Quick Pocket Tuner vs Tuning Helper
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!
Tuning Helper
This app provides a chromatic tuner and metronome for string instruments. It supports various tuning systems and base frequencies, offering precise pitch sensitivity and customizable metronome settings with visual cues.
- Chromatic tuner
- Metronome with multiple rhythm figures
- Adjustable base frequency standards
- Multiple tuning systems
- Fractional cent pitch sensitivity
- Visual cue indicator lights
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Violin, Viola, Cello, & Guitar Open String Tone Generator, Chromatic Tuner, & Metronome Tuning Systems: · Equal Temperament (Twelve Tone) · Pythagorean Temperament (Pure Perfect Fifths) Base Frequency Pitch Standards: · Custom Pitch Calibration (A₄ æ 392-465 Hz) · Concert Pitch (A₄ æ 440 Hz) · Baroque Pitch (A₄ æ 415 Hz) · Verdi Pitch (A₄ æ 432 Hz) Chromatic Tuner Features: · Fractional Cent Pitch Sensitivity · Amplitudinal Sensitivity Control Slider · Pitchwise Rotating Dodecagon with Amplitudinally Responsive Beaming Garland Metronome Features: · Three Modes: Standard, Accented Downbeat, and Five Common Rhythm Figures— · Duplet, Triplet, Swinging Triplet, Quadruplet, and Swinging Quadruplet · Accented Downbeat Settings: 0-8 Beats per Measure · Tempo: 20-224 BPM (Beats per Minute) · Visual Cue Indicator Lights · Wood Block Tone App Interface Colors: · Blue · Olive · Purple · Bronze · Amaranth · Chlorophyll
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tuning Helper at 5.0 against Quick Pocket Tuner's 3.7. Tuning Helper also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 31 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tuning Helper holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.
Quick Pocket Tuner ships an update every 31 months, Tuning Helper weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Pocket Tuner | Tuning Helper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 31 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JUSTIN W MARRIOTT | Filip May'r |
Customer experience
Quick Pocket Tuner
Tuning Helper
In-app purchases
Quick Pocket Tuner
No in-app purchases
Tuning Helper
No in-app purchases
Questions
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