iPegs vs Nova Tuner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iPegs
This application serves as a multi-temperament tuning instrument for musicians, particularly those in classical and early music. It offers a tone generator, multiple display modes, and supports custom temperaments, allowing for precise pitch adjustments and easy sharing of settings.
- Multi-temperament tuning
- Tone generator
- Customizable note names
- Temperament sharing
- Adjustable reference pitch
- Extensive help file
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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-five default temperaments, and if those aren't enough, you can add your own. It allows for easy selection between flats and sharps in meantone temperaments. Keep your instruments in iPegs (strings, courses, frets, diapasons) and tune them string by string. The string calculator works out gauges and tensions from the string length, the pitch and the material. Profiles put your pitch, temperament and instrument one tap away. Full list of features: - Tone generator with five different tones, playing one note or several at once - Tuner with four displays, including strobe bands for each overtone - Instruments, with a string tension and gauge calculator - Profiles - 25 included temperaments, shown on a circle of fifths and an interval size chart - Customizable note names (A4, fixed Do, a', etc.) - Temperaments can easily be shared with others - Reference pitch (A4) adjustable from 350 to 500Hz in 1Hz increments - Supports transposing instruments - Footswitch support to change tones
Nova Tuner
A professional chromatic tuner designed for musicians, especially those in Early Music. It offers extensive temperament support, custom profile creation, and a clean interface for precise instrument tuning. No internet connection or data collection required.
- Extensive built-in temperaments
- Add and create custom temperaments
- User profiles for quick settings
- Sound and Auto detection modes
- Adjustable A4 pitch detector
- Multiple waveform options
- Light and dark mode support
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Written for professionals, especially those in the field of Early Music, Nova Tuner is a fully featured, accurate, chromatic tuner with extensive temperament support. A full demonstration of the app is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/egkAFaICdXY?si=peIM6QvGHLqXMqtD Nova Tuner was written by professional fortepianist and harpsichordist, Thomas Foster. MAIN FEATURES - Sound Mode (reference pitch) and Auto Mode (detect pitch) - Clean and simple interface - About 30 built-in temperaments (see www.thomasfoster.org/novatuner for full list) - Add/Create new temperaments. - Duplicate and edit built-in temperaments - Create profiles to quickly set pitch and temperament for frequently used settings. - A4 pitch detector to quickly determine an instrument's pitch level. - Quick selection of common pitch levels: 392, 415, 430, and 440 Hz (these are customizable). - Four waveforms for audible note: Sawtooth, Square, Triangle, Sine. - No data is collected, no internet connection is required. INTERFACE - All tuner information (pitch level, temperament, etc) clearly visible on main screen. - Standard, simple iOS appearance and controls. - Large and intuitive adjustment buttons (no fussy scroll wheels). - Light and dark mode. - Supports portrait and landscape orientations. - Note names in English, German, and Neo-Latin (do, re, mi) TEMPERAMENTS - Temperaments can be transposed - Add, duplicate and edit temperaments - Favorite frequently used temperaments - Filter by favorited and custom - Search entire list of temperaments by name or information (creator, type, year, etc.) - Hide unwanted temperaments so they don't appear in the list or search SPECIFICATIONS Transposition range: -11 to +11 semitones Detection range: A0 to C8 Reference tone: C2 to B7 Tuning modes: Sound, Auto, Auto with Sound Back Calibration range: A4=300-500 Hz, 0.1 Hz increments
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Nova Tuner at 100% against iPegs's 78%. Nova Tuner also leads on ratings volume (32 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.1 vs 18.0). iPegs's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and price ($3.99 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
iPegs costs $3.99 and Nova Tuner $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
iPegs holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nova Tuner has 32 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of iPegs's written reviews are positive against 100% of Nova Tuner's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
iPegs ships an update every 2 months, Nova Tuner every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iPegs | Nova Tuner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (32 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 32 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hank Heijink | Thomas J Foster |
Customer experience
iPegs
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In-app purchases
iPegs
No in-app purchases
Nova Tuner
No in-app purchases







