in the Library (right-click on the Mac) and choose Edit Info. The same button is in the toolbar while a score is open.

• Title is required. Composer and Genre are free text.
• Instrument and Period offer presets; choose Other to type your own.
• Thumbnail: generate one from the first page, upload a photo, or remove it.
• Generate Smart Suggestions reads the score and proposes values for you to accept.

Nothing is saved until you tap Done. To change several scores at once, use Select and then Edit Info; the bulk sheet can set composer, instrument, and genre, and generate or replace thumbnails for all selected scores.

Smart Suggestions reads the music itself to work out the title, composer, instrument, genre, and period. It runs entirely on your device, so nothing about your scores is uploaded.

Automatic: after an import or scan, and about ten seconds after each launch for scores not yet processed, eSuite quietly fills in fields that are blank or “Unknown”. A title is only replaced when it looks like a file name. Details you typed yourself are never overwritten.

Manual: open Edit Info and tap Generate Smart Suggestions. A sheet shows each suggested value next to the current one; select the ones that look right, adjust any with the pencil, then Apply and Done.

If you see “Unable to Generate Suggestions”, the scan is probably too low quality to read. “No Suggestions Found” means the current details already look correct. The button is hidden on devices that cannot run it, and the whole feature can be switched off in the Settings app under eSuite.

iPhone and iPad: tap Select in the Library or Playlists toolbar, then tap scores, or use Select All. Actions are Delete, Edit Info, and Add to Playlist. Tap Done to finish. Selection also works from search results.

Mac: ⌘-click toggles a score, ⇧-click selects a range, ⌘A selects all, and Esc clears. Right-click a selected score for Add to Playlist, Edit, Select All, Deselect All, and Delete.

Inviting collaborators is always one score at a time, so it is not offered on a multiple selection.

Open Edit Pages (from the score’s long-press menu or the toolbar), tap the checkmark, and choose Save as New Score. You do not have to change anything first. The copy is titled with “(Copy)” and keeps the details, your personal annotations, and bookmarks, while the original is unchanged.

This is handy for keeping two page setups of the same piece, for example a full version and a cut version for a performance.

Touch and hold the score and choose Delete, or select several and use the trash button. You will be asked to confirm because deletion cannot be undone.

Deleting removes the PDF, its thumbnail, its iCloud copy, and the score from every playlist it was in. Shared annotations you received for that score are kept and move back to Received Annotations. A Catalog score can be added again from the Catalog with an eSuite+ subscription.

Deleting a playlist never deletes the scores inside it.

Playlists live in their own tab. Tap the Create Playlist button in the toolbar, give it a name, and it appears at the top of the list. On the Mac, choose File › New Playlist (⌘N).

Touch and hold a playlist (right-click on the Mac) for Rename, Duplicate, Change Artwork, Remove Artwork, and Delete. Artwork defaults to a grid of the first four scores’ thumbnails; Change Artwork lets you pick a photo instead.

Playlists are listed newest first and cannot currently be reordered. Duplicating copies every score in the same order.

There are three ways:

• Inside the playlist, tap Add Scores. Search by title, tap the scores you want, and tap Done. The stepper lets you add the same score more than once, for a repeated piece in a programme.
• From the Library, touch and hold a score and choose Add to Playlist, or select several scores first. Pick a playlist, or choose New Playlist to create one and add in a single step.
• While reading, tap the Add to Playlist button in the score’s toolbar.

You can also say “Add score to a playlist in eSuite” to Siri. See Siri and Shortcuts.

Reorder: touch and hold a score in the playlist, then drag it to its new position. On the Mac, drag the handle at the right edge of the row.

Remove: swipe a row to the left and tap Remove. The score stays in your library. To remove several, tap Select, choose the scores, and use the trash button, which offers Remove from Playlist or Delete from Library.

Open any score from inside a playlist and the rest of the playlist is queued behind it. Turn past the last page and the next score opens with an “Up Next” notice. Turn back past the first page and the previous score opens on its last page. A firm haptic tells you when you reach the very end.

Performance Mode is not switched on automatically; tap the Performance Mode button whenever you are ready. On the Mac, the score window also gets Previous Score and Next Score buttons.

Tap the right two-thirds of the page to go forward and the left third to go back. This works the same in Performance Mode. There is no swipe gesture, which keeps accidental page turns from happening on stage.

Taps do not turn pages while you are zoomed in, or on iPhone while annotation mode is on. You can also drag the page scrubber, or use a keyboard or Bluetooth pedal. On the Mac, click the left or right half of the page.

The screen stays awake while a score is open.

The capsule along the bottom of a score is the scrubber. Drag it to move through the piece: a thumbnail and page number appear above your finger, and lifting your finger jumps to that page. Small dots mark bookmarked pages while you drag, and you feel a light tick per page with a firmer tap at bookmarks and at the first and last page.

The scrubber hides in Performance Mode, while annotating, and on single-page scores.

Pinch to zoom up to five times, then drag to pan. Zoom resets when you change page so that tap page turns are ready again. While zoomed in, taps do not turn pages.

Tap the Bookmark button in the score toolbar to bookmark the current page; tap again to remove it. On iOS 26 the Bookmark option is in the “…” menu.

Bookmarks show as dots on the scrubber while dragging. On iOS 27 and later, touch and hold the Bookmark button for Previous Bookmark and Next Bookmark. Bookmarks on hidden pages are kept but skipped.

Tap the gold Performance Mode button (the theatre masks) at the right of the score toolbar. Every control disappears: the toolbar, tab bar, status bar, scrubber, and drawing palette. Tap page turns, keyboards, and pedals keep working, and your annotations stay visible. To leave, tap the small X in the top-left corner.

The Apple Pencil does not draw in Performance Mode, so a stray touch cannot mark your score. Updates from collaborators are held until you exit, so nothing changes on the page mid-performance.

The first time you enter Performance Mode in a session, a banner reminds you to turn on Do Not Disturb. To do that, open Control Center, tap Focus, then Do Not Disturb. You can turn the reminder off in the Settings app under eSuite.

Most Bluetooth page-turner pedals, including AirTurn, PageFlip, and Donner models, pair with your iPad or iPhone as a keyboard. Pair the pedal in the Bluetooth settings, set it to send arrow keys or Space, and it will turn pages in eSuite with no further setup. External keyboards use the same keys.

Next page	→ ↓ Space N
Previous page	← ↑ P

Keys are ignored while you are annotating or while a sheet such as Edit Info is open, and eSuite reclaims the pedal automatically when the sheet closes. On the Mac, arrow keys and Space turn pages in the score window too; see Mac keyboard shortcuts.

Scores always open on their first visible page, so a performance starts from the top every time. Use bookmarks or the scrubber to jump ahead. When you move back through a playlist, the previous score opens on its last page so you can rewind naturally.

Open Edit Pages from the score toolbar or the score’s long-press menu. The original PDF is never changed, and hidden pages can be restored at any time.

• Hide or show pages: tap thumbnails, or type a range into “Show only pages _ to _”. Select All and Deselect All are at the bottom.
• Rotate: tap a page’s menu for Rotate Right or Rotate Left.
• Reorder (iOS 27, macOS 27): drag pages into a new order, or use Move to Front and Move to End from the page menu. Reset Order restores the original.

Tap the checkmark when you are done and choose Save Score to apply the changes to this score, or Save as New Score to create a copy with these pages and leave the original untouched. Hidden pages are skipped when turning pages and on the scrubber. Annotations stay attached to their pages through any hiding, rotating, or reordering.

If the score’s PDF is only in iCloud, it downloads first; pages can be edited once the score is on the device.

Not currently. eSuite shows one full page at a time and re-lays it out when you rotate the device. Landscape works best on iPad for wide scores; pinch to zoom for a closer look.

Just start writing. On iPad the Pencil draws directly on the page with no mode to switch into, while your fingers keep turning pages and zooming. The first Pencil touch brings up the tool palette, which stays for the rest of that score visit; the Annotate button shows or hides the palette.

Finger drawing is not available on iPad, and the Pencil does not draw in Performance Mode.

Tap Annotate in the toolbar. The palette appears and you can draw with a finger or a Pencil. Page turns are off while annotating, so you can mark freely, but pinch zoom still works for detail. Tap Annotate again to go back to reading.

eSuite uses Apple’s standard drawing palette: pen, marker, pencil, eraser, ruler, and a color picker, with undo and redo. The default is a black pen.

There is no “clear page” command; use the eraser to remove marks. Colors are shown as they would look on white paper.

Annotations are stored per page and tied to the original page, so they survive hiding, rotating, and reordering in Edit Pages. They sync through iCloud with the rest of your library and are always visible, including in Performance Mode.

On the Mac, annotations display but cannot be edited. Shared annotations you have received show alongside your own.

Share a score’s annotations and the people you invite see your markings on their own copy of the piece, live, as you make them. It is one-way: you write, they watch. Receivers cannot change your marks or re-share them, but they can add private marks of their own on their copy.

Sharing happens over iCloud, so everyone needs to be signed in to iCloud. The link only opens for the people you invite. Each share covers exactly one score.

For scores from the Catalog, both the person sharing and the people receiving need an active eSuite+ subscription.

1. Open the score and tap Invite Collaborators in the toolbar, or touch and hold the score in the Library and choose Invite Collaborators.
2. Wait a moment while the link is prepared.
3. Send the link with Messages, Mail, or any app in the share sheet.

Your existing markings on that score move into the shared set, and everything you draw on that score from now on is shared. If you cancel the share sheet, nothing is shared and your markings return to private.

Shares can only be started from an iPhone or iPad. The Mac can receive and display shared annotations but cannot create a share.

Once a score is shared, its toolbar button changes to Collaboration. Tap it to open Apple’s people screen, where you can see who has access, invite more people, remove someone, or stop sharing altogether. Choosing Invite Collaborators again from the Library on a shared score also goes straight to inviting more people.

If you have turned on Multiple Shared Annotations per Score in Settings, the button becomes a menu with one row per shared set, plus New Shared Annotations to start a fresh, blank set for a different group.

Tap the link you were sent. eSuite opens, receives the annotations, and asks which score in your library they belong to. A Suggested match appears at the top when you already have the same PDF or a score with the same title; otherwise pick it from All Scores. Tap the checkmark and the score opens with the shared markings in place.

For Catalog scores, the annotations attach to your Catalog copy automatically, downloading it first if needed. Tapping the same link again later simply opens the score.

If you see “Update eSuite”, the annotations were made with a newer version of the app. Update from the App Store and tap the link again.

Annotations you have accepted but not yet attached to a score wait in Received Annotations, a button that appears in the Library toolbar only while such sets exist. Open it to Add a set to a score, or swipe to Delete it. Deleting stops you receiving those annotations; the person who shared them is unaffected.

Deleting a score that had shared annotations on it moves those annotations back to Received Annotations, where you can attach them to another score or delete them.

While the sharer draws and a receiver has the score open, strokes appear on the receiver’s screen within about a second, including the stroke forming as the Pencil moves. These live updates are end-to-end encrypted. iCloud remains the permanent record and catches up anything that was missed. Updates are held while the receiver is in Performance Mode.

Offline: creating a share and accepting a link need an internet connection. Markings you draw offline upload automatically the next time the app opens or returns to the foreground, and received annotations are stored on your device, so reading them never needs a connection.

In the same room with no internet, iPhones and iPads stream annotations to each other directly. The first time, iOS asks for Local Network permission; allow it so rehearsal updates keep flowing without Wi-Fi.

By default, everything you draw on a score you have shared goes to the shared set. To keep some notes to yourself, turn on Personal Annotations on Shared Scores in the Settings app under eSuite. A “Draw on” picker then lets you switch between My Annotations and the shared set while annotating on iPhone, with a label showing which one is active. On iPad, Pencil strokes go to the shared set.

• “You’re offline” or “Check your connection”: sharing and accepting need internet. Nothing was shared and your annotations are unchanged; try again when connected.
• “Sign in to iCloud”: shared annotations travel through iCloud. Sign in from the Settings app, then try again.
• “Your iCloud storage is full”: free some iCloud space or upgrade your plan, then share again.
• “iCloud is temporarily unavailable”: wait a moment and retry.
• “Update eSuite”: the annotations need a newer app version. Update and tap the link again.
• “These shared annotations are from an eSuite+ score”: an active eSuite+ subscription is needed to open annotations on Catalog scores.

The Catalog tab is a library of more than 150,000 scores you can browse, preview, and add to your own library. The home screen has a For You row chosen from what you already play, then rows for Instruments, Composers, Popular, Moods, the Top 100, Periods, and Genres. Tap any row header to see everything in it.

Category pages can be sorted by Date Added, Title, Composer, or Year, and filtered by instrument. Composer pages include a short biography and all of that composer’s works. Browsing needs an internet connection; recently loaded rows may still show offline.

The sources and licences for Catalog scores are listed under Acknowledgements & Licenses at the bottom of the Catalog, and on each score’s page under Source & Rights.

Open the Search tab and switch the toggle to Catalog. Results are grouped into Composers and Scores, and the composer matching tolerates misspellings. When results span several instruments, tap a chip to narrow them.

On supported devices, press Search on a longer request such as “peaceful baroque cello” and eSuite refines the results using the instrument, period, and mood it understood. You will briefly see “Refining results…”.

You can also ask Siri: “Search the catalog in eSuite” or “Find sheet music in eSuite”.

Every score page has a Preview button, and previews are free for everyone. You can read the whole score, not just the first page. Without eSuite+ the pages carry a light “Preview” watermark; subscribers see a clean preview and can add the score from inside it.

Previews and downloaded Catalog scores are protected from screenshots, screen recording, and screen mirroring: the pages appear black in captures, and while recording or mirroring is active the preview shows a “Preview Hidden” notice instead. On the Mac the window is excluded from screen sharing while Catalog content is on screen. Turn mirroring off to continue.

Everything you do with your own music is free and always will be: importing, scanning, playlists, annotations, iCloud sync, collaboration, the Watch metronome, and browsing, searching, and previewing the Catalog. There are no ads.

eSuite+ is the subscription that unlocks adding Catalog scores to your library. Subscribers get:

• Unlimited access to the entire Catalog, with scores downloading straight to the library.
• Collaboration on Catalog scores with other subscribers.
• One subscription across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
• An exclusive eSuite+ app icon on iPhone and iPad.

Two plans are offered, Individual and Family. Family shares the subscription with everyone in your iCloud Family Sharing group. Current prices and the free trial are shown on the pricing table and in the App Store.

Open the score’s page and tap Get (subscribers see a download icon). Without eSuite+, Get shows the subscription options. The score downloads, the page closes, and the score opens in your Library, where it behaves like any other score: playlists, annotations, bookmarks, and Edit Pages all work.

A score marked Coming Soon does not have its PDF available yet and cannot be previewed or added. If you see a message that a score is part of a newer eSuite+ tier, your current plan does not include it.

Catalog scores do not count toward your iCloud backup; they re-download from the Catalog whenever needed.

Subscriptions are handled by Apple. As a subscriber, tap the account button at the top of the Catalog tab and choose Manage Subscription to change plans or cancel; this opens Apple’s subscription sheet. You can reach the same place in the Settings app under your Apple Account › Subscriptions. On the Mac the account button opens the App Store’s subscriptions page.

If you have subscribed on another device or reinstalled the app and your scores show as locked, open the eSuite+ sheet from the Catalog and tap Restore Purchases. eSuite checks with the App Store and re-downloads any locked scores.

Refunds for subscriptions are requested through Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Your Catalog scores stay in your library but become locked: the PDF is removed from the device while the score’s details, your annotations, bookmarks, and playlist positions are all kept. Locked scores show a lock icon, and opening one explains that resubscribing brings it right back.

When you subscribe again, locked scores re-download automatically with everything intact. Scores are never locked just because you are offline; eSuite only locks them once the App Store confirms the subscription has ended.

Subscribers automatically get the eSuite+ app icon on iPhone and iPad; it applies the next time the app comes to the foreground. Prefer the original? Open the Settings app, scroll to eSuite, and turn on Use Original App Icon. The icon is not available on the Mac.

On the score’s Catalog page, tap Suggest a Correction. Choose what needs fixing (composer, title, period, instrument, difficulty, mood, or something else), enter the right value, add a note if you like, and send. Suggestions are reviewed before the Catalog is updated. Sending a second suggestion for the same field replaces the first.

Suggestions are anonymous. If you see a message that you have sent a lot recently, try again the next day.

Sync is automatic whenever your device is signed in to iCloud; there is nothing to set up in the app. Your scores, their details, playlists, bookmarks, annotations, and page edits all sync between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Each personal score’s PDF is also backed up to your iCloud so it can be re-downloaded on any device.

The bottom of the Library shows the current state, for example “Synced with iCloud” or “Backing up scores…”. Tap it to open the iCloud page, which has Sync Now, Back Up Now, and a per-score view of what is on this device.

To stop eSuite using iCloud, turn it off for eSuite in your device’s iCloud settings. The app then keeps everything locally.

Once a score’s PDF is backed up to iCloud, you can remove it from the device without losing anything. Touch and hold the score and choose Remove Download, or use the On This Device list on the iCloud page, which also shows the space used and offers Download All. The score stays in your library with its details and annotations, shows a small cloud icon, and re-downloads the moment you open it.

If you see “hasn’t finished backing up yet”, wait for the backup to complete and try again. Catalog scores are not included here; delete one and add it again from the Catalog if you need the space.

Sign in to the same Apple Account and iCloud on the new device, install eSuite, and open it. The first launch shows “Welcome to eSuite!” while your library arrives, and PDFs download as you open scores. Catalog scores return automatically with your eSuite+ subscription; tap Restore Purchases on the eSuite+ sheet if they stay locked.

After an update that changes how scores sync, you may see “Update Your Other Devices”. Update eSuite everywhere so every device keeps showing your scores.

• “No internet connection”: changes are saved on the device and sync when you are back online.
• “iCloud storage full” or “iCloud is full”: free up iCloud space or upgrade your plan; syncing and backup resume on their own.
• “Sync conflict”, “Network issue”, “iCloud is temporarily unavailable”: eSuite retries automatically. Tap Sync Now on the iCloud page to retry immediately.
• “Not signed in”: sign in to iCloud in the Settings app to sync.
• “Storage unavailable” banner: the device could not open its storage at all and changes will not be saved. Free up space on the device and relaunch the app.

Not at the moment. There is no export, print, or share-out of PDFs or annotations. Your original PDFs remain wherever you imported them from, and scans can be redone if needed. The only sharing in eSuite is inviting collaborators to view your annotations live.

eSuite for Mac is a native app that shares your library over iCloud. It is built for reading, organising, and following along, with a few differences from iPhone and iPad:

• Scores open in their own windows, which are restored when you relaunch. Click the left or right half of the page to turn, and show a thumbnail sidebar with ⌃⌘S.
• Annotations are view-only. Your markings and shared sets display, but drawing is on iPhone and iPad only. The Mac can accept shared links but cannot start a share.
• There is no scrubber, bookmarks, zoom, or Performance Mode in the Mac score window.
• Importing is via the + button, File › Import Scores…, or Finder’s Open With. The camera scanner and forScore importer are iPhone and iPad features.
• Sort, filter, and grid or list controls are on by default; sort and view choices are also in the View menu.
• Settings are in eSuite › Settings. Home Screen quick actions and the eSuite+ app icon are not available on the Mac.

A locked Catalog score on the Mac asks you to resubscribe on your iPhone or iPad; the account button in the Catalog opens the App Store’s subscriptions page.

Next page	→ ↓ Space
Previous page	← ↑
Show or hide page thumbnails	⌃⌘S
Import scores	⌘O
New playlist	⌘N
Settings	⌘,
Select all scores	⌘A (while a selection is active)
Clear selection	Esc

Hold ⌘ while clicking to select several scores, or ⇧ to select a range. Bulk actions are in the right-click menu.

eSuite on Apple Watch is a haptic metronome that you feel rather than hear, so it is silent in rehearsal and on stage. It runs on its own and does not need your iPhone nearby.

• Tempo: turn the Digital Crown to set 30 to 240 BPM.
• Time signature: the button at the bottom-left cycles through 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8. The first beat is accented; 6/8 accents beats one and four.
• Start and stop: tap the play button at the bottom-right, or use the watch’s double-tap gesture.

Accented beats are a strong tap and the others a light click, with a flashing dot on screen. The metronome keeps running when you lower your wrist; if the watch cannot keep it running in the background, a small moon icon appears and the taps pause until you raise your wrist. Your last tempo and time signature are remembered.

The Watch app does not have tap tempo, subdivisions, sound, or complications, and it does not sync with the iPhone app.

Add eSuite widgets from the widget gallery on iPhone, iPad, or the Mac desktop. There are three:

• Scores: your most recently viewed scores, with thumbnails. Small, Medium, Large, and Extra Large sizes show one, three, five, or ten scores.
• Playlists: your recent playlists with artwork and score counts, in the same sizes.
• Search: a small widget that jumps straight into Search, in your Library or the Catalog.

Tap a score or playlist to open it. Touch and hold a widget and choose Edit Widget to turn off Show Recents and hand-pick exactly which scores or playlists appear, or to choose where the Search widget searches. Lock Screen widgets are not available.

You can say these to Siri:

• “Open Clair de Lune in eSuite” or “Open a score in eSuite”
• “Continue practicing in eSuite”, which shows the score you last practised with a Resume button
• “Open Recital playlist in eSuite” or “Open a playlist in eSuite”
• “Add score to a playlist in eSuite”
• “Search the catalog in eSuite” or “Find sheet music in eSuite”
• “Search eSuite for Chopin”

In the Shortcuts app, eSuite also offers Remove Score from Playlist (with undo), Open Catalog Score, Add Catalog Score to Library (requires eSuite+), Search Catalog with instrument, period, and mood filters, and Find Scores and Find Playlists actions you can filter and sort to build your own automations.

Your scores and playlists appear in Spotlight search, and Siri Suggestions learns the scores and playlists you open most.

On recent iPhones and iPads, use the camera search built into the system to point the camera at a printed score, a concert programme, or a poster, or select one in a screenshot, and eSuite offers up to five matching scores from your library. Tap one to open it. Matching covers your own library, not the Catalog.

Touch and hold the eSuite icon on your Home Screen to jump straight to the last two scores you opened and your last playlist. The menu fills in as you use the app.

None for its own purposes. There is no eSuite account, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. Your library, annotations, and playlists live on your device and in your own iCloud, which only you can access.

The Catalog and live collaboration use eSuite’s servers to deliver scores and relay annotation updates; live updates are end-to-end encrypted, and Catalog correction suggestions carry only an anonymous identifier. Smart Suggestions and natural-language search run on your device. The full policy is on the Privacy Policy page.

Scroll to the bottom of the Library and tap Provide Feedback. On iPhone and iPad this opens a pre-addressed email that includes your app version, device, and OS version to help us investigate; delete those lines if you prefer. On the Mac it opens your mail app.

If no mail account is set up on the device, tap Copy Email Address and write to us from anywhere: feedback@esuitemusic.com. For business questions use contact@esuitemusic.com.

• Not a valid PDF or corrupted: open the file in Files or Preview to check it displays. Re-export or re-download it if it does not.
• Password-protected PDFs are rejected. Remove the password in another app and import again.
• Could not access app storage: the device is likely out of space. Free some up and try again.
• Only PDFs are supported; see Which file types can I import?

A cloud icon means the score’s PDF is in iCloud but not on this device. Open the score, or touch and hold it and choose Download, with an internet connection. If the download fails, check the sync status at the bottom of the Library and that iCloud has space.

A locked icon means a Catalog score whose eSuite+ subscription has ended; see What happens to my Catalog scores.

If a score that was only ever on this device cannot be found, it may have been deleted on another device, since deletions sync too.

• Check the pedal is connected in the device’s Bluetooth settings and set to a keyboard mode that sends arrow keys or Space.
• Make sure no sheet is open over the score and that annotation mode is off; keys are ignored in both cases.
• Close and reopen the score to give it keyboard focus again.

Both run on the device itself and need a recent iPhone, iPad, or Mac with on-device intelligence features turned on in the Settings app, so they are hidden where that is not available. Check that eSuite’s Smart Suggestions toggle is on in the Settings app. Natural-language search also needs iOS 27 or macOS 27. Keyword search and manual editing work everywhere.