Tunepal vs Clare FM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Clare FM
Access local news, sports, and event information from Co Clare. Listen to live radio broadcasts, catch up on past shows, and discover music details. Engage with the station through song voting and competitions.
- Live radio streaming
- Local news and sport updates
- Obituaries and event listings
- Catch up on shows and interviews
- Song information and voting
- Enter competitions
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Clare FM – Co Clare’s Number 1 Radio Station The latest News, Sport, Obituaries and much more right at your fingertips. Catch up on shows and interviews, find out about events happening in the county and enter great competitions. On this app you can listen to Clare FM anywhere in the world, find out more information on the songs we're playing and vote for your favourite music. Listening to Clare FM has never been easier! Clare FM - Sounds Like You
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Clare FM at 100% against Tunepal's 56%. Clare FM also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.0) and monetization model (ad-supported vs paid). Tunepal's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 13 months). On price and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Clare FM holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tunepal has 46 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Tunepal's written reviews are positive against 100% of Clare FM's.
Tunepal ships an update every 2 months, Clare FM every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tunepal | Clare FM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (46 ratings) | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bryan Duggan | Clare FM |
Customer experience
Tunepal
Clare FM
In-app purchases
Tunepal
No in-app purchases
Clare FM
No in-app purchases
