Tunepal vs MyTunes
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.
MyTunes
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Organise your Irish tunes into collections, and take quizzes to help you learn. With MyTunes you can: * Create collections of tunes. Examples: To practise, Favourites, Local Session. * Add tunes and link them to their entry on TheSession.org. * Take quizzes on your collections to help you learn the tunes. * Share your collections of tunes. * Personalise tune information such as the key, a reference recording, or personal notes. * Manage your sets and setlists, and export them to PDF. Manage up to 100 tune cards, 3 collections and 1 setlist for free, or unlimited tune cards, collections and setlists with the Pro Badge (available to purchase in the app). Also: * No ads. * No account needed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tunepal at none against MyTunes's 1. MyTunes's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. MyTunes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tunepal asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tunepal ships an update every 2 months, MyTunes every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Tunepal | MyTunes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (46 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 56.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Bryan Duggan | Julien Cohen |
In-app purchases
Tunepal
No in-app purchases
MyTunes
- Pro Badge$4.99









