Quick Pocket Tuner vs Music Theory Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Pocket Tuner
This music app helps you stay in tune with various instrument options and a chromatic tuner. It's designed to be a simple, essential tool for musicians and singers.
- Pitch Pipe
- Guitar tuning
- Bass tuning
- Piano tuning
- Chromatic tuner
- Note identification
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Always in your pocket, always in tune! Need to tune your guitar or find the right note for your choir? Free Tuner will make sure you have the pitch you need. Everything you need, nothing you don't. You will always be in tune with Free Tuner. Your choice of notes: Pitch Pipe, Guitar, Bass or Piano. In addition the chromatic tuner can listen to your instrument or voice and tell you the pitch to dial in the perfect note. Remember to take your device off of mute to get started!
Music Theory Notes
Learn to recognize and notate musical pitches by sight or sound. Practice with various clefs and customizable note ranges. Includes a grade book to save and share quiz results.
- Pitch recognition by sight and sound
- Piano keyboard and staff notation
- Treble, Alto, Tenor, and Bass clefs
- Ear training mode
- Customizable note range
- Printable grade book
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Teachers, students and professional musicians: Recognize pitches (by sight and/or sound) and notate or play them on the piano. Includes a 'Grade Book' list of all saved results that you can print or send. • Play a note on the piano, or notate a piano key in a specific clef. • Treble, Alto, Tenor, and Bass clefs. • 'Ear Training' mode hides the keyboard or staff during the quiz. Use a 'Middle C’ button to help you figure out the answer. • The note range is set by the ledger lines limits you set. The Grade Book is filterable by name. Grades include the name, date and time the quiz was taken, all relevant settings (clef, number of questions, etc.), and score (percentage and letter grade).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Quick Pocket Tuner at Free against Music Theory Notes's $2.99. Quick Pocket Tuner also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Music Theory Notes's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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
Quick Pocket Tuner is free to download; Music Theory Notes costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Music Theory Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Quick Pocket Tuner ships an update every 31 months, Music Theory Notes every 36 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Pocket Tuner | Music Theory Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 31 months — better | Every 36 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JUSTIN W MARRIOTT | Patrick Q. Kelly |
Customer experience
Quick Pocket Tuner
Music Theory Notes
In-app purchases
Quick Pocket Tuner
No in-app purchases
Music Theory Notes
No in-app purchases
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