Tuna Pitch - chromatic tuner
- CategoryMusic
- First releasedApril 30, 2009
- Versions2 archived
- Installable2 of 2
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- Bundle IDcom.felttip.tuna-pitch
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 2.0 or later.
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Report an issueStay in tune with this chromatic tuner and pitch pipe for your musical instrument. It tunes guitars, bass guitars, and banjos, but also many other instruments, even your voice (just sing into it!). The built-in pitch pipe lets you play a reference tone for tuning by ear.
The tuner requires microphone access, which can be granted in the Settings app, under Privacy > Microphone. For best results, use a headset or microphone separate from the device.
FEATURES • Automatically finds the pitch using the microphone. • Shows note name, octave, frequency. • Shows sharpness or flatness in cents and percentage. • Plays reference tones out loud with 4 selectable timbres. • Has 18 built-in tuning systems for 9 instruments. • Can use 8 notation systems (4 types with 2 variations each). • Editable A4 reference frequency, with A440 standard tuning (A4 = 440Hz). • Twelve-tone equal temperament tuning. • Supports upside-down device orientation. • Real-world tested on pianos, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass guitars, and other instruments.
TUNINGS • Standard Guitar • Guitar: Dropped D • Guitar: Dropped C • Guitar: Open G • Guitar: Open D • Bass Guitar • Resonator Guitar (Dobro) • C6 Lap Steel Guitar • Cello • Viola • Violin • Banjo: Open G • Banjo: Early • Banjo: G Modal • Banjo: Double C • Banjo: Old-time D • Banjo: Open D • Mandolin • Ukulele • Pípá
NOTATIONS • English • Fixed do solfège • French • Northern European
Tuna Pitch was made by Lucius Kwok and Kasten Searles. Made in NYC.
Chart History
Archived Reviews
8 of 25I have nine tuning forks comprising four different pitches. Some are pitch duplicates, e.g., five are A-440. All are high quality English or German made. My room temperature is consistent with the design standard for the forks, 20 degrees C. They are accurate, but this tuner app consistently reports that they are all about 0.3 hertz sharp. So the 440 forks for example all register 440.3 hertz on the tuner app. That, along with the hair trigger response of the tuner, always jumping around so that I find it difficult to read at all, even with tuning forks as a sound source, renders it useless to me. Therefore I can't recommend it.
Love the app but the persistent reminder that I don't have a mike plugged in to my iPod touch is unnecesary and annoying. I personally use the app to get me in the right pitch range for tuning a guitar, violin, ukelele & banjo in pitch pipe mode. Should be able to simply tap the notice to make it go away or provide a setting to dissable the mike tuning feature for those that don't have built-in mikes. The settings would also be a lot nicer with a tumbler style selector. I hope to see the notice go away in a future update. Otherwise, nicely done.
On top of the watch app being useless the phone app is equally disappointing. Wish I could get my money back
There was a tuning option for voice. The guitar and everything doesnt cover every note. if their was a voice option, we could see the exact note. or maybe a piano tuning setting? that would e nice too. thanks~
Of all the tuning apps I tested, this one seemed to lock on to a pitch fastest, with equivalent or better accuracy.
I love this app! Blows away any of the other tuners on the app store. Just as accurate as my inline Korg Pitchblack!
This does not have enough note range to be useful. It does not work for voice.
It is way too sensitive. It takes forever to get it to go from +- 2 cents to spot on, and then when you double check the note you're no longer spot on. Still a great tuner, but I'm shopping around for a less touchy one. Also, can't hear the pitches on the side.
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