# TuneLab Piano Tuner — user reviews > 48 indexed App Store user reviews of TuneLab Piano Tuner by Real-Time Specialties, rated 4.80/5 from 91 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tunelab-piano-tuner/id335568329/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tunelab-piano-tuner/id335568329.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 85 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (11 of 48) ### 5/5 — THE best piano tuning app *2018-02-08* I have been tuning pianos for over 15 years. This is by far the ONLY tuning app a pro tuner should have. Anything else doesn’t compare. The spectrum analyzer makes it easy to tune without mutes if you wish. Bravo TuneLab. Bravo! ### 5/5 — Happy customer *2017-01-24* I've been using this program for a couple of years and I'm happy with the results. They quick and excellent support. ### 5/5 — Great App *2016-03-01, version 4.2* The best there is for tuning pianos in iOS. ### 5/5 — Apple Watch *2015-11-27* The appli is good but don't work With Apple Watch ! ### 5/5 — Very helpful! *2015-09-23, version 4.0* I've been using this app for 4-5 years now. Can't imagine tuning pianos without it! Just make sure you understand it fully and know how to set it up! ### 5/5 — awesome! *2014-07-10* As a starting piano technician I find this app the best tool for the job. Especially in relatively noisy environments the app, as run on my ipad, picks up each selected note reliably. The pitch raise function will blow your mind... It gets you to approximate concert pitch really close. The second pass will take under an hour. You will save hours guaranteed! The inharmonicity function is fantastic but it takes a while to get it right. When done properly, you will get your instrument as close to perfection as possible. Literally tonnes of harmonic resonance when stacking chords. Some unisons will still require 'tweaking' to eliminate (false-)beats especially in the double unisons. Just space them apart and make them audibly beatless. I intend to purchase an ipod touch for better portability. A prominent New Zealand expert piano technician rated this app highly, even though electronic tuning devices are traditionally regarded as inferior to tuning by ear.... I would beg to differ, having tuned dozens of pianos of various qualities. If this app does not get it sound good, through the piano out! highly recommended! Well worth your money. ### 5/5 — Pour les pros *2013-12-28* l'outil informatique pour les accordeurs pros ......prix raisonnable. ### 5/5 — Great *2013-12-06, version 3.2* Works flawlessly ### 5/5 — Pro quality app *2013-11-10* I've used nearly all of the professional piano tuning devices over the past 20 years, then it was machines, now it's mostly apps. I am an RPT, aural tuner by training, and a full time Tech. I wanted to give Tune Lab a try because the price was good, it offered some unique features, and I heard good things about it. I've had the app now 2 weeks, and so far so good. It's user friendly, versatile, and extremely sensitive. There's other very good programs for more money, but for me the value is here. My favorite thing about it over some others is it's stable note switching ability. It's ability to hear the necessary partials and still stay on sequence is a welcome attribute. ### 5/5 — Easy, precise, and accurate *2012-06-29, version 3.0* I did a full semitone pitch raise yesterday and the over pull feature saved me so much time. Definitely worth the money. I'm just an amateur tuner and this works great for me! ### 5/5 — awesome *2011-12-08* there was an old piano at school that was way out of tune. im not a piano tuner, but ive read things here and there and have basic tuning equipment. ive fixed unisons on my piano in the past. i tried to tune this old piano by ear, but i couldnt get it to sound quite right. i tried using a free tuning app, and it actually made it worse. then i bought this app for 300 dollars. i was skeptical, but it is totally worth it. the old piano sounds great now. amazing. if you need to tune a piano, buy this. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Yes it works but … *2022-02-14* Years ago, i would have rated this a 4 star. The app works, yes. The tunings are good, not great but certainly decent. But no improvements have been made in years! The app still looks like something from the seventies and most importantly, requires (Yes REQUIRES) a dropbox account for file sharing. After all these years milking for money, the author cannot be bothered to add icloud syncing (which is not difficult, being a software dev myself). I don’t always have an ipad available, being able to go between ipad and iphone is a must for me. No i don’t want bloatware dropbox on my iphone/ipad. **Developer response:** The Dropbox app does not need to be installed to use the Dropbox functions in TuneLab. The Dropbox functions in TuneLab (uploading and downloading) are self-contained within TuneLab. ### 1/5 — Help! I’m not a pro! *2019-09-07* Please let me return this. Never should have bought it without looking into it further. I’m not a seasoned veteran and can’t understand what the app is asking me to do. **Developer response:** As the app description says, this is for professional piano tuners. Non-professionals should not buy the app unless they want to commit to learning what professional piano tuners know. ### 2/5 — Charged wrong price! *2021-03-31, version 4.4* After much consideration and advice from colleagues, I opted to purchase Tunelab to assist my aural tunings with difficult temperaments and stretches. Throwing down $299.99 isn’t an everyday thing for me. You can imagine my frustration when instead of being charged the displayed $299.99, I was charged $320.99 instead! Unfortunately this means that my initial experience has left a poor taste in my mouth. I feel cheated. I’d like a refund for the difference. ### 3/5 — Okay but not my favorite *2022-12-06* Tune lab gets the job done with acceptable results. It is good to have as a back up and I really like being able to see the peaks for a pitch raise. I also own an Accu-tuner 4 and prefer using that over tune lab for fine tunings. The Accu-tuner beats tune lab every time on the quality of tuning and ease of use when fine tuning. ### 3/5 — Bring back the clock in landscape *2015-11-23, version 4.1* My clock disappeared. I don't wear a watch when I tune. Please bring back my clock. ### 3/5 — Needs to meet the competition *2012-05-30* At first I thought this was a great app, but then another piano tuning app came out that highlights some weaknesses in this one: - it can't read just any note you play. You have to tell it what note you're playing, or else play a note within a couple tones of the one it's already reading. - the pitch raise issue, as mentioned in another review. Also, it can't give a pitch raise for individual notes, you have to set the whole thing to pitch raise. - you can't easily edit the name of a saved tuning. When you go to edit it, it deletes the whole name and you have to re-type it all, which is a problem if you've included the serial number in the name. - major problems with the auto note-switching in the bass - doesn't always give a reading for the top treble. It doesn't seem to be fast enough to pick up such a short tone as the top notes often make. - the various display modes don't give synchronized readings of a pitch. They all seem to hold different opinions of if a note is in tune. - updates are rare. An okay app, but could be much better. ### 4/5 — Amazing - but a few requests *2016-01-14* This app is great. It sets a beautiful temperament, stretches the piano quite nicely, and you get smooth progressions of all intervals of increasing beat rates as you go up the piano. The over pull feature works well. I had been using the free Entropy Piano Tuner app for awhile, and it got to the point where my ear could set a better temperament than it did, so I invested in TuneLab. I have been happy ever since. Very good for the price. Be sure to read the user manual before using, though. Just a few requests: Better UI. The app works beautifully, but it doesen't look very beautiful. A little prettier please! Other cloud support. Dropbox works well, but I would love to be able to save my tuning files to OneDrive, my primary cloud storage source. Google drive, iCloud Drive, OneDrive support needed for greater flexibility. ### 4/5 — Где найти перевод *2015-10-30* Где найти перевод руководства на русском языке? ### 4/5 — Great tool *2012-01-17* This is a very complete app for piano tuning, however, after one year of using it, I can point some "ergonomic" things that could be changed. When loading a saved tuning, it should reset the pitch raise, instead it keeps data from the previous tuning that we have to manually reset each time, and while I'm talking about pitch raise, it should save the bass bridge information in the tuning file, again we must set it for each tuning (to do a pitch raise of course)... Also, auto note switching could be an "On/off" button on the main display since many pianos give trouble to the iPhone in the first bass notes and after that it's okay. For now, we have to navigate to a sub-sub-menu back and forth to change this. Voila, just my toughs over an otherwise great product who have saved me a lot of time (but could save us even more time)! ;-) Thank you! ### 4/5 — Great app! *2011-02-27, version 2.0* I love this app. I used it on my iPad to tune my piano and it was dead on. That being said, it needs better graphics and the ability to zoom a bit more so you can set the iPad further away and still see everything. But overall, it's excellent. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Sheer joy to use *2026-08-08* I took up piano tuning with my local tuner 8 years ago and started the hard way; however excellent training. This app comes along and it optimises the tuning curve for you based on the inharmonicity readings. First he said my bass octaves were world class then he said the whole tuning of a Yamaha concert grand he’d restrung was amazing. Highly accurate, it is a joy to use. You can easily save files. Today I could microtune from 0.7c over, to 0.4c, my preferred area of 0-0.6c over. There is no tuner on earth who could differentiate between 0.3c over or under. This one does everything. Thoroughly professional it is a game-changer. ### 5/5 — Perfect app *2024-01-26* Perfect App for Piano Tunings. Also great support. I am using this app for years now and my tunings are much better than before. ### 5/5 — Robert Treadway *2022-11-07* I've been using Tunelab for the IPhone for about two decades now and am very pleased with it. I have also used the more expensive programs out there and tho they are good they are not better quality. Also, Tunelab has good support if you have any questions. Try that with Cybertuner(they want you to pay extra for any help). I recommend Tunelab over the others in price and equal quality of product. ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2022-06-23* I have been using TuneLab for over 5 years now. As a piano technician and tuner I highly recommend this app. It is simple to use and accurate as well as cheaper than many of the other professional piano tuning tools and/or software available. ### 5/5 — Extremely Useful *2021-03-26* I started tuning my pianos a couple years ago (m&h aa, yamaha c5) and this tool has helped me immensely! Calculating the stretch and inharmonicity really helped me have a solid starting point to work from. In addition the phase display has helped my aural tuning by providing visual feedback to what I hear. I'm not a pro and I'm sure I don't take advantage of all its features but as an amateur this too is indispensible! My pianos sound better than they ever had and I learned loads of great acoustic theory in the process. Well done! ### 5/5 — A must have tool *2021-01-29* I have been a piano tuner for over 40 years. I started using Tune Lab 11 years ago and love it The most valuable thing about it is that I can tune even in extremely noisy locations with full confidence The most challenging situation involved tuning in a building full of noisy people. Pouring rain on a metal roof and concrete floor. The acoustics were so bad I couldn’t really even hear the piano. It would have been impossible to tune by ear but TuneLab saved the day. Thank you TuneLab ### 5/5 — Sheer joy to use *2020-10-04, version 4.4* I took up piano tuning with my local tuner 8 years ago and started the hard way; however excellent training. This app comes along and it optimises the tuning curve for you based on the inharmonicity readings. First he said my bass octaves were world class then he said the whole tuning of a Yamaha concert grand he’d restrung was amazing. Highly accurate, it is a joy to use. You can easily save files. Today I could microtune from 0.7c over, to 0.4c, my preferred area of 0-0.6c over. There is no tuner on earth who could differentiate between 0.3c over or under. This one does everything. Thoroughly professional it is a game-changer. ### 5/5 — Best choice for easy, accurate tuning *2020-10-01* What a joy it was getting to know this incredible bit of software recently. The design and functionality are very intuitive. I’ve never had such an easy time with the highest two octaves and I’m very pleased with the result. I’ve tried the alternatives and I can tell you, if you use anything else you’re wasting your money. ### 5/5 — Great app *2018-07-01* I’ve been using TuneLab for about 15 years of my 40 year piano tuning career. I have some of the more expensive apps, but have come to sure TL more than the others because of its simplicity. It’s great for pitch raises also. I recommend it. ### 5/5 — For Professional Use *2018-04-17* I am a long time “by ear only” professional piano technician who started using TuneLab a decade ago just for experimenting. This is not a “do it yourself” tuning app for pianos. It is an excellent measuring tool for real piano technicians who already understand the fundamentals of piano tuning. Everyone has their preferences, but it is in the same league as Verituner and CyberTuner, other pro apps in the pricing stratosphere. It is especially useful for pitch raising and tuning in noisy environments. I recommend it. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-03.*