Tune My String vs neo Drone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tune My String
This chromatic tuner offers high accuracy for professionals and an intuitive wizard for beginners. It supports a wide range of stringed instruments and various temperaments, with multiple language options.
- Intuitive tuning wizard
- High accuracy chromatic tuner
- Supports 14 instruments and 55 tunings
- Multiple temperament options
- Configurable A4 frequency
- Traditional accuracy meter
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================ "A Killer Tuner with an adaptable UI for beginners and advanced musicians!" (Apps4iDevices) ================ Tune My String is a chromatic tuner for stringed instruments. Professional musicians will appreciate the high accuracy of the tuner, the quick tone identification and the configurations of A4 frequency and different temperaments. Beginners will appreciate the tuning wizard which helps you to tune your instrument without knowledge of tuning of the individual instruments. Tune My String includes: • an intuitive tuning wizard that helps you to tune your selected instrument without knowledge of tuning • a traditional accuracy meter (showing accuracy in cents) • presentation of exact frequency as well as target frequency for closest tone • configuration of A4-frequency • tuning definition of 14 instruments (Guitar, Bass guitar (4, 5 and 6-stringed), Violin, Viola, Cello, Contra bass/Double bass, Balalaika, Banjo (4, 5 and 6-stringed), Mandolin and Ukulele) with a total of 55 different tunings • different temperaments: Equal temperament, Pythagorean tuning, Quarter-comma meantone, 5-limit Symmetric N.1, 5-limit Symmetric N.2, 5-limit Asymmetric Std, 5-limit Asymmetric Ext, 7-limit tuning, 17-limit tuning App-languages: English, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian and Swedish.
neo Drone
This music app uses your device's camera to track hand movements, allowing you to control a virtual synthesizer without touching the screen. Explore a 2.5-octave range with legato and staccato modes, and use the touch area as a kill switch for unique vocal synth sounds.
- Camera-controlled pitch
- Touch-based kill switch
- 2.5 octave tonal range
- Adjustable light sensitivity
- Core MIDI support
- Legato and staccato modes
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neo Drone is innovative theremin like synthesizer. The pitch of the oscillators is controlled by moving your hand in the air without touching the device. The hand is tracked by the front face camera. Description video to see it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qACS_XJ_cg The algorithm behind was made by me on the second Music Hakathon in Sofia. You can control the range of the synth by adjusting the light sensitivity, but the app is not working in dark environments. The tonal range is 2 and a half octaves and you can play in legato and staccato mode. The touch area of the device is working as a kill switch so you can produce these talking synth sound. Features: - play without touching the device - kill switch - 2.5 octaves - adjust camera range with light sensitivity slider - core midi - so you can add USB midi keyboard to the show - nice and fat sound - visual color indicator for the playing note - legato and staccato mode
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tune My String at 50% against neo Drone's 0%. Tune My String also leads on price ($1.99 vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 10.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Tune My String costs $1.99 and neo Drone $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tune My String ships an update every 24 months, neo Drone every 43 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tune My String | neo Drone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months — better | Every 43 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 10.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ILLOM | Aleksandar Mlazev |
Customer experience
Tune My String
neo Drone
In-app purchases
Tune My String
No in-app purchases
neo Drone
No in-app purchases









