Comparison

inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner vs Sightlines

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

Head to head
About

inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner

This app offers a professional-grade strobe tuner for guitars, providing fast and accurate tuning with responsive visual displays. It features multi-strobe mode for simultaneous string tuning and works effectively even in noisy environments.

Highlights
  • Responsive visual strobe display
  • Multi-strobe tuning mode
  • Automatic string selection
  • Precise pitch strobe window
  • Waterfall waveform display
  • Support for 8 guitar tunings
  • Concert-A440 frequency adjustment
Features
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Professional musicians prefer strobe tuners for tuning speed and accuracy. The HotPaw inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner allows you to quickly and accurately tune your guitar via unique, responsive, and high contrast visual displays. Optional multi-stobe tuning mode for simultaneous display of a strobe for each string... fast and accurate even in noisy environments. The inTuna guitar tuner includes both a large frequency meter and a precise pitch strobe window. You can let inTuna auto-select the guitar string being tuned, or touch the Lock icon to lock tuning to a selected string. A 6 string tuning indicator indicates the string which has been selected for pitch measurement. Above the tuning indicator is a unique waterfall waveform display within a Strobe window to assist with accurate fine tuning. Configuration options include support for 8 popular guitar tunings and a Concert-A440 frequency adjustment. Also, please take a look in the iOS App store for HotPaw Sing-inTuna, a "vocal tuner", and Music Spectrograph for sound visualization and music transcription.

About

Sightlines

Shape sounds with a playable harmonic filter. Add motion, stereo spread, and unique textures to noise, samples, or synths. Tune it like a resonator or control it with MIDI for endless sonic possibilities.

Highlights
  • Harmonic filter bank
  • MIDI control
  • Sample loading
  • Noise and synth sound sources
  • Modulation capabilities
  • Built-in chorus, delay, and reverb
Features
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Make noise, texture, and percussion sing. Add motion and stereo spread to basic sounds. Load samples and sculpt them endlessly. Leave your mark on any sound with harmonic filtering. Sightlines is a playable harmonic filter. Built from a collection of resonant bandpass filters tuned to the harmonic series, designed to bring out a customizable set of musical frequencies in any sound. Tune it to a fixed frequency like a resonator, or send it MIDI to make it come alive as an instrument. Sightlines can be loaded as an instrument or an audio effect. As an instrument, use it with samples, noise, or oscillators to construct sounds never heard before. As an effect, add movement and interest to any sound, and even impart tonality onto unpitched input. SOUND SOURCES • Noise – filter variable color noise and random noise bursts for Sightlines’ simplest and quickest output. • Samples – send samples through resonant filters as one-shots or infinite looping versions of themselves, great for found sound and tonal samples alike. • Synth – skip the filters entirely and use Sightlines as a harmonic synth, where you can customize and modulate the proportion of each harmonic in the signal. • Audio effect – use Sightlines as an audio effect on any track. MOVEMENT AND EFFECTS • Manipulate overtones – stretch, bend, and reimagine the harmonic series to retune Sightlines’ output into realistic or indescribable sonic spaces. • Quantize frequencies – snap all of Sightlines’ filters to a scale, to impart that key quality onto any sound. • Balance bands – maneuver through the harmonic space by scanning, tilting, or spreading Sightlines’ bands. • End of chain – make your output shine with a built-in chorus, BBD-style delay, and reverb. FEATURES • Modulation – modify any control in Sightlines with multiple LFOs, sequencers, smooth random sources, and performance effects. • Presets – full preset control over every parameter in Sightlines. Cross-platform preset format for sharing with friends. • Waymaker – connect to Sightlines’ sibling application, Waymaker, for direct sequencing of Sightlines’ without MIDI routing. Also available for macOS and Windows in VST3 / AU / AAX formats from Aqeel Aadam Sound.

Screenshots

inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner1 screens
Sightlines1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sightlines at 100% against inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner's 58%. Sightlines also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $7.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner costs $1.99 and Sightlines $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner ships an update every 3 months, Sightlines weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner versus Sightlines: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterinTuna Strobe Guitar TunerSightlines
Price$1.99 — better$7.99
Rating—5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—9 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHotPaw ProductionsAqeel Aadam

Customer experience

inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner

Written reviews38 reviews
Positive57.9%
Neutral2.6%
Negative39.5%

Sightlines

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner

No in-app purchases

None

Sightlines

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner free?
inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sightlines free?
Sightlines costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner or Sightlines have ads?
Neither inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner nor Sightlines shows ads.
Which is updated more often, inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner or Sightlines?
inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner ships an update every 3 months, and Sightlines weekly. Most recently, inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner was updated on October 31, 2026 and Sightlines on November 6, 2026.

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