PianoMeter – Piano Tuner appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PianoMeter is 73 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

PianoMeter User Reviews

Name: PianoMeter – Piano Tuner
Rating: 4.6 (41 reviews)

PianoMeter – Piano Tuner

Willey Piano

🔧 Utilities

🎵 Music

Customer Experience

Positive experience76.1% of reviews

Neutral6.5% of reviews

Negative experience17.4% of reviews

~ Based on 46 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is PianoMeter Safe?

PianoMeter – Piano Tuner appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for PianoMeter is 85/100.

This assessment is based on 41 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

87.8% of ratings point to a safe experience

2.4% of ratings suggest some concerns

9.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 41 App Store ratings for PianoMeter.

Is PianoMeter Legit?

PianoMeter – Piano Tuner appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PianoMeter is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Most Recent Highest Rated Lowest Rated

Anthony is Awesome!

I’ve been learning to tune pianos and the Piano Meter app has been a fundamental tool.

The biggest plus to this app is Anthony’s desire to continue to polishing it.

I used the pitch raise feature on a Kenabe pro upright, it was within 3 cents afterwards! The custom inharmonicity curves help the piano really sing. The app has made learning to tune fun and educational!

JamesAndrasek

9 days ago

Good app but UI is lacking

This app does an excellent job on tuning stretch but I find the UI very lacking. TuneLab has a simpler and clearer interface, and their spectrum view is especially helpful in the high treble where you can clearly distinguish false beats and duplex resonances. On this app, it’s good to have an overview of all the partials and what they are doing, but the app provides no reference to which partial it is currently tuning, and the needle and numbers swing so much they are practically useless for any sort of precision tuning. For example if it was tuning a 4:2 octave, I would like to know as to prioritize the 4th partial on account of others. The strobes are small and cluttered, making them hard to see when the phone is away on a bridge. I also wish their spectrum view is zoomed to the frequency range of the note being tuned, like TuneLab, rather than show the entire range of keyboard which in my opinion is useless. For an ETD, you have to rely on your ears a lot if you’re using this app, you might as well tune aurally.

HoOoOoMs

a month ago

Great app

Original post: I've been turning my own Baldwin 5 foot 8 inch grand since the early 1970s. Using just a tuning fork. Neither the bass stretch of piano meter or piano scope is pleasing to me. I'm experimenting with tune lab trial version which gives much less stretch. But tune lab has other flaws which I'm trying to correct for. Using the pianometer app as reference– Full version. Update: at this point I'd say I prefer the stretch of pianometer, plus I don't have the patience to keep retuning the bass. I think my initial dissatisfaction was because the 1974 book I learned to tune by did not incorporate any stretch in its method, plus I was mostly playing Bach then which is confined to the middle 4 octaves . at the moment I'm only playing my own composition which uses octaves in the deepest bass. Now that I've gotten used to it it seems fine. So I've changed my rating to five stars. Makes the tuning process much simpler.

Maze canyon lands

2 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback. Do you prefer having less bass stretch than PianoMeter is currently giving? If so, you might try creating your own tuning style or using the "Low stretch (PTG exam)" built-in style for your tuning. Please feel free to email me at support@pianometer.com if you have any questions or feedback.

Great app

I've been turning my own Baldwin 5 foot 8 inch grand since the early 1970s. Using just a tuning fork. Neither the bass stretch of piano meter or piano scope is pleasing to me. I'm experimenting with tune lab trial version which gives much less stretch. But tune lab has other flaws which I'm trying to correct for. Using the pianometer app as reference– Full version. Update: at this point I'd say I prefer the stretch of pianometer, plus I don't have the patience to keep retuning the bass. I think my initial dissatisfaction was because the 1974 book I learned to tune by did not incorporate any stretch in its method, plus I was mostly playing Bach then which is confined to the middle 4 octaves . at the moment I'm only playing my own composition which uses octaves in the deepest bass. Now that I've gotten used to it it seems fine. So I've changed my rating to five stars.

Maze canyon lands

2 months ago

Response from developer

Outstanding App!

Best money I’ve ever spent on an app. Used the trial version to tune a couple of octaves then immediately upgraded l. First attempt tuning my piano myself (usual tuner has been unavailable for some time) and can’t believe the result. It takes patience and a bit longer than the pros, but I trusted the tuning curve the app churned out from the notes I played in and the results are fantastic! Probably won’t be paying a tuner again anytime soon thanks to this app!

PKMusicMan86

5 months ago

OK but do your own bass stretch

Maze canyon lands

5 months ago

Response from developer

Not accurate on lower octaves

Just isn’t accurate. Sadly the best tuners cost a lot more. This is okay if you are okay with not tuning your piano.

Paulie r from oh

5 months ago

OK but do your own bass stretch

I've been turning my own Baldwin 5 foot 8 inch grand since the early 1970s. Using just a tuning fork. I had great expectations regarding this app. I sampled every note on the piano to get the best possible result on the harmonics. And I was surprised to find that the stretch for the bass notes was slightly less than for two virtual Steinway full-size grands and my digital Yamaha. Smaller pianos are supposed to need more stretch. And so when I excitedly tried my tuning–it was unbearable because of the bass notes not being stretched enough. I downloaded the free trial of piano scope and this gave the bass 7.5 cents more stretch. And it was much more listenable although I won't know until I redo the entire tuning using piano scope. Note that the upper 3/4 of the piano seemed OK and comparable to piano scope. Suggestion: Update: a more careful analysis showed that the bottom a was 7.5 cents flat from piano meter on piano scope and this taper to zero at the second D sharp above that. Above that they were virtually identical. But even piano scope didn't even stretch enough. Piano scope made the stretch identical with my digital Yamaha, but my virtual Steinway concert grand has five cents more. Since my piano is smaller theoretically it needs more. Doing more research it seems that no one is happy with the stretch from any of these apps, even the pro versions which allow you to change the weight of the intervals. So I suggest doing a manual tuning below D sharp 2, slowly increasing the stretch from what piano meter gives you down to about 8 cents below piano meter at A zero. See online for how to do this accurately. So I suggest buying the plus version of piano meter and do your own bass stretch. Other than that it's a great app. I have the plus version and perhaps the pro version would do the bass stretch better. In the plus version you have the option to choose the size of the piano you want but this does not, strangely, change the actual bass stretch which stays at 25.1. Maybe in the pro version it does something. But I thought sampling the inharmonicity automatically adjusted for that.

Maze canyon lands

6 months ago

My “go to” app!

I’ve been using PM for many years now and it’s always my “go to” app. It just gets the job done and makes pianos sound great!

That Tuning Guy

6 months ago

Don't waste your money

Maze canyon lands

7 months ago

Outstanding diagnostic tool!

I am a Piano tech for more than 30 years. I’ve replaced tune lab pro with Piano Meter Pro as my main diagnostic app. There are a few problems with an occasional partial slip but no more than any of the other apps you can get here. NOW the big thing on this app is the graphic depiction of every note on the piano lined up with a keyboard. This gives me a visual representation that I can show to a non musician client. I sample each note into the Piano Meter App, then I take a screen shot, at the end of the tuning I repeat the process. Now I have a before and after picture for the client.
Of course, the picture is a gimmick if the tuning’s not good. But this app gives me constant feedback about what the piano is doing during the tuning. Great for pitch correction! Curves are consistent to curves calculated with other diagnostic tools.
Oh yeah, you do have to upgrade to professional to get those features that makes it great for the professional piano tuner.
Wholeheartedly recommend!

Maestro Mitch

8 months ago

Excellent

Je suis amateur et j’accordais le piano de ma femme avec un accordeur électronique mais depuis l’essai d’accordage avec cette application, le piano restitue une sonorité bien améliorée grâce à la courbe auto calculée de l’application. Bientôt je passe en version plus car c’est plus facile pour ajuster précisément chaque note. Un grand merci au développeur.

Angieluna

8 months ago

Best piano tuner app on the store

Tried several piano apps that are either outrageously priced, novelty stuff that’s inaccurate or just esoterically incomprehensible user interfaces. This interface is clean and fast and gives you the visual and precise feedback you need while tuning. Lots of good options as well in the settings if you need to adjust

Pangoat

9 months ago

Great tuning app (If used properly)

Once you understand how to use the app (follow the tutorial) you can achieve a very good tuning!
Advice: Lock the curve before starting a tuning over a new file, make the circles stop spinning (as close as possible to “cero” on the pitch) and move on. (Do one string at a time)

JK-12345

9 months ago

$30 upgrade won’t let you save tuning files!

I find it insane that even after paying $30 for this app, one cannot switch between tuning profiles. My 1842 Bosendorfer is currently at A/405, and my 1872 Souczek is 4 semi-tones low. I’d like to take turns working on them, but there’s no possible way I’m going to spend $300 just so I can open two profiles. I could buy a new iPhone for cheaper and buy the $30 app twice. Very disappointing. Otherwise I’d enjoyed the app.

timeroad

10 months ago

Response from developer

Ouch, it sounds like you got stuck in the middle. The "Plus" and the "Pro" version of this app are for very different audiences. "Plus" is meant to be a simple tool for people tuning their own piano. "Pro" is for professional tuners who are tuning multiple pianos per day, where PianoMeter basically pays for itself in a day or less. The "Plus" version was designed with the assumption that most piano owners only have one piano, but that locked you out since you have two. I haven't figured out the best way to solve this problem, but I'm going to see if I can think of a way to give "Plus" users like yourself the ability to have more than one piano profile that you can load, but without giving you the ability to store and manage _unlimited_ tuning files the way "Pro" users can.

Hidden Masterpiece for Beginners

This app is a hidden masterpiece because when used in a simple and particular manner, it can easily assist a novice tone deaf piano tuner to produce clean unisons and an excellently stretched and equally-tempered tuning.

I discovered that after performing a single-strings inharmonicity mapping of the entire piano, and locking it in place. Average Immediate tuning ranges and average tuning ranges centered on 0.0 cents for every single string return clean unisons with excellent stretch and equal temperament 99% of the time.

I hope to create a video showcasing this new tuning method soon!

Excellent work Developer! Also, would you consider either enlarging the font size of the Average Tuning Differential on the plotting chart or granting the option for the user to manually set the font size?

Thank you and thanks be to God for a Masterpiece!

JLK521

a year ago

Great app

The developer has worked very hard on this app and it shows. I have a few piano tuning apps and this is probably the most simple to use and most streamlined app of all of them. There is another review here complaining about the stretch compared to Yamaha keyboard. This isn’t fair because most Yamaha keyboards use concert grand pianos as their samples and this will be very different for what a smaller piano needs to be tuned to. Every piano is tuned differently. This program gives excellent tunings in the bass section based on the particular inharmonicity of the piano. Some short pianos just sound bad no matter what you do or what app you use because of the poor scaling or other factors. I tell my clients who have picky ears to download this app to help them touch up tunings on their own because of the price. The plus version is a no brainer for the picky piano owner who can’t wait for their tuner to come by.

tim980

a year ago

Great!

It’s very good to tune your piano when your beginning. Unfortunately I don’t like how you need to pay money to tune the full piano maybe make it free?

gaming_cool

a year ago

Response from developer

Hi, I get it. I don't like paid apps either, and when I was developing this app for Android about 8 years ago, I did think about making it free. In hindsight, it's a good thing I didn't, because developing and maintaining quality apps takes a lot of time and effort. If I had made it free, PianoMeter Android would have rotted away in a buggy 1.0 version, and I never would have had the incentive to even start the iOS version. By the way, there is a 100% free piano tuning app out there called "Entropy Piano Tuner" that was developed around the same time as PianoMeter. But it is no longer on the App Store because the developer stopped maintaining it. Anyway, rant over ;-) I'm glad you found the app useful, and thank you for the note here.

Inharmonicity is way off

I tried using PianoMeter as a beginner tuner, only to find that its inharmonicity calculations are not correct in the least bit. The bass especially is not even close to being in tune. I’ve had to tune aurally rather than use this app. I tested this by comparing the app to my Yamaha digital piano on the “grand” setting, and the app said C1 was 30 cents sharp, despite Yamaha’s expertise in making a tuned digital grand piano. I’ll be abandoning this app in favor of something that actually sounds good.

k1001001

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, thank you for the detailed review. As a piano tuner myself, I understand that getting the right "stretch" in the bass can be a tricky and subjective thing. Depending on which octaves (6:3, 8:4, etc.) you decide to tune pure, you can get wildly different results. And some tuners will put "extra" stretch in the low bass beyond what any octave type would call for. So it makes perfect sense that the "out of box" default tuning style will not satisfy everyone, even though it's adapting the stretch to accommodate the inharmonicity of whatever piano you're tuning. There are ways, however, to get PianoMeter to adapt to your personal stretch preferences by creating a custom tuning style with "weights" reflecting which octaves types you want to see tuned pure. For you, I would recommend increasing the weight of the 8:4 or 10:5 octave and seeing what that does for the bass. Also, feel free to email me at support@pianometer.com if you want to discuss this outside what can be done in a review/response. I can't speak to whatever tone Yamaha has chosen for the "grand" setting on a digital piano. The fact that PianoMeter read C1 as being 30 cents sharp suggests that either you were testing the digital piano against PianoMeter's "default" tuning curve (the preset it has before you have measured any inharmonicity on the instrument) or that Yamaha is using a tone for C1 with unrealistically low inharmonicity.