# BOSS Tuner — user reviews > 132 indexed App Store user reviews of BOSS Tuner by Roland Corporation, rated 3.70/5 from 118 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/boss-tuner/id1113473319/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/boss-tuner/id1113473319.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 68 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 28 ## What do users think of BOSS Tuner? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - ✅ Works as expected - 🆓 Free to use - 🎶 Covers alternate tunings - 👍 Simple and focused tuner - 💯 Highly recommended - 🎸 Great for guitar tuning - 📱 Handy on-the-go tuner - 💡 Innovative virtual pedal design - 🎶 Accurate and fast tuning - 📱 Works well on iOS devices - 🎸 Industry standard tuner - 💯 Reliable and well-built - 📲 Ideal for non-standard tuning - 🆓 Free, no subscription - 🎸 Mimics real pedal experience - 🎶 Excellent for various instruments - 💯 Boss quality and reliability **Cons** - ✉️ Excessive notifications - 🚫 Spam push notifications - ❓ News tab empty - 🎛️ Buttons don't function - 😵 Random needle movement - ⚠️ Shows wrong notes - 📱 Not compatible with newer iOS - 👎 Terrible compared to others - 💩 Hot garbage - 😩 Annoying ads - 📉 Slows down older iPhones - 🐌 Slow and non-responsive - 🔒 Screen auto-locks - 🗑️ Deleting due to notices - ❌ Buttons don't do anything - 🤔 Not easy to figure out - 🐛 Glitchy tracking - 🤷 Buttons don't work - 📱 Doesn't work in split screen - 📉 Can't clear badges - 😵 Confusing for beginners - 😠 Snapped ukulele string - 👎 Not great - 🐛 Buggy, doesn't track well - 👎 One of the worst **Commonly reported bugs** - Sends spam (marketing) push notifications without consent - News tab is empty - Too many notifications - Needle moves randomly - Shows wrong notes - Not updated for several years, incompatible with newer iOS - Snapped ukulele string - Tuner vanishes from iPhone - App is totally unresponsive on new iPad with iOS 11 - Screen goes into auto lock even when actively using the tuner - Does not track strings well - Function buttons do not seem to do anything - Doesn't work in split screen - App is not responsive - Tuner is off, registers tuning fork incorrectly **Most requested features** - Bring back other Boss products as apps - Add strobe mode - Ability to change tuning fork note - Move notifications icon to settings - Option to disable ads - Update for newer iOS versions - Smoother LED motion - Make more pedals available for guitar/iPhone connection - Fix screen auto-lock issue - Add dark mode ## Newest reviews (16 of 132) ### 4/5 — 惜しい *2026-01-26* アキュピッチ機能を是非サポートして下さい。 ### 4/5 — Where is Apple Watch version? *2026-01-12* It will be nice to have on Apple Watch version **Developer response:** Appreciate the feedback! ### 3/5 — Great tuner, annoying notifications *2025-10-18, version 1.1.0* I don’t give a bit, I just wanna tune, already own loads of stuff from you as a company ### 3/5 — Boss news tap *2025-07-31, version 1.1.0* Why does nothing ever appear on the news tab? ### 2/5 — Why so many notifications? *2025-05-19, version 1.1.0* It's a Tuner. The app in itself works well, but why so many notifications (52 notifications in the past three months). I don't need 52 notifications in a 3 month period for a tuner. I used to tune my instruments with a number of physical tuning forks I had. They worked fine and didn't send me notifications. It's a Tuner. Why so many notifications? ### 3/5 — Not very good *2025-03-08, version 1.1.0* I know it’s a phone tuner so it’s gonna be a bit jankey but every time I true to tune when it was silent the light would go way off center. It’s pretty cool idea of having a little boss tuner pedal on your phone but I just doesn’t work too well. It gets me in tune but it take longer than other apps ### 2/5 — Pas à jour *2024-09-25* Très bonne appli dont je me sers depuis des années. Elle n’est malheureusement plus mise à jour et bug de plus en plus. Dommage! **Developer response:** Merci pour votre avis et désolé d'apprendre que vous êtes déçu par l'application. Vos commentaires sont très appréciés et je vais en prendre note pour vous et vous les transmettre. ### 2/5 — オクターブチューニングしずらい *2024-09-18* メモリ一つ一つがデカイから正確性に欠ける **Developer response:** ​問題が発生していると聞いて残念です。何が起こっているのか少し混乱していますが、カスタマー サポート ポータルからご連絡いただければ、喜んでお手伝いいたします。 https://www.roland.com/cloud/contact-us/ ### 3/5 — News? Where? *2024-07-12* Notifications simply won't disappear. And you can't do anything. It says I have 41 "news". But actually there aren't any. **Developer response:** Thank you for the review. Your feedback is very much appreciated and I'll make a note of it for you and pass it along. ### 5/5 — Love it *2024-01-24, version 1.1.0* I loved it a gate turner ### 5/5 — Funktioniert *2023-11-16* Simpler Tuner, der genau das macht, was er soll. Ohne einem ein Abo andrehen zu wollen, oder mich mit Werbung zu überhäufen. **Developer response:** Hallo, vielen Dank für die tolle Bewertung. Wir wünschen dir weiterhin viel Spaß beim Musizieren! - Roland / BOSS Support ### 5/5 — Best *2023-11-11* Best guitar tuner! Thank you Roland, for free application! **Developer response:** Thank you for your 5 star review! We are glad to hear you find the BOSS Tuner app so useful! We hope you continue to enjoy the app's usefulness for years to come! ### 5/5 — 必要充分 *2023-10-28* チューナーを別に購入しようと思いましたが、 これで充分満足です。 見た目もかっこいい！ **Developer response:** Thanks for the positive response on the BOSS Tuner App! ### 5/5 — これは最高 *2023-10-08* 今までいろいろなチューナを誓いましたが、これは最高です。無料のアプリなのに、充実な機能が入ってますね。有料のアプリを使いましたが、これが1番良いと感じられています。お勧めします。 **Developer response:** レビュー本当にありがとうございます！ アプリをお楽しみいただいていることを嬉しく思います。 ### 5/5 — 文句なし *2023-10-05* 広告も無いしシンプルで良い。 ### 4/5 — Very good tuner *2023-09-13* As a tuner it is very good! However, no news are shown, that part is always blank. **Developer response:** Hi SteppenwolfVM, Thank you for your rating and your observation regarding the news view. We will forward this to our development team. - Roland/BOSS Customer Support ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — To many Adds *2026-05-23, version 1.1.0* So many ads that when you go to cycle and close them it crashed the app. You have to open it multiple times just to cycle through them all. ### 1/5 — Sends spam (marketing) push notifications without consent *2026-01-15, version 1.1.0* Spammer ### 1/5 — Not great, wrong notes *2023-09-01, version 1.1.0* It did work for a while but recently it was saying the C was perfectly in tune but it sounded wrong to me. Turns out it was actually a C sharp. ### 1/5 — App de notícias *2023-05-22* Do nada, aparece marcação no ícone e somente apaga quando se clica em TODAS as notícias… nesse momento, tenho 3 notificações, mas ao abrir a tela de notificação, está tela fica em branco… e não tem como zerar o contador ### 1/5 — 55 Badges that can’t be cleared *2022-10-13, version 1.1.0* No way to report issues to support via App. 55 Badges that can’t be cleared. Deleting and reinstalling does not correct the issue. ### 1/5 — Shows wrong notes on my iPhone 6s *2022-09-17, version 1.1.0* Correctly Tuned guitar shows ADGCEA - confused the heck out of me when trying to tune a ukelele until I worked out tuner was showing the wrong note. Can’t see anything in settings Boss stuff normally great - maybe old phone? ### 1/5 — Stick to making overpriced pedals *2022-07-25, version 1.1.0* Terrible tuner app compared to whats available on the market ### 1/5 — Trash *2022-06-29, version 1.1.0* Get the fender tuner app. That one works. ### 1/5 — Notice how few people have downloaded as a hint *2022-01-20, version 1.1.0* Such an iconic brand that can’t even make a working guitar tuner app, 10 years into smart phones, when every other lesser company can… yikes Download the Fender app, it works, if this even half worked it would be an improvement on what it is! ### 1/5 — Not Even Close *2021-12-16, version 1.1.0* This thing fails at the one job it has. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Perfect! *2026-01-29, version 1.1.0* Works exactly as it should. Also a bonus that it covers alternate tunings as well! ### 5/5 — THANK YOUUUUU *2025-11-15, version 1.1.0* I've been looking for a tuner app that is just a tuner, nothing else, and doesn't have stupid constant ads that make it forever just to tune your guitar when you don't have your tuner with you. FOUND IT!! This app is perfect and exactly what I've been looking for. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ### 5/5 — Easily the best *2025-05-05, version 1.1.0* I’ve tried countless amounts of tuning apps, possibly them all. I’d recommend this always over any of the others. There’s not one that I’ve found that matches this. It does so much more than your standard tuning and hey, it’s boss. ### 5/5 — Great Retro Design, Awesome Tuner! *2025-04-14, version 1.1.0* Developers, Is there ANYWAY for your company to bring back some of the other boss products! On-Line there are a few Software Developing Houses that have made some of the “legendary” pedals, and I haven’t seen one offered as an IOS app, (however I do own them for my MacOS … But the Boss MT-2 Metal Zone Pedal has been a part of me since I first started playing back in 1988, in 1990 I bought my 2nd Boss MT-2 pedal from a guy outside of McDonald’s in the parking-lot (and if this isn’t strange enough, this guy literally had it in him, he was drunk with a couple of buddies, and they needed to eat but lost their cash… ) I happen to be playing the VERY NEXT DAY, at my High Schools “Got Talent Day” and my MT-2 was taken! His was still new, where mine had been beat up from taking it everywhere! To this day, I still use that pedal from a little over 30 years ago!!! To have the MT-2 pedal as an Auv3 from BOSS, with the licensed name would be incredible! If there is anyway that you could at very least : Respond as to maybe “plan of future release” or the maybe the reasons why it hasn’t been released, or if the case, may not be released. I know that the “MT-A Metal Area” the emulation of the “MT-2 Metal Zone” is very popular and personally I know that there are a lot of people loved that pedal, there was NOTHING close to that sound, and still I have only found one distortion effect that comes close and that’s the “Rhino” distortion from Aurora DSP! Thank God it’s an Auv3 that can be opened in Logic Pro on iPad… because otherwise I CAN’T find anything that could replace Rhino at this point. Thank you guys so much -Ahead of time- ### 5/5 — It’s good! It works! It’s free! *2025-04-11, version 1.1.0* What the title says! ### 5/5 — Go-to tuner for a decade *2025-02-28, version 1.1.0* This has been my go-to-tuner for about a decade. Never had a problem. Old reliable. ### 5/5 — Unbelievably Good! *2025-02-02, version 1.1.0* Honestly, I can’t believe that Roland has graced us with this amazing app. It does a better job than a lot of things you would actually pay for. I know that it’s somewhat dependent on the quality of the phone you put it on, but on every iPhone I’ve ever run it on it has been fantastic. ### 5/5 — オススメ *2024-10-14* 横向きにすると見やすいよ。 A=442も無料！ 感度は設定で調整できる。 大手ならでは信頼感❤️で親しくない人にもオススメしやすい。 **Developer response:** レビューをありがとうございます！ ### 5/5 — ギターチューナーはこれ一択 *2024-03-15* 半音下げチューニング、カポ装着時のチューニングにもオートで音を合わせてくれます。 色々試しましたが有料アプリ含め他のアプリでは以上のことが出来ません。無料でこれは最高。 チューニングの針がブレブレなのは気になります。。 **Developer response:** これを聞いてうれしいです! ご意見ありがとうございます！ ### 5/5 — Die beste Stimm App *2024-02-12* Besser geht’s nicht **Developer response:** Froh das zu hören! Danke für Ihre Rückmeldung! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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