Tone vs TinyPitch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tone
This app is a game designed to enhance your auditory skills and help you achieve perfect pitch. It offers various modes and customization options to suit different learning levels, from beginner to expert. Track your progress visually and compete with friends.
- Improve ear training
- Learn perfect pitch
- Adjustable difficulty levels
- Practice mode with reference pitch
- Recognize musical intervals and chords
- Visualize progress with graphs
- Compete with friends
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Tone is a fun and simple game to help you improve your ears and sing with perfect pitch. - Simple, intuitive interface - Choose your pitches and octaves - Difficulties ranging from easy to expert - Practice mode with reference pitch - Transpose the notes to different keys - View note names, piano keys, or use solfege - Share your score and compete with friends! - Learn to recognize musical intervals like minor 3rds and major 7ths. - Learn to recognize chord qualities like major and minor. - Visualize your progress over time with beautiful graphs. - All of your progress & data is automatically stored in iCloud, so you'll never lose it. Privacy Policy: https://codalabs.io/privacypolicy.htm Terms of Use: https://app.termly.io/document/terms-of-use-for-website/7befc033-df4c-40b8-90b1-c3ef9e4f3eac
TinyPitch
This app provides a portable pitch pipe directly on your Apple Watch. Easily play any note from the chromatic scale with adjustable volume and intuitive controls for octave shifts and instrument selection.
- Play chromatic scale notes
- Adjustable volume
- Multiple instrument sounds
- Octave up/down controls
- Tap to play/stop notes
- Digital Crown volume control
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"Tiny Pitch is by far the best pitch pipe app for the Apple watch." -Pixiepepper56, 5-star review "It is simple enough for elementary students to use yet crafted with attention to the most subtle details useful to pros." --SternVocalStudio, 5-star review "The only pitch pipe I'll ever need." -JacobMusic100, 5-star review -- TinyPitch is a pitch pipe that lives on your wrist. Give a choir its starting note, check your own pitch, or find a key without digging your phone out of your pocket. TAP TO PLAY Every note of the 12-tone chromatic scale is on one screen. Tap a note to start it, tap again to stop, or let it fade out on its own. THREE INSTRUMENTS Press and hold any note to choose piano, clarinet, or a pure tone. THREE OCTAVES, AND IT REMEMBERS Swipe up on a note for the octave above, down for the one below. Your choice stays until you change it — including the next time you open the app — so you are not resetting it after every note. The keypad shades to the left when you are in the low octave and to the right when you are in the high one, so you can always see where you are. VOLUME IN YOUR FINGERTIPS Spin the Digital Crown, while a note is playing or between notes. Loud enough for a whole choir, or quiet enough that only you hear it with the watch held to your ear. ONE TAP FROM YOUR WATCH FACE Add the TinyPitch complication to any face, including the modern Infograph faces, and your starting note is one tap away. No phone required once it is installed. No account, no ads, no subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tone at Free against TinyPitch's $0.99. Tone also leads on ratings volume (10K vs 19) and rating (4.5 vs 4.3). TinyPitch's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and review sentiment (83% vs 59%). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Tone is free to download; TinyPitch costs $0.99 up front. Tone sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. TinyPitch asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tone holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tone has 10K ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Tone's written reviews are positive against 83% of TinyPitch's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tone ships an update every 5 weeks, TinyPitch fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tone | TinyPitch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (10K ratings) — better | 4.3 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.0% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10K — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Coda Labs Incorporated | Matthew Schwartz |
Customer experience
Tone
TinyPitch
Bugs and requests
Tone
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when pausing and resuming
- Keyboard input issues with black keys
- Inconsistent note identification
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to hear wrong and correct notes
- Melodic interval practice
- Arpeggio and chord practice
- Progress tracking and statistics
- Ability to use own instrument for input
TinyPitch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tone
- 7 Day Free Trial7 Days trial$7.997 Days
- 7 Day Free Trial7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Tone Pro$49.991 Year
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- 7 Day Free Trial7 Days trial$64.993 Months
- 7 Day Free Trial7 Days trial$89.996 Months
- 7 Day Free Trial7 Days trial$99.991 Year
- 7 Day Free Trial7 Days trial$129.991 Year
- Coffee for Seth and Daniel$2.99
- Premium Themes$2.99
TinyPitch
No in-app purchases









