VITALtuner Pro User Reviews

Otreus Inc.

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Honestly, the BEST tuner I have ever used. Incredible technology!

I’ve been playing guitar for about 20 years. Rock, jazz, blues, some country. I actually started playing classical guitar. Needless to say, I’ve used many tuners. BOSS, Korg, Peterson Strobostomp on my pedalboard, you name it I’ve probably owned it at one point. On my iPhone I’ve tried SO many tuner apps, paid and free, I can’t even count how many. The truth is (and any player who’s worth their salt will tell you the same) that none of them are any good. They’re not accurate and don’t track well. Until now that is! Seriously, this is the app I’ve been waiting for. It’s not only better than any app I’ve used, but it’s also way better than my expensive hardware tuners. AND has a ton of crazy features. Nothing comes close, it’s worth every penny, just get it.

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musique%

2 years ago

Historical Temperaments

One of the reasons I bought this app is that it has many historical temperaments built-in. I play the lute whose moveable frets allow one to adjust the tempering for individual pieces. I usually play in 1/6 comma meantone temperament, in which some of the enharmonic equivalents - for example G# and Ab - are VERY different notes. Unfortunately, VITALTuner only shows one of these and I have to tune the other by ear. It’s a good tool for those of us exploring early music, but not quite there yet. (If you have no idea what I’m talking about, everything else is worth 5 stars.)

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drum365

4 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for the review and the feedback, much appreciated! 🙏 This is definitely on our radar for features we'd like to add. It's useful for different octaves as well, if you'd like e.g. your high G string to be at a slightly different offset from your low G course. We'd love to email you when we have news if you reach out to us at help@otreus.com

Great tuner!

I really like this tuner. It seems very accurate, and the features and versatility are great! The main reason I wanted this app was to explore sweeter tunings and specifically use it for “James Taylor” tuning. But I can’t figure out how to set up the custom offsets correctly. How can I have a different offset for the high and low “E” strings on a guitar? Is that even possible or would I have to just do it manually for one of the “e” strings.

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prc292

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback, 🙏 and for writing to us as help@otreus.com where we were able to give a more detailed answer. The ability to assign offsets to individual pitches is on our list of feature considerations, and your request has been added. We'll follow up with you when we have news, stay tuned! 👀

To be taken with a grain of salt

Looking at it from my perspective, I’m not an avid players of my guitar, but I enjoy it and want to learn it more than my basic knowledge. But reading through reviews of other tuning apps was like mini-horror stories. So I dropped the one time purchase for this app and after just finishing using it must say I am happy with the seeming effectiveness of it as well as it’s simplicity to use

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Grained Salt

5 years ago

Response from developer

That's so great to hear and has made our day! 💯

Good tuner but could be better

This is a good tuner but could be better by improving a few things. I sent the developer an email regarding my issues on this tuner, I got an automated reply informing me that they received my email, after 3-5 months, I received an email from John about my problems with the app, asking me some questions about what adaptor I’m using to connect my acoustic/electric guitar to my iphone and what version of iphone I’m using to try and solve the problem I’m having, we’re still on the process of solving my problem . My apologies to The developers for assuming that they abandoned their apps or no longer cared. I’m just now hoping that they’ll be able to help me with my problems.

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Eumir Deo

5 years ago

Response from developer

We're very happy to hear that VITALtuner serves your tuning needs well! 👍 We're a very small team of indie developers and it can sometimes take longer than we would like to reply to emails, so our apologies for the delay in getting back to you. We are as committed as ever to helping our fellow musicians, and we do have a number of things in the works 🧪, stay tuned! 👀

Replaced my dedicated tuner

It seems to work at least as well as my dedicated tuner. I drop my phone onto my monitor and it picks up my guitar fine like that. Sweeter tunings and custom offsets are nice because I tend to tweak things that way.

No Spring Chicken 66

5 years ago

Response from developer

Fantastic! 💯 Thank you for sharing what you like about VITALtuner and how it's useful to you! 🙏

Sweetened Tuning

I have struggled with getting my guitar in tune with traditional tuners and have really bought into the whole James Taylor sweetened tuning approach. Not until I got this app with an iRig 2 have I found a practical, reasonably fast way to tune with sweetened tuning live. I am very pleased! Highly recommend all of the above.

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pastordbenson

5 years ago

Response from developer

Can't go wrong with James Taylor! 💯 It's so great to hear how VITALtuner is helpful for you in tuning to his method! 👌 (For those who aren't familiar and are curious, James Taylor has developed a method of tuning using cent offsets to compensate for inherent problems with acoustic guitar intonation. VITALtuner makes it easy to create Custom Offsets, so it remembers your offsets making it super quick and easy to tune using them.)

Excellent for keyboard instruments

This app is accurate, easy to use, and will work for any instrument. It is particularly useful for players of keyboard instruments who want to tune in something other than equal temperament. The app offers the largest number of historical tunings I have seen anywhere, and they are well researched and documented.

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David5578

6 years ago

Response from developer

So great to hear! 🙌 We spend a ton of time and effort researching historical temperaments, and are thrilled to hear how they're helpful to you! 🎹

Needs an update

Needs an update to play nicely with iPhone X’s. Really a nice tuner though

Your Inn

6 years ago

Response from developer

We're working on it, stay tuned! Thanks for the feedback.

Doesn’t Rotate To Portrait Mode

I use my iPad professionally and mount it to my mic stand in portrait mode. I would have hoped this app would have that function. It does not.

Gmatrixman

7 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback on needing portrait mode. It's always helpful and appreciated to hear what is / isn't working for you. You can also contact us at help@otreus.com