Comparison

Tunepal vs Entonal Tuner

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

Head to head
About

Tunepal

Identify traditional Irish, Scots, Welsh, and Breton tunes by playing them into your device. Search a vast database, download and view notation, edit staves, and share your findings. Enjoy high-quality playback of identified melodies.

Highlights
  • Identify tunes by playing them
  • Searchable database of 22,000+ tunes
  • Download and view musical notation
  • Edit tune staves
  • High-quality playback engine
  • Share tunes via email and Facebook
Features
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Listed in the top 500 apps of all times by the Sunday Times (6 February 2012) Listed in the top twenty cultural apps for iPhone by the Sunday Times (28 March 2010). Winner of the best overall invention 2010 in the Dublin Institute of Technology. Tunepal was in the top 25 grossing apps on the app store (17-18 July 2010). The essential tool for all musicians playing traditional Irish, Scots, Welsh and Breton music! Ever sat in a trad session and wondered what was the name of that great tune someone just played? Well now you can search a database of over 22,000 tunes from your iPhone/iPod BY PLAYING! Hold your device up to a melody instrument such as the tin-whistle, flute, concertina, uilleann pipes, accordion or banjo, hit record and the melody will be extracted and submitted to the tunepal.org search engine for matching. Matching tunes are downloaded to your device, where you can view and edit the notation or the stave, email the tune, post it to facebook or play it back using the high quality playback engine based on ABC2MIDI and FMOD.

About

Entonal Tuner

This app allows you to tune instruments to any imaginable scale, from perfect harmony to extreme dissonance. It accurately recreates global traditional music and can also function as a standard instrument tuner. Explore scales by playing their notes before tuning your instrument.

Highlights
  • Tune to any scale
  • Explore scales by playing notes
  • Adjust root note frequency
  • Recreate traditional music
  • Standard instrument tuner function
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Tune your instrument to any scale you can imagine. Perfect harmony, or super sharp dissonance, and everything in between. Accurately recreate traditional music from around the world, as well as pre-modern western music. Or use it as a standard instrument tuner! Each scale can be selected, and its notes can be played to get a feel for it before tuning your instrument. Each scale may have a different root note (1/1), and the root note frequency (1/1) can be adjusted while tuning. Entonal Tuner was created when the developer began to learn about Just Intonation and microtonal music. He soon found that it, although some tuning apps support different temperaments and scales, they are difficult to edit, and not a "first class citizen". So the seed was planted... and Entonal Tuner was born.

Screenshots

Tunepal2 screens
Entonal Tuner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Entonal Tuner at 4.4 against Tunepal's 3.0. Entonal Tuner also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (86% vs 56%). Tunepal's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (45 vs 14). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Entonal Tuner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tunepal asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Entonal Tuner holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 45 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Tunepal's written reviews are positive against 86% of Entonal Tuner's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tunepal ships an update every 2 months, Entonal Tuner every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on July 21, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Tunepal versus Entonal Tuner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTunepalEntonal Tuner
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (45 ratings)4.4 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews56.1% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings45 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS10.3 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBryan DugganNode Audio

Customer experience

Tunepal

All ratings42 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral11.9%
Negative45.2%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive56.1%
Neutral7.5%
Negative36.4%

Entonal Tuner

All ratings14 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral7.1%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tunepal

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Entonal Tuner

One-time1
  • Upgrade to Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Tunepal free?
Tunepal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Entonal Tuner free?
Entonal Tuner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tunepal or Entonal Tuner?
Entonal Tuner is rated higher. Tunepal averages 3.0 out of 5 from 45 ratings, while Entonal Tuner averages 4.4 from 14 ratings.
Do Tunepal or Entonal Tuner have ads?
Neither Tunepal nor Entonal Tuner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tunepal or Entonal Tuner?
Tunepal ships an update every 2 months, and Entonal Tuner every 3 days. Most recently, Tunepal was updated on July 21, 2026 and Entonal Tuner on September 8, 2026.

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