Well Tempered vs Fine Tuna
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Well Tempered
This app provides precise chromatic instrument tuning using your device's speaker and microphone. It offers a vast library of temperaments and customizable reference frequencies, along with a built-in keyboard for immediate sound testing. Control is also available via Apple Watch.
- Chromatic instrument tuner
- Pitch pipe and tuning fork
- 268 unique temperaments
- Customizable reference frequency
- Built-in keyboard for testing
- Apple Watch control
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Well Tempered is a chromatic instrument tuner, pitch pipe and tuning fork using your iPhone or iPads speaker and microphone, or an external microphone. Well Tempered features 268 unique temperaments that you can customize to start with any of 12 notes, totalling 3205 unique tunings! You can define a precise reference frequency, such as A = 417.32 Hz, making Well Tempered a favourite among instrument makers. With all these tuning options, Well Tempered provides a keyboard so that you can play with the tuning right away to decide if this is the tuning you want for the music you will play on your instrument. Control the tuner through your Apple Watch Made by musicians, for musicians with input from musicians
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 Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fine Tuna at 100% against Well Tempered's 40%. Fine Tuna also leads on price (Free vs $4.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.7). Well Tempered's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On ratings volume, ads 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
Fine Tuna is free to download; Well Tempered costs $4.99 up front. Fine Tuna sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Well Tempered asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fine Tuna holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Well Tempered's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fine Tuna's.
Well Tempered ships an update every 2 months, Fine Tuna every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Well Tempered | Fine Tuna |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Niklas Saers | Jeffrey Grossman |
Customer experience
Well Tempered
Fine Tuna
In-app purchases
Well Tempered
No in-app purchases
Fine Tuna
- Fine Tuna Pro Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
- Fine Tuna Pro Annual1 Month trial$9.991 Year







