iPegs vs Helix Tuner

An artful tuner designed by and for professional musicians working in classical and early music. The tuner provides a tone that is easy to tune to, or it can listen to you. It includes twenty-three default temperaments, and if those don't suffice, you can add your own. It allows for easy selection between flats and sharps in meantone temperaments. Full list of features: - Tone generator with five different tones - Tuner with three different display modes - Customizable note names (A4, fixed Do, a', etc.) - Temperaments can easily be shared with other iPegs users - Reference pitch (A4) adjustable from 350 to 500Hz in 1Hz increments - Extensive included Help file

Helix Tuner is a completely new way to tune your instrument. Unlike all other tuning apps, it does not detect your pitch at all. Instead, it combines the sound coming into the microphone with the desired tuning pitch to create a beautiful interference pattern on the screen. The interaction between your sound and the reference pitch creates an optical illusion of motion when your note is sharp or flat, and it appears stable when you're in tune. If you are tired of digital tuners that jump around erratically, have slow or delayed response to changes in your tuning, or in general just don't give you good tuning information, then Helix Tuner is the one you are looking for. When you manually select the tuning note, as opposed to letting the app detect it automatically, Helix Tuner is extremely resistant to background noise and higher string harmonics that confuse other tuners, causing them to jump around to higher notes and give wrong tuning information. Because the visualization system naturally responds more clearly to sounds near the selected tuning pitch, it is useful even when other musicians are playing nearby.