Forte is a music notation program developed by the German company Lugert Verlag, located in Handorf.

The firm later diversifie, producing magazines and audio media and selling musical instruments.

It also allows users to save music scores as JPEG, TIFF or EPS files.

Recent versions of the program feature the ability to automatically transpose notated music among various keys, while their ScanScore 2 module performs optical music recognition on medium- to high-resolution PDF, JPEG, TIFF or PNG files of music score images, generating reasonably accurate MusicXML input for further processing within the main Forte program; this feature, however, is only available in the company's Premium edition.

An education edition and a specialist version designed for hymn and worship music are also available.