Comparison

Fingering Woodwinds vs Trace Tuner

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

Head to head
About

Fingering Woodwinds

Access interactive fingering charts for a wide range of woodwind instruments, including alternate fingerings and trills. Visualize note locations on a piano and hear concert pitches played. Supports multiple clefs and transpositions for various instruments.

Highlights
  • Interactive fingering charts for woodwinds
  • Alternate fingerings and trills
  • Piano visualization of notes
  • Concert pitch playback
  • Support for multiple clefs
  • Transposition capabilities
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Immediate access to fingerings (with alternates and trills) for each instrument’s entire playable range. Get fingerings from the written or concert pitch. Support for Key Signatures to more easily find a fingering in the music you're working on. Instruments: Piccolo, Concert, Alto and Bass Flutes, Oboe and Cor Anglais, Soprano, Alto, Bass and Contrabass Clarinets, Bassoon and Contrabassoon, Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone Saxophones The 'Piano' instrument simultaneously displays the note names, the locations on the piano, and the musical notations of up to 5 pitches in either Treble, Alto, Tenor or Bass clef. The Notation can be transposed for most all instrumental transpositions. • All woodwinds have trill fingerings for minor 2nd and major 2nd intervals. • Flutes and Saxophones have additional fingerings for minor 3rd and major 3rd trills. • Alto and Tenor Sax include altissimo fingerings up to written F, two octaves above the top line F of the treble clef. • All Woodwinds include visual guides to the key names and locations on the instrument to understand the fingering charts better. • Bassoon and Contrabassoon include Treble, Tenor and Bass clefs. How to Use: Pick a written note (touch the staff) and have the fingering displayed and concert pitch played. Touch a button and reveal the note on the piano. Play a concert pitch on the piano, and have that pitch's fingering displayed. Touch a button and reveal the transposed note written on the staff. • If there are alternate fingerings available for a note or trill, a button will allow you to navigate through them. • Use the 'Play Note' or 'Play Trill' button to repeatedly hear what's being displayed. • Use the mute button to access the fingerings without hearing the pitches. Selecting a Pitch: Using the Staff (transposed for the current instrument): Simply touch and slide up and down on the staff to select the note, slide to the right or left of the note for sharps and flats. Using the Piano (concert pitch): drag in the area below the keyboard to move the keyboard, touch to play notes, touch & slide to change the pitch. When you glissando up the keyboard, notes will be notated as a raised value (sharps), when you glissando down, notes will be notated as lowered values (flats). Use the up and down arrows to move chromatically up and down without touching the music staff or piano keyboard.

About

Trace Tuner

This chromatic tuner displays the history of your tuning over the past five seconds, offering a faster and more accurate response than traditional hardware tuners. It includes features like a frequency spectrum, adjustable concert pitch, and support for various musical notations and transposing instruments.

Highlights
  • Tuning history display
  • Frequency spectrum
  • Adjustable concert pitch
  • Multiple notation options
  • Support for transposing instruments
Features
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Trace Tuner is a simple but accurate chromatic tuner. In contrast to similar apps, you will not get the look and feel of a hardware tuner with a slow and damped needle. Instead, you will see the trace of your tuning over the last five seconds. By this, the reaction of the tuner can be faster and more accurate, but still gives you the feeling for your tuning. To keep it simple, only the neccessary features are implemented: ● Frequency spectrum to check your input ● The concert pitch of 440Hz can be variied     in 1Hz steps ● Choose your favorite notation    (English, German, Solfège) ● Support for transposing instruments The tuner works with the build in microphone of the iPhone. For the iPod touch you will need an external microphone.

Screenshots

Fingering Woodwinds4 screens
Trace Tuner3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Trace Tuner at $0.99 against Fingering Woodwinds's $3.99. Trace Tuner also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 26.0). Fingering Woodwinds's advantage is ratings volume (30 vs 4) and review sentiment (93% vs 84%). On rating, update cadence, 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

Fingering Woodwinds costs $3.99 and Trace Tuner $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fingering Woodwinds against 5.0 for Trace Tuner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fingering Woodwinds has 30 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Fingering Woodwinds's written reviews are positive against 84% of Trace Tuner's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fingering Woodwinds ships an update every 9 months, Trace Tuner every 17 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Fingering Woodwinds versus Trace Tuner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFingering WoodwindsTrace Tuner
Price$3.99$0.99 — better
Rating5.0 (30 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews — better84.5% of reviews
Number of ratings30 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 9 months — betterEvery 17 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPatrick Q. KellyDr. Harald Merkel

Customer experience

Fingering Woodwinds

All ratings30 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral7.1%
Negative0.0%

Trace Tuner

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive84.5%
Neutral3.4%
Negative12.1%

In-app purchases

None

Fingering Woodwinds

No in-app purchases

None

Trace Tuner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fingering Woodwinds free?
Fingering Woodwinds costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Trace Tuner free?
Trace Tuner costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fingering Woodwinds or Trace Tuner?
Trace Tuner is rated higher. Fingering Woodwinds averages 5.0 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Trace Tuner averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Fingering Woodwinds or Trace Tuner have ads?
Neither Fingering Woodwinds nor Trace Tuner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fingering Woodwinds or Trace Tuner?
Fingering Woodwinds ships an update every 9 months, and Trace Tuner every 17 months. Most recently, Fingering Woodwinds was updated on November 1, 2026 and Trace Tuner on November 1, 2026.

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