# NOTE TO TONE — Random words to unstick you

> Random words to unstick you (iPhone/iPad app by Takashi Tsunoda.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/note-to-tone/id6806773399 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Takashi Tsunoda](https://appshunter.io/developer/1884742586)
- Category: Productivity, Music
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 17 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-02
- Data updated: 2026-09-06
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/note-to-tone/id6806773399/reviews.md

## What is NOTE TO TONE?

When an idea will not come. When you have been thinking about one thing
for too long.

Something entirely unrelated — a stranger's conversation overheard —
can be what unlocks it. NOTE TO TONE generates words with no connection
to anything, to work the stiffness out of an over-focused mind.


■ Random words, to loosen your head

What appears is a short phrase that does not quite make sense.
"a dry hourglass" — "unravel the heron" — "desperate for the layover"

Look at it, and force yourself to find a meaning in it.
The moment you try, your head starts looking down a different road.
That is the whole point.


■ Words, music, and keeping them

The words are random, yet now and then one arrives that somehow shows
you a scene — one you want to keep. So you can stock them.

And from that word, a piece of music of its own is made, and kept
alongside it. The same phrase always makes the same music.


■ The music is built on the spot, by a synthesiser

Each phrase is measured along six axes — light, motion, weight, grit,
space and warmth — and the music is built to match. Nothing is a
recording being picked from a shelf.

The sound is made by the engine from our music app ARPJAM Studio, a
serious synthesiser that plays itself. That engine is built into
NOTE TO TONE in full, so you can hear the music without owning
ARPJAM Studio.


■ How to use it

- Open the app and a phrase appears
- Press SOUND and music is generated for that phrase
- Press KEEP to save the phrase and its music; look back from Stocks
- Once unlocked, a download button appears. It saves an ARPJAM settings
  file (a JAM file) to edit in ARPJAM Studio, or to add to a playlist
  in ARPJAM Player


■ Unlock

Free use gives you three phrases and their music each time you open
the app. A single purchase unlocks unlimited phrases and JAM file
downloads. Nothing recurring.


■ Good for

- A brief that will not start
- Circling the same thought
- Resetting your head before a meeting
- Finding a way into a piece of music
- Looking at something meaningless before sleep


May a good idea find you.


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Credits:
PIANO: Salamander Grand Piano V3 — Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0)

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlock | $0.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-04

- Fixed the labels on the bottom buttons breaking onto two lines on iPhone.
- Improved how long phrases wrap. English now breaks into lines of even length, and Japanese breaks at phrase boundaries instead of in the middle of a word.
- Corrected Japanese particles in the generated phrases, where a doubled particle or the wrong subject could make the sentence read oddly.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-03

No release notes.

## More apps by Takashi Tsunoda

- [YOKA INSTRUMENTS](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yoka-instruments/id6760506320)
- [TYPORAIT](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/typorait/id6761259574)
- [ASTROTIMER](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/astrotimer/id6761328042)
- [七輪レシピ++](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/plus-plus/id6761675354)
- [ARPJAM](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/arpjam/id6762045552)
- [ARPJAM Studio](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/arpjam-studio/id6775859535)

All apps by Takashi Tsunoda: https://appshunter.io/developer/1884742586

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