Henle Library vs Fine Tuna
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Henle Library
Access high-quality digital Urtext editions of classical music scores on your tablet. Practice, rehearse, and perform with a range of interactive features designed for musicians of all levels. Enjoy annotations, metronome, playback, and more.
- Digital Urtext editions
- Customizable score purchases
- Print and export PDFs
- Score modification and annotations
- Metronome and recording
- Part and score switching
- Explanatory notes access
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“With the Henle Library app a new era begins for classical musicians.” Daniel Hope An indispensable app for professional musicians, amateurs, students and teachers. The Henle Library app delivers G. Henle Publishers’ reliable Urtext editions straight to your tablet. You can practise, rehearse and make music – whenever and wherever you like. And you can enjoy the many unique features of Henle’s digital scores. Features: - Filter Henle Urtext according to your individual needs and purchase as required (individual part, single movement, bundles etc.) - Free version available for music students (licences for music colleges) - Print, export PDFs, share - Modify the score to suit your needs - Superimpose alternative professional fingerings (or choose “No fingerings”) - Unlimited possibilities for your own annotations - Easily switch between the part and the score at exactly the same measure - Open explanatory notes (footnotes, Critical Report etc.) at the appropriate place in the score - Record and play back your own recordings - Use the integrated metronome - Navigate extremely rapidly - Create and use playlists Do you like our app? Please consider writing a review. Thank you!
Fine Tuna
This app offers precision tuning for musicians, especially those interested in early music and temperaments. It features advanced pitch detection, customizable views, and an extensive temperament explorer to analyze and compare tuning systems visually and audibly.
- Precision pitch detection
- Customizable tuner views
- Extensive temperament library
- Temperament Explorer
- Advanced keyboard with multiple sounds
- Passage review for performance analysis
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Fine Tuna is a precision tuner for musicians who care about the details—especially early music specialists who need to understand exactly what a temperament is doing. Fast, responsive pitch detection finds stable musical pitch through fast attacks, noise, overtones, and changing envelopes, making Fine Tuna especially effective on instruments that can be difficult to hear electronically. Created by professional harpsichordist and conductor Jeffrey Grossman, Fine Tuna lets you tune, see, hear, compare, and investigate temperaments visually, numerically, and by ear. Start tuning instantly in Simple mode, with advanced tools always just a tap away. You can even add a shortcut to open the tuner right from your phone lock screen! CUSTOMIZABLE TUNER VIEWS - Fast, responsive pitch detection designed to stay readable through difficult attacks, noise, and complex overtones - Choose from Frame, Bar, three types of strobe, octave and harmonic displays, and more - Choose your preferred note names (standard, Germanic, or solfège) and octave notation (scientific or Helmholtz), independently - Edit built-in views or create your own with custom colors, frame shapes, and strobe settings - See tuning hints in your selected temperament, such as: “Bb → Eb: pure” or “Bb → D: 13.7c wide, 8.7 beats/sec” - Set A4 anywhere from 300–600 Hz in 0.1 Hz increments—or simply play the A you need - Tuning organ pipes in a cold or warm church? Temperature compensation shifts the target so flue pipes reach pitch at your reference temperature TEMPERAMENTS AND TEMPERAMENT EXPLORER - Explore 40 built-in temperaments, with historical background and facsimile sources - Create custom temperaments using cents offsets or fractions of a syntonic or Pythagorean comma, automatically synced to your other devices - Transpose temperaments up or down - Use split enharmonics such as C#/Db and D#/Eb, including listening and playing - Convert a temperament definition instantly between cents offsets and fractions of a comma—see its fifths in a circle or spiral - Use the Temperament Explorer to see and hear a temperament’s interval sizes, major and minor triads, key characters, modulation paths, and harmonic progressions - Compare two temperaments directly in the Explorer - Save temperament, pitch, and transposition bookmarks for quick recall - Share a bookmark with friends or ensemble members: they can see pitch and temperament details on the web or open your exact tuning setup in their copy of Fine Tuna Pro ADVANCED KEYBOARD - Choose from 13 sounds, including simple waveforms, synthesized instruments, and sampled flute, clarinet, trumpet, and organ - Customize key size, keyboard appearance, and starting pitch - Flip instantly between two temperaments with Temperament Compare - Use Just Intonation mode to play a chord, lock a reference note, and tune the other notes pure against it - Hear four different pure ratios tunings of the minor seventh in a dom-7th chord: 16:9, 9:5, 151:86, or 7:4 (the "barbershop" seventh) - Use the resizable inline keyboard on the tuning screen or switch to the full-screen Keyboard tab PASSAGE REVIEW AND STRETCH TUNING - Record up to 60 seconds of music and review your performance by pitch - Play back individual notes—for example, every F you played—to hear how consistent they were - Play a scale to evaluate your instrument and adjust A4 or the temperament to find the best fit - Sample your own keyboard instrument to create a custom stretch-tuning profile across the register, synced to your other devices LOCKED NOTE AND AUDIO OPTIONS - Lock the tuner to one pitch and ignore other input - Move manually or automatically by semitone - Add an optional drone that follows the locked pitch - Use the built-in microphone while listening through headphones, or connect an external microphone Fine Tuna turns tuning into something you can see, hear, compare, and investigate—not just a name in a menu.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fine Tuna at 100% against Henle Library's 35%. Fine Tuna also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). Henle Library's advantage is ratings volume (94 vs 6) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Henle Library sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Fine Tuna sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fine Tuna holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Henle Library has 94 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 35% of Henle Library's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fine Tuna's.
Henle Library ships an update every 3 months, Fine Tuna every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Henle Library | Fine Tuna |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (94 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 94 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Guenter Henle Verlag | Jeffrey Grossman |
Customer experience
Henle Library
Fine Tuna
Bugs and requests
Henle Library
Reported bugs
20 issues- Annotations deleted after app updates or restarts
- Eraser function fails to remove marks consistently
- Marks don't record when crossing between staff lines
- App crashes when opening purchased scores
- Purchased scores disappear from library
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- Blank pages appear when turning pages
- App freezes during export to PDF
- Infinite loading screen in online store
- Confirmation emails for credit purchases don't arrive
- App takes 40+ seconds to start
- Scores don't load immediately after purchase
- Annotation dots appear randomly when lifting pen
- Fingering annotations shrink in upper ledger lines
- Score skips to random pages during performance
- Export PDF quality is low resolution and fuzzy
- Annotation layer prevents writing in certain areas
- Zoom function jumps back to start of page
- Eraser requires tapping far from annotation to delete
- Palm rejection fails with Apple Pencil
- Print layout produces single-line pages for multi-movement pieces
Requested features
20 requests- Undo/redo functionality for annotations
- Ability to print entire multi-movement pieces together
- Half-page turning option for performers
- Playlist or collection grouping system
- Individual score parts (not just full scores)
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- Better annotation layer management
- Improved Apple Pencil support and sensitivity
- Customizable eraser behavior
- Page turn animation or visual cues
- Ability to hide specific staves or parts
- Microphone-activated page turning commands
- Difficulty ratings visible before purchase
- Digital-physical score bundling/discounts
- Better search and filtering in store
- Support for foot pedal page turners
- Ability to import scores from other sources
- Multiple annotation layers with visibility toggle
- Customizable metronome settings
- Landscape orientation improvements
- Persistent user settings and preferences
Fine Tuna
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Henle Library
- 10 Credits$0.99
- 22 Credits$1.99
- 55 Credits2 variants$5.99
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- 100 Credits2 variants$9.99
- 200 Credits2 variants$19.99
- 300 Credits$29.99
- 500 Credits$49.99
- 1000 Credits$79.99
Fine Tuna
- Fine Tuna Pro Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
- Fine Tuna Pro Annual1 Month trial$9.991 Year









