Comparison

San Diego Symphony vs Fork the Tuning Fork

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

Head to head
About

San Diego Symphony

Access concert schedules, event details, and program notes for the San Diego Symphony. Listen to live recordings and watch videos from their YouTube channel. Get ticket information directly within the app.

Highlights
  • Browse upcoming events
  • View performance details
  • Access program notes
  • Listen to live recordings
  • Watch concert videos
  • Get ticket information
Features
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The San Diego Symphony is the easiest way to follow the San Diego Symphony. Now you have access to the San Diego Symphony's concerts as well as other events and performances at the Jacobs Music Center at anytime, anywhere. This is a free application. * EVENTS Browse upcoming San Diego Symphony events. Get complete performance information including venue, dates, repertoire, artists. Access and review the program notes before the event. Want to attend? Click the "Get Tickets" button. * MUSIC Listen to selected San Diego Symphony live recordings. All repertoire information including composers, works, soloists, conductors and ensembles is included. View artwork and program notes. High-quality audio options are available if you are connected through a high-speed network. * Videos Watch your favorite videos from the San Diego Symphony's YouTube channel. The San Diego Symphony app is powered by InstantEncore.

About

Fork the Tuning Fork

Features
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Fork is a tuning fork that listens. Strike it — tap the fork, shake your phone, or knock on the body — and it rings with the long, pure decay of real brass, a haptic pulse in your hand. Then let it listen: Fork hears your instrument and shows the note, with cents deviation on an engraved scale whose brass needle settles like a balance beam. Fork knows what pitch has meant across five centuries. Tune to modern concert pitch, or to A=415 as baroque players do, 432, 442 for orchestras, 444. Choose equal temperament — or just intonation and Pythagorean tuning, with every interval derived from the historical ratios. Strike the fork in any temperament and hear the difference, or tune by the beats between the ringing fork and your instrument: the method musicians used for three hundred years. No accounts. No ads. No noise. A tuning fork, a sheet of paper, and everything a fork should know. — Strike by tap, shake, or knock; haptic feedback; natural brass decay — Listen mode: live note and cents readout from your instrument — Any chromatic note, octaves 2–6 — Reference pitches: A = 415, 432, 440, 442, 444 — Temperaments: equal, just intonation, Pythagorean — with selectable tonic — Designed for iPhone and iPad Fecit Audio — small instruments, made properly.

Screenshots

San Diego Symphony4 screens
Fork the Tuning Fork3 screens

Verdict

The call

San Diego Symphony and Fork the Tuning Fork are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
San Diego Symphony versus Fork the Tuning Fork: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSan Diego SymphonyFork the Tuning Fork
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.2 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSan Diego Symphony Orchestra AssociationIlan Small

In-app purchases

None

San Diego Symphony

No in-app purchases

None

Fork the Tuning Fork

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is San Diego Symphony free?
San Diego Symphony is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fork the Tuning Fork free?
Fork the Tuning Fork is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do San Diego Symphony or Fork the Tuning Fork have ads?
Neither San Diego Symphony nor Fork the Tuning Fork shows ads.

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