Uku - Ukulele Tuner

Uku is a quiet, easy-to-use ukulele tuner — and your chord library, chord practice, strumming practice and metronome too. It listens to your pitch in real time, so tuning disappears and playing can begin. Works on iPhone and iPad. Everything lives in one Tools & Practice menu. TUNE INSTANTLY Real-time pitch detection built on the YIN algorithm locks onto your ukulele's tone the moment you pluck a string — accurate even with harmonic-rich, complex tones. It shows the full note name with its octave (G3, G4) and tells you when a string is an octave too high or too low. The frequency stays on screen once you are in tune, and readings stay steady. FOUR TUNINGS Standard (High G), Low G, Baritone, and D Tuning (Canadian) — switch with one tap. When no sound is heard or the pitch keeps jumping, Uku gives you hints. You can lock a single string, and built-in troubleshooting tips are one tap away. MY UKULELES Nickname, size, photo and tuning for each ukulele. Switch with one tap — the tuner, chords and practice follow. SONGS AND FIVE DAYS TO YOUR FIRST SONG Five minutes a day take you from C and Am to a whole song on day five. Eight public-domain songs scroll by themselves at your tempo: a heartbeat line tells your left hand when to change chord, arrows tell your right hand how to strum, and you can pick the pattern and how early the change starts. “Twinkle, Twinkle” is free. YOUR OWN SONGS Paste a chord chart from the web and Uku splits it into bars, or type it in yourself. Play it with the same scrolling score, send it to a friend as a link and keep it in step across your devices with iCloud. A TEACHER’S EYE “Today’s practice” lines up ten minutes: tune, change chords, strum, a song, ear training. A practice log counts your days in a row. Ear training tells major from minor, chord changes get a score per minute, each chord says what to watch for, and the metronome can speed up step by step or drop out bars. CHORD LIBRARY 240 chord names and over a thousand shapes, each with finger numbers and barres marked. Search (C, F#m, Bb), filter by type, save your favorite shapes and jump back to what you looked at recently. Not sure what a shape is called? Tap your fingering on the fretboard and Uku finds the chord name. Works with High G and Low G. CHORD PRACTICE THAT LISTENS Three levels, from 12 essential chords to 24 extended ones. Play a chord and Uku moves on automatically when it hears it right — skip the tricky ones and retry them later. Every chord shows which finger goes where, and tapping the chord name reads it aloud in English. You can also line up your own practice list (up to 24 shapes) from the chord library. New: chord-change practice times ten switches between two chords. STRUMMING PRACTICE From following along to keeping your own rhythm. Guided practice takes you from learning the motion, to following along, to strumming on your own, and finally to changing chords; after each round tell Uku how it went, then slow down, repeat or speed up. Free practice lets you choose the pattern, tempo (30 to 180 BPM), chords, how chords change and how long to practise, with a voice counting the beats. Your settings and progress are remembered, so you can pick up where you left off. BUILT-IN METRONOME Freely adjustable from 30 to 250 BPM, 1 to 9 beats per measure, per-beat accents, and subdivision up to 4-way. New guided practice: keep a steady down-up strum, then change chords every 2 bars (C → Am → F → G7). Your favorite metronome settings can be saved. SIMPLE, HONEST PRICING Try everything free for 5 days. After that the tuner stays free, and the rest — chord practice, strumming practice, the metronome and more — unlocks once. No subscriptions, and every future update is included. Uku doesn't need an account and doesn't get in your way. Just you, your ukulele, and the music.