Comparison

Tunesimo vs Strand Tuner

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

Head to head
About

Tunesimo

Share your real-time music listening activity with friends directly on your home screen. React to songs, start conversations, and get weekly music recaps. Customize your profile to express your unique vibe.

Highlights
  • Real-time music sharing widget
  • React to songs
  • Start conversations
  • Weekly music recaps
  • Profile customization
  • Connect with Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
Features
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Tunesimo is a widget for best friends to share their listening activity. You and your friends can see what each other are listening to right on your home screens. You can react to songs, play music on the app, and start a conversation. Every Sunday you will receive a recap of your music to share with friends or to your socials. It makes you feel closer to your friends through the music they’re listening to in real time, and to yourself-- authentically sharing your music back to them. HOW IT WORKS: 1. Sign up with Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, SoundCloud, Audiomack or Deezer and add the widget to your home screen 2. See what your friends are listening to 3. React to songs, play music on the app, and start a convo. 4. Check your Weekly Recap every Sunday. Unleash your creativity with Space Profile! Customize your profile with music, images, and text tiles to showcase your unique vibe.

About

Strand Tuner

This app provides precise instrument tuning by clearly indicating when a string is in tune. It offers visual and audio feedback, along with helpful tools like a metronome and intonation checker, all without ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Clear tuning indication
  • Visual and audio feedback
  • Metronome
  • Intonation checker
  • Custom tunings
  • VoiceOver support
Features
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Strand is a tuner that tells you when it isn't sure. When it can't hear a string clearly, it shows you nothing: no note, no needle, no number. A guess is how people end up tightening a string until it snaps. The worst guess is hearing your low E as the E an octave below, which tells you to keep tightening. If Strand can't tell which octave it's hearing, it waits until it can. WHEN IT CAN HEAR THE STRING You get a word first: Tighten or Loosen. Then how far, in cents. The scale zooms in as you get closer, so the needle is always useful and never twitchy. When the reading holds in tune, the whole screen turns green, so you can see it from across the room with the phone on a music stand. Strum all six strings and it tells you which ones need work. Prefer a strobe? Switch to the Dial design in Settings. It shows the same measurement as rings that turn while you're off and stand still when you're on. YOU CAN TUNE WITHOUT LOOKING Turn on Audio Tuning Mode and the reading comes out of the speaker: spoken readings and a two-tone beacon that slows to stillness as you reach the note. Every control and reading is labelled for VoiceOver. State is always shown by position, colour and a word together, so nothing depends on seeing green. TOOLS, WHEN YOU WANT THEM • Drone: any note from C1 to C6, or one tap per string of your tuning. • Metronome: 30 to 300 beats a minute, tap tempo, subdivisions and an accented downbeat. • Intonation check: compare the 12th-fret harmonic with the fretted note, and it tells you which way to move the saddle. Don't want them? Hide them in Settings and the app never mentions them again. INSTRUMENTS AND TUNINGS Guitar (Standard, Drop D, DADGAD, Open G), 12-string, 4- and 5-string bass, ukulele (standard and low G) and mandolin, plus your own custom tunings. Set the reference pitch, transpose, and choose a left-handed layout. WHAT IT WON'T DO • No ads, no promotions, and it never asks you to rate it. • No account and no sign-in. • No in-app purchases. Everything is free, and there's no paid tier for a feature to move into. • No network access and no analytics. It never connects to anything; airplane mode changes nothing. • No data collected. The microphone is analysed on your phone and never recorded. • No "too noisy" message. In a loud room the readings get slower and more averaged instead. THE NUMBERS ARE IN THE APP Strand is tested against recordings where the right answer is known, and the results are published under About, including the ones that missed their target.

Screenshots

Tunesimo4 screens
Strand Tuner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Strand Tuner at none against Tunesimo's 5. Strand Tuner also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Tunesimo's advantage is ratings volume (163K vs 2) and chart position (#63 vs unranked). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tunesimo sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Strand Tuner asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Strand Tuner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tunesimo has 163K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Tunesimo versus Strand Tuner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTunesimoStrand Tuner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (163K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings163K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#63 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size172 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCapp IncDaniel Frank

Customer experience

Tunesimo

All ratings163,077 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews2,337 reviews
Positive59.5%
Neutral15.4%
Negative25.1%

Strand Tuner

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Tunesimo

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inability to log out of accounts
  • Unreliable song tracking and playback history
  • Frequent crashes and app freezes
  • Syncing issues with Apple Music

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add support for YouTube Music and other streaming services
  • Implement comment sections to discuss songs
  • Provide more customization options for user profiles
  • Improve widget functionality and real-time updates

Strand Tuner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Tunesimo

Subscriptions5
  • Airbuds Star Weekly$0.997 Days
  • Airbuds Plus$2.991 Month
  • Airbuds Plus$3.991 Month
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  • Airbuds Plus$29.991 Year
  • Airbuds Plus$34.991 Year
None

Strand Tuner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tunesimo free?
Tunesimo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Strand Tuner free?
Strand Tuner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tunesimo or Strand Tuner?
Strand Tuner is rated higher. Tunesimo averages 4.8 out of 5 from 163K ratings, while Strand Tuner averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Tunesimo or Strand Tuner have ads?
Tunesimo shows ads; Strand Tuner does not.

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