Tuner+ vs Tunesome
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tuner+
This app provides perfectly tuned reference notes for various musical instruments, allowing users to tune by ear. It offers both real audio and sine wave sounds and supports VoiceOver accessibility. It does not analyze instrument notes but serves as a quick reference for tuning in any key.
- Plays reference notes for tuning
- Supports guitar, bass, piano, and more
- Real audio and sine wave sounds
- VoiceOver accessibility
- Tune in any key
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Tuner+ Tune your Guitar, Bass, Banjo, Mandolin, Cello, Violin, Piano, Viola, or Ukulele in seconds. This app plays perfectly tuned notes for you to match your pitch to. The sounds are both real audio and sine wave form. We're also proud to announce that Tuner+ is now supports full VoiceOver Accessibility. This app does NOT analyze the notes of your instrument to tell you if you are sharp or flat. It is just a quick way to get reference notes for ear tuning in any key. Enjoy! Nick Moby Pixel
Tunesome
This application offers musicians a pitch-perfect tuner, a tempo-setting metronome with visual and sonic feedback, and a two-octave keyboard for generating tones. It aims to enhance musical creativity and performance accuracy for users on iPhones.
- Pitch-perfect instrument tuner
- Metronome with sonic and visual feedback
- Two-octave tone-generating keyboard
- Accurate and quick instrument tuning
- Tempo marking in beats per minute
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Tunesome is an iPhone app for musicians, performers and composers. It has three features to enhance your musical experience: - Tuner to ensure your performance is sounding pitch perfect. Tune your instrument with any type of tuning. Simply play a note into your device’s microphone and use the visual feedback to tune your instrument quickly and accurately. - Metronome to hear a tempo marking in beats per minute. Easy to use and provides sonic and visual feedback. - Keyboard to generate tones across two octaves. Use the onscreen keyboard play your own sounds. Inspire your musical creativity!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tunesome at none against Tuner+'s 1. Tunesome also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Tuner+'s advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 5) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and update cadence 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. Tuner+ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tunesome asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tunesome holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tuner+ has 1.1K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Tuner+'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Tunesome's.
Tuner+ ships an update every 6 months, Tunesome every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tuner+ | Tunesome |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.1K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nick Culbertson | Isabel Briant |
Customer experience
Tuner+
Tunesome
Bugs and requests
Tuner+
Reported bugs
2 issues- App crashes on certain devices
- Distortion on some string notes
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for alternate tunings
- Provide visual tuning indicators
- Include a metronome feature
- Expand instrument selection
Tunesome
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tuner+
- Remove Ads - Tuner+$0.99
Tunesome
No in-app purchases
