Tunable vs APTuner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tunable
This app is a comprehensive music practice tool for musicians of all levels. It offers a chromatic tuner, tone and chord generator, metronome, and recorder to help users play in tune, on beat, and steadily. It provides feedback on playing habits and visual aids for pitch and rhythm.
- Chromatic tuner with pitch history
- Tone and chord generator
- Accurate metronome with visual display
- Audio recorder with reverb
- Practice feedback and scoring
- Multiple tuning temperaments
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Join more than a million musicians and improve your playing with Tunable - Music Practice Tools. More than a chromatic tuner, tone & chord generator, metronome, and recorder, Tunable is a music practice coach that can help you play steadily, in tune, and on beat anywhere you go. Jam-packed with features to help with ear training, breath support, rhythm, timing, and dynamics, Tunable is easy to use yet feature-rich. Tunable tracks your playing habits and gives feedback to help you improve. Equipped with a unique “tuning history” display for viewing pitch as you play, an easy to use metronome and a handy audio recorder, Tunable is the perfect toolkit for beginning to professional musicians. Grab Tunable today and use in your next practice session, group rehearsal, band class, or live performance. Why are Broadway musicians, students at Juilliard, National Youth Orchestras and beginning instrumentalists using Tunable? GET FEEDBACK ON HOW YOU PLAY • It's like a music instructor in your pocket. Record a practice session and get a practice score with note graphs to help summarize your playing. LEARN TO PLAY IN TUNE WITH SUSTAINED PITCH HISTORY™ • Visualize how steadily you play or sing. The straighter the white line, the more consistent the pitch. IMPROVE YOUR EAR WITH TONE AND CHORD GENERATOR • Use the tone and chord generator to play and sustain chords with various tone options. Toggle between different temperaments to hear how they compare. KEEP TEMPO WITH AN ACCURATE METRONOME • See the pulse with a visual metronome. View subdivision and current beat, with a large display and (optional) visual flash. RECORD YOUR SESSIONS AND SHARE WITH EASE • Record practices and performances. Add reverb for a professional sound. Share recordings with family, friends, and teachers. FEATURES OVERVIEW TUNER • Large, colorful tuning indicator clearly shows when in tune (green fills the screen) • Clear, visual tuner with note, octave, cents (+\-), and frequency (Hz) display • Sustained Pitch History™ tuning display to see how you’re sustaining notes over time • Especially suited for wind instruments, strings, and vocals with note detection from Tuba to Piccolo • Adjustable A=440 reference tone • Create your own or change between Equal, Just, Pythagorean, and 15 other tuning temperaments TONE AND CHORD GENERATOR • Chromatic Tone Generator and Full Piano with multiple tone options • Play and sustain single notes or chords • Continues playing when the screen is locked or in the background METRONOME • Large number display with optional visual flash to see the downbeat and each subdivision • Adjust tempo, beats per measure, and subdivision to fit your needs • Accent or mute individual subdivisions • Sync metronome to nearby devices so they run at the same tempo and in time (via Ableton Link) • Select from over 30 metronome sounds • Tempo Tap (tap metronome center to set a tempo) • Continues playing when the screen is locked or in the background RECORD PRACTICE SESSIONS • Record and save unlimited recordings • Receive a score and individual note graphs per recording • Organize recordings into folders • Search by name to find past recordings • Easily share recordings and practice scores • Playback recordings at 0x - 3x speed AND MORE • Transpose notes to any instrument • 15 Notations to choose from • AppleTV/AirPlay mirroring • Dark and light themes • Siri Shortcuts access to common tasks Tunable is especially great with voice, wind, and string instruments: • Guitar, Ukelele • Piccolo, Flute • Oboe, English Horn, Bassoon • Clarinet • Saxophone • Trumpet and Cornet • French Horn • Tenor and Bass Trombone • Euphonium and Tuba • Violin, Viola, Chello, and Bass • Voice TESTIMONIALS • "The best tuner, metronome, and recorder on iOS and a pitch-perfect bargain for any musician." — MacLife • "Tunable shows musicians what pitch-perfect means as they play." — Engadget • "Tunable doesn't just tell you how you sound -- it shows you." — FastCoDesign
APTuner
This application provides highly accurate chromatic tuning for a wide range of instruments. It features a clear interface, customizable settings, and the ability to detect note deviations with precision.
- Automatic note and cent deviation detection
- Accurate to 1/1000 semitone
- High contrast, high visibility UI
- Instrument presets
- User selectable noise threshold
- Settable A4 frequency
- Historical temperaments
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Features: + Automatically detects the note and cent deviation for a wide variety of instruments + Accurate up to 1/1000 semitone (0.1 cent) + High contrast, high visibility user interface + Instrument presets + User selectable noise threshold + Settable A4 frequency + Frequency table + Select and edit historical temperaments
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: APTuner at Free against Tunable's $7.99. APTuner also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). Tunable's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (6.9K vs 6). On rating, ads 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
APTuner is free to download; Tunable costs $7.99 up front. Tunable sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. APTuner asks for nothing beyond the download.
APTuner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tunable has 6.9K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Tunable's written reviews are positive against 100% of APTuner's.
Tunable ships an update every 5 days, APTuner every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tunable | APTuner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (6.9K ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6.9K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #22 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AffinityBlue | Joseph Broms |
Customer experience
Tunable
APTuner
Bugs and requests
Tunable
Reported bugs
2 issues- Tuning function not working correctly on some devices
- Microphone issues causing tuner to not detect input
Requested features
4 requests- Custom temperament options
- Ability to disable microphone access
- Larger font size options
- Customizable metronome sounds
APTuner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tunable
- Donut for Seth$0.99
- Coffee for Seth$2.99
- Burrito for Seth$7.99
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- Pizza for Seth$11.99
APTuner
No in-app purchases









