Comparison

Absolute Pitch vs iTuner Pro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Absolute Pitch

Train your musical ear by playing notes on a virtual piano instead of just tapping buttons. Offers multiple training modes, including note recall, sequence playback, and a unique "Note Rain" game. Features daily puzzles and a persistent scoreboard that tracks your progress without decay.

Highlights
  • Play notes on a virtual piano
  • Four distinct training modes
  • Daily pitch puzzles
  • Persistent twelve-light scoreboard
  • Supports twenty-one languages
  • Customizable note naming systems
Features
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Here you don't tap a button labelled C#. You play the note. That is not a cosmetic detail. Picking the right answer out of twelve is a quiz. Finding the note on a keyboard is an act — the same act a musician performs, with the same uncertainty and the same payoff when it lands. FOUR WAYS TO TRAIN 1 note — hear a note, play it back. The original app's mode, unchanged in spirit. 3 notes — hear a sequence, play it back in order. Run and record in the header, exactly as they were. Ear — which note was that? Between questions a few seconds of unrelated tones play, so the previous note is not still sitting in memory and the answer has to come from recognition rather than from comparison. It is uncomfortable, and that is the entire point. Note Rain — notes fall toward the keyboard. Play the piece in time, build a run, and hear the accompaniment grow with the multiplier. See the notes, or switch them off and find them by ear. DAILY PITCH One puzzle a day, the same for everyone, three notes and five guesses. A grid to share when you solve it. No account, no nagging notifications. TWELVE LIGHTS Your progress is twelve lights, one per note. They come on when a note is reliable, and they never go out — nothing decays because you were away for a week. HONEST ABOUT WHAT THIS IS Absolute pitch in adults is contested. In published training studies roughly one in five to one in three committed adults reached criterion, and the average was about seven of twelve pitch classes after some twenty-one hours of practice. This app does not promise more than that. What it does promise is that the training is built on what was actually measured: masked intervals, feedback half a second after the answer, and pitch class rather than pitch height. TWENTY-ONE LANGUAGES, AND YOUR COUNTRY'S SONGS FIRST The interface comes in twenty-one languages and switches with one tap inside the app, not three screens deep in Settings. Note naming is a separate choice: H or B, do-re-mi or C-D-E. And the Note Rain repertoire follows your language, so the tunes you grew up with are at the top of the list. NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO CURRENCY Every mode, the whole daily puzzle, all languages and all accessibility are included. No subscription, no currency, no lives to buy, nothing that disappears if you stop playing. BUILT TO BE PLAYED Landscape on iPhone, because seven white keys in portrait put the black keys under Apple's 44-point floor. Real piano geometry — the black keys are not evenly spaced, because they are not on a piano. Polyphonic, so two fingers give two notes. VoiceOver on every key. H or B, do-re-mi or C-D-E: four naming systems, because in Sweden the note is called H and an app that says B has taught the wrong name for two notes out of twelve.

About

iTuner Pro

Features
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iTuner Pro is a clean, accurate tuning toolkit for musicians who want fast feedback and a focused practice experience. Use your iPhone or Apple Watch microphone to detect pitch in real time, view the current note, frequency, and tuning deviation, and quickly bring your instrument into tune. On iPhone, use the built-in metronome to keep time and the tuning fork to play a precise reference tone. Key Features - Real-time pitch detection through the microphone - Clear note, frequency, and cents deviation display - Automatic or manual target note selection - Tuning presets for guitar, bass, ukulele, violin, viola, cello, mandolin, and banjo - Metronome with 30-250 BPM, tempo presets, multiple time signatures, sound, and haptic feedback - Tuning fork with selectable notes, adjustable A4 reference pitch, and configurable tone duration - Adjustable A4 reference pitch from 430 Hz to 450 Hz - Six appearance themes, including light and dark options - Apple Watch support for tuning right from your wrist - Simple, distraction-free interface for practice, rehearsal, and performance Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Absolute Pitch3 screens
iTuner Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iTuner Pro at Free against Absolute Pitch's $0.99. iTuner Pro also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

iTuner Pro is free to download; Absolute Pitch costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Absolute Pitch ships an update every 3 months, iTuner Pro monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Absolute Pitch versus iTuner Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAbsolute PitchiTuner Pro
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApps by Alex AB培亮 王

In-app purchases

None

Absolute Pitch

No in-app purchases

None

iTuner Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Absolute Pitch free?
Absolute Pitch costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is iTuner Pro free?
iTuner Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Absolute Pitch or iTuner Pro have ads?
Neither Absolute Pitch nor iTuner Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Absolute Pitch or iTuner Pro?
Absolute Pitch ships an update every 3 months, and iTuner Pro monthly. Most recently, Absolute Pitch was updated on October 11, 2026 and iTuner Pro on September 30, 2026.

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