iWriteMusic Pro SE vs Tuner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iWriteMusic Pro SE
Create professional music notation quickly and easily. Features fast note entry, extensive notation options, and playback for practice. Turn your musical ideas into finished scores with intuitive controls.
- Fast note entry
- Extensive notation options
- Scores and individual parts
- Flexible page layouts
- Playback for checking and practice
- Intuitive controls
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Less learning. More music. Professional notation without the lengthy learning process. Fast note entry with OneFlick, extensive notation options, scores and individual parts, flexible page layouts, and playback for checking and practice. With clear, intuitive controls, iWriteMusic helps you turn inspiration into finished notation. If you’re getting started with iWriteMusic, we recommend the integrated version. The integrated version is free to download, with features available through one-time in-app purchases. Future new features will also be offered in the integrated version. This SE version remains available to support existing users. For the time being, it will continue to receive bug fixes and OS compatibility updates, but it will not receive new features or support in-app purchases. Limits on the number of saved songs and playback duration, along with watermarks, apply.
Tuner
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Most tuners give every instrument the same screen. Tuner Master doesn't. Pick your instrument and you get a tuner built for it: a guitar headstock with the pegs where they actually are, an 88-key piano keyboard that scrolls to the note you just played, a guzheng board with all 21 strings and the bridges laid out on the diagonal, a kalimba with its tines in the real alternating order. ACCURATE WHERE IT MATTERS Tuner Master uses the McLeod pitch method with FFT-based autocorrelation — the same family of technique used in professional tuning software. It reads everything from the low B of a 5-string bass to the top C of a piano, and it doesn't jump an octave when your instrument has strong overtones. SEVEN INSTRUMENTS, SEVEN SCREENS • Guitar — 6 strings, pegs split left and right like the real headstock • Bass Guitar — 4 and 5 string, built for the deep low range • Piano — all 88 keys, A0 to C8, scrolling keyboard • Guzheng — 21 strings in D pentatonic with movable bridges • Pipa — 4 strings, A-D-E-A • Kalimba — 17 tines in C, laid out exactly as on the instrument • Bamboo Flute — check your intonation note by note as you play BUILT FOR HOW YOU ACTUALLY TUNE • Tap a string to hear its reference tone • Auto mode follows whichever string is closest, and holds steady instead of jumping between them • A moving pitch trail shows whether the note is settling or still drifting • A gentle buzz confirms the moment a string is right — and only after it has held for a full second, so a needle sweeping past the centre never fools you PREMIUM (one purchase, yours forever) • Alternate tunings: Drop D, DADGAD, Open G, Open D, half step down, 5-string bass, G pentatonic guzheng, G-C-D-G pipa, 21-key kalimba • Reference pitch from 415 to 466 Hz, plus transpose — for period instruments and ensemble work • Chromatic Pro: any note from A0 to C8, with your choice of how strict the in-tune range is • No ads, and a log of everything you have tuned Free includes all seven instruments at standard tuning. No account, no subscription, nothing to sign up for. Audio is processed on your device and never recorded or uploaded.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iWriteMusic Pro SE at none against Tuner's 1. iWriteMusic Pro SE also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. iWriteMusic Pro SE asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | iWriteMusic Pro SE | Tuner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (207 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 53.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 207 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iWriteMusicProject | Nguyen Hieu |
Bugs and requests
iWriteMusic Pro SE
Reported bugs
5 issues- Incorrect transposition of notes
- Inability to save compositions
- Overlapping/unreadable menu text
- Freezing when trying to copy/paste
- Inconsistent behavior when adding new measures
Requested features
5 requests- Add more music notation options (e.g. glissando, ghost notes)
- Improve playback to follow dynamics and expressions
- Allow multiple key signatures in the same piece
- Provide an undo/redo function
- Implement a chord entry mode for guitarists
Tuner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iWriteMusic Pro SE
No in-app purchases
Tuner
- Premium Lifetime$3.99









