D'Tools vs Fender Pro Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
D'Tools
This app is a comprehensive toolkit for guitarists, offering features like a chord library, scale explorer, digital tuner, and metronome. It provides professional-grade utilities to help players of all levels improve their technique and explore musical possibilities.
- Chord library with 7,000+ chords
- Scale and arpeggio explorer
- Professional-grade digital tuner
- Hyper-accurate digital metronome
- Chord finder by fret selection
- Lefty mode for chords
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Newly updated to support the latest iPhones and iOS 12, D'Tools (formerly Guitar Tools) is the ultimate hand-held utility kit for guitar players of any style or skill level, brought to you by D'Addario & Company, Inc., the world's largest designer, manufacturer and distributor of musical instrument accessories. Enjoy the full functionality of the Chordmaster and Scale Wizard apps, the core features of ProTune and ProTempo. Developed exclusively for iOS by the minds at Audiofile Engineering, D'Tools packs a wealth of easy-to-use, professional-grade guitar utilities into one elegant application for your iPhone or iPod touch. FEATURES: CHORDS Explore a library of more than 7,000 guitar chords by simply tapping and strumming the touch screen. View chords in every position up and down the guitar neck and hear each one played back in pristine audio. There's even a "lefty" mode for the oft-neglected southpaw. CHORD FINDER You know how to play it, but what do you call it? Select frets and finger positions to discover the proper name for your chord. SCALES Improve your technique by choosing from thousands of scales, modes and arpeggios to practice. Try multiple positions and alternate tunings to boost your versatility. Use "big stretches" for unique, challenging fingerings. TUNER Keep your instrument in tune with a professional-grade digital tuner, powered by Audiofile Engineering's precise AETune™ pitch detection technology. Choose between strobe or needle interface and access dozens of presets. METRONOME Keep in time with a hyper-accurate and visually stunning digital metronome. Set tempos numerically or by tapping the touch screen. Choose from multiple sounds and time signatures. --- D'Tools was developed by Audiofile Engineering, a leading developer of audio software for OS X and iOS.
Fender Pro Control
This app provides remote control for a multi-effects guitar workstation via Bluetooth. Users can create, edit, and share custom presets, organize them into songs and setlists, and access a community library of tones. It also offers backup and firmware update capabilities.
- Remote control via Bluetooth
- Create and edit user presets
- Organize presets into songs and setlists
- Access community-shared presets
- Backup and restore presets and settings
- Update device firmware
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Fender Pro Control is the ultimate companion app for the Tone Master Pro multi-effects guitar workstation. REQUIRES A TONE MASTER PRO. Fender Pro Control allows remote control of Tone Master Pro via Bluetooth for creating, editing and sharing your own presets or for auditioning and downloading thousands of tones created by Fender’s community of players and artists. MANAGE PRESETS, SONGS & SETLISTS Easily create and edit over 500 user presets with Pro Control’s intuitive user interface. Organize your presets into Songs. Organize Songs into performance ready Setlists. EASY EDITING Choose from over 100 amp and effect models to sculpt your sounds. Familiar, intuitive interface makes tone creation fast and inspiring. CLOUD PRESETS Share your custom presets directly to the cloud. Audition and download presets from the user community of players and Fender artists. BACKUP & RESTORE Backup and Restore your presets, settings and user IRs to your personal cloud space so you never lose your data. Update your device firmware to get the latest amp/effect/cab models, features and enhancements.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fender Pro Control at none against D'Tools's 1. Fender Pro Control also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and device support (4 vs 2). D'Tools's advantage is rating (3.6 vs 3.2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. D'Tools sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fender Pro Control asks for nothing beyond the download.
D'Tools holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 59 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of D'Tools's written reviews are positive against 45% of Fender Pro Control's.
D'Tools ships an update every 4 months, Fender Pro Control every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | D'Tools | Fender Pro Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (30 ratings) — better | 3.2 (59 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 49.0% of reviews — better | 45.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 | 59 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 846 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | D'Addario & Company, Inc. | Fender Digital |
Customer experience
D'Tools
Fender Pro Control
Bugs and requests
D'Tools
Reported bugs
14 issues- Chord finder crashes app repeatedly
- Tuner stops working after iOS updates
- Microphone access not granted or requested properly
- Audio/sound stops working after app closure
- Metronome has no sound intermittently
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- App crashes when accessing 'Find Stores' or 'Find Teachers' features
- Chord finder displays 'no chord' for valid chords
- Tuner reads notes sharp or flat (off by semitones)
- App crashes after receiving phone calls
- Chord finder cannot recognize bar chords
- Cannot select open strings in chord finder
- App requires internet connection to function
- Incompatibility with iOS 7, 8, 11, and 12.5.7
- Tuner frequency range too limited (doesn't go below A1)
Requested features
13 requests- Mute button for metronome
- Bluetooth audio output for metronome
- Dark mode/dark background for tuner visibility
- Ability to change tuning in chord dictionary
- Auto-play feature for continuous chord/scale playback
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- Poly-rhythm metronome
- 3 notes per string scale display option
- Bass-specific scale options
- Ability to play pitch reference tone (440Hz, etc.)
- Support for alternate tunings
- Background metronome playback during multitasking
- Restore previous purchases button
- Microphone access request on app launch
Fender Pro Control
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
D'Tools
- Buzz Feiten Tuning System$19.99
Fender Pro Control
No in-app purchases
Questions
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