Comparison

Tunepal vs PlayZN

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

PlayZN

Features
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PlayZN is a live digital radio station built for sport, great content and music you won't hear anywhere else. We broadcast live across PlayZN's website, YouTube, and TikTok. Real shows, real voices, real community. Every show on PlayZN has its own audience, its own energy and its own corner of the internet. This isn't podcasting. This is live radio, rebuilt for where audiences actually are.

Screenshots

Tunepal3 screens
PlayZN4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: PlayZN at 3 against Tunepal's 1. PlayZN also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tunepal versus PlayZN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTunepalPlayZN
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (46 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews56.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings46 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBryan DugganIono Broadcasting

In-app purchases

None

Tunepal

No in-app purchases

None

PlayZN

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tunepal free?
Tunepal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PlayZN free?
PlayZN is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tunepal or PlayZN have ads?
Neither Tunepal nor PlayZN shows ads.

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