Comparison

Quick Pocket Tuner vs ViolinTuner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Pitch Pipe
  • Guitar tuning
  • Bass tuning
  • Piano tuning
  • Chromatic tuner
  • Note identification
Features
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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!

About

ViolinTuner

Features
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ViolinTuner - Fifths Tuning: Built by a violinist, for violinists. ONE-TOUCH OPERATION Open the app and start tuning immediately. No menus, no setup, no distractions — just instant pitch detection the moment you launch. VISUAL FEEDBACK YOU CAN SEE Full-screen color changes (green/yellow/red) visible from across the room. Perfect for practice sessions or when your music stand is far away. REAL VIOLIN REFERENCE SOUNDS Hear professional violin samples for each string — not synthetic beeps. Match tone quality, not just pitch. FIFTHS TUNING MODE The only tuner app with dedicated two-string mode for tuning perfect fifths. Tune the way professional violinists actually tune: • First tune A to a reference pitch • Then tune each string pair (G-D, D-A, A-E) by listening for pure fifths RULER MODE Fine-tune with precision using the cents ruler display. Created by Lucas Manalo, a 12-year-old middle school violinist who built the tuner he wished existed.

Screenshots

Quick Pocket Tuner4 screens
ViolinTuner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Quick Pocket Tuner at Free against ViolinTuner's $2.99. ViolinTuner's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Quick Pocket Tuner is free to download; ViolinTuner costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Quick Pocket Tuner versus ViolinTuner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick Pocket TunerViolinTuner
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 31 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJUSTIN W MARRIOTTKevin Manalo

In-app purchases

None

Quick Pocket Tuner

No in-app purchases

None

ViolinTuner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quick Pocket Tuner free?
Quick Pocket Tuner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ViolinTuner free?
ViolinTuner costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Quick Pocket Tuner or ViolinTuner have ads?
Quick Pocket Tuner shows ads; ViolinTuner does not.

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